Michigan and director of football operations part ways
It has been reported that Michigan and their director of football operations, Nolan Jones, have parted ways. I found this odd since M just hired him last year.
Is there more to this or does this happen a lot? I don't know anything about the job description of a director of football operations at a major university such as M.
http://coachingsearch.247sports.com/Article/Coaching-Transactions-Coach…
Just another chapter in the downfall of Brady Hoke.
Yours in envy and disdain, RCMB
I'll have to remember /s is my friend. The RCMB sig should have made it obvious.
professor X isn't exactly the sharpest tool in the shed
most other people got it though
I'm not sold on Hoke. Haven't been from the beginning, although I do hope that it does work out. With that said, the first worry should be a Big Ten Championship. It'd be nice to sniff one of those at this point
...shared your sentiments in 2011:
11-2?!!!! Not sold.
at the hands and feet of Denard. Have you seen anything in the past 2 seasons that inspires confidence in you that this staff will succeed at the highest levels? I want to believe in this staff so badly but the vast incompetence that we've seen plainly discredits any of the unbridled optimism that seems unjustly prevalent.
Did you see anything three years into Beilein's tenure that he would lead us to the national championship game? I don't know how Hoke will end, but I do know that yelling loudly about how much we suck right now isn't going to do anything.
than the exception isn't a rational assessment. I'm not rooting for us to lose or for the staff to fail, I'm only advocating for a rational inspection of our team and staff. It may not be popular, but I hardly think that I'm yelling about nothing.
Why should I be sold on an 11-2 record in year 1 with guys that are not his? So far with his guys, it hasn't been peachy. I'm not saying he's not going to be the guy, but he's got alot of winning to do to make me a believer. We're in year 4, its time to start winning. The last guy got 3 years. 11-2 gives him a little more room, but the record needs to be back in the same area this year, battling for a big ten title.
What about when he turned the tides of the rivalary and those jerseys were selling like hot cakes, even in Ohio?
They really have a thread over there titled "The official Hoke'd thread"
I'm not going to apologize even once for snickering and being happy it is them.
I heard part of an interview of a MSU player after the Illinois game and the player was saying that there was finger pointing amongst the players. I missed who it was and hoped I would see it again.
I think those who think MSU is going to make a tournament run are missing that there is a lot of turmoil on this team. I think it's going to be a short run in the B1G and NCAA tournaments.
I hadn't heard anything about their injuries. Are they not well?
Criticize Izzo all you want, but the fact remains that he was the coach for 6 of MSU's 8 Final Four appearances.
(1957 & Jamie "Shoes" Huffman's 1979 team.)
I have not seen this posted yet, but upon scrolling down on the link
Tennessee: Former South Florida quarterbacks / passing game coordinator Nick Sheridan has joined the Tennessee staff. Sheridan takes the place of offensive grad assistant Cody Kempt, who recently accepted the wide receivers job at Montana State. Sheridan served as the quarterbacks / passing game coordinator at Western Kentucky in 2012.
Had:
Giant noodle.
Anyone associated with that almost-fiasco needs to go.
Live by the noodle, die by the noodle.
"Director of basketball operations" is typically a title given to someone that's an assistant-coach-in-waiting. You work with the staff on game planning and in the film room; you aren't allowed to engage in coaching activities with the players. It's usually the top non-coaching position; you're next in line for an assistant job if someone leaves.
- Director of Basketball Operations
- Director of Player Development
- Director of Video Operations
Football might be different because there are so many assistant jobs available. Basketball's very limited in terms of allowed staff.
What all the basketball Director positions have in common (well, I only know this for certain at another D1 school, but I assume it's general) is that while they each have job descriptions involving administration/support and the person is expected to fill that role, they also serve as part of the coaching staff except in their interactions with players, where coaching is prohibited.
But, again, I think that's probably something that evolved in basketball, where there's plenty of revenue to support a larger staff to do all the film and skull-session work but the rules only allow four actual coaches. The rules allow ample staff for football and other sports don't bring in the revenue to support the extra staff, would be my guess.
The web guys at the AD need to get crackin'
I don't think it has even been ayear actually since he was hired, so I would be extremely curious as to what precisely prompted the partng of ways, as some are terming it. We might know more in the next few days, I assume. Still, Jones' job was basically to manage daily operations for the program, so I have to wonder what went amiss, if anything.
I was unaware we had a director of football operations.
So called "fans" of Michigan confuse me. I remember reading a post on AnnArbor.com of some guy rooting against Michigan back in the day just so they could get rid of RR. I assume people do the same with regards to Hoke.
While I agree, and am pleased at the off-season leadership effort to update both offense and defense to compete in modern football, I am wait and see about Hoke and staff's coaching ability after last year.
That said, I totally agree that a person who hopes that Michigan loses in order to get a new coach needs to sit down and seriously think about their fanhood.
For me it is always about the players. In the darkest hours of Michigan football (and we've seen enough of those in the past ten years), I root for the guys who put the work in year round for Michigan football to succeed.
You'd be surprised how many alleged UM fans I heard in the stadium in 2010 doing exactly that.
lack of support does nothing to help the program. These are the types that find something wrong with everything.
This may come as a disappointment, but the football support staff, of which the director of football operations is part, is headed by the Associate Athletic Director for Football, Bob Lopez.
I thought at first it was an admin asst level but he was apparently an "Athletics Operations Asst Director" and had a salary of 95,000.
Bed + dead girl and/or live boy + Carcosa = FIRED!
Rejoice! Death is not the end.
Though getting fired might be.
Beilein acquits himself convincingly in his interfaces with the press. Hoke sometimes looks overwhelmed.
Beilein had significantly lower expectations and visability. We want to win basketball, We need to win football. In many ways Hoke raised the bar by going 11-2 and vastly accelerated the timetable for success from a fan perspective. He then doubled down by saying it was a "failure" and nothing short of a B1G title is acceptable. He got everybody on board with his expectation mantra, which is a good thing in my opinion. Can anybody honestly say that after Mississippi State public spanking that they beleived we would be competing for a B1G within 5 years? But now we are demanding it. Anyway, Hoke set that table for himself and now he's got eat.
Some may recall that the "Director of Football Operations" position was integral to the Free Press non-scandal in 2008 or whatever. The DFO (Brad Labadie) didn't properly file the paperwork for the hours players spent with the team, resulting in the minor practice-time violations that Michigan self-imposed sanctions for.
So it is not quite as grand a job as it sounds, though it is important that someone do it well. I'll guess it involves a lot of following up with people, "Say, coach/player/employee, have you filed that paperwork yet? We need it by Friday."