Newsstand: Michigan football opens fall camp Wednesday
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Michigan Wolverines football opens fall camp today. Over the next month, the team will be forged, and so will its identity. Senior quarterback Cade McNamara said the Wolverines will figure out their calling cards ahead of the Sept. 3 season-opener.
“Our identity last year wasn’t discovered in spring ball, it wasn’t discovered in player-led practices — as to what kind of physicality that we were going to bring,” the Michigan signal-caller said. “Over the course of the next month, we’re going to have a pretty damn good idea of what that’s going to look like, and as we continue through non-conference play, we’re going to really fine tune that.”
The same will go for the defense, and the culture will also continue to be formed.
Here’s a fall camp hype video the Michigan football Twitter account posted Tuesday.
It’s been 25 years since Michigan won the 1997 national championship. The Wolverines will honor the 1997 team at the Oct. 15 tilt against Penn State, which is also their annual ‘maize out.’
New Michigan baseball coach Tracy Smith took last year off after being let go by Arizona State following the 2021 campaign.
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The new Michigan coach was perfectly content with being a grandfather and avid Netflix watcher during his time off after being let go by ASU last June. While he wanted to get back into coaching, it had to be the right place. So there he sat in a circle with media members Tuesday afternoon inside a classroom at Ray Fisher Stadium, discussing his new gig.
“We never really wanted to say it when I was at my other school in Hoosier land, but this is a different beast,” Smith said of Michigan. “The national brand, the ability to realistically play for a national championship was very important to me, because if I was going to get out of the grandfather thing, it was going to have to fit on a lot of levels. Everybody talks about winning a national championship, but
I think you have a realistic chance to do that here, by the support that’s given to the program. I think recent history speaks to that.
“On a personal level, just being familiar, no stranger to the midwest, that’s been the fun part to me, is getting back here and that activation of the network and all of the old friends that I had not really kept in contact with over the last eight years from just being in a different spot geographically.”
Quote Of The Day
“It’s a fresh start for everybody, and I’m all about opportunity. To me, the only thing Michigan should and will promise is an opportunity to compete and get better every day. We’ll do our best to develop and everything, but it’s on them.”
Michigan baseball coach Tracy Smith
Headlines Of The Day
• Clayton Sayfie, The Wolverine: Michigan football offensive depth chart heading into fall camp
• EJ Holland, The Wolverine: Wolverine TV: Breaking down new On300 Michigan OL commit Evan Link
• Chris Balas, The Wolverine: Michigan football, 3-2-1: Final thoughts heading into fall camp
• Chris Balas, The Wolverine: Michigan basketball: How frosh Jett Howard is acclimating to U-M
