2011 Michigan Wolverines

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The Rodriguez-less Wolverines look to start 9 Whites in 2011. They have started 8, 7, 8, 9, 8 and 9 Whites since '05. Some White backups to look for include TE Steve Watson, LT Kristian Mateus, LG Elliott Mealer, C Rocko Khoury, RG Christian Pace, RTs Mark Schofield and Erik Gunderson, DE and Nathan Brink, SLBs Jake Ryan and Jordan Paskorz, and FS Jared Van Slyke.

Offense
FB John McColgan
ZB Drew Dileo
LT Taylor Lewan
C David Molk
RT Mark Huyge

Defense
DE Craig Roh
DE Will Heininger
DT Ryan Van Bergen
SS Jordan Kovacs



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[video=youtube_share;s7m-UZajuxM]http://youtu.be/s7m-UZajuxM[/video]

Just saw this on Big Ten Network. While they do have these PSAs with black athletes, they show athletes from every sport so most of them end up being white.

I hope young kids see the story of Jordan Kovacs, someone who looks like them, and are inspired to either take up football, or aspire to higher levels if they're already playing.
 

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My Dad's side of the family's from MI (Mom's side from TN & GA), so he grew up a big UM fan & still pulls for them. He was glad to see ol' RichRod(munch) leave.
 

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The Rodriguez-less Wolverines look to start 8 Whites in 2011. They have started 8, 7, 8, 9, 8 and 9 Whites since '05. Some White backups to look for include TE Steve Watson, LT Kristian Mateus, LG Elliott Mealer, C Rocko Khoury, RG Christian Pace, RTs Mark Schofield and Erik Gunderson, DEs Will Heininger and Nathan Brink, SLBs Jake Ryan and Jordan Paskorz, and FS Jared Van Slyke.

Offense
FB John McColgan
ZB Drew Dileo
LT Taylor Lewan
C David Molk
RT Mark Huyge

Defense
DE Craig Roh
DE Ryan Van Bergen
SS Jordan Kovacs



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White walkon Nate Brink may start on the defensive line cuz "prep all-American" Will Campbell has been bad in camp.
 

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White walkon Nate Brink may start on the defensive line cuz "prep all-American" Will Campbell has been bad in camp.

Welcome to CF, Tim Riggins, and thanks for the info! Hopefully that will happen!
 

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Heininger is listed as a starter on rivals just updated site. Thats three of four on the D-line.
 

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Thank y'all for the info.
 

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Here's the thing about the mainstream press that make them so unreadable to me. Annarbornews.com who took over the local newspaper after the ultra liberal Ann Arbor News dinosaur newspaper disappeared had the following article in their dead tree edition today. It was all about Michigan safety Jordan Kovacs.

Jordan Kovacs is a problem for me because to the many DWF's that I share a passion for UM football with he is the symbol of their recent fall from prominence. Nothing says "failure" to the DWF college football fan more then having to play a white guy in the defensive backfield.

To the DWF it means your program wasn't good enough to attract that 4-5 star negro that all of the recruiting services rave about. The many hours listening to and calling in on sports talk radio and arguing about which ghetto thug will grace your football program are all for naught when a whitie shows up on your defense as a non-approved d-back.

And when the program sucks as it has the last few years there are many opportunities to watch the other guys score a TD and look around at the defense and pick out the one blonde haired kid on the field and scream "he screwed up again"!!!

But Kovacs, like almost all white college non-QB's has had to prove himself over and over to his coaches or else they would have long ago found an afalete to replace him.

The news article opens thus:
"Jordan Kovacs’ best offer coming out of high school was a chance to be a preferred walk-on at Toledo."

Typical of course, it seems the majority of white guys on Div 1 teams are walk ons.
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"Kovacs, the son of a former Michigan football walk-on, turned down the Rockets to attend his father’s alma mater. He eventually made the team at an open tryout, worked his way onto special teams and found his way into a starting job as a redshirt freshman in 2009.

Now a junior, he just might be developing into one of the Big Ten’s best safeties."

And of course the disclaimer which should be tatooed to every white athlete in america because they are all described the same way:
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"The knock on the 6-foot, 197-pounder has been his stature and pure athletic ability. He doesn’t have elite speed or size, something even he acknowledges."

Because yes each and every black player in america has "elite speed and size" even the very small and slow ones.

"Kovacs had perhaps the best all-around game of his career Saturday in the season-opening 34-10 win against Western Michigan. He finished with 10 tackles, two sacks, a forced fumble and a pass breakup."

I was there, he was great.

"Kovacs burst onto the scene in 2009, when he finished second on the team in tackles with 75.


Last year, he started every game, was second in the Big Ten with 116 tackles and was named all-league honorable mention by the media."

Let me ask you the reader something, if you are the 2nd leading tacker in the Big Ten what does that mean? Does it mean you are good? I think so. I think it means you are very good. I would say that a guy that played on one of the worst defenses in the country yet almost led his conference in tackles must be a tremendous athlete.

What other measure do you use????? He plays defense, the defensive responsibility is to tackle the other teams ball carrier. He did that better then almost anyone else. WTF?

He's a walk on. All most every other d-back in the conference was a highly ranked recruit. Signed with their schools to much fanfare. Many recruiting services went to great lengths to rate them highly. Yet here is a kid that was unranked, unrecruited, and he did better then any of them.

Doesn't that mean that the ranking and recruiting services are full of crap? If they cannot produce guys that are better then some kid that "walked on" his team, well what good are they? Seriously, what is the point?

Why am I one of the few people that see this obvious contradiction in logic? Why is it so hard to see through the obvious holes in the caste system? Jordon Kovacs is just one of many white players that has to walk on, some of them will be stars, there must be many many more that could be stars but don't even get the chance because some kid named Tyrone or Jedemarcarius is going to get all the raves and playing time and produce nothing.

Besides it being unfair and anti-white, the caste system bugs me the most because it's so freakin' stupid!!!! A child should be able to see through it, but 99% of adults cannot, will not, and don't want to. Crazy.
 

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That is a good post, jaxvid. You should post that as one of the home page blogs.
 

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Hey jax, that's one of the best posts I've seen here ever. It should go straight to the front page.
 
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