Michigan Director of Scouting Jerret McElwain to Washington - On3/EJ
Michigan Director of Scouting Jerret McElwain has taken the same position at Washington. More on that and another U-M staffer garnering interest from other programs #GoBlue. https://t.co/jSoSUxG2jG pic.twitter.com/f2IOzrF3Je
— "EJ Holland" (@EJHollandOn3) January 5, 2022
Looks like we will be having a bit more of a staff shakeup on the recruiting side.
January 5th, 2022 at 4:21 PM ^
Sharks of the Puget Sound BEWARE---there's a McElwain in town!
January 5th, 2022 at 4:44 PM ^
Third coast just can't compete!
January 5th, 2022 at 4:23 PM ^
How are we losing staff members to Washington?
January 5th, 2022 at 4:28 PM ^
(1) The Pacific Northwest is a nice place to live
(2) Connections with friends there
(3) More money and/or promotion
Those would be my guesses in no particular order.
January 5th, 2022 at 4:34 PM ^
How can Washington have more money to invest in coaches than Michigan?
January 5th, 2022 at 5:02 PM ^
I'm sure they don't have more money to invest, they just might be willing to invest more in this guy than Michigan was prepared to offer/match. More likely, it's a relationships / geographical decision though.
January 5th, 2022 at 9:38 PM ^
“Nice place to live” lol
the climate sucks one month a year it’s awesome outside of that it’s not good.
January 6th, 2022 at 12:34 AM ^
It’s almost like it was written by someone from the PNW. Seriously. That’s the reputation we hope sticks so no one else moves out here.
January 6th, 2022 at 3:10 AM ^
Californians will be the majority of people there soon.
January 6th, 2022 at 3:30 PM ^
I was only there from 2011-2014 but that was not my experience at all. It warmed up in may/June, never got extremely hot, cools off in September/October, the sun goes away until around April and it drizzles 4 or 5 days a week. Never got extremely cold and snowed exactly 1 time in 3 years. Much better, in my opinion, weather than Northwest Ohio or the Central Valley in California. Or maybe I just pick all the shitty places to live…
January 5th, 2022 at 5:07 PM ^
If you believe some of the rumblings that Harbaugh is turning up the pressure on the school/AD to put together a top NIL program, it does stand to reason that some new faces might have come in on the recruiting/off field assistant side.
Generally I do worry about making a bunch of changes since IMO a lot of the issues we had 2017-2020 were heavily attributable to coaching hires.
2016 going into 2017 - significant positional coaching turnover including Wheatley, replaced Jedd Fisch with Pep Hamilton. 2017 offense makes no sense and recruiting has worst year under Harbaugh (2018 class).
2017 going into 2018 - Recruiting woes as noted above, amplified by holding on to Drevno too long and the weird "splitting the O-line between two guys" with Frey. Drevno staying past NSD cost us shot at Jarrett Patterson (multi year starter at ND), Nicholas Petit-Frere (All American at OSU), Dawand Jones (Starter at OSU), Micaih Becton (to Louisville and early NFL entry), not to mention they lost Emil Ekiyor midseason (multi year starter at Bama). The Dan Enos debacle on top of all of this.
2018 going into 2019 - Don Brown's cover one every goddamn play gets destroyed by OSU, which results in... minimal staff changes made and we avoid recruiting 300lb DT's and fast CB's like the plague. Gattis did end up working out in 2021 but he struggled a lot in the first half of the 2019 season.
2019 going into 2020 - Zone guys (BJM and Shoop) brought in to work with Don Brown, an obviously incompatible setup similar to the Drevno/Frey split offensive line. Shoop coaches from home and 5 star Daxton Hill looks like he isn't being coached. The worst MSU team ever firebombs the secondary.
2020 going into 2021 - Basically every hire knocked out of the park, even replacement of the surprise loss of Mo Linguist during the offseason. Virtually every "if this player makes a leap, we'll be fine or even good where we were ass in 2020" ends up working out. Recruiting isn't at the peak of the 2017 class, but it's pretty damn good for a new staff under the shadow of the 2020 season and the Harbaugh pay cut.
So yeah, hopefully this was a journey of Harbaugh figuring out how to put a staff together and the trend stays upward.
January 5th, 2022 at 5:16 PM ^
I'd hardly put director of scouting on the same plane as on field coaches.
January 6th, 2022 at 9:42 AM ^
But can one be good if the other isn’t?
No.
January 5th, 2022 at 5:25 PM ^
Are you sure the 2018 class was Harbaugh’s “worst”? Lowest rated I’ll grant you but after this season would you still say it’s his worst?
January 5th, 2022 at 7:41 PM ^
As Seth or Brian said at one point recently, it’s not what was in it, it’s what wasn’t in it - DT’s and playable CB’s. So yeah, a ton of the flyers did end up as hits, but IMO a lot of the struggles of 2019 and 2020 are a partial result of the missing pieces in the 2018 class. The class also didn’t feel great- we were in it for a lot of highly ranked guys (like I mentioned- some I didn’t like Tyler Friday and Otis Reese) and missed on almost everyone down the stretch.
