Jerald Ingram: Potential Fred Jackson Successor?
While he's not yet as ancient or geriatric as Jordan Morgan, the day is no doubt coming when Fred Jackson will retire. I noticed that the NY Giants recently fired their long-time RB coach Jerald Ingram, a former Michigan running back. I don't know too much about Ingram's coaching career in the college ranks (aside from what's available on his Wikipedia page), but it couldn't hurt recruiting to have a two-time Super Bowl-winning RB coach on the staff.
Maybe someone who's a more avid follower of the Giants could shed some light on Ingram's tenure there and whether he'd be a good fit at Michigan?
January 24th, 2014 at 2:52 PM ^
The Mike Hart supporters around are going to string you up, draw and quarter you, and then pour a bunch of fire ants on your eyeballs.
January 24th, 2014 at 2:57 PM ^
I would really HATE to have fire ants poured onto my eyeballs. Can you imagine that?
January 24th, 2014 at 2:59 PM ^
now I can't stop imagining it. GAH.
January 24th, 2014 at 3:06 PM ^
January 24th, 2014 at 3:08 PM ^
Glad to be of service.
January 24th, 2014 at 4:03 PM ^
Don't worry, that part's just symbolic. You're not going to live through the drawing and quartering.
January 24th, 2014 at 3:09 PM ^
delete
January 24th, 2014 at 3:19 PM ^
Fire ants notwithstanding, most of us liked Mike Hart when he was our RB. Because you are a good RB, doesn't necessarily make you a good coach and recruiter. Have you ever seen an evaluation of Hart's coaching abilities and his ability to recruit?
January 24th, 2014 at 3:26 PM ^
I know not a thing about Mike Hart's coaching abilities except for the fact that his running backs at Eastern Michigan did pretty well this past season. Which seems like a positive thing since EMU sucks at the sport of football.
January 24th, 2014 at 4:14 PM ^
levy an annual fine against EMU each year they field a faux football product.
January 24th, 2014 at 4:12 PM ^
hired him away from EMU is a good sign.
January 24th, 2014 at 3:53 PM ^
over to the Tyrone Wheatley supporters for good measure.
January 24th, 2014 at 4:39 PM ^
January 25th, 2014 at 10:34 AM ^
Stuffing his mouth with his testicles that have those fire ants on them.
January 24th, 2014 at 2:53 PM ^
The reports of Fred Jackson's death have been greatly exagerrated.
January 24th, 2014 at 3:56 PM ^
Nothing about Fred Jackson is greatly exaggerated.
January 24th, 2014 at 5:11 PM ^
but fast
January 24th, 2014 at 2:53 PM ^
just had this conversation (see link below), but overall, I think there are some solid options out there if/when Coach Jackson retires.
http://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/next-running-back-coach-when-it-happens
January 24th, 2014 at 3:09 PM ^
Poor Fred Jackson. Years and years of undeniable loyalty and love for all things Michigan, loved by players, survivor of several regime changes and generally considered to be a pretty damn good coach and and top notch recruiter and then BAM - Borges happens and everybody seems to want Fred to hurry up and retire already.
January 24th, 2014 at 3:25 PM ^
coming from? He's always been a good recruiter and seems like we've had some good runningbacks under him. The run-game issues of late are seemingly independent of Jackson as a coach.
Edit: I loved Mike Hart's intensity and confidence (borderline cockyness) as a player. Maybe we're projecting these traits on what we want on RBs to be?
January 24th, 2014 at 3:28 PM ^
I believe people (not necessarily OP) were projecting the failures of the OL this year onto the RBs and therefore Jackson. These same people may have expected Green to look better than he did, too. I don't say this as a shot at those posters, though I do not see a need to replace Jackson myself.
January 24th, 2014 at 3:47 PM ^
I think a lot of it is from the people who are parroting Brian. Brian has said in a few posts, that UM (and Fred Jackson by extention), haven't developed any running backs since Chris Perry.
