Michigan Friday: News and Notes

• A former Quality Control assistant under RR gets a job at App. State , Bob McLain: McClain comes to Appalachian from Tulsa, where he served as the Golden Hurricane’s tight ends coach and recruiting coordinator for one year. Prior to his year at Tulsa, he spent one season in special teams and offensive quality control at Michigan, his second stint under head coach Rich Rodriguez. He previously served under Rodriguez for six years at West Virginia (2000-05), the final three as an offensive graduate assistant working primarily with the Mountaineers’ offensive line and tight ends. At WVU, he helped lead the Mountaineers to three Big East championships and four bowl appearances . Funny, no word in the press release about watching off season practices?

• Michigan has invited DaSean Martin to Junior Day . Martin is a 5'10", 190 lbs. running back and defensive back out of Las Vegas. The article talks about how much he loves USC, so it doesn't look good for him coming to A2 anytime soon.

• Former Michigan Basketball Star Daniel Horton gets cut by a French team. He was averaging three points a game in 10 games. (HT: mgoblog)

• Speaking of former Wolverine Basketball stars: Maceo Baston signs with Ukraine's No. 1 team. He will be a teammate of former UConn star Khalid El-Amin.

• Former Wolverine Toney Clemons is getting some run in the Denver Press as they await his first year of eligibility for Colorado this Fall.

• There are big wins and big loses in recruiting every year. This year, Michigan will need to focus on defensive nose tackle, offensive line, and inside linebacker as some of their major needs in the 2011 class. What is unfortunate for the Wolverines is that there is a highly rated in-state prospect at the inside LB position, Lawrence Thomas. The unfortunate part? He goes to an ABM high school. ABM = Anywhere But Michigan. So Lawrence announced his top 10 and Michigan isn't in it. Nice job Detroit Renaissance coaches! Way to limit one of your high profile players' options. Recruiting is a dirty business.