Pep's role is likely a demotion as well, no?  I guess it will come out next when the actual titles are handed out, but I don't expect any "cooridinator" roles under McElwain who is clearly being given the reigns to the offense.  Pep would have to fall back to a simple position coach.  I think he ultimately bolts back to the NFL, maybe sooner rather than later.  Sources said he had other options ... but probably at a pay cut.  He might now go negotiate an exit deal like Drevno and take the NFL gig.

I just really, really hope that Anderson still lands at Michigan. 

It sounds like Drevno and his NFL experience was something that Calvin was really impressed with. 

“Coach Drevno is a huge factor. He’s a big reason....As far as technique, coach Drevno has experience in the NFL, so that’s a huge plus for him. Aside from he’s great and I can tell he really knows the game, so that’s a big one...From my conversations and meetings with coach Drevno... he’s an incredible offensive mind. He knows offensive lines really, really well. I think he has a good idea of schemes. From what I’ve seen I think he’s a great offensive mind and it’s why I continue to talk to him and talk to Michigan.

He also mentions that he really likes Dudek, and his visit occurred while Warinner was here, so that's something. 

I still think we have a chance simply because of this quote from Anderson:

“I’ll leave it at this, I want Shea Patterson to play.”

That's not usually a comment someone who is considering 4 teams makes, its usually a comment on a team you want to play with. Hopefully this doesn't change that for the worse.

I said my piece in the other thread, but I look forward to a much more experienced offense doing better this year and everyone saying "thank god we got rid of Tim Drevno", and that will be the most blatant correlation vs. causation around.

Sort of like this:

Glad to see a change, the longer the over-represented OC-ish types all stayed around the more I questioned whether Harbaugh was managing effectively or not. That said, no ill will toward Tim Drevno. He didn't get it done, but he clearly wasn't trying to be ineffectual. Best of luck at the next stop, and Go Blue!

to be honest, Pep's background is not a fit for a McElwain offense.  They would need a younger guy with spread/RPO experience as a player and coach.  That is not Harbaugh.  It seems like JH is turning more into the CEO type HC (like Saban) and is now "contracting out" his offense to McElwain.  I would expect McElwain to want to hand-pick his QB coach.

It was time.

WOTS: Devonte Dobbs didn't care for Drevno.

So, Sam and others have said he's the master at OL. I hope to God he steps in there. I have a question for those with the skills to analyze though; how well did he do at Minnie in '17? It might give us an idea as to how well he can improve things in a year. 

So everyone is excited about getting the Minnesota O-line coach?  The team that we abused for a record number of TFLs last year?

I didn't see one brief moment at all last year when it looked like the OL was growing into a similarly ferocious meat grinder. I hope Warinner can take them there!

One subplot to the #Michigan staff moves: Drevno had been recruiting gifted grad transfer LT Calvin Anderson who I spoke to this morning. He told me UM's new OL coach Ed Warinner actually was an assistant at Army when Anderson's dad was a DB at West Point. https://t.co/N6LXW0CZcJ

— Bruce Feldman (@BruceFeldmanCFB) February 23, 2018

There were a LOT of people here questioning Harbaugh's commitment to excellence by assuming that his relationship with Drevno was essentially more important that his desire to win. 

What kind of fans run with that BS line of thinking?

Ok.

• The writing was on the wall when Drev got moved out of the press box and back down to field level. People were throwing fits that Harbaugh wouldn't "do anything," as if a HC is just going to start firing people mid-season, but clearly things were happening behind the scenes. This has obviously been coming for a while.
• People who draw a line through the last 15 years of football as if everything is all the same are kidding themselves. Yes, the offensive problems looked hauntingly like the problems that Hoke had, but the behavior of the HC is completely different. Hoke (or Brandon) was loyal to Borges for three years before reluctantly replacing him with warm body whose job qualification is that he knew Nick Saban; he never fired Funk despite four years of utter OL disaster. Harbaugh is not afraid to shuffle coaches, to hire guys in positions of need even if he already has guys in place, or to give someone a firm handshake when necessary. We saw it last year when he hired Frey, we've seen it this year.
• Mostly, this just demonstrates how silly much of the anger that foments during the season is. You want something to happen? Be patient. We don't know what goes on in the room, and we don't know who is responsible for the issues the offense has (the people who were convinced it was all on Pep appear to have egg on their face right now, but then, we still don't know! We just know Drev is out). Assuming that we know the one single problem, and that our proposed solution must be the right one, and that Jim Harbaugh is messing up because we know better than he does, is absurd.

It seems this had to happen. I'm not thrilled with McElwain, but Harbaugh needed to make a change and he did. Drevno came in with Harbaugh with OC and OL responsibilities and those are by far the two biggest problems with the team. This had to happen.

Yes there was a fair bit of job overlap and yes the O-lines had issues so it's hard to say this is the wrong move, but here's where I wish I had a better idea of who was doing what in practice.  Drevno certainly shares the blame for our O-line recruiting and development issues, but to what extent blame = culpability, I don't know.  I didn't want Drevno fired as a scapegoat, just only if doing so actually solved our O-line issues.  Just based on results we were certainly in the market for an upgrade but it's baffling that a coach with his track record would start coasting, and under Harbaugh of all people.  WTF happened to you, Drev??

The lingering concern is that even if our O-line issues due to Drevno were bad enough to justify his termination, if he's not the singular cause then any improvement from here is limited by how much wasn't his fault.  That's not to be pessimistic; I honestly don't know.  If it's 100%, yay for this move, but I would find that strange.  Frey's also out and at least some of the last year was on him.

Personally I think Frey might've been the bigger problem, at least while he was here.  I don't mean the time wasted on IZ per se; he was out the door so fast I suspect it was a DJ Derpin' situation, where he basically got hired on track record and then used Harbaugh as a springboard.  In my experience, when guys start to chase that brass ring they begin to shit where they eat.

nearly full-time monitoring the entire OL coaching/recruiting process.

That will free me up to speed up my intense observation on how the second base coach is doing for Hutch & The Gang in Softball.

Today went OK--2-0 over Virginia Tech.

Stay Tuned.....

Continuity in an offensive line is crucial and critical for an offense in general. If you want your team to compete at the upper most levels, you can't reboot its offensive or defensive culture every three or four years. Our defense is great because of the thread of continuity from 2011 with Mattison and Hoke to today with Dr. Blitz Brown and Mattison. The offense, until the last couple years, has been in a churn. I wasn't happy with last season but the rotating door of injured quarterbacks really make an offensive assessment near to meaningless. 

Ah Hell. Trust Harbaugh and cross fingers. But cheering Drevno's departure could well prove premature. 

And last of all, but not least of all, best of luck coach Drevno!!!