So then people take that, escalate it, and along with the fact that the last few guys Jackson has vouched for (Rawls, Johnson) haven't panned out, and the Board gets multiple "Fred Jackson leaving?!?!"
January 24th, 2014 at 8:48 PM ^
January 24th, 2014 at 4:21 PM ^
January 24th, 2014 at 11:55 PM ^
This is Michigan! WE NEED OUR SCAPEGOATS!!! Projecting Fred Jackson as the next sacrificial lamb after next season's 8-5 disaster is what we gonna do!
January 24th, 2014 at 3:10 PM ^
January 24th, 2014 at 3:17 PM ^
At least one more
January 24th, 2014 at 3:26 PM ^
...has existed since before the dawn of the heavens and shall exist until after the last star falls. And though he has taken the form of Gaius Caligula, he is all men, as he is no man, and so he is a god.
This is to say that we do not need to talk about his replacement.
January 24th, 2014 at 3:28 PM ^
I feel the same way about Dolly Parton.
January 24th, 2014 at 8:12 PM ^
Exactly which parts of Dolly Parton?
January 24th, 2014 at 3:36 PM ^
posters what him to retire??
January 24th, 2014 at 3:41 PM ^
January 24th, 2014 at 3:50 PM ^
"You shut your whore mouth!" says Mike Cox.
Wait a minute...
January 24th, 2014 at 3:41 PM ^
borderline cockyness? Borderline? Kid is number two behind Harbaugh as all time cockyest player at Michigan. Not that I have a problem with either of them.
Whenever Fred goes, I want Wheatley.
January 24th, 2014 at 3:47 PM ^
He seems to be building a solid resume but very few ever mention him, just Hart. Is it because his time at Michigan predates most of the posters on mgoblog?
January 24th, 2014 at 3:51 PM ^
I think it's because most people assume going from NFL running backs coach to NCAA running backs coach is a demotion.
January 25th, 2014 at 10:32 AM ^
January 24th, 2014 at 3:54 PM ^
Another Giants fan here, running game is atrocious recently but none of that can be blamed on Ingram. He was always a good coach and did great work with Coughlin in fixing fumbling issues. I'd say Tiki Barber progressed after he came over in 2004 and then figured out a way to make Brandon Jacobs, Ahmad Bradshaw and Derrick Ward considered a deadly combination. The Giants have always been pretty balanced and had successful rushing games up until this year really so he's definitely done something right...
But, then again, the OL had been amazing for the stretch.
January 24th, 2014 at 4:08 PM ^
How has Johnson not worked out? He tore his ACL in the first series of the season. Can't we just pay Wheatley more money than he makes at Buffalo?
January 24th, 2014 at 8:25 PM ^
January 24th, 2014 at 8:56 PM ^
January 24th, 2014 at 10:02 PM ^
Pretty confident that Ty Wheatley will be the next running backs coach. Sam Webb did an interview with him a while back and he wants to come back to Ann Arbor. However, I am starting to think that Freddie would rather die on the sidelines than retire.
January 25th, 2014 at 10:04 AM ^
Certain folks get veeeery offended.
January 25th, 2014 at 1:29 PM ^
Fred Jackson should go out on his own accord assuming the running game rebounds to a respectable level over the next couple years. He's done so much for the program and been such a fixture in it's past glory that unless we can quantify very accurately that he is doing a job that is substandard to what his possible replacement could do, he should stay. It's really that simple.
January 25th, 2014 at 2:15 PM ^
Not speaking of the OP necessarily, but why do so many here treat the naming of Fred Jackson's replacement treated as this monumental event? It's a position coach, and probably the least important one on the staff.
January 25th, 2014 at 2:18 PM ^
Probably because he's been on the coaching staff for over 20 years.
January 25th, 2014 at 2:37 PM ^
He could be here 40 years and it'd still be silly to obsess over who the running backs coach is going to be.
January 25th, 2014 at 8:16 PM ^
But when our RBs were good, we were good.
January 25th, 2014 at 4:41 PM ^