Michigan Football: Coach’s Corner — Joe Bolden — Linebackers — Wolverine’s Spring Football — GBMWolverine Evaluations
Posted at 5:30am — 7/11/2012
Michigan Football: Coach’s Corner — Joe Bolden — Linebackers — Wolverine’s Spring Football — GBMWolverine Evaluations
GBMWolverine Football Spring Evaluations: Position-by-Position — Player Profile.
GBMWolverine readers: Here is a brief overview of Joe Bolden and GBMWolverine’s analysis concerning his progress this spring in our opinion.
Note: We will not evaluate every player on the team and with this position group (Linebackers) we will not evaluate #27 Al Mike Jones because we didn’t get a good read on him this spring. If you would like to chat about this player bring them up on the message board or send us an e-mail request.
Reminder: Also noted that we didn’t attend every practice and realize things happen during those fifteen practices, but our evaluations are based on what we seen first hand and in our opinion and not what we hear like just about every other site out there that relies on second, third hand information to make their evaluations of the players during the spring.
Losing from 2011 (Team #132) on scholarship: #34 Isaiah Bell who left the team, #42 J.B. Fitzgerald, #51 Marell Evans, and #58 Brandon Herron. #94 Jordan Paskorz has moved to tight end and #97 Brennen Beyer to defensive end.
Coming in for 2012 (Team #133) on scholarship: #35 Joe Bolden and #49 Kaleb Ringer (already on campus for spring football), Royce Jenkins-Stone and James Ross.
Commit for 2013 (Team #134) on scholarship: Michael McCray and Ben Gedeon.
Joe Bolden
Height: 6’3
Weight: 230
Number: 35
Position: Linebacker
Year: Freshman
City/State: Cincinnati, Ohio
High School: Colerain
High School Coach: Tom Bolden
This graduated high school gave up the last half year of high school to take advantage of early entry into Michigan for spring practices and getting ahead in class work. For a true “pre-freshman” Joe stood out every time we saw him on the practice field this spring.
For a player who should have been planning his prom, Joe was not over-matched.
As with most incoming freshman, especially those that come in early, Joe still needs work on coverage and getting bigger and stronger.
He is not one of the most athletic or talented linebackers in the country, but he is one of the smartest and knows where he is supposed to line-up. Joe is another linebacker that will bring that blue-collar lunch pail to work everyday and give everything he has for this team.
We are glad Joe is part of the Maize and Blue, and while quite premature, he shows the talent and aptitude to be All Big Ten
One can tell Joe is a smart player on and off the field. Obviously he was able to graduate early, but being around football all his life, with his father being the athletic director and his uncle being his head coach, it is obvious he has spent a lot of time on the practice field absorbing what is needed to be a good football player.
This spring we were at practices attended by (those be believe to have been) Colerain staff members. Coaches observing practice seemed very impressed by how well Joe was doing, and also how Michigan was running practices and sharing ideas with other coaches. That is a big plus, especially in recruiting Ohio and trying to keep Michigan very well connected. Colerain is one of the best programs in Ohio, year in and year out, and has some of the better talent in the state.
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Written by GBMWolverine Staff
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