sportzfan81

January 8th, 2014 at 11:10 PM ^

Live in Maryland and I am fortunate to attend the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award Ceremony every year. This year Coach Nussmeier attended the ceremony in Saban's place (as he was agreeing to a new contract that night) with AJ Mcarron (the winner). He was very social and seemed like a really good guy. Now I am 150% Maize and Blue, but after hearing him speak about AJ, Alabama, etc. I was even ready to yell Roll Tide!!!

I would not be surprised if this guy becomes one of the better recruiters in the Big Ten....I cannot imagine him speaking to young men and their family and not having MAJOR success!

IMO --- GREAT HIRE!

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Wolvie3758

January 8th, 2014 at 11:19 PM ^

Remember he was at ALABAMA had had a ton of 5 Star recruits to work with but I trust the universal excitement on here to be optomistic

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gwkrlghl

January 8th, 2014 at 11:48 PM ^

I'm glad it appears we're going away from our stinginess and we're spending money to get good coaches. Mattison and Borges were both highly paid, now we go out and steal/take a top OC from Alabama of all people and pay him top dollar.

+1 Dave Brandon.

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teamgreg8

January 9th, 2014 at 12:07 AM ^

Hopefully I'm in before the pos bang ends! Checked the blog all day at work and stopped looking once I got home. Wife (!!!!!) just told me. Win for the hire, win for the choice in spouse. 2014!!!!!!!!!!!

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BrokenRhino

January 9th, 2014 at 12:16 AM ^

Just when I think that Michigan can't do anything right. They go and throw a truck load of money at the curse of 2013 so that it doesnt happen again. Wow, 2013 sucked. I'm like a kid in on Christmas morning for 2014.

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MazingBlue

January 9th, 2014 at 12:26 AM ^

A former NFL QB, Nussmeier also has earned a reputation as one of the country's best developers of quarterbacks. Among his proteges: Bama's AJ McCarron, Washington's Jake Locker and Keith Price and Michigan State's Drew Stanton and Jeff Smoker. Nussmeier also coached QBs for the St. Louis Rams in 2006-07 and helped Marc Bulger, a former sixth-round pick, make it to a Pro Bowl.

This really shows how much potental lies within Nussmeier. It will be interesting to see what he can do with Garnder in one year and Morris to follow. Things are looking up.

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MDot

January 9th, 2014 at 1:03 AM ^

For those asking why Saban would be unhappy, he has been openly considering changing his offensive philosophy and speeding things up (influenced by what Auburn did to him, Oregon's sucess, etc), and where he thinks college football is headed offensively.

 

Don't think it had much to do with Nussmeier's competency.

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Ty Butterfield

January 9th, 2014 at 1:49 AM ^

Many Bama fans seen ecstatic that he is gone. 24-3 and a national title in 2 years. I thought Michigan fans had unreasonable expectations. Yikes!

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Lampuki22

January 9th, 2014 at 3:52 AM ^

Their last two games on defense giving up 79 points

He's a scapegoat. I'd be pissed if I won 2 NC s and they brought in Kiffen to look over my shoulder.

Gret hire for Brady sine he's nit giving up on man ball. Il allow the Michigan man experiment to continue.

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ghost

January 9th, 2014 at 5:28 AM ^

Bama fans saying they wanted him gone is like McDaniels withdrawing from the Browns coaching search. 

Teams/fans/coaches love to say they didn't want X as coach or didn't want a certain job when they know they had no chance of getting it.

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Cold War

January 9th, 2014 at 5:39 AM ^

Yeah, I was reading the Alabama forum thread and a poster said he never liked this OC but he didn't want to say anything while he was there. WTF?

If someone could direct us to some criticism before he left, that would have some cred.

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Ernis

January 9th, 2014 at 7:59 AM ^

I know everyone's excited but let's not get ahead of ourselves. consider.... what if he made some bad real estate investment deal? someone needs to find out because... if so... do. not. want. yo. also, does he even lift?

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