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DETROIT — Connor Stalions certainly doesn’t project as the most hated man in college football — not on the Mumford High School practice field last week, where he was suddenly an accidental head coach.
To the Mustangs under his charge, he’s just another football taskmaster barking orders during three hours of meetings and practice the night before a game.
“Coach should not beat y’all,” Stalions screamed at his players.
In fact, the head coach did just that to some of the stragglers during sprints. The 28 players dressed out were dragging, but they were also learning. So was the coach leading them, best known for allegedly stealing signs as a Michigan staffer. Turns out you can’t thieve the process either.
Two hours before the season opener on Aug. 29, it was determined the starting center was never actually enrolled. The wrong summer school classes had sidelined the left tackle, according to a school official briefed on both situations.
On Friday, Mumford lost to Flint Hamady 60-0.
“This is what I told the team,” Stalions began. “An apple tree has roots, a trunk and apples. You can’t focus on the apples. If you watered the apples, you wouldn’t have any apples; you’d have rotten roots.”
Right now, the Mustangs are rooted in inefficiency. They have been outscored 107-6 through the first two games. Adding the misery on a rainy Friday night, game film shows that officials erroneously missed a down and Mumford turned the ball over on downs instead of facing fourth down. The rain might as well been dripping with irony too. From that same film you can clearly see — and steal if you chose — Mumford’s signs from their sideline.
Less than a year earlier, Stalions was on the staff of a national champion. Less than a day after his Mustangs were…
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Author : Dennis Dodd
Publish date : 2024-09-10 15:58:40
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