ACROSS
1 Mennonite sect
6 Nasty bit of
trickery
10 Chopped side
14 Trunk full of
organs?
15 “Casablanca”
heroine
16 Speck
17 Airline seating for
Mensa
members?
19 Milne’s Hundred
__ Wood
20 Fire dept.
employee
21 Many ages
22 Out of the country
24 Subordinate’s yes
26 Jewish folklore
creature
28 He’s a horse, of
course
30 Watched for the
evening, say
34 Bar in a shower
37 Mark of approval
39 Justice Kagan
appointer
40 WWII threat
42 Andy Capp’s
spouse
43 Preen
44 Mulligan, for one
45 Counting-out
word
47 Natural balm
48 Embarrassing
mistake
50 Antihero?
52 Big spread
54 Like Yogi or
Smokey
58 One of the haves
61 Prefix with port
63 Constrictive
creature
64 Empty auditorium
effect
65 Mickey Rooney
and Danny
DeVito?
68 Management
level
69 Electrified atoms
70 Like some
reprimands
71 Shangri-la
72 Goddess of
victory
73 Resting places
DOWN
1 On the main
2 Toddler’s gleeful
shout
3 More than just
annoyed
4 Abbr. on old
Eurasian maps
5 Windbag’s
output
6 Grain holder
7 Metallic sound
8 Donkey
9 Tandoori __:
South Asian
spice mix
10 Overly
ingratiating little
devils?
11 Daft
12 Gillette razor
13 Location-
dependent plant
designation
18 First known
asteroid
23 Coltrane genre
25 “Hee-Haw”
humor, but just a
touch?
27 Billiard table
shape
29 Postpones
31 Advance using
wind
32 Big bang cause,
sometimes
33 Sticky stuff
34 Street border
35 Explorer Tasman
36 Japanese relative
of the zither
38 Sierra Nevada
product
41 Very ambitious
sort
46 “__ be sorry!”
49 Cancels the
reservation,
maybe
51 Blue blood, for
short
53 Express gratitude
to
55 Structural
beams
56 Old language
that gives us
“berserk”
57 Moves with care
58 Big bash
59 Battery fluid
60 Passé pronoun
62 Otherwise
66 Miss Piggy
tagline
67 Bigelow’s Sweet
Dreams, e.g.
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The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com
Thursday, December 10, 2015 — 5A
2015 Season Review: Quarterbacks
By JAKE LOURIM
Managing Sports Editor
Editor’s
Note:
With
the
Michigan football team’s 2015
regular season in the books,
the Daily looks back at the
performance of each unit this
year and looks ahead to the
future in 2016. In this edition:
quarterbacks.
Jim Harbaugh, a former
Michigan and NFL quarterback
in his own right, arrived to
coach the Wolverines in his
first year with quarterback
as one of the team’s biggest
question marks.
And as the season went
along, fifth-year senior Jake
Rudock provided as positive an
answer as Michigan could have
hoped for.
Rudock came as a graduate
transfer
from
Iowa,
where
he started for two seasons,
throwing
for
4,819
yards,
34
touchdowns
and
18
interceptions.
In
August,
he emerged from a crowded
quarterback competition after
beating out junior Shane Morris
and redshirt freshman Wilton
Speight, among others.
Initially, he was seen as a
stand-in. With his one year
of eligibility, he would come
in and keep the offense under
control while the defense, the
team’s strength, carried the
Wolverines. The label of “game
manager” followed him for most
of the season.
He was successful in that
role. After a three-interception
performance
in
the
season-
opening loss at Utah, Rudock
slowly began to limit his turnovers
while a dominant defense led
Michigan to a 5-1 start.
Then,
the
Wolverines
suffered their second loss of
the season, and they were in
danger of taking their third
when Rudock went down with
an injury Oct. 31 at Minnesota.
At
that
point,
Speight
provided
some
temporary
relief. Though he struggled
at times this year, Speight put
it all together for one gutsy
comeback drive in Minneapolis.
He threw the go-ahead 12-yard
touchdown pass to redshirt
junior
wide
receiver
Jehu
Chesson with 4:57 left, helping
Michigan escape with a win.
Rudock returned to action
the next week in top form,
putting together a memorable
November in which he threw
for 1,296 yards, 11 touchdowns
and just two interceptions in
four games.
His brief Michigan career
will come to a close Jan. 1 in the
Citrus Bowl against Florida, but
he became a valuable asset to
the Wolverines in his one year.
HIGH POINT: In the first
half of the season, for the
most
part,
Rudock
merely
avoided mistakes. But on Nov.
14 at Indiana, he helped win
Michigan the game. That day,
he threw for 440 yards and a
school-record six touchdowns
in a double-overtime, 48-41 win.
He also carried seven times for
64 yards.
His experience showed in
the final moments of the game.
With 2:52 left in the fourth
quarter and the Wolverines
trailing, 34-27, he led an eight-
play, 66-yard drive, culminating
in a five-yard touchdown pass
to Chesson with two seconds
left. In overtime, he threw
touchdowns on back-to-back
plays, first a 21-yard toss to
junior tight end Jake Butt and
then a 25-yard bomb to redshirt
junior wide receiver Amara
Darboh to give the Wolverines
the lead.
