Hope Michigan players are prepping for all their broken feet next year

Michigan is flush with 4* and 5* players. And Herb's schtick is totally B1G-style, anyway. He'll probably do fine there.

All I needed to know about Herb was him shrugging off Matt Jones about working on speed with the track team.

A lot of that is due to his freak genetics. But the fact that we were so consistently slow and easily winded was apparent to people with far less football acumen than Matt Jones.

I caught a couple minutes of Trey Biddy yesterday and he said Bert and the strength staff did not believe in 40 times... They actually said they could just look at a guy and see if he was fast or not.... I shite you not......


Fitz Hill was in studio and he was flabbergasted... He said the human eye cannot tell if a guy runs a 4.50 or a 4.48, but that could mean stopping a touchdown vs. giving one up. He also said coaches fall in love with players and want to belive they're fast enough and convince themselves 9f it... But obviously, when timed in 40 yd dash, the clock won't lie and you come to realize you can either take the guy or not because he may be too slow.

I simply cannot wrap my head around how and why Bert though speed did not matter in this league... It stunning, to say the least, that a guy HEADING a multi million industry simply overlooked one of the absolute key aspects of winning.

Everybody on this board could watch 1 qtr of this team over the last few yrs and see we were probably the slowest team in the league... How could the head coach not see that and adjust accordingly?

While that's true (see Joe Adams), it's a pretty darn good indicator. I'd imagine most of the guys in the NFL that are considered to have elite speed also had blazing 40 times at the combine.