Spring Preview: Offensive Line

http://annarbor.com/sports/um-football/spring-preview-michigan-trying-to-patch-up-ol-after-loss-of-david-molk-mark-huyge/?cmpid=mlive

Could really be an issue!

You see, I'm not like other fans that believe you lose a 5th year senoir that started the last 3 years and there's no falloff. Those types of fans are idiots.

We'll have some growing pains and the biggest problem is who we play in the first game.

Center is scary, no doubt about it.

If Khoury is the guy....let's just say he better get his shit together.

That Sugar Bowl performance was about as ugly as they come.

You can't take the Sugar Bowl as evidence of how Khoury will play. He was nervous, he was not expected to play, and the ball got away from him a couple times. I think if he'd have stayed in the game, he would have calmed down and played well. Not Molk well, but good enough to win.

Yeah, I get that fish.

But if he was nervous for the Sugar, how nervous will he be on our first possession against the defending champs?? That first possession could be HUGE...first series for their young defense, we need to take advantage. Can't be done if our snaps are in the dirt or clipping that gigantic scoreboard hovering over the field!

Go Blue!

He'll be preparing for almost a year for that, no being thrown in two minutes before kickoff.

Hmmm fish, I posted the same thing but for some reason it's not here.

Yeah, Khoury was thrown in at the last minute. Give him an entire summer to practice and he'll be ok at snaps anyway.

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Center is scary, no doubt about it.

If Khoury is the guy....let's just say he better get his shit together.

That Sugar Bowl performance was about as ugly as they come.

As Khoury will undoubtedly be nervous as hell, I fully expect to see the first 3 or 4 snaps to be under center regardless of down & distance/play call. After that work in a shot-gun snap here or there and if all goes well add in the rest of the playbook.

Does anyone remember what percentage of the playbook Borges said Michigan used last year? For some odd reason the number 15% sticks in my mind but I know that can't be it. Does 35% sound right?