LOW
POINT:
Rudock’s
Michigan career got off to an
inauspicious start in the season
opener at Utah. He threw
three interceptions, including
one pick-six to provide the
difference in a 24-17 loss. His
performance was a surprise
given that he threw just five
picks in 2014.
But Rudock quickly recovered,
never again throwing more than
one interception in a game.
THE
FUTURE:
Next
season’s situation is promising
but
uncertain.
Rudock’s
departure will leave a hole
in the Michigan offense, but
the cupboard isn’t bare. He is
questionable to play in the bowl
game with a shoulder injury,
perhaps opening the door for
Speight to gain more experience.
As for next year, Speight will
return as a redshirt sophomore.
Junior John O’Korn, a transfer
from
Houston
who
was
ineligible this season due to
NCAA transfer rules, will enter
the fold. Morris and freshmen
Zach Gentry and Alex Malzone
all redshirted this season and
will be back in action, too.
Finally, four-star quarterback
recruit Brandon Peters, the No.
6 pocket passer in the class of
2016 according to ESPN.com,
will be on campus with a chance
to compete as well.
If last season is any indication,
Harbaugh could even recruit
another graduate transfer for
2016. No quarterback battle
appears to be too crowded for
Harbaugh, and as he would say,
it’s shaping up to be another “fair,
honest, healthy competition” for
the job next season.
RUBY WALLAU/Daily
Fifth-year senior quarterback Jake Rudock improved throughout the season to become one of Michigan’s most valuable assets on offense, finishing with 2,739 yards.
Albrecht balancing
rehab, game action
By SIMON KAUFMAN
Daily Sports Editor
With time running down in the
Michigan basketball team’s rout
of Houston Baptist on Saturday,
the Wolverines and the Huskies
scrambled, scrapped and skipped
into the air to fight for a loose
ball. A handful of players tipped
it around the key before it finally
got deflected toward half-court.
There, senior guard Spike
Albrecht elevated — his back to
Michigan’s basket — and rifled
a two-handed, over-the-head,
volleyball-like pass to redshirt
freshman forward D.J. Wilson,
who was all alone. Wilson took
one dribble and two steps, then
dunked.
Not even a week earlier, on the
last day of November, Michigan
men’s basketball coach John
Beilein said that he planned to
shut
Albrecht
down.
Beilein
said he was concerned about
the time it has taken Albrecht to
rehab from his two hip surgeries
over the summer, and that for
the foreseeable future, Albrecht
would prioritize rehabbing over
practicing with the team. Despite
limiting his on-court practice
time, however, Beilein didn’t rule
him out from playing in games.
The very next day, when junior
guard Derrick Walton Jr. left the
Wolverines’ game against North
Carolina State in the first half
because of a foot injury, Beilein
didn’t hesitate to play Albrecht.
In five second-half minutes, the
guard recorded just two statistics
— a personal foul and an assist —
but showed that despite still being
on the mend, he’s capable of being
on the court in games.
Saturday,
against
Houston
Baptist,
with
Walton
still
sidelined, Albrecht came off the
bench again to give sophomore
guard Muhammad-Ali Abdur-
Rahkman
—
who
replaced
Walton in the starting lineup
— some rest. Albrecht recorded
four assists in 12 minutes in the
contest, including his acrobatic
dish to Wilson.
After
the
game,
Albrecht
admitted he’s still not sure where
he stands health-wise and what
the plan is going forward.
“I don’t really know what’s
going on,” Albrecht said. “Right
now we’re kind of just — I’m not
practicing every day — I’m always
game ready, though. I’m always
available to play, but just between
school, classes and then practice
for two to three hours, I don’t
really have a window to go and
get rehab done for like an hour
and a half, two hours.”
Given the choice between
two hours on the floor or two
hours doing rehab, Beilein and
Albrecht both said that for now,
he’ll do rehab.
“It’s kind of like a day-by-day
thing,” Albrecht said. “Coach
Beilein and our trainer, Alex
Wong, get together and help
game plan for a two- or three-
day period, and I just show up
wherever I’m supposed to be.”
Not on the stat sheet from
the game against the Huskies: a
loose ball Albrecht dove for in the
second half — hips be damned.
“I’ve been playing like that
since I was 7 years old,” Albrecht
said. “I’m not going to change the
way I play.”
Walton was on the bench again
when Michigan went to Southern
Methodist
on
Tuesday,
but
Beilein opted to play Albrecht for
just three minutes in the first half.
In eight games this season,
Albrecht is averaging fewer than
nine minutes per game. Last year,
with injuries to Walton and senior
guard Caris LeVert, Albrecht was
forced to take on a larger role. He
averaged 32 minutes per game
and started 18 contests.
Physical ability aside right
now, Beilein stressed he wants
Albrecht on the court given his
experience. The senior has played
in more games than anyone else
on the roster.
“We need his head out there,”
Beilein said. “We need his
brains out there as much as we
can have it.”
RUBY WALLAU/Daily
Senior guard Spike Albrecht has played in eight games this year even as he recovers from two offseason hip surgeries.