Jaden Smith requests release from NLI
First casualty. I’ll be interested to see what the Athletic Department does. Hopefully this is a blip but hard to tell since the entire defensive staff is gone and the head coach.
https://t.co/ooQzBzAtzs
February 11th, 2024 at 5:45 PM ^
I'm surprised it took this long. I can't blame the kids when you don't know who is coaching you. I hope this doesn't lead to a mass exodus but nothing would surprise me at this point.
February 11th, 2024 at 6:21 PM ^
I’m sorry. Doesn’t Jadyn play OFFENSE? And don’t we have an OC and QB coach?
Edit: Oops-wrong kid! Thank God!
February 11th, 2024 at 6:31 PM ^
This also sucks but I thought the same until seeing your comment
February 11th, 2024 at 6:46 PM ^
Odd timing though, isn't the add/drop date over at most (all?) schools? Not sure about trimester schools.
February 11th, 2024 at 7:10 PM ^
He’s still in high school so he’s not enrolling until June. So the add/drop date isn’t relevant to a kid who isn’t graduating high school for a few months anyway
February 11th, 2024 at 7:27 PM ^
Thought he was an early enrollee for some reason.
February 11th, 2024 at 11:00 PM ^
You can go into the portal, commit elsewhere and still finish the semester with your current school. They would miss spring practice and probably won’t be able to work out in the team’s facilities. So there’s really no point to transfer now. It would be smarter to wait until after spring if you’re already on campus.
February 11th, 2024 at 5:50 PM ^
Kinda telling when you read the circled part.
February 11th, 2024 at 5:53 PM ^
Do we even have Rick Minter anymore?
February 11th, 2024 at 5:55 PM ^
Rick Minter is gone too.
Former Michigan analyst and interim linebackers coach Rick Minter is joining the Los Angeles Chargers staff as a senior analyst. His son, Jesse Minter, was recently named the team’s defensive coordinator.
February 11th, 2024 at 6:41 PM ^
This is Jim Harbaugh definition of passing the torch. The whole time he was building his staff by raiding Michigan yet he had us believing he was deciding. I don't get why he's not getting more backlash. I was the biggest Harbaugh supporter I'm on record in 2020 of not wanting to fire him but just because a team that he assembled won a national championship doesn't give him the right to tear Michigan down on his way out.
I think Jim only cares about Jim which is fine but I only care about Michigan and right now I hold him accountable for any players that leave with how he's handled this. This is what Jim calls passing the torch..taking every Michigan coach that will come as he leaves....WTF?
Neg away I don't care. My loyalty is to Michigan not Jim Harbaugh and sorry azz LA.
February 11th, 2024 at 7:06 PM ^
So in your opinion Harbaugh should wreck his chances in the pros by taking guys he doesn’t know instead of taking the guys he believes in? Jesse is a first time NFL coordinator and now he has an intact staff that knows his system and terminology. Does it suck for UM, sure but it’s incredibly smart for Harbaugh and Minter.
February 11th, 2024 at 7:46 PM ^
We'll see.
February 11th, 2024 at 8:10 PM ^
Moore didn't look carefully as to what Jim was passing him
February 11th, 2024 at 11:10 PM ^
Exactly!!!
February 11th, 2024 at 11:31 PM ^
I agree completely and said last month when Harbaugh announced he was leaving that he had done Michigan dirty. Bad enough that he took his sweet and cynical time to leave, but then he gutted the coaching staff on the way out. This from the guy who came back to his alma mater to save the program and rebuild it into greatness.
February 12th, 2024 at 10:07 AM ^
Is Harbaugh forcing these coaches to leave? His job as a coach is to hire the best assistants. Of course he's going to offer them, but they don't have to accept.
February 11th, 2024 at 5:53 PM ^
Maybe he’s just a big Chargers fan? And if not, he is now.
February 11th, 2024 at 5:57 PM ^
Yeah hard to stay committed when the entire staff you committed to walked. Maybe your position coach leaves or the head coach but not every damn guy on 1 side of the ball.
February 11th, 2024 at 7:03 PM ^
Wow. Does not mention Sherrone… What a great recruiter he must be. So glad we went with an internal hire to keep the staff intact.
February 11th, 2024 at 7:08 PM ^
Lazy take. You’re upset a defensive player didn’t stick it out when literally every point of contact he had is gone. Sherrone IS a great recruiter but since he was the OC his focus was almost entirely offensive.
