Michigan adding Garrett Cox as a Defensive Quality Control Assistant
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Another staff addition with southern connections. Cox has been a LB coach at Texas Southern and Fort Scott CC. He has also been a quality control assistant at Bama and defensive quality control assistant at Tennessee for the last 2 years. That connection may also be a relevant to the recruitments of Quavaris Crouch and Henry To'o To'o from the transfer portal.
January 28th, 2021 at 9:25 AM ^
I thought analysts aren't allowed to recruit off campus, but it sure would be nice to land both Tenn LBs... Need Nua to get T'o T'o.
January 28th, 2021 at 9:33 AM ^
I think the rule is that they are not allowed to visit recruits in-person, but they can still have contact with recruits (e.g. texting, Twitter DMs, etc.). Assuming Cox already has a relationship with them from his time at Tennessee, it could certainly play a factor.
January 28th, 2021 at 10:37 AM ^
This is a rule I only have "knowledge" of because of Curtis Blackwell and his massive self allegedly photoshopped in that pic with Mork and a recruit.
January 28th, 2021 at 12:33 PM ^
It's been a dead period for some time now, so no one has been allowed to recruit off campus. Given those circumstances it's very nice to have anyone with a prior relationship with a recruit, but a quality control assistant doesn't sound like someone with a lot of pull.
January 28th, 2021 at 5:00 PM ^
To get T'o T'o, should Nua change his name to Nua Nua?
January 28th, 2021 at 9:29 AM ^
Honest question: what does a "defensive quality control assistant" do?
January 28th, 2021 at 9:35 AM ^
Think sommelier - except with defense instead of wine
January 28th, 2021 at 9:45 AM ^
So, acts pretentious, talks about shit that nobody else understands, makes up shit to look impressive? Do Not Want!
January 28th, 2021 at 9:50 AM ^
haha I was going to say the same thing
"Ahh yes I can taste the earthworm and....wait....is that....is that a subtle hint of birch?"
January 28th, 2021 at 10:00 AM ^
No, not birch. It's earthworm with a compost bouquet.
January 28th, 2021 at 10:19 AM ^
....with a hint of rabbit feces, male rabbit, definitely male rabbit with a touch of squirrel urine.
/did I do this right?
January 28th, 2021 at 10:42 AM ^
You did great. That is what wine was like on the other side of the Berlin Wall, correct?
January 28th, 2021 at 12:49 PM ^
I'm still here with my dead mom, and yes it does.
January 28th, 2021 at 2:16 PM ^
It has a clear deep garnet, full bodied with well integrated medium tannin and acidity and a long smooth finish.
It has a amalgam of distinct Old World flavours - mature and strong but not overpowering. There is a subtle elegance with tobacco and saffron at the fore with healthy amounts of forest floor, Limburger, meth, rhino horn, with traces of mamba venom, burnt Matryoshka Nesting Doll and stale diesel fuel.
The nose is equally passionate with an abundance of robust cherry, oak, chocolate, plum, dates, cinnamon and black current; with notes of new Steve Madden shoe leather, freshly laid hardwood and old barbicide, with subtle hints of Aunt Ethel's underwear drawer, charred sacrificed baby's blood, the back seat of a 67 Delta 88 and broken lava lamp slime.
I'd give it a 3.9
January 28th, 2021 at 3:13 PM ^
Well done...but I think you've spent too much time in Napa.
January 28th, 2021 at 9:53 AM ^
Lots of tannins - strong bouquet, oaky
January 28th, 2021 at 10:18 AM ^
When it comes to wine, I have the same question that George Carlin had:
"What wine goes with Captain Crunch?"
January 28th, 2021 at 10:36 AM ^
Kumis, of course.
January 28th, 2021 at 12:43 PM ^
What's the word? Thunderbird!!
January 28th, 2021 at 1:09 PM ^
This touches my heart & brings me back to a simpler time. I was more of a Night Train guy, but Thunderbird was a close second.
January 28th, 2021 at 9:39 AM ^
Watch film and help coaches to come up with game plans each week. They can't recruit off campus but they can talk to recruits on campus
January 28th, 2021 at 9:53 AM ^
So you're saying previous holders of this position didn't do the job the last few seasons?
January 28th, 2021 at 10:23 AM ^
....possibly, but I am veering toward Don was too stubborn to listen to the young whippersnappers.
January 28th, 2021 at 10:43 AM ^
I sort of had the same thought
January 28th, 2021 at 3:57 PM ^
And I'm addressing the part about game planning.
