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The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com
Thursday, October 27, 2016 — 5A

Brown prefers dudes to pawns

More than 20 years ago, Don 

Brown did what many people do 
at Yale University — he learned 
something important.

“Back when I worked for 

Carm Cozza at Yale, one of 
the things he told me was, 
‘Hey, 
those 
players 
aren’t 

chess pieces,’ ” Brown recalled 
Tuesday. 
“ 
‘They’re 
human 

beings and they want to have a 
relationship with you. So if you 
want them to play hard for you, 
develop relationships. Those are 
the things that are important.’ 
And I took that to heart.”

Now, that lesson is paying 

major dividends for Brown at 
Michigan.

When he was hired back in 

December, many praised his 
track record as an elite defensive 
mind. 
His 
Boston 
College 

defense was among the nation’s 
best last season, and he has lived 
up to that so far in Ann Arbor.

Through seven games, the 

Wolverines are the top-ranked 
unit nationally in terms of 
scoring and yardage, and while 
there’s no question the players 
on the field deserve much of the 
credit, Brown’s role in helping 
foster cohesion seems to have 
had a major hand in that.

“The most important thing 

you do is get those guys to 
understand 
we’re 
all 
in 
it 

together, 
we’re 
all 
human 

beings, we all care about one 
another,” Brown said. “And 
that’s good times and in bad. 
It’s easy to do when you’re 7-0. 
Tough to do when you’re on the 
off side of that coin.”

But having a good team isn’t 

the only way to build good will 
with 
players. 
Senior 
safety 

Dymonte Thomas called Brown 
a “great role model” and cited 
Brown’s ability to make players 
laugh to loosen things up.

“One of the things he said 

about the linebackers, he’s like, 
‘This play, you’ve gotta do this. 
If you don’t do this play, you’re 
fired, and then I’m going to get 
fired,’ ” Thomas said Monday. 

“And we just all start laughing. 
… If you make a mistake, he’s 
going to yell at you, but at the 
same time, he’s only yelling at 
you because he loves you.

“I got yelled at a few times 

early 
in 
the 

season, and he 
just said, ‘You 
know I love you, 
but as a senior 
you can’t make 
plays like that, 
and we need you 
to do better. So 
let’s go out there 
and 
practice, 

let’s get better 
today.’ He just 
says things like that to motivate 
you to make you want to do 
better for him.”

It’s not like the Wolverines 

were playing for a slouch before 
Brown, 
either. 
D.J. 
Durkin 

was 
the 
Michigan 
defensive 

coordinator last season, and he 
was good enough to earn a head 
coaching job at Maryland, where 
he has the Terrapins sitting at 5-2.

There’s no reason to believe 

Durkin didn’t connect with his 

players in similar ways, but there 
are certainly benefits to Brown’s 
extensive career in coaching.

One of those benefits is one 

of Brown’s more lighthearted, 
tried-and-true methods. During 

spring practice, 
he would give 
out “Dude of the 
Day” 
awards 

every so often on 
Twitter. He has 
not 
publicized 

one since March 
20, 
but 
the 

award has been 
well-received 
in the Michigan 
community, 

whether by fans or players.

He carried the term with him 

from Boston College, and when 
he left the Eagles, he found out 
how much it meant to them, too.

“It’s funny, when I left B.C., 

some of the B.C. people said, ‘Oh, 
he’s stealing our ‘Dude of the 
Week,’ ” Brown said. “Well, wait 
a minute. That was my ‘Dude of 
the Week.’ I let you borrow it.”

Being called a “dude” is 

the highest compliment from 

Brown, a step up from the term 
“guy,” which is also meant as a 
term of endearment.

“If you go back and ask some 

of the players about 20 years 
ago, I used to say, ‘Will you just 
be a guy?’ ” Brown said. “And as 
times have gotten more modern, 
it went from guy to dude. Now, if 
you’re a guy, you’re here. Which 
is good. Being a guy is good. But 
if you’re a dude, you’re up here 
(gesturing higher).”

For Thomas, winning a ‘Dude 

of the Day’ award represented 
something of a white whale during 
the spring. (“I always thought 
maybe I’m going to get it one day,” 
he said. “And I never got it.”)

Fortunately for the senior 

safety, 
though, 
Brown 
isn’t 

afraid to give credit where 
it’s due. Maybe it’s part of his 
commitment to show players he 
cares, or maybe he just doesn’t 
like effort to go unrecognized.

So even without a formal 

tweet to announce it, Brown 
made one thing clear Tuesday.

“My son was telling me about 

Dymonte Thomas,” Brown said. 
“He’s a dude.”

Players speak highly of relationships defensive coordinator has built in first year

GRANT HARDY/Daily

Senior safety Dymonte Thomas is one of many players who have developed a close relationship with Don Brown.

MAX BULTMAN

Managing Sports Editor

“We’re all in 
it together, 
we’re all 

human beings.”

FOOTBALL
Speight earns trust of 
Fisch, coaching staff

Redshirt 
sophomore 

quarterback 
Wilton 
Speight 

and passing game coordinator 
Jedd Fisch both agree: Speight’s 
performance against Illinois 
was his best yet.

He led the Michigan football 

team to its seventh win of the 
season in dominating fashion, 
completing 16 of 23 attempts for 
253 yards and two touchdowns. 
He made short passes and long 
passes, and only seemed to 
falter on a handful of plays.

Speight, 
who 
spent 
time 

during the bye week reflecting 
on his first six games, came 
out and didn’t miss a beat. He 
attributes part of the success to 
simply throwing and not aiming.

