Michigan re-hires DeBord; Brian has stroke
According to Mike Rothstein, Michigan has hired Mike DeBord. As an administrator for field hockey, cross-country, gymnastics, track and tennis, but Brian still is panicking.
February 1st, 2013 at 6:13 PM ^
February 1st, 2013 at 6:14 PM ^
on 3rd and 7.
February 1st, 2013 at 6:21 PM ^
February 1st, 2013 at 6:25 PM ^
the screen pass on 3rd and 10 for a gain of 2
February 1st, 2013 at 7:18 PM ^
February 1st, 2013 at 6:15 PM ^
OMG head football coach in waiting.
February 1st, 2013 at 6:20 PM ^
He can coach the track team on how to run straight ahead. Gymnasts won't have any trouble on the high-beam. Tennis may have issues playing in the forehand court, however.
February 1st, 2013 at 6:24 PM ^
must have turned them down.
February 1st, 2013 at 6:25 PM ^
Please be more specific in thread title. It gave me a heart attack until I clicked on it and it said he would be nowhere near the football program.
February 1st, 2013 at 6:47 PM ^
February 1st, 2013 at 6:30 PM ^
And on the first doubles tennis match of the year, the opposing team will stack their players to the left...
February 1st, 2013 at 6:39 PM ^
It's part of a sinister plan . . . if Borges gets fired, there will be an OC in-waiting already within the AD. MAWHAHAHAHAHA!!
February 1st, 2013 at 6:43 PM ^
Debord's all: "Only 11 wins in your first year, Al? Not bad, not bad."
February 1st, 2013 at 6:51 PM ^
February 1st, 2013 at 8:48 PM ^
YOU RANG, SIR?
February 1st, 2013 at 6:43 PM ^
Nick Baumgardner has a full write-up on this here (LINK)
In his own words:
"I am really excited to return to the University of Michigan in a role where I can work with our coaches and student-athletes as they work to achieve their goals and aspirations"
I am curious to see what zone blocking schemes look like in field hockey. Does the striker have to read the blocks and simply try to get the ball through the first available seem created by the midfielders?
February 1st, 2013 at 7:35 PM ^
I'll be surprised if he doesn't end up on the football staff in a year or so. If it's as ST coach, I'm not going to have a fit. Just so long as he doesn't end up as Borges' replacement.
But a bit of perspective: this isn't like Greg Robinson is back on the athletic campus.
February 1st, 2013 at 7:50 PM ^
Right--it's the total opposite. DeBord is one of the most successful coordinators M has ever had. Al Borges doesn't strike me as the kind of coach who would let something like this bother him. But I could see how someone in Al's position might be nervous about this kind of thing.
February 1st, 2013 at 7:01 PM ^
like being an AD someday as opposed to going back in to football? Because that is extremely terrifying.
February 1st, 2013 at 7:07 PM ^
Although it wouldn't be a Michigan.
It could impact Michigan a little in that he'd be allowed to be around the program. But he can't coach in any, way, shape or form.
February 1st, 2013 at 7:45 PM ^
Hey, give him a little credit for the Arrington to Manningham pass in '07. He's mostly but not 100% uncreative.
February 1st, 2013 at 7:56 PM ^
February 1st, 2013 at 8:09 PM ^
February 1st, 2013 at 9:01 PM ^
club is still in full effect.
February 1st, 2013 at 11:02 PM ^
Enh. The fact that you have some sinecure job waiting for you in the Athletic Department also breeds loyalty. For example during the Carr years we actually had an incredible level of talent in our assistant coaches considering the miserly scale we paid. That was because the agreement was you didn't really need to fear being fired. We might move you to some Assistant AD in Charge of Mowing the Grass on the Practice Baseball Field type of job, but there would be a job.
It's not a bad system when used properly. Ideally if we continue that tradition and couple it with the Brandon payscale, it can work well. If you're a hot young assistant coach who is up and coming you can go to Alabama and if for some reason you fail, Saban stakes you out in the desert for the vultures to eat. Whereas at Michigan you just end up running the Club Sports program. I'd take the Michigan job and potential to end up supervising broomball over the risk of vultures (which were specially trained by Saban of course) pecking at my liver.
