January 15th, 2019 at 5:56 PM ^
Yeah, Roy!!!
January 15th, 2019 at 5:58 PM ^
yeah, buck, what's up?!
January 15th, 2019 at 6:10 PM ^
I was parroting the Edgar Wright line from Hot Fuzz, but your post is much more appropriate for me.
January 15th, 2019 at 6:51 PM ^
edgar, who?
hot, what?
i think i'm the hillbilly here. no idea who/what those are.
January 15th, 2019 at 6:57 PM ^
Man, ol’ Roy could pick it. YouTube him along with Glen Campbell and Jerry Reed if you want to see some true guitar studs. Roy just died. And it DOES happen in threes—Roy, Keith Jackson, and Carol Channing.
January 15th, 2019 at 7:41 PM ^
Keith Jackson died? WHEN? Some should post this news.
January 16th, 2019 at 11:01 AM ^
Keith Jackson died last year, January 12, 2018. Drop it an octave and go with, "It was a dark day in Sherman Oaks..."
January 15th, 2019 at 10:26 PM ^
Never go back to the carpet store.
January 15th, 2019 at 5:59 PM ^
Boo. I wanted him back here.
January 15th, 2019 at 6:03 PM ^
Why? He got absolutely humiliated on the recruiting trail this year. Lost guys H2H to Fresno and SDSU. Also his first stint in Ann Arbor wasn't exactly spectacular.
January 15th, 2019 at 6:42 PM ^
At least he went to a place where the bar for defense is REALLY low
January 15th, 2019 at 6:20 PM ^
He was CB coach at Michigan in 2014.
It went poorly. Oklahoma shoulda hired him to coach LBs or OLBs.
January 15th, 2019 at 6:32 PM ^
I was gonna say, I didn't think he was liked during his time here.
January 15th, 2019 at 7:07 PM ^
Sam Webb liked him.
January 15th, 2019 at 7:52 PM ^
He was a recruiter. Was learning how to coach on the job.
People were pissed that he was coaching CBs when he had played LB. I think that idea is overblown here quite often. Most likely Roy was working under Mallory who had the entire secondary the year before.
January 15th, 2019 at 6:39 PM ^
Great to see Wolverines move up in the coaching ranks. The bar is pretty low for defense in the Big XII, so this should be a good opportunity for Roy to learn and grow.
January 15th, 2019 at 6:43 PM ^
Jim kicked him to the curb when he first got here, so I doubt Manning is chomping at the bit to come back. All the best to him though
January 15th, 2019 at 6:50 PM ^
I think he coached running backs at Cincy before coming to coach at UM.
January 15th, 2019 at 7:23 PM ^
Good luck Roy! Get more experience at OU, become an excellent recruiter, then come back and join the good guys.
January 15th, 2019 at 8:02 PM ^
Ahhh, the romanticization of the player coming back to his alma mater to coach, regardless of chops or fit.
January 16th, 2019 at 4:45 AM ^
Yep.
Jim Harbaugh is a rarity; he was a great college player, a good pro QB for a few seasons, and is an exceptional coach.
I don't understand why so many fans get excited willy nilly about former M Football players returning to Michigan to coach.
I'm confident no one wants to see Marcus Ray ever be a position coach at Michigan. Likewise, does anyone truly want to see Scot Loeffler ever become OC at Michigan?
Furthermore, excellence as a player does not guarantee greatness as a coach. Tom Brady's greatness as a QB doesn't mean he'll be some hotshot coach.
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Re: Roy Manning
I was not impressed by our CB play when Roy Manning was the CB here.
If Manning keeps working at his craft and becomes an elite coach, then and only then would I be thrilled about him returning to M.
January 16th, 2019 at 7:47 AM ^
Furthermore, excellence as a player does not guarantee as a coach.
This is true. It's possible, but not guaranteed.
Great players often have trouble conveying to others how something should be done. To the former great player, it was just "natural," and the assumption is everyone has the same natural ability. They don't.
Look around the list of truly great coaches of any sport, and many times you'll see people who played but were not great. My theory is these people remember what it was like to not understand -- to not be naturally gifted -- and therefore they make better instructors.
I work in IT and I know some truly brilliant technicians. They are often horrible at explaining things. To them, everything is blindingly obvious. To mere mortals like me, it's not.
January 15th, 2019 at 9:40 PM ^
Always good to see former Wolverines getting work in college football, of course.