The Wolverine: Covering University of Michigan Football and Sports
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where are they now? corner. Then you start playing teams Lansing, 27-20, and captured game like Wisconsin, and these guys are 6‑7, No. 100 in the Michigan-Ohio State 380, flat stomach. They're just going series, 35-21. Behind a now-veteran to base-block you all the time and just Navarre and senior running back drive you to the ground. Chris Perry, the Wolverines pounded "You can't run around that. They're their way to a Big Ten title. running the ball right to "Everybody was fi‑ you. That was the hard‑ nally all on the same est part of my life in page," Stevens said. sports, having to make "We all were focused that transformation. and locked in on every I couldn't have made game, every opponent. that transformation as Defensive guys were successfully if I wasn't watching offensive working with Coach players, giving them Hoke." advice. Michigan snagged "We weren't messing a share of the Big Ten around or playing any championship in Ste‑ Stevens earned Big Ten cham- games. We hate Notre vens' first season, but pionship rings from Michigan's Dame, so when we the clock game at MSU titles in his freshman (2000) and play them, we're going the following year con‑ senior (2003) seasons. to blow them out of the photo courtesy larry stevens water. We play Michi‑ tributed to a near miss, and the Wolverines finished second gan State, we're going to try to blow in the Big Ten again in 2002. After them out of the water. quarterback Drew Henson left a year "Ohio State … we're not going to early, the Wolverines adjusted under disrespect anybody. Do we feel like John Navarre. we're better than you? Yes. We know "We went to the Citrus Bowl, and that and you know that. We're going it was the worst thing ever," Ste‑ to respect you on the field, but we're vens recalled, with a pained chuckle. going to beat the hell out of you. "Practice was usually 23 periods, and "That's the goal. You shouldn't we're going 55 periods. Lloyd was even be on the field, you shouldn't like, 'We're correcting mistakes, and be lined up against me. Just because you're going to get it right.' Lloyd did you're doing that, I feel disrespected. not play games. That's the mentality we had." "'You get it right. You line it back His lasting memory of the titleup. I'll sit here all day. But you're go‑ game victory over the Buckeyes didn't even involve the defense. ing to get it right." "I see Chris Perry running all over The Wolverines got it right in 2003. They destroyed Notre Dame in Ann those guys," Stevens said. "That's all Arbor, 38-0, knocked off MSU in East I see. They couldn't stay with this guy.