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Thursday, September 17, 2015 — 5A
FOOTBALL
Mattison finds stability
with veteran defensive line
Experienced core
now flourishing
with consistency
By JAKE LOURIM
Managing Sports Editor
In the four years he spent as
the Michigan football team’s
defensive
coordinator,
Greg
Mattison preached experience. In
that time, he knew he had young
players getting playing time, and
that they would be better for it in
the long haul.
The long haul he imagined is
now, when Mattison’s defensive
line features six fourth-year
players on the two-deep and
appears poised to be a part of
a game-changing defense this
season.
But the path to get to this year
wasn’t quite how Mattison drew
it up. He came back to Michigan
(after five years as a defensive
coach in the 1990s) in 2011 to
work for then-head coach Brady
Hoke.
Last
offseason,
when
Hoke was fired, new coach Jim
Harbaugh brought in D.J. Durkin
from Florida to be the defensive
coordinator.
Mattison, who coordinated a
successful defense in 2014 despite
the team’s struggles, accepted a
position as defensive line coach
to complete the progress he had
started with his defensive-line
recruits.
“It just shows that he cares
about Michigan a lot,” said
redshirt junior defensive tackle
Matt Godin. “I know for a fact he
wanted to finish out our group of
guys, stay with us and coach us
through. It means a lot.”
Wednesday,
Mattison
downplayed the impact he has
had as the lone holdover from last
year’s staff.
“I don’t know, I don’t ever
think about that,” he said. “When
a new staff comes in, they’re not
new after about a week anyhow.”
Mattison
did
acknowledge,
though, that he has enjoyed
coaching the same group of
players
for
four
years.
His
presence, and the continuity it
has established, are noticeable.
In Michigan’s home opener
Saturday, Oregon State burned
the Wolverines with a seven-play,
79-yard touchdown drive on the
opening possession. Two plays
later, the defense headed back out
after a fumble gave the Beavers
the ball at Michigan’s 24-yard
line.
But Mattison, who has coached
plenty of games in Michigan
Stadium with the same players,
wasn’t concerned.
“There wasn’t any panic,”
he said. “You
knew it was
a
breakdown
here and there
that caused it.
You knew that
we were going
to
make
the
adjustments we
had to on the
sideline.
D.J.
does a great job with making sure
he knows what’s going on in all
parts of it. We just got everybody
together and said, ‘This is what’s
happened. This is what we can’t
let happen.’ And they adjusted to
it, and they did it.”
Mattison
has
also
kept
expectations constant for his
defensive line from last year
to this year. Working with the
players in the past allowed him to
know their tendencies, so while
Harbaugh and his staff came in
and reevaluated the team as it fit
into their system, the Wolverines
knew where they stood with
Mattison.
That aspect of his presence,
Mattison acknowledged, was an
asset.
“Me being with these guys,
they know what I think they can
do and what they have to do,”
Mattison said. “So there’s not
that (time) where you say, ‘Well, I
didn’t know he was that good,’ or
‘He had this to work on.’ ”
That consistency has allowed
the defensive line to get to work
right away.
Redshirt
junior
defensive
tackle
Chris
Wormley
has
become a breakout player, with
six tackles for loss in two games.
Redshirt junior Willie Henry has
moved to the outside, where he
has been a capable replacement
for the departed Frank Clark
and Brennen Beyer. Even lesser-
known names like Godin and
junior
defensive
end
Taco
Charlton have stepped in and
provided depth.
That
depth
supports
the
hallmark of Mattison’s defensive
lines — rotating bodies in and
out to stay fresh. This season,
the Wolverines
have played as
many as eight
linemen in their
two
games
this
season.
The
modern
spread offense
is designed to
wear defenses
down by going
sideline to sideline and pushing
the tempo. Mattison’s scheme is
designed to prevent that.
The comfort level, expectations
and depth have made the defensive
line a capable component of the
defense coordinated by Durkin,
for whom Mattison had high
praise as well. Mattison seems as
optimistic about this defense as
he has been with any of the ones
he has had.
“I like the energy,” he said. “I
like the intensity. I mean, I like the
guys. You’ve been with them a long
time, you like them and you want
them to have success. It’s been fun.
It’s fun seeing them develop.”
And for them, it has been fun
developing under him. Three or
four years ago, they committed
to him, and in the offseason he
committed to them in return.
“He recruited me. He recruited
all these guys,” Godin said. “It
brings us definitely closer because
we’ve been with him. He came to
our houses. He brought us in. He’s
part of the reason we came here,
a lot of us.”
“He came to
our houses. He
brought us in.”
Detroit upsets Michigan
By KEVIN SANTO
Daily Sports Writer
For the Michigan men’s soccer
team, it was the same story but a
different season on Wednesday
night
against
Detroit
at
U-M
Soccer Stadium.
Once again, the Wolverines
fell hard at the hands of a
lesser opponent after proving
themselves against a national
powerhouse,
tying
No.
4
Maryland on Friday.
In the 12th minute of play,
junior defender Rylee Woods
turned the ball over to Detroit
forward Tyler Moorman deep
in Michigan’s defensive half,
and it quickly became a costly
mistake. Moorman played a
quick combination with forward
Spiro Pliakos before blasting the
ball just inside the far post.
The finish would be the first
of the Titans’ two goals, as
Michigan fell, 2-1.
After the Wolverines (2-2-1)
conceded a goal, they went on
to dominate the half, but came
away with nothing to show for it
due to the Titans’ man-marking
system.
