Discipline is all that this team needs to preach, coach, and drill in.

It needs to become a way of life. Off the field, in the weight room, locker room, class room, and it'll show up on the field.

Discipline.

True story:
We had a hockey team that had reasonable talent but we were losing. We did not have an identity.

Our coach defined us and said from this point forward our identity is that we are the most disciplined team in the league.

He then delivered an insane speech and went all in on discipline.

I'm talking, guest speakers, books, podcasts, signs on walls.

It just drilled into us at our core.

Everyone bought in because this was within our control. This could move the needle immediately.

We became each other's discipline accountability partners.

It worked. We started winning. We kept winning.

We eventually beat teams with much more talent.

This is what this Michgian team needs.

I get the whole letter of the law and by the book crap, but this targeting stuff is getting ridiculous. And then a player gets ejected for this? Maybe I'm way off, but this was horrible in my opinion.

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RichRod & Rod Smith Jax State losing to Eastern in double-OT today. RichRod is now 11-13 in the state of Michigan; 8-2 now vs MAC

Remember, gents. We had it much worse many years ago.

Michigan concludes its non conference season with a ten point win over Arkansas State. Here's the postgame coming to you on a Sunday morning.
OFFENSE
WR -- 5 CHARLESTON
LT -- 78 HINTON
LG -- 68 PRIEBE, 55 Efobi
C -- 56 GIUDICE, 51 Crippen
RG -- 58 EL-HADI, 62 Anderson
RT -- 71 LINK, 54 Sprague
OL -- 75 Gentry
QB -- 16 WARREN, 10 Orji
RB -- 7 EDWARDS, 20 Mullings, 28 B. Hall
TE/FB -- 44 Bredeson
TE -- 17 KLEIN, 18 Loveland, 80 Hansen
WR -- 12 BELL, 3 Moore
WR -- 0 MORGAN, 81 O'Leary, 1 Walker
SLOT -- 0 Morgan, 5 Charleston

DEFENSE
EDGE -- 0 STEWART, 42 Guy, 27 McLaurin, 33 Nichols
DT -- 55 GRAHAM, 26 Benny, 95 Pierce, 76 Beigel, 97 Anwunah
NT -- 92 Iwunnah
DT -- 78 GRANT, 17 Etta, 92 Iwunnah, 58 Ishmail
EDGE -- 8 D. MOORE, 91 Brandt, 52 Bennett, 90 Koumba
LB -- 15 HAUSMANN, 30 Rolder
LB -- 1 BARHAM, 34 Hood, 23 Sullivan
CB -- 2 W. JOHNSON, 18 McBurrows, 24 Pollard, 14 K. Jones
FS -- 28 Q. JOHNSON, 13 W. Walker, 31 Andrighetto
SS -- 7 PAIGE, 6 Hillman, 14 K. Jones
NICKEL -- 10 BERRY, 18 McBurrows
CB -- 20 HILL, 12 A. Hall, 22 R. Johnson

SPECIAL TEAMS
PK -- 96 ZVADA
KO -- 19 DOMAN
P -- 19 DOMAN
LS -- 49 WAGNER
H -- 19 DOMAN
PR -- 0 S. MORGAN
KR -- 36 HARRIS, 22 Dunlap

Special Teams Contributors: 0 Morgan, 0 Stewart, 1 Barham, 2 W. Johnson, 3 F. Moore, 5 Charleston, 6 Hillman, 7 Paige, 8 D. Moore, 10 Berry, 12 A. Hall, 13 W. Walker, 14 K. Jones, 15 Hausmann, 17 Etta, 18 McBurrows, 19 Doman, 20 Hill, 22 Dunlap, 22 R. Johnson, 23 Sullivan, 26 Benny, 27 McLaurin, 30 Rolder, 31 Andrighetto, 33 Nichols, 34 Franklin, 35 Forbes, 36 Harris, 39 Taylor, 40 Boivin, 41 Kuzdzal, 42 Guy, 42 Hoffman, 49 Donohue, 49 Wagner, 52 Bennett, 55 Graham, 56 Metzger, 58 El-Hadi, 58 Ishmail, 62 Anderson, 71 Link, 75 Gentry, 78 Grant, 79 Persi, 81 O'Leary, 83 Marshall, 91 Brandt, 92 Iwunnah, 95 Pierce, 96 Zvada
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Is Warren here next year? (Has a 5th year)

Orji?

