OT-ish: Former OL coach Greg Frey to Duke
Duke has hired former Michigan offensive line coach Greg Frey. Frey coached at Michigan under Rich Rodriguez and then again in 2017, when he coached the tackles and tight ends (which was largely a failure). He spent 2018 at FSU, which also did not go well.
I think Frey is a solid coach, but his last couple stops have not gone well. I can see why the 2017 Michigan thing didn't work out, but I expected a little more from the line at FSU this past season.
January 21st, 2020 at 8:54 PM ^
I liked his work at Indiana. I still don't understand the division of responsibility at Michigan.
January 22nd, 2020 at 8:34 AM ^
He was the heir apparent to Drevno?
January 22nd, 2020 at 9:20 AM ^
There was an excellent recent diary post that dug into this a little bit. If you haven’t read the recruiting diary post (long and many comments), I’d recommend. If it’s all true, it’s very instructive.
January 21st, 2020 at 9:00 PM ^
He may not have worked out at Michigan but he's an excellent evaluator of talent. He's the reason we have both Mayfield and Hayes and both should be bookending our OL next year.
January 21st, 2020 at 9:12 PM ^
Don’t disagree but it is worth noting that Warriner was after both of these guys as well when he was at UM (NTUM) and actually had one committed before he flipped to Michigan.
(Only reason I know this is that some dude on Twitter tried to call out Steve Lorenz for giving Warriner some credit for these guys..)
January 21st, 2020 at 10:51 PM ^
Sounds like he needs his recruits, and can't do much with others.
I also did notice what he did at Indiana.
I'm forgetting now but why did he leave here? Because of Drevno? Who outlasted who?
January 22nd, 2020 at 6:55 AM ^
He graduated from Florida St and was a member of the 1993 Championship team, so it was like a homecoming for him to go back when Taggert called.
January 21st, 2020 at 10:56 PM ^
Kewl. I can see him adding a lot of value to Coach K’s staff as it relates to High School Tight Ends destined to become NFL tackles.
January 22nd, 2020 at 2:20 AM ^
this is the perfect fit for a guy like Frey. Cutcliffe will give him almost complete control over recruiting OL and he'll be able to mold his athletic guys into tackles, which is especially important at a place like Duke that isn't recruiting the top tier of guys.
January 22nd, 2020 at 8:12 AM ^
I liked him as an oline coach both under RR and Harbaugh. It wasn't on Funk that RR wanted his oline closer to 280 than 320. I thought Funk did an excellent job of evaluating Oline recruits.
January 22nd, 2020 at 1:24 PM ^
obviously he thought he was coming to UM to work for David Cutcliffe, the real coach we wanted all along, didn't get the memo, and is finally where he wanted to be all along
</s hould be obvious but never is around here>