January 28th, 2021 at 11:47 AM ^
They can help coach during practice, just not during games.
January 28th, 2021 at 9:42 AM ^
They assist in the control of the defensive quality
January 28th, 2021 at 9:48 AM ^
extra sets of eyes, and additional opinions in stragegy sessions..... would be my guess
January 28th, 2021 at 10:00 AM ^
DQCAs primary responsibilities are adding extra sets of googly eyes to future opponents' film at random intervals. It's a key responsibility because it makes film study cute and exciting, not boring and monotonous.
January 28th, 2021 at 10:10 AM ^
I happen to be a DQCA. Only in my case, that stands for Dairy Queen Calorie Absorber.
January 28th, 2021 at 11:35 AM ^
it is blizzard season in A2
January 28th, 2021 at 10:00 AM ^
DQCAs primary responsibilities are adding extra sets of googly eyes to future opponents' film at random intervals. It's a key responsibility because it makes film study cute and exciting, not boring and monotonous.
E: I made my first doublepost! I'm so honored. I'd like to thank my parents and everyone who supported me with upvotes on this journey.
January 28th, 2021 at 10:54 AM ^
I used to work at a restaurant years ago and this one girl would stare at the computer screen and her eyes would be all over the place. Her nickname? Googly eyes.
January 28th, 2021 at 1:48 PM ^
That answers the muppet fetish. [NTTAWWT]
January 28th, 2021 at 10:02 AM ^
Seems like a way to spend the zillions football generates without paying the players.
January 28th, 2021 at 3:20 PM ^
Bingo...
So another one of the many analysts running around college football (i.e. out of work coaches) gets to collect a healthy pay check until a real coaching job comes along but the players.....
January 28th, 2021 at 10:13 AM ^
They also spend a lot of time evaluating high school, jc and now, transfer portal talent.
January 28th, 2021 at 10:13 AM ^
Obligatory;
January 28th, 2021 at 11:58 AM ^
Not an answer but another question.
Would this Defensive Quality Control Assistant also keep track of "Dudes?"
Which leads to the question: With Don gone, who ordains Dudes?
January 28th, 2021 at 2:46 PM ^
Maybe TJ Guy will get this responsibility?
January 28th, 2021 at 10:17 AM ^
Sounds like a good choice to me.
January 28th, 2021 at 10:27 AM ^
I saw someone mentioned that the tenn transfers wouldn't be coming because they won't get thru admissions or something. Or at least that's the rumblings
January 28th, 2021 at 10:38 AM ^
It depends on how many Happy Meals that they bring to the Dean of Admissions.
January 28th, 2021 at 12:14 PM ^
Michigan needs to crack to code on this and fast if they want to compete. Transfer "free agency" is a reality in modern day college football. If it is nearly impossible for a player to transfer into U-M then they will continue to run net negative in the transfer portal and lose significant competitive advantage.
January 28th, 2021 at 12:37 PM ^
This is a very business-y sounding thing to say from a Navy guy. You trying to be the industrial part of the military industrial complex, here? Because if so, well, welcome!
January 28th, 2021 at 1:56 PM ^
I'm retired now but the Naval Aviation Enterprise is always looking to improve efficiency. That being said, perhaps Michigan needs a Hoshin Kanri planning process and put transfer portal performance as a metric/objective in the West, using Bowler reports to track progress and conducting Problem Solving Reviews when a bunch of kids transfer out and they can't pick up inbound transfers due to overly burdensome transfer requirements from the university administration.
January 28th, 2021 at 1:51 PM ^
Absolutely. This is especially bizarre, because it isn't like University of Tennessee is some totally terrible school either. It would be one thing if some kid left Mississippi State because of "issues," wound up at a football focused JUCO, then tried to come to Michigan and the academic side wouldn't admit them. I'd completely understand that. This is a kid transferring from one accredited nationally ranked university to another. Obviously Michigan is a better school, but the difference isn't so vast that Michigan could reasonably say they can't accept credits from the University of Tennessee. The academic side of things needs to get on board. Having standards is understandable, but they need to be reasonable. Otherwise, it undermines our ability to compete at the highest level.
January 28th, 2021 at 3:19 PM ^
Maybe Tennessee allows its athletes to follow a curriculum that's mostly junk courses, and Michigan's academic people understand the ramifications.
North Carolina is a highly-regarded research institution, and look what occurred there.
January 28th, 2021 at 12:55 PM ^
What does this position do? Control the quality of the defensive practices? This is like a school district with one high school having 9 assistant superintendents