Rumor: Chris Singletary is no longer with the program
There's a rumor floating around that recruiting coordinator Chris Singletary is no longer employed by the football program. One possibility would be that Chris Partridge takes over all the recruiting duties, or perhaps Michigan would hire someone else. For a little while, Partridge was contacting offensive recruits and Singletary was working with defensive guys.
It did pretty much all go to hell the day Bo died.
April 30th, 2015 at 12:28 PM ^
April 30th, 2015 at 10:45 AM ^
Does this explain why recruiting has been slower so far than in past years even with Harbaugh?
April 30th, 2015 at 10:49 AM ^
I don't think so, because I don't think it has been slower. In Brady Hoke's first full class (2012), Michigan had five commits at this point - Ringer, Jenkins-Stone, Williams, Funchess, and Bolden.
April 30th, 2015 at 11:17 AM ^
I didn't think his status was decided until some weeks after JH was hired. Is it possible that he was only around for a short period until they transitioned the recruiting away from the old staff?
April 30th, 2015 at 11:39 AM ^
I think the guy higher on the page has it correct. Mattison and Singletary were the only holdovers from old staff. You are not going to come and sweep out a guy - even if you intend to down the road - when you are way behind everyone else in the country in 2015 recruiting and this guy has all the contacts/relationships. And maybe he wanted to see with his own eyes how Singletary did. Rather than sweep him out for what reason ... other people's views on him? So now we are past the extreme time crunch of 2015 recruiting and Jim has had 4 months to observe and the timing of such a move would make more sense as we are in a quieter period for recruiting before it ramps back up this summer.
April 30th, 2015 at 12:14 PM ^
It's not a rumor he's no longer with Michigan it is being called a mutual parting of the ways.
April 30th, 2015 at 12:20 PM ^
for a very long time. I don't get the cynical and auto-negging responses. The vast majority of posters are appreciative, but some apparently are rubbed the wrong way by him. The man obviously loves UM football, has good football experience, and supports MGoBlog. Why the negativity?
April 30th, 2015 at 12:50 PM ^
Because pecking at a keyboard has a very low standared for participation. And some of these peckers are just negative people.
Haters gonna hate.
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I'm also not sure why a [seemingly accurate] report on Chris Singletary's status requires a tangent in my direction, but oh well.
Thanks for the support.
There are also people rubbed the wrong way by cold beer, good scotch, juicy steak, a hilarious joke, great legs, and Jim Harbaugh. In a population as large as the MGoBlogosphere, you're statistically guaranteed to have a number of dickweeds and dillholes.
Chris is a great guy and was a big part of the process obviously with the entire current team. Don't think it's appropriate for folks who don't know him, haven't had him work on your or your kid's behalf, and spend time with over the years to comment that he had problems or was not good for the job.
No surprise that Harbaugh moves on with his own picks. Doesn't mean Chris isn't/wasn't good. Means Harbaugh is the man now and is building his system as he sees fit.
is dumb.