“It’s 
just 
like 
baseball 

with 
pitchers; 

sometimes 
you’re thinking 
too much and 
you’re 
trying 

to put it in a 
certain 
spot 

when 
you’re 

thinking about 
not 
following 

through,” Fisch 
said. “It’s just 
different than, 
‘I’m going to go out and rip it,’ 
so to speak.”

To 
non-quarterbacks, 

aiming might sound like a 
good thing. It should be part 
of the recipe, along with arm 
strength and decisiveness. But 
at the college level, it could 
break the quarterback.

“When 
you 
aim 
it, 
it’s 

sometimes 
when 
you 
start 

overthinking,” Fisch said. “I 
think that’s kinda what he was 
thinking about. That it was 
more of, ‘Do I take a little bit 
off of this’ or, ‘Do I not follow 
through as much?’ rather than 
just go out there and play loose.”

As 
Speight 
gets 
more 

comfortable throwing the ball, 
he’s noticeably getting better 
at making last-second decisions 
on the field, too. 

In the first quarter, when 

the Wolverines were already 
up by two touchdowns, Speight 
displayed some of that patience. 
He took the snap on Illinois’ 
16-yard line, and senior tight 
end Jake Butt and freshman 
wide receiver Kekoa Crawford 
ran downfield. 

But neither player was able 

to get open, and Speight saw his 
chance to rush down the right 
sideline for 10 yards. Michigan 
scored again three plays later, 
putting the Wolverines up 21-0 
over the Fighting Illini. 

“I think it was a nice step the 

other day when he took off and 
ran for about nine yards when 
there wasn’t anyone to throw it 
to,” Fisch said. “I think they’re 
understanding when it’s time to 
cut your losses, so to speak, and 
know that you’ll live another 

play 
and 

have 
another 

opportunity.”

Speight 
isn’t 

a 
scrambling 

quarterback, but 
now 
opponents 

know 
that 

they can’t just 
worry 
about 

his 
throwing 

game. 
If 
he’s 

comfortable with 

tucking the ball in and running 
with it, he’s much more of a threat.

Of course, he wouldn’t be so 

confident if he didn’t trust himself 
to make good throws, too. 

This season, Speight has 

thrown 
182 
passes. 
Fisch 

said that the quarterback has 
learned from every single one 
of them, which also helps the 
coaches find the best ways to 
use him.

“It’s kind of hard to explain, 

but you just drop back and you 
don’t say, ‘Oh gosh, I need to put 
it right here or else it’s going to 
be incomplete,’ ” Speight said. 
“No college quarterback is in 
college playing football because 
they aimed the ball growing up 
and playing quarterback their 
whole life. You just let it rip, and 
that was my focus.”

KELLY HALL

Daily Sports Editor

“When you aim 

it, it’s sometimes 

when you start 

overthinking.”

‘M’ rallies at Indiana in 
regular-season finale

On the road Wednesday in 

its regular-season finale, the 
Michigan women’s soccer team 
managed to 
erase a one-
goal deficit, 
snap a five-
game winless streak and secure 
a first-round home match in 
the Big Ten Tournament, all 
with two goals in the final six 
minutes.

The Wolverines now host No. 

5 seed Wisconsin on Sunday 
to 
open 
the 

conference 
tournament 
by 
virtue 
of 

a 
thrilling 

comeback 
victory.

In the 84th 

minute, 
senior 

forward 
Nicky 

Waldeck 
received a pass 
from 
redshirt 

junior midfielder Ani Sarkisian 
and converted a shot in the 
lower-right corner of the net to 
even the score at 2-2.

Minutes 
later, 
Sarkisian 

headed the ball into the middle 
of goal, giving the Wolverines 
the go-ahead score with just 
over two minutes left in the 
contest.

The game went back and forth 

between the teams, with each 
Michigan goal coming after a 
Hoosier score before Sarkisian’s 
game-winner.

“I think we just realized that 

we weren’t going to be able to 
score from outside,” Sarkisian 
said. “We had to drive the ball in 
and take people on one-v.-one, 

and we learned that throughout 
the game, and that’s really what 
clicked for us.”

The game started off slowly 

for the Wolverines — the team 
converted just one of nine shots 
during the first half.

“(We) 
had 
the 
clear 

opportunities and the clear 
chances (in the first half), 
and you could tell from the 
scoreboard that we had way 
more shots,” Sarkisian said. 
“We were definitely in charge of 
the game and the tempo but we 
couldn’t score.”

The victory ended a five-

game 
winless 

streak, 
which 

saw three losses 
and two ties for 
the Wolverines.

“I think after 

going 
5-0 
in 

the Big Ten in 
the 
beginning 

(of 
conference 

play) 
kinda 

put a target on 
our back, and I 

know teams were coming out 
and playing their best against 
us to knock us out of first 
place,” Sarkisian said. “We 
really needed this win, and it’s 
just something that we were 
working so hard for over these 
last couple games that it’s nice 
to see our hard work finally 
pay off.”

With 
the 
win, 
Michigan 

secured the fourth seed in the 
Big Ten Tournament and will 
host fifth-seeded Wisconsin on 
Sunday in the quarterfinals.

“It’s really something good to 

build on,” Sarkisian said. “We’ll 
watch film and see what we did 
well, and we’ll see what we did 
bad and what we can fix.”

MEN’S SOCCER

EFE EDEVBIE

For the Daily

MICHIGAN
INDIANA 

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“It’s really 
something 

good to 
build on.”

