Maize in Cincy

December 15th, 2016 at 12:40 AM ^

That's pretty amazing, especially considering how weak that program was at the time that staff was put together.  You would have to assume Drevno will make it 6 within the next couple years.

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AZBlue

December 15th, 2016 at 1:19 AM ^

You really think he was almost gone this year? Most non Power 5 schools can't pay him what he is making now as the OC. I see that as allowing him to wait for a Oregon State/Illinois/Wale Forest, level job.

Brodie

December 15th, 2016 at 9:57 AM ^

Coaches have been taking less to become HCs for a while now, ever since assistant salaries started booming in the past decade. It's the only way to gain experience and fewer and fewer big schools are willing to take a shot on untested coordinators.  

Brodie

December 15th, 2016 at 9:57 AM ^

Coaches have been taking less to become HCs for a while now, ever since assistant salaries started booming in the past decade. It's the only way to gain experience and fewer and fewer big schools are willing to take a shot on untested coordinators.  

I dumped the Dope

December 15th, 2016 at 1:23 AM ^

But I think there's going to be a lag of 10 years or so, for these players to attain the age they work their way up to D1 ball (and maybe retire from the NFL!!).  I think when you play for Harbaugh you love the game (and the work required to get better and better at it) and aren't there for the weightlifting or the social status bump on campus.

I don't know who they are yet but I believe we will recognize these names very easily in the future.

My super secret hope is that Drevno just hangs around Ann Arbor foreva, becoming the successor to Harbaugh someday as the HC in true Gary Moeller fashion.  If he gets bored we can always put him on defense to broaden his skill set.

bigpatky

December 15th, 2016 at 10:27 AM ^

Ed Lamb moved over to BYU this past season to be the Assistant Head Coach (he covers special teams unit too) under Kalani Sitake (former Utah DC under Kyle Whittingham and Oregon State DC under Gary Anderson). 

Most around BYU expect him to only last a year or two more before becoming a head coach somewhere. He got looked at for the Nevada job that just opened up. But he'll get a FBS job soon.

Don

December 15th, 2016 at 9:14 AM ^

Five of Bo's first group of assistants became head coaches. Eleven of his assistants during his first decade became head coaches, and by my count he had fifteen overall during his Michigan tenure. I might have missed one or two.

Four of his assistants—Carr, McCartney, Miles, and Nehlen—took their own teams to the national championship game, with the first three winning.

Moeller inherited Bo's staff, and he was HC for just four years so he didn't have much of an opportunity to put his own stamp on his staff.

Carr had three in his coaching tree—Hoke, Debord, English. Stan Parrish was also a Carr assistant who went on to be HC at Ball St and interim HC at EMU, but Parrish had previously been HC at three different schools before joining Carr's staff so I wouldn't call him part of Carr's tree.

Only one of RR's assistants at Michigan has ever been HC, but that was Greg Robinson, whose disastrous tenure at Syracuse prior to joining RR was the the worst in Orange history.

None of Hoke's assistants have become HC, and right now it's difficult to envision any of them doing so.

GVSUGoBlue

December 15th, 2016 at 9:15 AM ^

The end of the article asks if we will one day look back at this staff like we currently do at that Frey Iowa staff. Crazy to think we have the coach that could be starting it all

Perkis-Size Me

December 15th, 2016 at 11:21 AM ^

It'll be quite a bit more before he's all said and done. 

Drevno and Fisch are probably heading somewhere in the not so distant future. Wheatley and Harbaugh Jr. could as well, but they've definitely got to prove themselves at a coordinator level before they take that kind of jump to HC. Brown could probably have most any job he wants if he were open to looking. Thank the good lord he's "too damn old" for that. 

That's one of the many things that absolutely baffled me about Carr. The guy had almost no coaching tree to speak of. And the guys he did send off into the wild blue yonder turned out to range somewhere from average to awful. 

OwenGoBlue

December 15th, 2016 at 12:24 PM ^

I think Wheatley could be a head coach in the next 3-5 years. Between his NFL experience and the nature of how M calls plays, he's a guy who can "skip ahead" on the traditional career path.

Honestly, Harbaugh's personnel management may be his #1 advantage. He's so good at mixing continuity with new people/ideas and has an incredible network of college, NFL and HS coaches as his talent pool (and knows when to go outside of that pool of known guys like with Don Brown).