Alabama Coming After Chris Partridge, But Sam Thinks He'll Stay; Other Coaching Notes
Sam Webb was back on WTKA this morning after being gone covering recruiting. He had a lot of insights on the coaching situation:
• Alabama is coming after Chris Partridge, but Sam thinks Harbaugh will give him more money and he'll stay here. Sam also said CP is likely to be the safeties coach.
• Sam's heard nothing to indicate Drevno and Pep are leaving.
• Dan Enos' role has not yet been defined. If he's not the OC, he'll still likely have a role in play-calling. He turned down a chance to be the Rutgers OC to come to Michigan. (Duh)
• Al Washington is going to coach on defense; don't know where the rumor started that he'd be coaching running backs.
I was listening in the car, so I hope I got all that right.
January 8th, 2018 at 10:30 AM ^
January 8th, 2018 at 10:34 AM ^
You're more foul-mouthed than I imagined in elementary school. It's good to be reminded not to lionize men from history.
Glad to know CP will likely stay.
Disappointed that Drev and Pep aren't even considering going. Maybe we can't start to think about that until after signing day? But that would seem like a very suckeye thing to do (a la Mike Weber situation).
I was really hoping for a major shift on offense. These inside zone runs take a month off my life every time we try one. Another year of this, and I could die yesterday.
January 8th, 2018 at 10:48 AM ^
Why would being foul-mouthed have anything other than a positive effect on lionization?
January 8th, 2018 at 11:15 AM ^
No Fuck Lion jokes yet?
January 8th, 2018 at 12:28 PM ^
Marques Slocum approves.
January 8th, 2018 at 2:40 PM ^
January 8th, 2018 at 11:42 AM ^
January 8th, 2018 at 1:33 PM ^
that Honest Abe and two other accounts.
January 8th, 2018 at 10:37 AM ^
January 8th, 2018 at 11:04 AM ^
January 8th, 2018 at 11:07 AM ^
January 8th, 2018 at 11:19 AM ^
Why the personal shots at WD, he's not even involved in this thread?
January 8th, 2018 at 11:47 AM ^
WD operates a number of secondary accounts, one of which is Honest Abe. So WD is participating in this thread.
January 8th, 2018 at 11:56 AM ^
The tinfoil hats here are worse than WD.
The guy posts useful inormation on non revenue sports and is a pretty open book around his personal life. The constant assumptions around his fake accounts are humorous.
January 8th, 2018 at 12:10 PM ^
January 8th, 2018 at 12:33 PM ^
I swear every week or so there is some new poster who either gets into a spat with some slightly older and strangely prolific poster who may be a WD alter ego. Last week it was BB or MM or something. Now it's Fellow51. And the brand-new poster always takes on an air of indredulity about WD.
I can't say for certain that all of these accounts belong to WD, but there are quite a few red flags.
January 8th, 2018 at 12:51 PM ^
Yeah, and the posts all read exactly the same--the same writing voice, word usages, tone. Mostly the content is fairly empty and brief.
January 8th, 2018 at 1:01 PM ^
Yep. And the most trivial post will always get several upvotes. Check out a basketball game open thread, when very few posts actually receive votes. Yet some accounts always seem to have several upvotes. It's no wonder these accounts rack up 2000 points in 2 weeks.
January 8th, 2018 at 11:52 AM ^
January 8th, 2018 at 11:57 AM ^
Picking the favoritesin the NFL this weekend? Tough Saturday with those upsets.
January 8th, 2018 at 12:23 PM ^
January 8th, 2018 at 10:58 AM ^
Get a life. Your constant swearing in every thread isn't necessary.
January 8th, 2018 at 12:04 PM ^
January 8th, 2018 at 12:14 PM ^
That's bullshit.
January 8th, 2018 at 8:38 PM ^
Get the hell outta here with that.
January 8th, 2018 at 2:36 PM ^
it's bullshit!
January 8th, 2018 at 10:32 AM ^
my guess is that Drevno will be strictly Oline, Pep will be strictly WR, and it'll be on Enos refine/adjust the playbook and call the plays with coordination with Harbaugh
January 8th, 2018 at 10:36 AM ^
January 8th, 2018 at 10:52 AM ^
I'm just surprised either would accept a demotion, it's career suicude. I'm sure either could've accepted another OC job or HC job at a small school and saved face.