February 11th, 2024 at 9:40 PM ^
Not a lazy take. A lazy take would’ve been to say something after Herbert or Minter or Jay. But enough is enough after Elston and Clink. Jim praises Sherrone and then stabs him in the back and raids the whole staff. Your blind loyalty is lazy. Pardon me if I’m not impressed by the recruiting chops of Wink or Casula. Sherrone could be a great recruiter but it takes more than the HC, mrfunk.
February 11th, 2024 at 11:31 PM ^
But your comment he was responding to was about Moore as a recruiter.
February 11th, 2024 at 8:25 PM ^
Wow yourself Mayor! He does mention Sherrone. As in “Forever grateful to coach Moore…”.
February 11th, 2024 at 9:42 PM ^
Yeah that was my bad. I was reading the circled part and didn’t read the rest. Stopped reading after naming all of the other coaches and not Moore at the top. Either way seemed weird to separate them all. I did deserve the neg for that for sure.
February 11th, 2024 at 11:18 PM ^
Seems weird to comment on the full post, but only read part of it.
February 11th, 2024 at 9:28 PM ^
So you must have missed the part "Forever grateful for coach Moore . . . ", but okay.
February 11th, 2024 at 9:44 PM ^
I did and explained the reason for my faux pas above this…🤷🏻♂️
February 11th, 2024 at 5:47 PM ^
If this doesn’t make people understand how fundamentally important relationships are in recruiting nothing ever will.
February 11th, 2024 at 6:00 PM ^
Primary recruiter was Chris Partridge; secondary was Jesse Minter.
February 11th, 2024 at 9:53 PM ^
Seems like the ones with the players in the class would matter too. Not gonna have those same long term relationships with players that you've made on visits and recruiting weekends at Michigan this late in the game at another school.
February 11th, 2024 at 11:13 PM ^
Relationships and money are important. You need at least one of those to get a commitment these days, but if you want elite talent, you better have both.
February 11th, 2024 at 5:50 PM ^
Thanks Warde.
February 11th, 2024 at 5:53 PM ^
I don’t see how you can blame Warde for this.
February 11th, 2024 at 5:55 PM ^
Herbert was a Warde loss. Could have kept him.
February 11th, 2024 at 5:57 PM ^
Has this actually been confirmed anywhere?
I’ve seen a ton of speculation but nothing concrete.
February 11th, 2024 at 7:23 PM ^
Jaden is the source…hard to refute that. The question now is whether or not Michigan lets him go.
February 12th, 2024 at 12:38 AM ^
Why would an incoming recruit be a good source on whether Warde could have retained Herbert?
February 11th, 2024 at 8:27 PM ^
Dude. What better source than the player himself are you looking for?!?!
February 11th, 2024 at 8:42 PM ^
The question was on Herbert leaving because Warde wouldn’t match his demands.
People have said it and I’m asking if that’s been confirmed anywhere reputable.
February 11th, 2024 at 6:07 PM ^
Herbert made an unreasonable demand and he just signed a big contract last year. Herbert wanted to go to the NFL and made an unreasonable demand that he couldn't pass up if Michigan said yes.
So it's not a Warde loss.
February 11th, 2024 at 11:47 PM ^
Technically, based on what I am reading, he would also have an opportunity to redefine the role of the team trainer in the NFL. Sounds like an amazing opportunity to change the sport.
February 11th, 2024 at 6:10 PM ^
He's purportedly getting paid $1.75M a year with the Chargers. He wanted a 10-year, $1M+-per-year deal at UM to stick around. That's not a "Warde loss" unless you think literally every guy who asks for money from UM should be given it, and if so then I gotta start trying to negotiate things with you across the table.
February 11th, 2024 at 7:46 PM ^
Herbert was crucial to the strength and conditioning of this team. He was extremely.valuable, so why not give him the 10 years $1 mil each year?
February 12th, 2024 at 3:00 PM ^
Because you can pay another strength and conditioning coach to do the same thing without giving in to outrageous demands. And look, you gave his right hand man the job to replace him.
February 11th, 2024 at 7:15 PM ^
That’s a load of crap. Herbert was already the highest paid S&C coach in the country. He made an unreasonable ask because it gives him one of two things: 1. A reason to go to the NFL like he really wanted to do. Or 2. He gets granted his completely unreasonable request.
He wasn’t negotiating in good faith and it’s not Warde’s fault for not giving in to nonsense.
February 11th, 2024 at 5:56 PM ^
You mean the guy who alludes to all “recruits/players should want to play at Michigan because of the school, academics, and tradition”?
So we should be good, right?
February 11th, 2024 at 6:14 PM ^
For everyone who wants to watch players who get paid big bucks, there's plenty of NFL football to watch on Sundays and during the week.