“Detroit always plays man-
marking (defense),” said senior
forward Colin McAtee. “They
kind of just set a blockade back
there when we’re in possession,
because they know we’re a
team that can out-possess them.
Instead of high pressing, they just
sit in there, and today they did it
well.
“Their center backs were all
over us, and we didn’t do enough
to find a second goal to get the
result.”
Eventually,
in
the
61st
minute, the Titans shocked the
Wolverines once more. After
a
failed
clearance,
Detroit
midfielder
Alex
Mendonca
received the ball out wide and
lofted a service to the back post.
Detroit defender Jason Leslie
outjumped Stevens for the ball
and hammered the ball just under
the crossbar with his head, just
out of reach of the outstretched
arm of sophomore goalkeeper
Evan Louro.
After going down two, Daley
switched to a 3-3-4 formation to
generate a stronger attack, and
the change quickly paid off.
Just four minutes after the
Titans’
second
goal,
senior
forward William Mellors-Blair
received a ball in the 18-yard box
and was taken down for a penalty
kick after beating his defender
one-on-one. He stepped to the
penalty spot and buried a shot
into the bottom-left corner to cut
Detroit’s lead to one.
Following the senior’s penalty
finish, the Wolverines seemed
to find new life, forcing Detroit
into a defensive shell as they
generated opportunities.
Michigan’s most threatening
sequence came in the 73rd
minute, when Woods’ corner kick
bounced back to him. Woods sent
a second ball into the box that
junior defender Lars Eckenrode
deflected on target, but Detroit
goalkeeper Nathan Steinwascher
punched the ball away from goal.
Throughout the Wolverines’
equalizing effort, Woods and
sophomore
defender
Billy
Stevens frequently attacked on
the wing with overlapping runs,
attempting to serve dangerous
balls into the box for Michigan
to
finish.
The
Wolverines
dominated possession and held
the ball in Detroit’s defensive
half, but could never penetrate
the Titans’ (3-2-2) back line with
a final pass to create legitimate
scoring opportunities.
“We dominated the ball but we
didn’t really dominate chances,
although we had more shots,”
said
Michigan
coach
Chaka
Daley. “When the game is a
little bit more even, it gives us
an opportunity to have more of a
free flowing (attack). When (they)
sit in and don’t play as much, we
have 10 guys behind the ball, and
it certainly makes it a little bit
challenging.”
Michigan continued to dictate
play through the midfield and
combined well in the attacking
third, but Detroit’s park-the-bus
strategy proved too solid to break
down.
The Wolverines tallied seven
shots and two corner kicks after
Mellors-Blair’s goal, but couldn’t
break
through
to
score
an
equalizer.
Despite
the
upset,
Daley
looked for a silver lining.
“It’s a little bit of a struggle
sometimes
mentally,”
Daley
said. “We have a young group,
so hopefully we can learn from
it. It’s still early in the season, so
hopefully we continue to grow.
That was the message I gave the
group.”
MEN’S SOCCER
Nason strong at
midfield in loss
By SYED FAHD AHSAN
Daily Sports Writer
Six
minutes
into
the
second
half
of
Michigan’s
2-1 loss to Detroit, Titans
defender
Jason
Leslie
rose
highest in the penalty box to
head the ball past Michigan
sophomore
goalkeeper
Evan
Louro, doubling Detroit’s lead.
Now
down
2-0,
Michigan
men’s
soccer
coach
Chaka
Daley subbed off sophomore
midfielder
Michael
Kapitula
and
brought
on
freshman
forward Marcello Borges in a
bid to find goals. The already
fast-paced match was about to
become a hurricane.
In the middle of the chaos
was junior midfielder Brett
Nason, a player who struggled
for playing time last season but
has started every game this
season.
“I think he’s been the most
consistent player we’ve had all
season,” Daley said. “In every
game he’s done an outstanding
job. He’s been solid and steady
against every team, in every
game and in every training
session.”
Solid
and
steady
would
be an understatement when
describing Nason’s performance
Wednesday night. The holding
midfielder was a reference point
for all his teammates on the
pitch, ever-present to receive a
pass. He was reliable in keeping
and redistributing possession
— by all standards, the team’s
chief playmaker.
“I
just
try
to
put
my
teammates in better positions,”
Nason said. “It’s very easy when
your teammates are making
great runs off the ball.”
But Nason wasn’t just great
at passing the ball. He was
a defensive stalwart when it
came to pressing the opponent,
sticking in a foot and making
the tackle and winning the
ball back as quickly as possible.
He was always where the
Wolverines needed him to be,
whether it was as an outlet
when they needed to move the
ball around, or in defense when
they needed him to cover the
Michigan fullbacks and break
up the Titans’ play.
“The one thing going through
my head was win the ball and
get it forward,” Nason said. “We
needed a goal. I was just working
hard for my teammates, and I
know they were doing the same
for me.”
In a game where Michigan
had subbed off its entire front
line within 30 minutes of the
starting whistle, and where
players
moved
around
the
field to make room for extra
forwards, Nason was the one
player — barring Louro — who
was neither subbed off nor
moved into a different position.
With long balls flying over
his head back and forth, players
running around him left and
right, Nason was arguably the
most reliable player on the
pitch. He barely made a wrong
step. He was the eye of the
hurricane, even in defeat.
RITA MORRIS/Daily
Senior forward William Mellors-Blair scored a goal for Michigan, but it wasn’t enough in a 2-1 loss to Detroit.
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