February 13th, 2024 at 10:45 AM ^
"SO. How we now feeling about OUR offseason all of a sudden?"
Disappointed - we had a surplus of $6/mil year (money saved in not signing/paying Harbaugh) to support Coach Moore. This was the best we could do?
Where is the money Lebowski? I'd be calling up Brian Griese. Come home, Brian!
February 13th, 2024 at 11:23 AM ^
I've also thought about Griese, but I think we are underestimating just how much more difficult it is to be a college coach if you're expected to recruit. It seems like when someone has a comparable NFL gig, it's not realistic to expect him to come to college.
February 13th, 2024 at 11:55 AM ^
With the amount of money flowing it seems like you could hire a huge support staff to take some of the weight off. What if you hired all of the premiere highschool coaches to $100k/yr jobs for fulltime work in the summer and 5-10 hours a week during the school year? Give them a study path and potential path to become assistant coaches.
Hire former players who are trying to make it in the pros, but aren't quite there, at $75k/year plus travel to recruit players. Give them a study path and potential path to become assistant coaches.
Create a feeder program for coaches/recruiters. You could hire 60-70 guys for what you would have paid Harbaugh. I'm guessing all of this is as illegal as satellite camps, but if not, make it rain Maize and Blue.
February 13th, 2024 at 12:11 PM ^
Sure, it's always worth exploring how hiring more support staff can help the coaches, but at the end of the day, recruiting is always going to be part of a college coach's job (with a few prominent exceptions, like Wink Martindale & Chip Kelly). If I'm a recruit (or a current player considering the transfer portal), support staff is never going to hold the same sway as a position coach, coordinator, or head coach.
February 13th, 2024 at 2:11 PM ^
Definitely illegal. On field coaches are the only ones allowed to do any off-campus contact with recruits. Trust me, you wouldn’t be the first one to think of that.
February 13th, 2024 at 2:24 PM ^
Premiere high school coaches spend all summer and most of the entire year working with their team. And I would be willing to bet most of them do it because they love coaching, they don't want to spend all their time recruiting for a college. This is a non-starter
February 13th, 2024 at 2:04 PM ^
Griese has also been getting interviews for NFL OC jobs. It's hard to know if he'd even be interested.
Campbell was also probably important in terms of retaining Jadyn Davis and Carter Smith. Moore also probably wanted an offensive coordinator he was familiar with and who he had worked closely with (and who would call games similarly to him).
February 13th, 2024 at 11:43 AM ^
what makes people think Griese wants to come here
like seriously, I love Michigan as much as any alum but I'm not rearranging my life to go work there just for shits and giggles and neither are you. He has a sweet job with plenty of opportunity for advancement within the NFL, the pinnacle of the sport.
Nearly as many people just watched him coach in a Super Bowl as watched the Moon Landing. Would you go back to college?
February 13th, 2024 at 11:50 AM ^
Do it anyway. Then leak it to Sam Webb that he said no.
February 13th, 2024 at 11:51 AM ^
I don't think people are understanding, coaches want out of the college game, not to leave the NFL to go back.
February 13th, 2024 at 1:17 PM ^
The SEC teams seem to be intimidated by this hire but I gotta ask “Where is the Threet?”
February 13th, 2024 at 2:14 PM ^
NFL coaches do not want to go back to college. Full stop. If you’re seeing an NFL coach go back to college, it’s either for a step up in job title or because they have no NFL options. Wink, for example, would not be at Michigan if there were an NFL team willing to hire him. The assistants he planned to bring with him, all accepted NFL jobs because nobody with the option would rather be in college than the NFL.
Griese is getting NFL OC interest, there’s zero benefit for him to take a job at UM.
February 13th, 2024 at 2:36 PM ^
Why? He's been a QB coach for 2 seasons. Prior to that, he was on TV for a decade or more. He literally has minimal qualifications, at best. If he wasn't the last Michigan QB to the (M)NC before JJ, would any one mention him? Coaches that are not former Michigan players, exist. This blog knows that, right?
February 13th, 2024 at 6:39 PM ^
What's to say we didn't reach to all of our fantasy candidates and they said no? College is a different animal than the pros. If it was easy and enticing, Tom Brady would be our QB coach, and Woodson would be coaching DB's AND WR's
February 14th, 2024 at 10:26 AM ^
That's not how money works in these situations. Just because Harbaugh was going to get something, doesn't mean the same money that would have been donated to support him is still donated can can be used for other people
February 14th, 2024 at 10:40 AM ^
Based on all the head coach and assistant coach carousel we’ve seen this offseason, it isn’t about just money so much as the current out of control Wild West college football landscape demanding 24/7 365 days a year attention with no down time. That’s been a consistent theme.
February 13th, 2024 at 10:48 AM ^
Not exactly Lane Kiffin, but back when he was playing I recall we all assumed Sheridan would one day be a great coach. Maybe that day has arrived.
I won't feel much one way or the other about our off-season until the portal reopens and we see who is staying.
February 13th, 2024 at 10:51 AM ^
Perhaps. But I’m certain that Bama fans are not going to be happy with this.
February 13th, 2024 at 11:08 AM ^
DeBoer + Sheridan still seems like an upgrade over Rees for that offense (i.e. Jalen Milroe).
February 13th, 2024 at 12:03 PM ^
on r/CFB the ND and Bama fans all thought Rees was a great coach. (or at least the 4-5 that responded to my comment that his rep was not good.)
