Newsstand: Sherrone Moore weighs in on 'opportunity practices'
The Michigan Wolverines are into the first bye week of the season sitting at 4-2 and now have a chance to evaluate and move forward into the second half. That means opportunities for players to step up in practice and make a push for playing time in the final six regular season games.
Moore dished on the plan for this week in his Monday night radio show appearance.
“Monday, we’ll have a, what we call opportunity practice, because the players played on Saturday, so Sunday’s their day off,” Moore told Jon Jansen. “Monday, we’ll practice with the younger guys and let the older guys really rest, recover, get their body, get the blood flow going, and then we’ll practice Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Wednesday will be a mix of practice with those guys and then some still recovery, soft tissue, flexibility stuff, with some conditioning to get their bodies right, but still practicing and getting fundamentals in.”
The opportunity practices are good for young guys to show off and how much they have improved throughout the course of the year. A few Michigan freshmen are standing out.
“Guys like Dom Nichols,” Moore said. “He’s a guy that’s definitely gonna impact us in the future, but it’s gonna impact us here as we go, and being here for seven years now, it’s usually about week six or seven, these freshmen start to impact games, and he’s a guy that’s gonna do it. Another guy on offense is Andrew Sprague, O-lineman, that I think has a bright, bright future, and excited to watch those two guys work in the opportunity practices, but also in the games.”
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“I think those are conversations you gotta have with them one-on-one to push them to make sure that they have the confidence that they can do it, and tell them that they’re leaders and empower them to be leaders. I always thought you have to empower kids to give that quality, because some guys think they don’t think they’re leaders, but they really are, and they have to feel that moment for them”
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