Go Blue!: Michigan's Greatest Football Stories
Some of greatest untold stories from Michigan’s football program are shared in this book based on intimate interviews with former players and coaches. Due to his long history covering Michigan football, author Steve Kornacki was given open-door access to Lloyd Carr, Bo Schembelcher, and Gary Moeller, all of whom provided hours of their time sharing their personal accounts and of occurrences during their coaching tenures; the stuff that legends are made of. Stories include being in the Michigan locker room after Bo Schembechler’s last game in the Big House and hearing his rousing speech leading the team in “The Victors” as they punctuated each verse by thrusting red roses toward the ceiling. Coach Carr tells about riding in a limousine through New York on the eve of the Heisman Trophy presentation with Desmond Howard en route to a meeting at NBC Studios with Tom Brokaw and a night in the green room at Late Night with David Letterman. A more heartfelt yarn is the “American Dream” tale of quarterback Elvis Grbac’s Croatian family and the story of center Steve Everitt’s family surviving Hurricane Andrew in a bathtub with the family dog and his 1990 Gator Bowl MVP trophy. Go Blue! reaches back to those special places in time in the program’s history in addition to sharing heartwarming anecdotes. This collection is something no Michigan football fan will want to be without.
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Go Blue!: Michigan's Greatest Football Stories
Some of greatest untold stories from Michigan’s football program are shared in this book based on intimate interviews with former players and coaches. Due to his long history covering Michigan football, author Steve Kornacki was given open-door access to Lloyd Carr, Bo Schembelcher, and Gary Moeller, all of whom provided hours of their time sharing their personal accounts and of occurrences during their coaching tenures; the stuff that legends are made of. Stories include being in the Michigan locker room after Bo Schembechler’s last game in the Big House and hearing his rousing speech leading the team in “The Victors” as they punctuated each verse by thrusting red roses toward the ceiling. Coach Carr tells about riding in a limousine through New York on the eve of the Heisman Trophy presentation with Desmond Howard en route to a meeting at NBC Studios with Tom Brokaw and a night in the green room at Late Night with David Letterman. A more heartfelt yarn is the “American Dream” tale of quarterback Elvis Grbac’s Croatian family and the story of center Steve Everitt’s family surviving Hurricane Andrew in a bathtub with the family dog and his 1990 Gator Bowl MVP trophy. Go Blue! reaches back to those special places in time in the program’s history in addition to sharing heartwarming anecdotes. This collection is something no Michigan football fan will want to be without.
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Some of greatest untold stories from Michigan’s football program are shared in this book based on intimate interviews with former players and coaches. Due to his long history covering Michigan football, author Steve Kornacki was given open-door access to Lloyd Carr, Bo Schembelcher, and Gary Moeller, all of whom provided hours of their time sharing their personal accounts and of occurrences during their coaching tenures; the stuff that legends are made of. Stories include being in the Michigan locker room after Bo Schembechler’s last game in the Big House and hearing his rousing speech leading the team in “The Victors” as they punctuated each verse by thrusting red roses toward the ceiling. Coach Carr tells about riding in a limousine through New York on the eve of the Heisman Trophy presentation with Desmond Howard en route to a meeting at NBC Studios with Tom Brokaw and a night in the green room at Late Night with David Letterman. A more heartfelt yarn is the “American Dream” tale of quarterback Elvis Grbac’s Croatian family and the story of center Steve Everitt’s family surviving Hurricane Andrew in a bathtub with the family dog and his 1990 Gator Bowl MVP trophy. Go Blue! reaches back to those special places in time in the program’s history in addition to sharing heartwarming anecdotes. This collection is something no Michigan football fan will want to be without.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781600788482
Publisher: Triumph Books
Publication date: 09/01/2013
Pages: 272
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

About The Author
Steve Kornacki has covered the University of Michigan Wolverines football team for the last five decades as a beat writer for the Ann Arbor News and later the Detroit Free Press. His byline has appeared on features and columns on the Wolverines during each of the last five decades for those newspapers and other media agencies, most recently at FOXSportsDetroit.com. He lives in Plymouth, Michigan. Lloyd Carr is a College Football Hall of Fame coach who led the University of Michigan Wolverines to five Big Ten Conference titles and a National Championship win. He served as head football coach for 12 years and is a retired assistant athletic director. He lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Table of Contents

Foreword Lloyd Carr ix

Introduction xi

Chapter 1 Beating Ohio State in 1969 1

Chapter 2 Bo Schembechler Tried to Fire Me 7

Chapter 3 Bo Schembechler Behind Closed Doors 11

Chapter 4 Ufer, Brandstatter, Beckmann, and Hemingway: Voices in Blue 27

Chapter 5 Jim Harbaugh Guaranteed 43

Chapter 6 South Carolina Frenzy 61

Chapter 7 John Kolesar, Buckeye Killer 65

Chapter 8 Adventures with Mark Messner 73

Chapter 9 Twenty-Four Hours to Kickoff with Mark Messner 81

Chapter 10 Desmond Howard: From Stockbridge Avenue to Greatness 85

Chapter 11 Desmond Howard: David Letterman and the Heisman Trophy Weekend 93

Chapter 12 Forty Hours Recruiting with Lloyd Carr 99

Chapter 13 Gary Moeller: Just Like a Good Neighbor 113

Chapter 14 Steve Everitt: Surviving a Shattered Jaw and Hurricane Andrew 125

Chapter 15 Elvis Grbac: The American Dream 137

Chapter 16 Tyrone Wheatley: From Superman to Family Man 145

Chapter 17 Bill McCartney and Biggie Munn 153

Chapter 18 Lloyd Carr: Staying the Course 157

Chapter 19 Friday Night Lights in the Big House 169

Chapter 20 Tshimanga Biakabutuka: The All-Time Diamond in the Rough 173

Chapter 21 Brian Griese and Growing Up 179

Chapter 22 A Coach Savors the 1997 National Championship 185

Chapter 23 Charles Woodson: No Luck Required 189

Chapter 24 Why Quarterback Scot Loeffler Became More Than a Friend for Life to Brian Griese and Tom Brady 197

Chapter 25 Tom Brady: From Fifth String to Superstar 201

Chapter 26 Hart, Henne, Long, and Eight Miles of Total Offense 207

Chapter 27 Three Bitter Defeats: The Texas Rose Bowl Shoot-Out, Losing to No. 1 in Columbus, and Colorado's Miracle 219

Chapter 28 Denard Robinson: Bringing Joy Back to the Big House 227

Chapter 29 Greg Mattison: Repairing a Defense and a Granddaughter's Heart 233

Chapter 30 Brady Hoke: Leading with Love 239

Acknowledgments 249

Notes 251

Sources 253

Index 254

About the Author 259

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