oklahoma pursuing jerry montgomery
According to the michigan board on espn, oklahoma is pursuing jerry montgomery to fill their vacant defensive line coaching spot. Although going from Michigan to Oklahoma to take the same position seems like a step down, I could definitely see Montgomery taking an offer from Oklahoma considering Michigan basically has two other defensive line coaches with Hoke and Mattison. Going to Oklahoma would allow him to independently coach his own position group, and would likely come with a pay raise. If Dave Brandon is smart, he will counter an Oklahoma offer and lock up Montgomery, whom I believe is next in line for defensive coordinator when Mattison retires. Thoughts?
February 21st, 2013 at 9:36 AM ^
February 21st, 2013 at 9:38 AM ^
Brady Hoke's building a coaching tree is a great thing for us. It will help him recruit bright young assistants to work for us and maybe someday we hire guys back as coordinators or an eventual replacement for Hoke.
February 21st, 2013 at 7:17 AM ^
February 21st, 2013 at 7:50 AM ^
Montgomery's definitely a rising star. It helps to have a young guy like him to recruit. If you look at his bio, he went to high school in Nevada and college in Iowa, so dealing with Oklahoma weather and culture is probably not as big a stretch for him as moving to Michigan was. http://www.mgoblue.com/sports/m-footbl/mtt/jerry_montgomery_744092.html
As far as salary, the cost of living is lower in Oklahoma than Michigan, so if money is what would lure him, it would be tough for Michigan to keep pace, since as someone has already posted, OK was already paying most of its position coaches 20% more than Michigan pays to start with.
February 21st, 2013 at 8:04 AM ^
allows us to make room for Soup Campbell to come back. . . Hoke could coach the DL (which he loves to do anyway).
February 21st, 2013 at 8:11 AM ^
If your statement is true, where would Soup coach?
February 21st, 2013 at 10:19 AM ^
I get the impression hecklinski is a versatile coach.
February 21st, 2013 at 10:28 AM ^
Hecklinski was a RB coach prior, so you are right. Maybe coach slot receivers. I don't think he would move to the defensive side of the ball.
February 21st, 2013 at 8:13 AM ^
February 21st, 2013 at 10:46 AM ^
Michigan is a big business and makes more than enough money to pay the man or at least keep him and dont let him go unless you are positve you have somebody better to replace him.
February 21st, 2013 at 11:11 AM ^
Honestly the continuity of this coaching staff so far has been pretty impressive. For how well they have managed to turn things around (especially on defense) it shouldn't be a surprise that teams are starting to poach our assistants. Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't it kind of rare for a coaching staff to stay 100% intact for a full 3 years?
February 21st, 2013 at 11:43 AM ^
He's a great recruiter as well, so hopefully Brandon will lock him up
February 21st, 2013 at 12:40 PM ^
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footballscoop Hear former Oklahoma defensive line coach Jackie Shipp has a number of interviews. Could land an FBS spot within days… will update 2/21/13 11:47 AM |
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footballscoop Hearing Michigan DL coach Jerry Montgomery is a guy Bob & Mike Stoops are strongly considering.... will update 2/21/13 12:31 PM |
So there goes my "don't worry about it guys" statement from above. Love to hear what Hoke and Brandon are doing to keep him because I honestly believe he is one of the best coaches we have (with all due respect to the other coaches).
February 21st, 2013 at 2:21 PM ^
Maybe someone should sent him to Lloyd Carr and have him tell the story about his flirtation with an assistant job at South Bend and Bo's reaction.
February 21st, 2013 at 2:36 PM ^
With all due respect to Brady Hoke, by God he's earned it, the opportunity to latch on to that Bob Stoops coaching tree might be too attractive a move to pass up. Should be interesting to see how this shakes out.
February 21st, 2013 at 2:48 PM ^
OK has actually contacted Montgomery?
February 21st, 2013 at 3:22 PM ^
@footballscoop is wired in. If he says there's interest, there most certainly is.
February 21st, 2013 at 4:11 PM ^
Make no mistake, losing Montgomery would be a huge blow to our efforts on the recrutiing trail. He is quite possibly the single most effective recruiter on our coaching staff. We're about to find out just how important winning and remaining competitive with the rest of the top tier programs in college football is to Dave Brandon. Whatever salary that Montgomery is offered must be matched. We spend far too much on non revenue sports (indoor rowing facility) to not be willing to pay to keep our best football coaches.
February 21st, 2013 at 4:25 PM ^
I really don't get why the non-revenue sports need to suffer to make football better. The school can manage finances without our help.
February 21st, 2013 at 6:16 PM ^
http://support.mgoblue.com/south-campus/explore/
A lot of money will be spent on the "non-revenue sports" in the next decade.
What I was trying to say is, if we let Montgomery leave because we refuse to pay him what OU is offering than the blame should fall on DB. In order to be an elite football program, we can't go back and pay the assistant coaches like we did during the Carr/RR era.
February 21st, 2013 at 6:58 PM ^
February 21st, 2013 at 5:47 PM ^
February 21st, 2013 at 7:20 PM ^
February 21st, 2013 at 7:25 PM ^
Michigan's athletics budget SHITS on Oklahoma's.
Michigan also makes more money as an athletics department than OU does.
This is not even a discussion. Try again troll.
February 21st, 2013 at 8:08 PM ^
100k? That's cute. Jerry Montgomery made $205,000 last year, before bonuses.
UMsalary.info is the source.
February 21st, 2013 at 7:45 PM ^
February 21st, 2013 at 11:41 PM ^
February 21st, 2013 at 8:50 PM ^
Jesus guys. His name is Landthieve. It's obviously a troll.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sooners
Sooners is the name given to settlers in the midwest of the United States who entered the Unassigned Lands in what is now the state of Oklahoma before President Grover Cleveland officially proclaimed them open to settlement on March 2, 1889 with the Indian Appropriations Act of 1889. The name derived from the "sooner clause" of the Act, which stated that anyone who entered and occupied the land prior to the opening time would be denied the right to claim land.
Educate yourselves ffs
February 21st, 2013 at 8:55 PM ^