No. 4 Michigan soccer has began the yr off with a 1-0 report after dismantling Colorado State Week 1, 51-7.
The second sport of the season will probably be beneath the lights in Ann Arbor when the sport towards the Hawaii Rainbow Warriors kicks off.
Hawaii has obtained off to an abysmal begin to the season. The Preventing Rainbows have misplaced to each Vanderbilt and Western Kentucky to begin the season out 0-2. However the worst half is, Hawaii has given up 112 factors mixed in two video games. The Rainbow Warriors’ offense has solely mustered a complete of 27 factors within the two video games.
Powerful starting for brand spanking new head coach Timmy Chang — former Hawaii quarterback. Chang performed at Hawaii from 2000-2004 and put up big numbers (17,072 yards and 117 touchdowns) for the Rainbow Warriors.
The Wolverines are beginning former five-star phenom J.J. McCarthy for this sport and Michigan is favored by a huge 51 factors as of Wednesday. For McCarthy to show he must be the starter, the Wolverines’ offense might want to click on on all ranges, however this seems to be a superb crew for the previous highschool phenom to make his case.
To raised get a deal with on this Hawaii crew, we’re speaking with Jeremy Mauss with Mountain West Wire. Listed below are our 5 burning questions concerning the Rainbow Warriors earlier than the sport Saturday.
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That is the second-straight week that Michigan is dealing with a brand new coach. Are you able to inform us a bit of about Timmy Chang the coach? He was nice participant in his enjoying days at Hawaii. Will he have his crew slinging the rock on Saturday?
Sure, anticipate them to throw the ball rather a lot and that is the primary stage of the run-n-shoot model of play he desires to run. It isn’t there but however that’s their long run purpose. Righ now they don’t seem to be precisely settled on a quarterback to be that man. They’re primarily going with Brayden Schager as they man however on the depth chart as soon as once more it’s listed as an or with Joey Yellen. Count on each to play on this sport to see if the passing sport can have some success this weekend.
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It seems that the Rainbow Warriors are in a bit of little bit of a quarterback conundrum like Michigan — however for various causes. Hawaii has began two completely different quarterbacks (Brayden Schager and Joey Yellen) this season. Who do you anticipate to begin and who provides Hawaii the most effective likelihood to attain?
Schrager has performed probably the most this yr and has extra expertise over by showing 5 video games final yr and 7 general. I anticipate him to be the man this weekend to get the beginning and play nearly all of the sport. Additionally, Yellen will see time and odds are that Chang could rotate the 2 or they every get a piece since this sport is more likely to be a blowout and accidents might be a problem in an overmatched sport. In the event that they persist with a standard sport plan it may be 75/25 in favor of Schrager
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The Rainbow Warriors rank in direction of the underside of the nation on offense: 111th scoring offense, fifty fifth passing offense, and 102nd in speeding offense. How can this crew transfer the ball and rating towards a Wolverines’ protection that sacked Clay Millen seven occasions final week?
It is going to be very tough to maneuver the ball effectively. They’ve a stable working again in Dedrick Parson however being behind a lot towards Western Kentucky and Vanderbilt didn’t give him that many probabilities to showcase his expertise when working the ball isn’t best. The offensive line is stuffed with upperclassmen with all seniors however that have has not fared effectively in two video games by permitting 5 sacks in two video games which is third worst within the nation. The road goes to battle towards this Michigan entrance and have a troublesome time defending both quarterback or get the bottom sport working. They might want to launch the ball faster and be in shotgun to permit for simply one other second or two to get a high quality move off.
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It seems to be like Hawaii has some new faces on the crew this yr after Todd Graham stepped down this previous season, who’re some influence gamers for Michigan gamers to lookout for on offense and protection?
Dedrick Parson is their greatest offensive expertise on the bottom sport however as talked about, he could be neutralized if the sport will get out of hand and Hawaii begins to throw the ball extra. The secondary has just a few gamers who made some performs and obtained their palms on the ball in Hugh Nelson and Jojo Forest every had a pair of move break ups of their first two video games. Not superb however they made some performs and practically picked off just a few passes.
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As of Tuesday, Michigan is favored by 51 factors. That looks like a huge quantity of factors, so do you suppose the Wolverines cowl? Last rating prediction?
Primarily based on final week the place Michigan crushed Colorado State and the Rams appear to be higher than Hawaii. Masking 51 is lots of factors to cowl however I’m not certain Hawaii may even get any factors however they’ll discover their method someway to attain. 56-3