Jeff Genyk
Jeff Genyk
Jeff Genykis an American football coach and former player. He is running backs coach and special teams coordinator Vanderbilt University. Genyk served as the head football coach at Eastern Michigan University from 2004 to 2008, compiling a record of 16–42 in five seasons. He was a television analyst for Atlantic Coast Conference football for ESPN during the 2009 season...
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Nobody can complain we're going to Texas or California too much to sign players. That makes 41 players we've signed from here, and 35 of them are within an hour's drive.
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One of our alums is an elementary school teacher there. He called the office one day and said they had this real good player we should take a look at. We evaluated him on film and liked him. And he's got an aunt and uncle in southeastern Michigan.
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It's a game we have to learn from very quickly and stay together as a team, then move onto Central Michigan, which is obviously a huge game for us.
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For that type of size, he's very athletic. He's got very good feet. He can really move laterally well, and he can really catch the ball. We look at him as a dual threat -- blocking and catching the ball.
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They are a throw-first team in my mind. Obviously, we have to find a way to contain the quarterback.
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He's got good size. I think he's going to be a good player, but he would qualify as a sleeper because I don't think people knew about him.
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Other than the ice-cold weather we're doing fine. We had a practice on Tuesday with a 20 mile-per-hour wind out of the north and with the wind chill it was about 10. It wasn't a good day to be a quarterback or a receiver.
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He's definitely a mature young man. He's done a nice job adapting to the offense.
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I like his ability to advance the ball after contact. He's a very mature young man, and I think he will take the work ethic he learned in high school and apply it to the next six months so he will be ready in the fall.
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He's very difficult to bring down. The first guy's probably not going to get him down. We're going to have to get a lot of green shirts near him.
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They give up very few big plays. They're very good at keeping the ball in front of their good tacklers.
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It was just so representative of playing at Michigan. We did something we just don't do. It's part of Michigan's athleticism but also playing in this environment. We just played slower, paralysis by analysis.
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Those three visited Central, Western or Toledo, and they chose Eastern.
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We've got some youth there and not a lot of experience, but they're tough, physical players. We have four offensive linemen coming back, so it has been a point of emphasis to improve our running game. I think we will.