Henne says he'll play vs. Eastern Michigan
Associated Press

Updated: October 2, 2007, 1:24 PM ET

ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Chad Henne is ready to resume his full-time quarterbacking duties for Michigan.

The senior quarterback sat out home wins against Notre Dame and Penn State while nursing a knee injury but returned last weekend to lead Michigan past Northwestern.

On Monday, Henne pronounced himself ready for Saturday's game against Eastern Michigan at the Big House. Henne said he had a partial ligament tear in Week 2 when his right knee was driven into the ground after being hit from behind in a loss to Oregon.

Against Northwestern, Henne played in the first series before yielding to freshman Ryan Mallett. Henne returned to play the entire second half, leading Michigan on two scoring drives. His fourth-quarter touchdown pass to Adrian Arrington gave Michigan its first lead before Mike Hart capped the 28-16 win with a touchdown run.

Henne said he experienced only limited swelling and had no pain in the knee Sunday, a day after completing 18-of-27 passes for 193 yards and three touchdowns.

He said he won't allow his game to change while his knee continues to heal.

"If it happens, it happens. I'm going to be the same person in the pocket," Henne said. "I'm not going to shy away from the pressure or someone in my face. I'm still going to try and make plays."

Michigan coach Lloyd Carr expressed satisfaction with Henne's return Saturday.

"He did a great job managing the game and managing our offense," Carr said.

Wait...am I even allowed to start this thread?

SWAT

Wait...am I even allowed to start this thread?

Only if you haven't been to Walmart in a week.

I'm heading to WalMart tonight. They got a hell of a sale on Cheese Wiz.

go with the cheeze in a can.

Pshaw! I like U-M 26 (two missed xtra points) THE Eastern Michigan University 2. The "Ostrich" can't get to the waterhole fast enough and is netted in the end zone to spoil the "donut."

U-M receiver Mario Manningham to miss Eastern game for violating team rule

October 2, 2007
By MARK SNYDER and MICHAEL ROSENBERG
FREE PRESS SPORTS WRITERS

Michigan wide receiver Mario Manningham is not expected to play Saturday against Eastern Michigan after violating a team rule.

Multiple people with knowledge of the violation confirmed his one-game punishment.

U-M coach Lloyd Carr was unavailable for comment, and Manningham’s grandfather, Gerald Simpson, said he was not aware of the penalty.

Manningham, a junior who leads the team with 29 catches for 402 yards and two touchdowns, has had an up-and-down season.

He had his best game against Northwestern last weekend with a career-high 10 catches for 123 yards and a touchdown.

But he hasn’t been that productive all season.

Before the Notre Dame game, Carr said of Manningham: “I don’t think he’s played as well as he can.”

At the time, Carr would not elaborate, saying, “that’s part of coaching. We’ll deal with that. He’s done some very good things. I just think he’s capable of playing better, and I’m confident he will.”

Manningham did not start against Penn State but entered on the first series and drew some postgame attention after he did the “worm” dance on the field to celebrate the victory. A video of the dance has drawn more than 17,000 viewers on YouTube.

There were moments early this season when Manningham appeared to be out of sync with the quarterbacks.

On Monday, U-M quarterback Chad Henne identified what he felt was the biggest reason for the offensive inconsistency this year, without pointing out an individual.

“It was more getting on the right page with our receivers, them running the right routes, them going full speed at times and us making smart decisions — putting the ball where it needs to be,” he said.

Two other wide receivers — Adrian Arrington and Greg Mathews — have drawn significant praise from Carr this season for their work ethic and effort.

I bet you the team rule that he violated was taking $600,000 from a booster because that's all those trashy Walmart Wolverines do.

http://www.redtiner.com/images/Uncle%20Bob/Bob_Walmart_15.jpg

Hey guys, I finally got the job!

Can't we move on? I read through the past posts catching up and all I read is Walmart Wolverine and tenous at best in every other post for the last week and a half.

That's what you get when you reduce your position on this message board to tenuous, at best.
Not very cogent, Tre. You been hiding out at Wal Mart?
Find any kindling there? Have you been extremely focused in trying to stay away from WTF Detroit?

