Aaron Wellman to ND

Submitted by dRich on January 25th, 2015 at 11:57 AM

http://notredame.247sports.com/Article/Notre-Dame-Hires-Aaron-Wellman-F… Didn't see it posted, so hey for those of you who didn't know here you go. What was the general consensus of his time with Michigan? Is our new S&C guy someone we should be happy with over him?

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IncrediblySTIFF

January 25th, 2015 at 11:58 AM ^

general consensus here is probably dislike. having known the guy, I both hated and loved him. after Brady hoke, he was probably the funniest coach type I ever played for

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Wolverine Devotee

January 25th, 2015 at 12:04 PM ^

That you played for? ...... Go on...

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CorkyCole

January 25th, 2015 at 12:08 PM ^

He's Jabrill Peppers. You didn't know this?

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IncrediblySTIFF

January 25th, 2015 at 12:24 PM ^

at ball state

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Wolverine Devotee

January 25th, 2015 at 12:27 PM ^

Oh lol carry on

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Ares

January 25th, 2015 at 1:02 PM ^

Would a dough boy like you say such things in person. No. A lot of growing up for you to do.

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bronxblue

January 25th, 2015 at 1:23 PM ^

To be fair, this would be a pretty assinine response regardless of his age or size.

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xtramelanin

January 25th, 2015 at 2:29 PM ^

at himself, and its one of those things that doesn't translate over the internet. i've never known the kid to be anything but humble, so maybe we ought to give him the benefit of the doubt.

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Ares

January 25th, 2015 at 6:17 PM ^

You're like a black white knight.

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xtramelanin

January 25th, 2015 at 9:42 PM ^

my limited gray matter seeks to know just how many levels there are to this statement, and it's going to take a while for me to figure it out. great line.

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West German Judge

January 25th, 2015 at 11:00 PM ^

Humility is not his strong suit.

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bronxblue

January 25th, 2015 at 2:45 PM ^

I have literally no idea why you try to antagonize people around here yet proclaim to love Michigan sports and spend an inordinate amount of time here.

EDIT: Upon further read, if this wasn't intended to be condescending but was instead a reference to yourself not knowing something, then I retract my comment about antagonizing people.

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Kermits Blue Key

January 25th, 2015 at 1:25 PM ^

Personally, I find it more admirable that he wore a jack strap for a MAC school, as opposed to some fanboy who sniffs the jack straps of a B1G school.

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Oscar

January 25th, 2015 at 1:31 PM ^

Maybe I am wrong, but I don't think WD meant it in a disrepectful way. I think he was trying to find out if IncrediblyBLUE was on a current/recent UM football team.

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DealerCamel

January 25th, 2015 at 2:22 PM ^

Kinda surprised everyone is piling on so hard so quickly.

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bronxblue

January 25th, 2015 at 2:43 PM ^

Maybe I (and others) overreacted, but given WD's penchant for starting fights around here I think short, somewhat-flippant posts are going to get a bit of a reaction. I will apologize if his statement was innocuous, though. I guess I read a bit much into the "lol" part of it.

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Wolverine Devotee

January 25th, 2015 at 11:04 PM ^

Wow, uh, no I didn't mean my comment in a disrespectful way at all. I was curious and thought he was another player that was posting on here that I didn't know.

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Bando Calrissian

January 25th, 2015 at 1:31 PM ^

Doesn't go to Michigan. Doesn't want to go to Michigan. Claims to love Michigan.

Makes fun of former MAC athlete. IIRC, attends a MAC school.

In other words, nothing makes sense.

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El Jeffe

January 25th, 2015 at 1:57 PM ^

blackstrap

+ jockstrap

= jack strap

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IncrediblySTIFF

January 25th, 2015 at 2:59 PM ^

ouch, you hurt my feeling

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Reader71

January 25th, 2015 at 3:05 PM ^

Don't mind the muggles. SICK BURNZ ALL AROUND!

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falco_alba15

January 26th, 2015 at 6:43 AM ^

I have a friend that played for Ball State. Probably not when you played, but he was really pleased to play and get an education from there. I've heard a lot of good things. Kudos to you.

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MeanJoe07

January 26th, 2015 at 1:27 AM ^

how dare you WD! you should really create a whole thread about your apology so we can know how important you are.

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falco_alba15

January 25th, 2015 at 12:21 PM ^

I'm listening. Go on.

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RockinLoud

January 25th, 2015 at 12:03 PM ^

Depends who you talk to. Certain users on this board didn't like him at all and contributed much of our underperformance to him. Other's thought he was just as good as anyone else. In the end I lean towards liking Tolbert better since he worked under Turley, who is considered the best in the business and we apparently almost got.

