The Wolverine: Covering University of Michigan Football and Sports
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INSIDE MICHIGAN ATHLETICS "I think so. Right now, that's the plan." — Hockey coach Red Berenson when asked if he will return for his 32nd season "We got to a point where it was later in the spring where it was overload for them. That's good. We want to push them to the limit and as we've scaled back, we've seen how they've performed. A credit to them, they've grasped everything we've thrown at them." — Michigan defensive coordina- tor D.J. Durkin on unloading the play- book on his defense before toning it down the final week of spring ball "The Wolverines' new defensive boss turned 37 in January and comes to Ann Arbor after five years at Florida, includ- ing the past two as defensive coordi- nator. The Gators fielded some of the nation's top defenses during Durkin's tenure in Gainesville, and now he'll try to repeat that under Jim Harbaugh." — ESPN.com's Brian Bennett on naming Michigan's D.J. Durkin one of the Big Ten's top assistant football coaches under 40 years old "How crazy is that? We lost the class of the century last year. You can name them. It was a lot of points to replace. Nobody thought we'd have a shot at this. We had some great seniors that led us — Richard Funk, Justin Glanda, Bruno Ortiz. Those guys kept moving us forward and giving the rest of the team confidence, and we are taking some hardware home because of it." — Men's swimming and diving coach Mike Bottom on his team's surprising third-place finish at the NCAA Championships THEY SAID IT U-M junior cornerback Jourdan Lewis on the secondary's goal this season "We're just going to keep working and get to a point where we're one of the most aggressive teams in the nation." PHOTO BY PER KJELDSEN