February 2nd, 2013 at 8:28 AM ^
How is it a good system if a coach's only fear would be a pay cut for a less stressful position? I know there is a Michigan family, but I think any organization would be better off hiring the best person available for the job, whether that is bringing in somebody from the outside or hiring from within.
February 2nd, 2013 at 8:33 AM ^
actually had an incredible level of talent in our assistant coaches considering the miserly scale we paid
". Without question that was true during the Bo years, but I can't name any coaches, off-hand, that went on to greatness after leaving Carr's staff, including Hoke, who still has some proving to do.
February 2nd, 2013 at 1:36 PM ^
February 2nd, 2013 at 3:30 PM ^
Miles & McCartney are only two of the many coaches who worked under Bo and went on to be successful head coaches. A few more, off the top of my head, were Nehlen at WVA, Mo & Lloyd at UofM, Young at Purdue, Cam Cameron at Indiana & the Miami Dolphins, and Larry Smith at Arizona. Of LC's assistants, who are you thinking of as being sucessful?
February 2nd, 2013 at 4:27 PM ^
February 2nd, 2013 at 5:13 PM ^
I did not say Hoke was not successful. I said he is still unproven. He was a 0.500 coach prior to the last two years. You said coaching Michigan meant you had achieved greatness. Does that include RR? I'm glad you agree Lloyd's coaching tree pales in comparison to Bo's, especially when measured by the success of their assistants as head coaches. DeBord, Parrish, and English have had less than stellar records as head coaches.
February 2nd, 2013 at 7:28 PM ^
February 1st, 2013 at 9:20 PM ^
...should we send flowers for Brian?
February 1st, 2013 at 9:33 PM ^
I wonder if the gymnasts will run 3 yard outs on 3rd and 5. Many of us old enough to remember him well flinch at seeing/hearing his name (me included).
February 1st, 2013 at 10:34 PM ^
football coach he has an administration job administrating things that aren't football.
February 1st, 2013 at 10:50 PM ^
We give him crap for his unimaginitive offenses and I didn't want him for a head coach. That's a far cry from DeBord being someone we ought to still be jackaling. I'm okay if you want to crack 2 yards and a cloud of 3rd and 6 jokes all night, but let's remember he's a good guy who stayed loyal to Michigan when we were all laughing at him.
Head of Olympic Sports? Fine. I'll take my good men where I can afford them, thank you.
February 1st, 2013 at 11:10 PM ^
Yup. I hated the DeBoring offense, but it did a fair job of handling the job assignment: "Hey go out there and chew some time off the clock so Woodley and Branch can get a gatorade break and psych themselves up to kill the second string QB". It could have been a lot worse.
Beside the general concept of the DeBoring offense worked well enough that when Navarre had to come in, the system didn't automatically shit the bed. I know DeBord was CMU, but I still count that time as DeBoring offense due to the style of play and fact he was around when the foundation was laid for it.
Plus the new DeBord has 5 years of NFL exprience as a posistion coach. That actually makes me somewhat receptive to the idea of him as a posistion coach if a spot opens. The players always did develop well under him, they were just used in the most predictable ways possible. He can develop players for us, just no play calling duties.
February 2nd, 2013 at 12:08 PM ^
Since I was the last man standing DeBord apologist on the early Mgo commenting system (even Magnus gave up before I did), I must agree with this.
DeBord was infuriating at times and I utterly opposed a promotion to head coach but his record as the OC speaks for itself. As we learned in the RichRod Era, Michigan wasn't immune from failure as many believed and things could get very much worse.
I see absolutely no reason to be even remotely concerned that he has hired on as an administrator.
February 1st, 2013 at 11:04 PM ^
February 1st, 2013 at 11:50 PM ^
February 2nd, 2013 at 11:00 AM ^
That is an administrator-type position. I would think he could swing this new gig. Shows Michigan is a family after all.
February 2nd, 2013 at 11:20 AM ^
DeBord got his master's from Ball State.
February 2nd, 2013 at 1:53 PM ^
Good to see that we take care of our own and DeBoard coming back at least means we have someone who knows the university, its culture, and how we do things the Michigan way.....Relax, this is a good thing!