Jerry Montgomery Leaves the Beyonce Spot

Take a look at Bo's roster of assistants from year to year, and you'll see changes happened with some regularity. Put it this way: if your head coach is never losing assistants to other top-level programs, that's actually not a good thing.

and thank you.

Co Blue.

Good Luck to him. I wish him nothing but the best. I also read somewhere that he spoke with all of the current 2014 commits and told them he will not recruit them while at Oklahoma. He has a lot of class and I respect him as a man.

And two of them were Michigan and Michigan State (who also lost a coach)?

And Hart might have an open spot now that Wheatley is coaching running backs in the NFL. The pay cut for the same duties might be more than Michigan can overcome. Unless there's additionally responsibilities thrown in. And I don't think Hoke was here with either of them.

It's good to see that our coaches can be highly coveted.  Hopefully one day we can remark on what a big coaching tree Hoke has produced.  Hate to see people go, but Bo flirted with Texas A&M and Hoke once left to go coach in the MAC.  These guys have to do what's best for their careers and their families.  Best of luck to Montgomery. 

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INOeZnfUuIY

An ESSENTIAL skill to being a great leader is being great at attracting and hiring talent.  Why?  Because while you'll have your share of loyalists, your staff WILL get poached.  (Hoke brought in Mattison, so we should be OK.)

Left my last job to work a crappy job for the sole reason that my new manager is awesome.  In the ten months I've been here he's already had 10% of his team poached.

Internally.

By his superiors.

I don't understand why Montogomery is in the Beyonce spot.  This isn't a complaint about the writing style, just a herm-like comment on my own lack of understanding of pop culture, but given how famous, rich, and successful Beyonce is, I'd think a position coach would *want* to be in the Beyonce spot.

Besta luck to you!

Yeah, what exactly does it mean to be "the Beyonce?" That either makes no sense or is horribly patronizing and/or offensive. I'm interested to hear what you really mean by it.

http://mgoblog.com/content/jerry-montgomery-fills-beyonce-spot

Take it for the grain of salt that it's truly worth.

Disappointed (selfishly, because he's a good recruiter and I like what the line is doing) but not surprised. When this broke some comments in the thread expressed some surprise that this was a lateral move... But it's not.



Not only are his two superiors active D-line coaches who get much of the credit, but they actually do a lot of the work. Montgomery wasn't "the man" for the D-Line. He was one of them, yes, but when the D-Line warmed up for games, Coach Hoke was right there in his old spot yelling and exhorting and directing.



That's not to say that it wasn't a good working situation for Montgomery, but it's not hard to see that the "same" position at Oklahoma really involves more responsibility and accountability with less direct involvement from superiors.



If you were doing a job you loved, but your boss happened to be really good at what you did and did a fair amount of the work (and deservedly received a lot of the credit), and you liked the boss but wanted to work more independently with less of a net and could make as much or more money, wouldn't you consider a jump?

you know he could deliver a stack of LOI's(he believes hard, graduated a living legend, and had a cup of coffee in the league...you can't buy that credibility) but is he better off moving up the food chain at a low-pressure place like EMU, or getting his foot in the door on his dream staff where upward mobility is going to be limited and competitive?

thanks for  a great 2 years.

defensive line showed great improvement under the hoke/mattison/montgomery team.

recruiting has been very good and i think montgomery more than pulled his own weight!

great success in OK- hopefully he never steals a michigan recruit or wins a game against the wolverines.

This post tries to do too many things. Pare it down to 3 paragraphs with fewer inside jokes for simplicity and clarity.

every nite my honey lamb and i

sit around and talk and watch a hawk

makin lazy circles in the skyyyyyy...

Good luck in Oklahoma, coach, and thanks for helping the program get back to its winning ways. As for The Team, I hope they see this as an opportunity to fill his shoes with someone with impeccable credentials. This can be a good opportunity.

Disppointing to see such an important cog in our defensive staff moving on, but I agree with the general sentiment here that if other teams aren't trying to poach your assitant coaches, you're not doing a good job of hiring and developing your staff.

Hoke and Mattison found Jerry Montgomery, they'll find another qualified, young coach to fill his spot.  Mattison's performance so far has earned him my utmost confidence.

Best of luck to Coach Montgomery and his family and perhaps we'll see you again on our sideline someday.

I think it's good that Montgomery left.  At Michigan, the university encourages students to study abroad as well as pursue their graduate educations at universities that aren't Michigan.  The reason is because we see the value in leaning different methods for solving problems.  Michigan knows it isn't perfect and so it's important to see how other people do things better and worse than Michigan so you can encorporate the best of what others do in your own work.

I think what Jerry Montgomery learns at Oklahoma will ultimately help him become a better coach and a better advisor and example for young athletes.  We just need to maintain that he will always be a Michigan Man.

him the best. 

I wonder if the Hoke to the NFL rumor actually was twisted by the internet and BCS coaches had caught wind of OU's offer to Montgomery.  The Michigan coach rumor was in fact about Montgomery leaving and that's what someone told Da'Shawn Hand.

Could the Montgomery thing turn out a plus for us?

I mean yes it's never a good thing to lose a 1st tier dline coach, but it doesn't reflect poorly on Michigan with the Hoke/Mattison shadow looming. 

I remember seeing a post in another thread on how we might pick up a LB coach and just let the old guys continue to churn out NFL prospects. I'd think we could pick up a young 1st tier coach looking to really shine - maybe Ray Lewis (99.9% kidding).

The next hire should probably get the job in the Rhianna spot, at the very least. I mean, Beyonce is now a mom who lip-sync's at inaugurations and Super Bowl halftime shows. Do  the kids these days think those things are hip?