Does Mullings use a 5th year?

Are we lucky enough for wink to get a nfl job?

What is up with at least 3 kickoff fair catches around the 15-20 yard line when it looked like the Michigan runner had so much open space ahead of him. What's going on with these coaches? This has been some of the most undisciplined football I've seen from Michigan in a long time. Natty hangover?

Overall I think we played okay, we won and it's more fun when you get the W and fix issues during the week.

Negatives: Doman has to fix his punting. We need to win the field position game if we want any chance to win 9 - 10 games. We can not throw three interceptions again this year. Every game we do will result in a loss. Orgi needs plenty of throws over ten yards in practice going forward. Defensive line needs better push than they got yesterday.

Positives: IMO Paige played the best game of his career and it may have saved the day. He was everywhere Will Johnson wasn't. Jimmy Rolder also accounted for himself yesterday well and the linebackers as a group were much better. Mullings is a beast and Edwards is gaining confidence and had his best game of the year. Fred Moore can play, we need one other WR to step up. Loveland can't be the first read in every pass call.

I will give the coaches a thumbs up in offensive improvement and the defense an incomplete because they were put in bad positions by Warren, Doman and the refs for a couple questionable calls.

Love him and I’ve been advocating for bellcow duties but we forget he’s always been a spot duty, low volume guy. Probably a good idea to keep Donovan as starter and work the Mulldawg in afterwards with a more concentrated dose towards the end.

I really don't get it.

How is it that undeveloped?

Thought he looked good today. Had a good catch early in the game and thought he filled in well when Loveland went out. Nice to see Hogan Hansen getting a TD, too.

Will have the full post in the AM but, at first glance, the grades aren't THAT bad. Improvement across the board from Texas which is extremely encouraging. The OL graded out much better than I thought they would be.

Evan Link for example:

OFF: 65.8
Pass Block: 79.3, 97.9% pass blocking efficiency
Run Block: 60.2

Obviously you'd like to see better numbers but it's better than a freakin' 27 overall grade from last week.

PFF grades on the following scale:

90-99: Elite

80-89: Good

70-79: Above Average

60-69: Average

50-59: Below Average

40-49: Poor

0-39: Very Poor

Abdominal injury in game and out.

24-19. So both natty teams are 2-1. Seems weird to have the Apple Bowl so early.

Any updates on # 18?

"Orji — everyone wants to turn him loose, but it seems awfully telling that the coaches simply won’t when he’s in ball games. They gave him one deep throw Saturday against man coverage, but that was a relatively low risk shot. They kept it on the ground with him, for the most part, as they have … well his entire career. And he was solid, as you’d hope he’d be against an overmatched defensive team."

I wish they had thrown the ball 80% of the time
when Orji was in.

Did anyone visit today?

Yes we have things to clean up for sure but I’ll take a W! Living in Florida and seeing 0-3 Fla. St it could be way worse. Some good things shown today, if we can bottle that up and turn that into something positive then it’ll be a good thing. Plenty of meat on the bone but CFB is a weird place & if we can grind out a win next week never know what that momentum can turn into!

Want it to be more analytical than just "here's a chart with snap counts and grades"

Please give me feedback as you read it, I want it to be informative as well as easy to consume so I will continue to make tweaks.

I really thought Moore had our guys ready. They looked sharpe and showed great improvement. Go Blue.

After the Texas loss, head coach Sherrone Moore put an emphasis on the running game having to succeed at a high level.

And on Saturday, for the first time this season, Michigan football found consistent success in its ground game against Arkansas State, rushing for 301 yards in a 28-18 win over the Red Wolves.

STORY:

Warren is not him. Orji is only a runner.

Yikes their QB and OL situation seems just as bad if not worse

Michigan football moved to 2-1 on the season with a 28-18 victory over Arkansas State on Saturday afternoon.

Here are three takeaways from the game:

Figured I'd get this thread rolling as warm-ups continue.

Tyler Morris is a full participant in warm-ups, and Jack Tuttle is not.

The offensive line looks to be the same (L-R):

Hinton
Priebe
Giudice
El-Hadi
Link