January 8th, 2018 at 11:17 AM ^
at a smaller school is also a demotion. Best to just stay at UM and do a great job in your new role.
January 8th, 2018 at 12:02 PM ^
You also have to factor in the timing of openings and how many are available. I know that Drevno has interviewed for HC openings in the past, but he's not going to throw his hat into the ring on everything that becomes available. I think he could slide to a position coach here for a year or two and still be a viable candidate for another OC or even HC job somewhere else.
January 8th, 2018 at 12:18 PM ^
They can either get demoted, take a pay cut elsewhere (not likely to get a better deal after what happened this year), quit, or get fired. Which would you choose?
January 8th, 2018 at 4:11 PM ^
Not at all. Just like assistants who served under fired head coaches often bounce back to eventually land head coaching jobs, coaches who get demoted often bounce back to land better jobs as well. It's better than being fired, and demotion isn't necessarily a way of pushing someone out. Drevno was a mediocre OC but his track record as an O-line coach is very good, so I can see how Harbaugh might think that he's the best person to take over coaching the O-line. And if he does a great job and our O-line improves dramatically next year, then perhaps he'll get another crack at an OC gig somewhere. It's not career suicide by any means.
January 8th, 2018 at 10:53 AM ^
Nothing like having two guys making $1.1M a year in demoted capacities.
January 8th, 2018 at 11:08 AM ^
Making that money as main guys and doing even worse?
I'd rather we give those guys a 10M pay raise and let them be demoted. The money shouldn't matter to us as fans, Ross probably uses a million dollars as kleenex.
January 8th, 2018 at 11:31 AM ^
I can't understand why any fan cares about coaches' salaries. The relative size of their paycheck has nothing to do with anything we are concerned about.
January 8th, 2018 at 11:48 AM ^
January 8th, 2018 at 1:00 PM ^
Another guy on a message board insulting people who post on message boards for wasting their time. You have a lot of MGoPoints in a year and a half for someone who thinks posting on message boards is pointless and we should just read the news because we don't know enough to have an opinion
January 8th, 2018 at 11:53 AM ^
Even the MSM Detroit media devolves in to Harbaugh isn't earning his paycheck.
Harbaugh and company are worth what another school or NFL would pay them.
Bears, Lions, Volunteers, would write a 10 million per year check right now if they could get Harbaugh.
Since Haubaugh and the football team fund 90% of the athletic department, and we were losing money under Hoke. He earns his money every single year before he ever wins a game.
Assistant coaches are just collateral damage in the payroll department.
January 8th, 2018 at 11:59 AM ^
January 8th, 2018 at 1:23 PM ^
Agree completely, people get paid what people are willing to pay them.
Another way to look at it, if Harbaugh was making $1.5 mil per year would we all feel better about the past 8-5 season? Would the previous two 10-3 seasons suddenly look better? No.
January 8th, 2018 at 10:44 PM ^
January 8th, 2018 at 12:33 PM ^
I only care about them when there is context to them. In this instance, Pep and Drevno are the 2nd and 3rd highest paid offensive assistants in all of college football. So if Michigan is going to pay that much for coaching, it would be nice if the performance matched the relative pay.
January 8th, 2018 at 2:57 PM ^
Michigan is going to pay that much for coaching.
Regardless if it's Pep and Drevno, or Enos and Roman, or Bill Walsh and Vince Lombardi, or Siskel & Ebert.... it does not matter. Michigan is going to pay assistants a ton of money relative to most other schools because they rake in more money than most other schools.
Same with Harbaugh. He makes what he makes. This wasn't a bad season because of what Harbaugh gets paid. It was a bad season because we lost 5 games. It wouldn't be any more tolerable if he were only making $10 bucks an hour. "Oh, that's okay that we lost to all of our rivals again, our coaches don't make shit." <high five the fanbase!>
All that matters are the results on the field. Paychecks play no part in that. None at all.
January 8th, 2018 at 1:56 PM ^
January 8th, 2018 at 3:07 PM ^
He is indeed demonstrably stupid, but the so called "smart" people ignored and belittled those tens of millions of people . . . so here we are.
A pox on all their houses.
January 8th, 2018 at 3:13 PM ^
January 8th, 2018 at 3:21 PM ^