Ryan Mallett
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[edit] Biography
Mallett made his first appearance at Michigan in the second game of the 2007 season against Oregon. He entered the game for the injured Chad Henne in the third quarter and completed 6 of 17 passes for 49 yards and 1 interception. Mallett started again the next week against Notre Dame. He helped lead the Wolverines to a 38-0 victory by throwing 3 touchdown passes. He went 7/15 (46.7%) with 90 yards. Mallett started his first Big Ten conference game against Penn State the following week. He went 16/29 (55.2%) with 170 yards and 1 interception. He also scored on a 10-yard rush in the 1st quarter. Henne started the Wolverines' next three games. In those games, Mallett had limited playing time. In all he went 4/10 for 30 yards.
Mallett's next start was against Minnesota. He threw 1 touchdown pass and went 11/20 (55.0%) with 233 yards and no interceptions. Mallett started again the next week against Wisconsin. He threw 3 touchdown passes and went 11/36 (30.6%) with 245 yards and two interceptions. In the fourth quarter Mallett threw a 97 yard touchdown pass to Mario Manningham which is the longest pass completion in Michigan history. Mallett played very little in the next week's game against Ohio State. He threw three passes and completed one of them for eight yards.
Departure from Michigan
Mallett confirmed on January 9 that he was leaving the University of Michigan. Mallett's departure from Michigan was widely expected after new head coach Rich Rodriguez was hired to replace retiring coach Lloyd Carr. Rodriguez plans to overhaul Michigan's offense and install a "spread" offensive scheme. A spread offense is designed around the skill set of the quarterback and there are many variations of the spread offense, but despite efforts by Rodriguez (who had run pocket passer-oriented spread offenses at previous jobs) to convince Mallett of this fact he (Mallett) decided to leave Michigan.
Controversy arose when Rodriguez allowed Mallett to apply for a transfer due to Rodriguez' choice to continue running the spread offense. When a reporter asked Rodriguez where Mallett would be transferring, Rodriguez responded with, "I don't care...He's not playing for Michigan. I'm concerned with who's playing for Michigan." Mallett's mother, Debbie, told the Detroit Free-Press, "I thought that was pretty harsh...Maybe Coach Rodriguez called him (Mallett) once or twice after that. Our whole perception about it is, 'He's saying the right things. He is trying to make it look like he wants Ryan to stay.' But I don't think there was ever the deal where he wanted Ryan to stay." Debbie also said that Rodriguez never called or notified her.
On January 14, Mallett enrolled at the University of Arkansas, where he has applied for an appeal with the NCAA for immediate eligibility, allowing him to play the 2008 season under new head coach Bobby Petrino instead of sitting out the manadatory one year.
[edit] Statistics
| Season | GP | GS | ATT | COMP | COMP% | YDS | YDS/COMP | TD | INT | LONG |
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| 2007 | 10 | 3 | 141 | 61 | 43.3 | 892 | 14.6 | 7 | 5 | 97 |
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