Big Ten Spring Football Roundup: Iowa, Michigan, And A Graven Drew Brees Idol

Black Heart Gold Pants celebrates a glorious Iowa victory in spring football while maintaining some special teams perspective:

The danger of trying to glean too much from the (mostly) annual open practice/scrimmage is that it’s just that: one of fifteen practices over the course of three weeks. It’s a snapshot that may or may not be reflective of the entire three weeks of practice. […] Ferentz called the kicking performance during the spring “underwhelming,” which makes us feel all warm and fuzzy about Iowa’s chances in close games next year. Thank God there’s still months to go and (hopefully) lots of improvement to be made.Maize n Brew ponders the Robinson-Forcier conundrum:

I’ll admit to entering the day still somewhat skeptical of much of the spring hype surrounding Denard Robinson, and I left without a doubt that he is a legitimate contender for the starting QB spot if not the leader at this point in the spring. The only caveat to his performance yesterday is that while Denard played with the first team, that group went against the second team D most of the time. This was the reverse of Tate, who played against the first team D. That said, things like “accuracy” and “throwing mechanics” which I would define as rather independent of defenders were, quite simply, leaps and bounds from where he was at any point in the season last year.And Purdue also played football this weekend, but I’m having a hard time focusing on that because the Big Ten Network was on hand, and with the BTN came an EIGHT-FOOT TALL DREW BREES BOBBLEHEAD.