Michigan Football: Coach’s Corner — Richard Ash — Defensive Line — Wolverine’s Spring Football — GBMWolverine Evaluations
Posted at 5:30am — 7/27/2012
Michigan Football: Coach’s Corner — Richard Ash — Defensive Line — Wolverine’s Spring Football — GBMWolverine Evaluations
GBMWolverine Football Spring Evaluations: Position-by-Position — Player Profile.
GBMWolverine readers: Here is a brief overview of Richard Ash 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 (Defensive Line) we will not evaluate #67 Nathan Brink. 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: #39 Will Heininger, #53 Ryan Van Bergen, #68 Mike Martin, and #95 Chris Rock who has left the program.
Coming in for 2012 (Team #133) on scholarship: Willie Henry, Ondre Pipkins, Chris Wormley, Tom Strobel, Matt Godin, and Mario Ojemudia.
Commit for 2013 (Team #134) on scholarship: Henry Poggi, Maurice Hurst Jr., and Taco Charlton.
Richard Ash
Height: 6’3
Weight: 301
Number: 54
Position: Defensive Line (DT)
Year: Red-shirt Sophomore
City/State: Pahokee, Florida
High School: Pahokee
High School Coach: Donald Thompson
Richard Ash is another red-shirt sophomore that is entering his third year in the program. He played at famed Pahokee High School in Florida. On the team roster, Richard is now listed in the 300-pound range.
Michigan is paper thin regarding big bodies at the 1-tech defensive line position. So, Richard is one of those players who really needs to step it up this season. His primary mission will be to stop the run. It is critical with the loss of Martin and RVB for the entire interior group to improve and provide sufficient depth. Michigan’s defense is in trouble if the middle is not plugged up
In our opinion Richard is almost too big and we think he needs to lose some weight and improve his overall conditioning, which seems to have been an issue since his arrival in Ann Arbor.
Richard showed flashes of being solid at times this spring, but he must display more consistency and making himself a game factor.
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Written by GBMWolverine Staff
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