That's what you get when you reduce your position on this message board to tenuous, at best.
Not very cogent, Tre. You been hiding out at Wal Mart?
Find any kindling there? Have you been extremely focused in trying to stay away from WTF Detroit?

Your skills have diminished. I expect more.

Although this post is only tenuously related to the topic. The purdue game is only available on the fucking BTN, so the next time most of us might see michigan is the illinois game (if that isn't btn). I don't really get why osu-nw and osu-minn are nationally televised but mich-purdue isn't, but whatever.

My uncle got tickets given to him for the game (no surprise given the opponent), so I will be going to this one. It's a 12:00 start, so I'll have to get up early, feed the chickens, gas up the tractor and mosey on in to Walmart and pick me up a fancy yeller shirt for the game.


BTW, I also agree with Tre about the walmart talk derailing topics. maybe we can limit the Walmart references to following Bukdow's lame posts. I'm starting fresh next week on this effort.

It was settling down for a while til he (BK) came back with more shit. I doubt it stops til BK stops his nonsense.

Anybody want to break down the EMU secondary?

What type of offense does EMU run? Do they have a mobile quarterback.

I didn't go to Eastern or play football professionally. Sorry, ask someone else.

I assume I am still allowed to post stats though:


TEAM STATISTICS EMU OPP
--------------------------------------------------------
SCORING....................... 85 129
Points Per Game............. 17.0 25.8
RUSHING YARDAGE............... 512 897
PASSING YARDAGE............... 775 1006

SCORE BY QUARTERS 1st 2nd 3rd 4th Total
-------------------- --- --- --- --- ---
Eastern Michigan.... 13 23 28 21 - 85
Opponents........... 41 23 28 37 - 129

RUSHING GP-GS Att Gain Loss Net Avg TD Long Avg/G
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WALKER, Pierre 5-5 80 263 16 247 3.1 3 13 49.4
WHITE, DeAnthony 5-5 6 90 3 87 14.5 1 68 17.4
PRIEST, Dwayne 5-0 27 69 4 65 2.4 0 8 13.0
SCHMITT, Andy 5-5 21 67 16 51 2.4 0 11 10.2

PASSING GP-GS Effic Cmp-Att-Int Pct Yds TD Lng Avg/G
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
SCHMITT, Andy 5-5 127.65 75-119-4 63.0 775 6 67 155.0


RECEIVING GP-GS No. Yds Avg TD Long Avg/G
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WHITE, DeAnthony 5-5 16 188 11.8 1 67 37.6
LEWIS, Travis 5-5 13 158 12.2 2 32 31.6
STONE, Jacory 5-5 12 123 10.2 0 37 24.6
BOHNET, Ken 5-4 9 64 7.1 1 20 12.8
JONES, Tyler 5-0 6 59 9.8 0 21 11.8
PRIEST, Dwayne 5-0 5 66 13.2 1 24 13.2

As you can see their QB only has 51 yards rushing. However, since sacks (in this case 4) count as rushes he probably is semi mobile to get 67 yards on 17 attempts.

I did have some great times in Ypsi but we can't lose to a team that has a penis for a landmark.

Now that I have the BTN I don't hate it so much.

WTF? I got the fucking Spartans game on here. Fuck Wayne Larrivee!

I have BTNa and BTN. I get 2 games.

That should have been a TD there. 4 blockers and you let the QB tackle you?

I'm listening to the audio. I take it Gingell's not the kicker anymore?

Casey Lapot and Ryan Wright. CP on the fg, RW on the kickoff.

Anybody want to break down the EMU secondary?

Mike DeBord doen't seem to want to.

no surprise michigan didnt even approach the spread on this game. UM beat a team by 30 this year? no sir. this game was about as meaningless as it gets, but a win definitly beats another humiliating loss.

Well, it was ugly, and even the tool from NDP threw a TD on our less than stellar defense, but at the end of the day we're 4-2...and any day the Spartans lose can be considered a good Saturday...

Bring on Purdue!

This years version of the Michigan Wolverines is total poo.

This years version of the Michigan Wolverines is total poo.

It looks to me where this years team is hell bent on playing to the level of the competition. They will lose to Illinois in the cornfield but they'll win a share of the Big 10 as predicted. They simply have too much talent to shit the bed in spite of lackluster coaching. They'll be there at the end.