(Photo: David Guralnick, Detroit News)
Ann Arbor — The boxing analogies were the go-to Tuesday night after practice among defensive players, which means that’s probably something their coaches stressed at what was, from their accounts, a hard-hitting practice.
Michigan faces lowly Rutgers on Saturday at Michigan Stadium, quite possibly the perfect rebound game after the Wolverines looked listless and void of answers in a 35-14 shellacking at Wisconsin last Saturday. Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh has said repeatedly the Wolverines were outplayed, out-prepared and out-coached, former Michigan players have weighed in and expressed embarrassment and disappointment and now the players want to move on and show the college football world they are not what they put on display in the Big Ten opener.