Kevin13

January 23rd, 2017 at 4:10 PM ^

is lowest on the coaching totem poll I could understand a move to promote him to RB coach. But, in that same line of thought I can't imagine Frey or Drevno becoming the TE coach, not with their resumes. I would rather see someone with RB coaching experience become our new RB coach.

Now that Jay has been around the system for a couple of years, maybe he becomes WR/TE coach and can get some help from the OL coach with the TE's. Maybe Frey takes over OL and Drevno becomes OC without a positon groups and assists with all offensive positions, that way Jay is getting assistance with his new role, from someone who knows exactly what he wants out of the offense.

Then with the extra position bring in a strong RB coach and I think that would give us a strong offensive staff.

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UMfan21

January 23rd, 2017 at 3:19 PM ^

Yes, I was going to mention this as I saw it when I started building my Harbaugh Coaching Tree spreadsheet.

At Stanford Harbaugh had Drevno as TE coach, Oline was Chris Dalman.  After two years Dalman left, Drevno took over O Line and Greg Roman came in as the TE coach. Taggart was the RB coach the whole time.    So this is a structure Harbaugh is familiar with.

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Coldwater

January 23rd, 2017 at 3:09 PM ^

If Jay gets the running backs coach job that would be completely unbelievable. Has he even played the running back position? Maybe he did in youth or high school. But this would be a case of getting the job only because your dad is the head coach. That's not a good look.

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Magnus

January 23rd, 2017 at 3:14 PM ^

You could have said the same thing about tight end and special teams.

But we had a very good special teams unit, blocked a bunch of punts, he coached a Mackey Award winner, etc.

Not that he deserves all the credit, but you can't look at him so far and say he's done anything other than a good job.

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Coldwater

January 23rd, 2017 at 3:52 PM ^

Jay has done a good job with the tightends and special teams so far. But I think Jake Butt would've been awesome with any coach. I was just hoping the prestige of the University of Michigan would've brought in a real big splash hire at the running back coach. I do agree though that every position coach does not need to have played that position. Whatever happens, happens I'm sure Jim will hire the best, most qualified guy for the position.

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Ty Butterfield

January 23rd, 2017 at 2:48 PM ^

Has to be some undiscovered O-line talent North of the Wall. Some of those wildlings could have good pad level.

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FrankMurphy

January 23rd, 2017 at 3:31 PM ^

Harbaugh probably requires interviews of candidates with whom he doesn't have a history. Frey has the advantage of having previously coached at Michigan, but he's never coached under Harbaugh. There's also the potentially awkward fact that during his previous Michigan stint, Frey worked for a head coach who was fired and thought of as a total outsider, so Harbaugh probably wants to talk with Frey and make sure he's a guy who can be on the same page with the rest of the current staff.

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FatGuyTouchdown

January 23rd, 2017 at 2:50 PM ^

in my mind, that Harbaugh could have one coach handle tackles, and the other coach handle the interior, G/C. They are different positions, and it would be similar to how coaches will delegate two coaches to Linebackers, Inside and Outside backers. With a young OL, more one on one time would be very beneficial.

Maybe since its split, one of Drevno/Frey would also take RBs?

Again, pure speculation, but I've experienced this in college to different degrees. 

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Tedbossman

January 23rd, 2017 at 11:01 PM ^

Finesse= hand and body placement. Power= Getting into defender and trying to drive them. He's teaching it like we run a spread. Once I had a defensive coach tell me all offensive linemen have to do to do their job is get in the way of the defender. I was of course appalled and offended. Drevno seems to be from that school of thought.

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