I get why he went back.  Weird OSU is picking at UM, but Washington makes more sense than Mattison.  They'll have to find replacements.  But changes do happen.  They mentioned during the NC game last night that Alabama had 20 assistants come and go over the past 5 years.  It happens.

It hurts recruiting. Makes Ohio harder to get back into. It's not a positive that he left.

He's going to kill it there and lock down guys to OSU that may have been persuaded to UM.

Make Jay supreme leader of the defense. He has tried every other position, why not give him the line and linebackers. lol

Is it possible these guys felt like they/the D were getting shit on by the fans or perhaps were IRL from Harbaugh about the past two games? Sure it's a great opportunity for them but it just feels like there's a "fuck michigan" aspect to this - I think we all feel that. 

fuck him

He was around longer than Dan Enos..... so there's that.

NEXT!

Depending on what Harbaugh does, this may be a good thing or bad thing.  It certainly looks like crap and continues a trend of bad things happening.  Let’s hope Harbaugh has a swift response planned - letting this situation linger unaddressed is not goood. 

Just how many more ways can they beat Harbaugh and kick us in the dong this year?

62 comments is bad juju. That's all.

If ever there was a sign that the coaches don't think we can get to the next level, this would be it. LB and DL have been bright spots on this team for several years; this ain't about coaches who weren't getting it done.

You know why there is so much negativity around the football program?  Because it is just so hard to take it all in and not view it through a negative prism. How can you spin the past couple of months in a positive way?  Damn it this sucks. 

Any chance this hurts the current recruiting class? I don't really follow recruiting that closely so I am not sure if some of our current commits could change their mind, etc.

This is an overreaction, but a part of me wishes, in some alternate universe where things are guaranteed to happen, that Harbaugh leaves and we hire Brent Venables and he implements the same offense and defensive philosophy they have at Clemson. That get's us closer than where we are now.

Understandable is understandable, but OHIO STATE?!?!?!  If getting to that fucking job is your ultimate goal, here's an idea...don't work at Michigan.  

Hate to say it, but this looks really bad and is the last thing the program needs(which may be why Day started poaching M coaches with such authority recently).  I am going to offer this as a counterpoint to anyone who says beating Michigan is not the be all and end all of the Buckeye program.  There's a famous cartoon of a bunch of dogs sitting around a table saying, "It is not enough that we succeed, Cats must also fail."  This is OSU's organizing principle and unless Michigan wakes up to this, they may as well make MSU their primary rival in everything and let OSU become the one way rivalry it has already become in everything but name. 

Is it unusual for members of the coaching staff to move to your archrival? It makes me think, again, that Michigan isn't taking the Ohio State rivalry seriously enough.

Hopefully they're going in as double agents and its all a fiendish plot by Harbaugh.

The question I wonder... which will not be answered until someone writes a book about the depths of the Harbaugh era, is what part of these moves was "stealing from the program" and what part was "firm handshake." Last year, the offense had serious issues. Long times friends of Harbaugh on staff found their way to the door, with new faces brought in. The Defense gets torched in back to back games with no pressure from the Dline and the LBs getting smacked... and the Dline coach and LB coach suddenly find a new home. 

To my gut, this feels bad, seeing staff jump to the other side. But, idk given the nature of where we have struggled on D the past two seasons where that line is. Again, I guess we will have to wait for another tell-all book in a couple years.

are we even remotely confident brown will still be here for next season?

So does that mean Harbaugh and Brown balked on making him d-line coach and hefty raise?  Otherwise makes no sense besides OSU roots which I think is overrated because young coaches would rather move up the ladder and M defense has been better than OSU so why lateral move?

Well, crap.

Should be quite the test for Harbaugh to see how he reconstitutes his staff, and what changes are made to enhance the offense and tweak the defense. Need to figure out a more effective play-calling structure than what we had this season, and Don Brown needs to keep his machine going while at the same time changing it so that it deals more effectively with teams that exploit our tendencies.

Feels like the "shine" on the program is wearing thin. It's put up or shut up time.

I am probably in the minority here but I like new blood. Mattison was great and so was Washington. Now I hope somebody with some new ideas and energy can come in and prove themselves to be superior. We only know what we are losing, not what we are gaining.

FYI: Alabama had 6 new assistants this year. No, Michigan is not Alabama but it happens and good teams don't live and die by their assistants.

I mean, I guess the good news is we have 8 months to get this figured out. 

Washington is a good defensive coach but this one seems more aimed at OSU trying to bolster their recruiting prowess while simultaneously hurting ours.  Fucking douchebags.

Everyone is saying "why hire guys from a D you scored 62 on?" This is only about recruiting. Day said he wants guys that can recruit. X's and Os don't matter to him, he wants assistants that recruit. Hopefully they squander talent and this blows up in his face. Hopefully Harbaugh finds great replacements.