On Iowa with Marc Morehouse

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Spring football is noteworthy just for the sorting process. I'm not sure anyone plays their way off the two deeps, but opinions are formed and coaches come out of it with a better idea of who they trust.

Here are some interesting things I've read in the last few weeks.

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I thought Ivan Maisel's story on UM coach Rich Rodriguez's first spring at Michigan was a very good read. I guess we'll see about the strength coach, who nudges his way into the heart of the story. One thing about football in the Big Ten, you find out about the strength coaches, one way or another.

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/columns/story?id=3293269

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Here's a little diddy on Wisconsin's new D-coordinator Dave Doeren, who apparently is a Bret Bielema clone. That's worked out really well for Iowa so far.

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=3289156

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I don't know which one of you guys out there did this, but I've got to applaud the effort. Very, very funny. CBI, we hardly knew ye. At some point, a sense of humor has to be a coping mechanism here, right fellas?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=UmTkKkmxrUI

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Here's something from the wonderful college football website "The Wizard of Odds."

It's a link to Map Game Day, which does visual representations of college football recruiting maps:

http://thewizardofodds.blogspot.com/2008/02/map-game-days-fantastic-recruiting-maps.html

Da Wiz uses Iowa as an example. Iowa snared players from 14 states; the farthest from 1,253 miles and the nearest from one mile. The average distance of the 24 incoming players is 544 miles:

http://www.mapgameday.com/recruit/school/Iowa/

Iowa State made the list of teams traveling the furthest for per recruit. You can also break it down by state.

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Whither integrity, Michigan? Excellent work by the folks at the Ann Arbor News. It might not register a blip with the face-painting crowd, but this is still COLLEGE football, not age-group football or the equivalent of the minor leagues.

http://www.mlive.com/wolverines/academics/

Mary Sue Coleman, were the big bucks worth it? She doesn't look bad here, but why not grant a face-to-face? Here's some lively debate on that topic.

http://blogs.chicagotribune.com/news_columnists_ezorn/2008/03/e-mail-intervie.html

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If this guy lives up to the hype, I'm buying Greg a sixer of Anchor Steam and a dozen Northern Iowa golf balls.

If I'm a college football coach at any of the schools Terrelle Pryor is considering, my cost/benefit analysis has gone into the negative numbers. I'm pretty sure Ohio State and Michigan will still manage to field squads.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/highschool/03/15/pryor.ap/index.html

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Now, some distressing news. Abandon ship!!!

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16245024

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