Don Brown hired as DC @ U of Az

Ok I’m gonna be the sap. Can anyone actually link a post that actually reported (not rumored) the Don Brown hiring?

Also the board needs to get more creative with its Keith Jackson references. 

It was only rumored before. This is official. 

Hey if you crack two rocks together you can get a spark 

I see what you did there

That was a great game, wasn’t it?

Yes I think teams figured him out somewhat, but what really brought him down was the poor recruiting. You can’t run that style of defense against top teams with a bunch of average joes. You need top athletes and a strong defensive line, neither of which Brown seemed capable of recruiting here. You give him Bama, Ohio State, or Clemson athletes and I think he does exceptionally well.

That being said, I do think it’s better to have a more balanced defense than what Brown seems to prefer to run. 

It wasn't so much that he was "figured out" as it was that lackluster recruiting at key positions made the defense severely break down. 

Don Brown's defense works like a charm when it has four defensive linemen all capable of generating pressure on their own, and corners who you can trust to go man-to-man. Hence, what you got in 2016, 2017, and every game in 2018 sans OSU. Even for most of 2019 the defense was still fine. Not elite, but it was enough. If his defense was still doing what it did for the first three years that he was here, I'd have no problems with him still being here. 

He's the reason Michigan even had a chance to beat OSU in 2016 and 2017. I don't know how to explain the 2018 result other than poor decision-making on sticking Brandon Watson out there against guys he had no business trying to cover, and then just bad juju. OSU lives in Michigan's head rent-free, what can I say? 

Odd... 2020 seems to be left off every time they show is stats.

It didn’t count for Harbaugh, so it shouldn’t count for Brown either.

In all fairness to my thread below, mine was an attempt to inform the Board that the Athletic Department was actually acknowledging some movement on the coaching front for the first time in over a month by taking Brown off the Coaches page on mgoblue.com. That was actually newsworthy in my view, not that it was Don Brown leaving. 

The AD’s IT people failed to take the bio down behind everything, so I heard about that from the wonderful people on this board. I guess some of us posters with only a few thousand points or less are not as endowed with MGoBlog etiquette and reason as those who are on here 24/7. Oh well. 

Hmm, sounds like Harbaugh is handling the offseason like he did the program during the season....very badly. 

Any way you slice it, Harbaugh coming back is the least inspiring outcome, regardless of who he might be able to bring in as coordinators.

I don't think we have any idea what Coach Harbaugh is or isn't doing. 

My likely worthless opinion is that Jim likely has already agreed on or signed the contract but is waiting until his new assistants have signed contracts before any formal announcement.

Perhaps it will all come out at once.

Just a thought.

Who has more wins next year?  M or Arizona?

Well it increasingly looks like Campbell won't be going anywhere this year, so maybe we can try to hire him next year if Harbaugh is fired, which seems most likely.

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