I don't get the Sheridan disrespect. He is an NFL coach's son* and played his heart out for us in a system that did not fit his talents in the least. I hope he does really well. If for whatever reason Moore doesn't work out in the next couple of years (which I think he will) it would be great to have a successful Nick Sheridan in your back pocket.
*I think coaches' sons, or at least coaches' sons who their fathers were interested in are super far ahead in the game. They get their 10,000 hours before you go to college.
February 13th, 2024 at 12:16 PM ^
I think peoples' opinions of Sheridan are colored by their memory of him as a player. (Which really isn't a good measuring stick for coaching ability, at all - a lot of great players make lousy coaches and vice versa.)
February 13th, 2024 at 12:43 PM ^
I think peoples' opinions of Sheridan are colored by their memory of him as a player.
Well, it probably didn't help when Brian wrote "Sheridan = Death" here at one point. It was an intentional cheap shot and it was quickly adopted by many here at MGoBlog, in attitude if not exact wording.
February 13th, 2024 at 5:54 PM ^
He and we will always have that Minnesota game in which he played really well. Son of a good friend knows him and says he is a great guy.
February 13th, 2024 at 2:34 PM ^
What system *would have* fit his talents?
February 13th, 2024 at 2:17 PM ^
for that offense (i.e. Jalen Milroe).
Milroe isn’t really a fit for what DeBoer runs. Milroe has crazy athleticism and an okay arm, DeBoer likes his QB to stay in the pocket and sling the ball all over the field.
February 13th, 2024 at 10:56 AM ^
The portal is open now. It's open for 30 days following a head coaching change.
February 13th, 2024 at 11:07 AM ^
That's true, but there is also a Portal that opens after the spring practices/games.
The spring transfer portal officially opens on Saturday, April 15, 2024, and closes on Sunday, April 30, 2024, giving just 15 days for players to enter the portal.
With only 15 days to enter the portal, the timeframe is much shorter than the winter period, and it is important to remember that a player only needs to enter the portal during those dates. Once their names are in the portal, they are free to complete their move at any time.
February 13th, 2024 at 11:55 AM ^
The portal may be open, but they are over a month into the semester and it's too late to enroll almost anywhere else. Transfers in and out will happen after Spring practices when the portal reopens for everyone.
February 13th, 2024 at 12:19 PM ^
Transfer portal has nothing to do with the semester. You can enter the portal, and even commit to another school, but not actually leave until the semester is over.
February 13th, 2024 at 10:58 AM ^
We're 3 weeks into the first 4-week window, where players get 1 free transfer after a coach leaves, and there hasn't been much attrition. Here's hoping Sherrone will get out of this one relatively unscathed.
February 13th, 2024 at 12:36 PM ^
I think the sentiment was he'd be a better coach than a player but I also saw him at Indiana and by the end IU fans were ready for him to head off to somewhere else. He's young and still has potential but I'm starting to wonder if maybe DeBoer's halo made him better than he was overall.
February 13th, 2024 at 8:05 PM ^
The portal has been open?
February 13th, 2024 at 10:57 AM ^
I hope he does well.
February 13th, 2024 at 11:34 AM ^
Is it possible to wish for him to do well but 'Bama to fail miserably? I'm not exactly sure what that would look like, but that's my hope.
February 13th, 2024 at 11:42 AM ^
High powered offense that scores a ton of points.
Porous defense that allows even more points.
Nick Sheridan succeeds, Bama fails.
February 13th, 2024 at 12:58 PM ^
He failed miserably at Indiana and is now failing upward at Alabama. Can we hope that he continues to fail upward?
February 14th, 2024 at 2:43 PM ^
I bet he has better players going forward….might make a difference?🤔
February 13th, 2024 at 11:01 AM ^
How do I feel about our offseason? Beside myself with joy! My boy received his acceptance to M yesterday!
February 13th, 2024 at 11:17 AM ^
That's fantastic! Congrats to you both and good luck to your son.
February 13th, 2024 at 12:27 PM ^
Great news - congrats to your son!
February 13th, 2024 at 11:03 AM ^
I was chatting with a good friend of mine who is a Georgia alum.
It will be quite interesting to see how long it will be before the natives get a bit restless in Alabama.
And it appears Tommy Rees wound up as the TE coach for the Cleveland Browns.
February 13th, 2024 at 11:20 AM ^
That tracks, considering how much Herbstreit was drooling over him.
February 13th, 2024 at 11:28 AM ^
Oof, leaving ND for Bama really backfired for Rees
February 13th, 2024 at 11:50 AM ^
It might have backfired for Reese, but it was "great success" for Michigan fans. He contributed to Alabama losing the Rose Bowl and putting Saban out to pasture.
February 13th, 2024 at 12:10 PM ^
Fair enough. One could say the same for Gattis, wonder what he is thinking while watching Moore become head coach.
February 13th, 2024 at 11:08 AM ^
The at guy has fallen upward like no coordinator or coach I’ve ever seen
February 13th, 2024 at 11:30 AM ^
Lane Kiffin comes to mind
February 13th, 2024 at 11:34 AM ^
I mean, Lane Kiffin is a legitimately good coach? Hard to imagine anyone really looking at the scope of his career and concluding anything otherwise, unless you formed this opinion ~10 years ago and haven't re-evaluated (which, no shade, i do the same thing on countless topics)
February 13th, 2024 at 11:46 AM ^
Charlie Weis?
Matt Patricia?
First two names that popped into my head.
February 13th, 2024 at 2:31 PM ^
Charlie Weis and his decided schematic advantage - I miss those days.
I’m also wondering if the Irish have finished paying his buyout.
Those were very enjoyable days to watch ND on the field.