Going back to Spring Practices and what we saw -- Part 1

With all the debate about certain positions, certain sides of the ball and also recruiting in the past with what we have said I thought it would be interesting to bring some of our past articles back to life.

Here are a few spring practice comments and also e-mail questions we got during the spring practices. Thought it would be fun to bring them up again so people can remember what we said back then. It seems like most of our e-mails revolve around the defense and recruiting. So here are a few e-mails to share.

from 5/13/2009
Mailbag question: What is the biggest improvement from last years team

What is the biggest improvement from last years team that you have seen or think we will see this fall and also what is one thing that you believe needs the most work on for this team to be a lot better than last year.

Dan B.

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Thanks for the question.

In our opinion biggest improvement we saw has in the offensive line. The improvement was in both performance and in depth. Michigan can legitimately go two deep without a huge drop off and there is actually some good competition at a number of positions.

Khoury is pushing Molk at offensive center and a starting offensive guard from last season is now the third offensive center.

Michigan was solid enough at offensive tackle to be able to move a starting left tackle to his better position left guard. This is such a change from last season when Michigan had only seven division one caliber offensive linemen to choose from.

Area that concerns us the most is defense, quality and depth.

Michigan had only three scholarship inside linebackers and cornerbacks available. Also only had three scholarship safeties and two nose tackles. We were also concerned with the success the second group offense had against the #1 group defense.