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Jaqen H'ghar

January 25th, 2015 at 12:06 PM ^

Turley worked for Tolbert I thought

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RockinLoud

January 25th, 2015 at 12:11 PM ^

I think you're more right, looks like the they were co-S&C directors for a couple years at Stanford before he went to the 49'ers.

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JFW

January 25th, 2015 at 8:41 PM ^

So, honest question, who is considered better, Barwis or Turkey? Th sir philosophies seem markedly different

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Mski2812

January 25th, 2015 at 12:03 PM ^

Expecting a lot of torn ACL's for them

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Mr. Yost

January 25th, 2015 at 12:29 PM ^

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m1817

January 25th, 2015 at 9:00 PM ^

Rude but true.

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Blueinsconsin

January 25th, 2015 at 12:03 PM ^

to suffer ACL tears to their very best players seemingly every year?

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unWavering

January 25th, 2015 at 1:49 PM ^

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but S&C coaches can't magically prevent ACL tears, which are a pretty random event.

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turtleboy

January 25th, 2015 at 1:56 PM ^

Unless you're Shannon Turley

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go16blue

January 25th, 2015 at 12:04 PM ^

He's going there as an assistant, in case that's unclear to anyone who doesn't want to click the link.

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bluebyyou

January 25th, 2015 at 12:11 PM ^

I'm happy for a change in direction with our new S & C coach. I'm not sure if what I perceived as a lack of toughness, injuries, slow development of linemen and second half malaise are fully attribuatable to the S & C coach, but there had to be some contribution.

I'm happy to be going in a different direction with Harbaugh's new S & C coach.

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mackbru

January 25th, 2015 at 12:21 PM ^

Well, the same attributes applied to the past seven years, so let's not be too hard on the one guy. You could say the same thing about the "legendary" Barwis. Those teams always faded, too.

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clarkiefromcanada

January 25th, 2015 at 1:23 PM ^

"Those teams always faded, too"

Except Wisconsin 2008 (20-6 in the 4th quarter), ND in 2009, ND in 2010, the 67-65 game to Illinois in 2010...

I get that Michigan has underperformed (versus expectation of the position and versus expectation of team results) since Lloyd retired. But the absolute certainty the "always" statements and attribution is a bit much.

I'm no RichRod defender but I respect Barwis and what he has achieved professionally. It's not an accident he is retained by professional teams and is succuessful.

Coaching, scheme (or lack of coherent one defensively for RR) and recruited talent had far more to say about Rod's results than S&C imho.

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Tater

January 25th, 2015 at 1:45 PM ^

Barwis' teams were underclassmen playing against upperclassmen. They got better every year. They were responsible for Brady Hoke's one good season at Michigan. Barwis was great and still is.

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switch26

January 25th, 2015 at 3:48 PM ^

Molk, Hemingway, van Bergen, mike martin and a few others were not rich rods players. We still had Carr players on homes best team that were our upperclassmen

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CalifExile

January 25th, 2015 at 7:03 PM ^

Since RR was coach for only three years at UM it would be very surprising if there were no LC players contributing in 2011. Also, Martin reopened his recruiting after LC retired and RR had to convince him to sign his LOI.

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Brady Elliott

January 25th, 2015 at 2:36 PM ^

I'm certainly not an expert on S/C but I remember Hoke mentioning several times and giving credit to Wellman for being a pioneer of sorts to the GPS aspect of injury prevention/maintenance. I want to say we even hired someone from Australia that is an expert in that specific field of monitoring GPS movements. I believe the idea is making sure that players aren't putting too much stress on joints by favoring certain body parts to overcompensate for other injuries. I remember Hoke talking about them monitoring Jake Butt in that regard with the GPS and then mentioning that they thought through what the receivers do in practice because Chesson or Darboh had run something like 8 miles in practice. Does anyone know if we retained that Australian or the GPS monitoring philosophy? Hoke mentioned they were sort of cutting edge and leading the way in the BigTen in that regard.

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bluebyyou

January 25th, 2015 at 3:14 PM ^

Don't know if Michigan is still using GPS tracking, but I believe that the system is used by many programs in football and even some in bball.

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floridagoblue

January 25th, 2015 at 4:53 PM ^

I don't know what Michigan is using right now, but GPS is not cutting edge. It has been around for 10 years for tracking athlete movements during practice. Cutting edge is using a combination of GPS and Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) with novel algorithms to interpret the big data being collected. For some related video, check out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjfti4Um14I

Work at Michigan to get more biomechanical data out of the sensors:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp_xCS-1WFw

That is state of the art. I would be interested to know what our new strength and conditioning coach starts using.

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MichiganMan_24_

January 25th, 2015 at 12:12 PM ^

This isnt on par with the topic..I just cant wait for the freakin season to start to get this bad 2014 taste out of our mouths...I want to watch the winged helmets with confidence and a bit of arrogance again.

I drank too much coffee im jacked

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