WATCH: Michigan assistants LaMar Morgan, Steve Casula talk before USC game
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Michigan Wolverines football defensive backs coach LaMar Morgan and tight ends coach Steve Casula met with the media Wednesday afternoon ahead of their team’s game against USC. Watch video of Morgan in the player at the top of the screen and Casula in the embed below. Catch all of our video content on The Wolverine’s YouTube channel.
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Morgan discussed how sophomore cornerback Jyaire Hill has performed three weeks into being a starter.
“Always at the corner position, you gotta get experience, and he’s getting on the job training,” Morgan said. “I think he’s been trying to get better each and every day at practice. I think a guy like [junior cornerback] Will [Johnson] has been a mentor, has set the standard for that room here for the last couple years. Being around him more and more just allows him to see how it’s done, see his approach.”
Michigan junior tight end Colston Loveland left last weekend’s 28-18 win over Arkansas State with an apparent left arm injury, after hauling in 3 receptions for 30 yards. Head coach Sherrone Moore said Monday that his prognosis wasn’t as bad as originally thought, but his status for Saturday’s Big Ten opener against USC remains in doubt.
Tight ends coach Steve Casula didn’t go into specifics when asked if Loveland — who leads all tight ends nationally with 19 catches — has been practicing so far this week.
“Everybody in our program that’s not dealing with a season-ending injury or an upper-body, head injury of some sort, they practice every day,” Casula said. “So that could look a lot of different ways for a lot of different players, whether they’re dealing with an injury or not. But everyone on our team that isn’t out for the season or possibly dealing with a concussion or something like that, yeah, they practice every single day.”
Casula went on to echo Moore in saying he’s not going to predict the “availability” of Michigan players for upcoming games “relative to their health.”
“We’re just taking it one minute at a time, one hour at a time, one day at a time,” Casula continued. “3:30 Saturday is still a ways away. You look at it like that. So I try to avoid predicting someone’s availability.”