January 6th, 2022 at 1:24 PM ^
What rumblings? Care to give a link? You have no idea what UM is doing about NIL. Typical full-of-shit poster. Disregard ..
January 5th, 2022 at 5:36 PM ^
I blame Courtney Morgan for this departure
January 5th, 2022 at 6:20 PM ^
January 5th, 2022 at 8:33 PM ^
Yes, was prep for OSU game plan
January 5th, 2022 at 4:31 PM ^
wow - today has been quite the dump special. my goodness. between the basketball performanceS last night, and the transfers and coaching changes, my goodness...
Will we get to at least enjoy hockey again soon?
January 5th, 2022 at 4:35 PM ^
yeah both basketball teams were "off' to say the least. Pistons and Red Wings are the best lottery teams to watch lately. Nice wins the last couple days for both and bright futures.
January 6th, 2022 at 10:33 AM ^
No. The ladies were "off." The men performed about as we can expect them to perform throughout the season.
January 5th, 2022 at 4:38 PM ^
That's it, I've had it with this dump! We have no recruiting staff, we have no players...our pets heads are FALLING OFF!
January 5th, 2022 at 5:58 PM ^
Sounds like you could use some rest. May I suggest Aspen? My friend Mary has a place there.
January 5th, 2022 at 4:40 PM ^
No. The whole team will be playing in the Olympics. We cannot have nice things in more than one sport at a time. It's a rule.
January 5th, 2022 at 4:35 PM ^
Last two staff changes have ended up with upgrades in a significant fashion. I can only assume this will have the same result. Recruiting wasn’t elite this year. Good class, but not elite. Michigan needed to make the next step to start becoming elite. Semi-final appearance helped, younger, hungry staff helped, and replacing the weaker guys with stronger guys should help. Let’s see how 2023 goes. Dante Moore is the most important player in a long time.
January 5th, 2022 at 4:36 PM ^
The hits keep coming today, I see.
January 5th, 2022 at 4:38 PM ^
I guess we better swing for the fences.
January 5th, 2022 at 4:40 PM ^
Officials close to program are saying that BPONE is officially withdrawing from the portal. After a late November announcement he has decided to change his mind and stay.
/s
January 5th, 2022 at 5:43 PM ^
Nicely done.
January 5th, 2022 at 4:40 PM ^
Didn’t he just start?
January 5th, 2022 at 5:10 PM ^
Back in May. He’s been on the football staff since 2018 though.
January 5th, 2022 at 4:41 PM ^
How I'm feeling today with all these departures:
January 5th, 2022 at 4:42 PM ^
Do these people know something we dont? We loosing people to other schools for the same job.
January 5th, 2022 at 5:01 PM ^
Is this just a polite way to fire someone?
January 5th, 2022 at 5:16 PM ^
Yes.
January 5th, 2022 at 7:21 PM ^
It’s the polite way of telling someone they’ve reached their ceiling at a particular school. None of the pieces Michigan lost were anything other than they’ve outgrown their roles here and probably aren’t valued enough to warrant the increase in responsibility yet
January 5th, 2022 at 5:11 PM ^
Who’s the other staffer gaining interest
January 5th, 2022 at 5:16 PM ^
Thanks Courtney!
January 5th, 2022 at 5:16 PM ^
There's a ton of Directors of Scouting in the portal. We'll be fine.
January 5th, 2022 at 5:22 PM ^
THIS IS DEVASTATING
What's a director of scouting?
January 6th, 2022 at 11:42 AM ^
The Director of Scouting is the guy in charge of scouts.
Duh...
January 5th, 2022 at 5:31 PM ^
Makes me wonder why Sharkfucker didn't get a little more love on this year's coaching carousel. His run at CMU has been pretty good, and I don't believe he has hit 60 yet. There are many accounts of him being a very, very good man. And his Sharkfucker nickname is spectacular. Sharkfucker!!!!
January 5th, 2022 at 5:56 PM ^
Could all the people leaving be an indication that the Harbaugh to the NFL rumors are a lot closer to being true than in the past and people are striking while the iron is hot and not waiting on a new coach that may or may not keep all the coaches or have a system that works for those players.
Yes, a very run on sentence. I know.
January 5th, 2022 at 6:12 PM ^
No.
besides the fact that would mean saban has been leaving bama for 15 yrs
January 5th, 2022 at 6:14 PM ^
Guy, it’s director of scouting. Not OC or DC - hell, not even a position coach. When you see a mass exodus of positional coaches and higher leave, then there is cause of concern. As of now, this is probably a guy trying to move up in the football ranks and attribute this also to Courtney Morgan.
January 5th, 2022 at 7:28 PM ^
Uh no. It's normal attrition this time of year for a coaching staff that has exceeded expectations. It now re-load and move on.
January 5th, 2022 at 9:15 PM ^
Username Checks Out!!!
January 5th, 2022 at 7:32 PM ^
Man - the longer Jim lets this go on, the longer it feels like this might actually be a time he makes a switch. Guys leaving for lateral moves, non-ready players jumping to the NFL. I know this is painful but there's a lot of smoke now, regardless of if it started as bullshit - so itd be cool if he just kinda.. you know said... WHO'S GOT IT BETTER THAN US? NOT THE F-ING BEARS!