Spring Game thoughts

We headed over to the spring game this morning shortly after 8 to tour the locker rooms. As we approached Main Street we could see there was a line that extended almost to Keech. It is important to note, the line was like 3-4 people wide went around the south end of the stadium around the south and east sides of Crisler to the locker room. Since we didn't have anything else to do, we got in line and took our chances.

We saw the MGoBlog/Varsity Blue tail gate. They had about 5-6 people but every once in a while some one would walk up to Brian and shake his hand. I'm pretty sure one of the people around the grill was gsimms85 of 3 and out.

Shortly after that they stopped letting people into the locker rooms so we didn't make it.

The Flag game was pretty lame - Brando and Beckman were on the field trying to make it exciting with immediate interviews etc - but it didn't really work. Larry Foote (don't tell the Steelers) was the best player along with Ron Bellamy (as Johnny from RBUAS could have told you.)

The 1st string offense looked pretty good at times. I would say Tate seemed to be more confident in his reads etc. than Threet or Sheridan had been last season. His arm seems to be acceptable and his mobility is much needed for this offense to work. I wouldn't be surprised to see mistakes of overconfidence more than anything else.

Carlos Brown and Kevin Grady had some nice plays. Roundtree made some nice catches. One the 2nd and 3rd team offense I thought Jim Potempa is someone to root for. He runs straight ahead and seems to fall forward - it wold be great to see him play 4-5 games this season as that would probably mean M is way ahead.

The defense did not show much. I didn't realize Warren was injured. Graham didn't play much. Mike Martin didn't play at all and RVB got hurt early and didn't return. Hopefully their absence explains some of the lack of results from the D.

They announced an estimated crowd over 50,000. I don't doubt that number. Stadium looks like it is going to be very nice when it is done. I'll try to figure out how to post the photos I took.

Happy Easter/Passover/Second weekend in April.