Who should be SM hires for the coordinator jobs?
Since Moore is the HC who should be his hires for the open positions? From what is being said Newsome is going to be the OL Coach and others probably stay where they are except for some responsibilities becoming different. Anyone have ideas about who is a good OC and DC? Heard the Ravens LB coach is another guy in the MM and JM realm.
I might get negged for this because people still don't think Moore should be the HC but he is so let's talk about some good hires from him to bring along.
January 25th, 2024 at 1:42 PM ^
My mom. My mom should get both coordinator positions.
January 25th, 2024 at 1:43 PM ^
Your Mom just woke up and rolled over. I asked and she doesn’t want the jobs.
January 25th, 2024 at 1:44 PM ^
Your mom just walked in front of the TV and I missed an entire episode of Seinfeld.
January 25th, 2024 at 6:22 PM ^
These both have 41 up votes a piece at this time.
Glen Rice and I approve!!
January 25th, 2024 at 1:45 PM ^
My dad is getting the Special Teams job. So your mom can have the others.
January 25th, 2024 at 1:51 PM ^
Joe is getting the job.
January 25th, 2024 at 6:23 PM ^
The way he went after the taint/gooch like that Id be fired up too! Hop on cowboy!
January 25th, 2024 at 6:36 PM ^
Monkey rodeo has been replaced by pig rodeo.
January 25th, 2024 at 7:11 PM ^
Don't think it's a pig, it's a javelina. We see a lot of them in Tucson, and you couldn't pay me enough to ride one of them.
January 25th, 2024 at 8:09 PM ^
I dont think so. My kid loves those little guys but they max out at around 50 pounds. Unless that dude is munchkin that isnt a 50 pound animal. Maybe an Iberian pig?
January 25th, 2024 at 2:31 PM ^
Can confirm. Your mom can handle multiple positions.
January 25th, 2024 at 4:26 PM ^
Underrated
January 25th, 2024 at 7:45 PM ^
Don't let MeanJoe07 anywhere near your mother.
January 25th, 2024 at 1:42 PM ^
Here's what I think and this is totally my idea, nobody else has thought of this yet I'll bet.
DC is conceptually easy: find the most Ravens guy around. John Harbaugh tossed a couple of up-and-comers Michigan's way, which worked out great for everyone involved. Let's keep doing that. Zach Orr looks like a potential candidate. Orr played for the Ravens as a UDFA out of North Texas was second team All-Pro in his third year, then had to retire due to a congenital spine injury. He immediately became a Ravens defensive analyst, then popped over to the Jaguars for a year as their OLB coach before returning to coach LBs at Baltimore. He has the same profile as Macdonald, except he was also an All-Pro LB. The other Ravens-adjacent guy is D'Anton Lynn, who USC just poached from UCLA. Normally you don't get guys jumping before they even play a game, but maybe you could poke Lynn with a stick, show him the defensive rosters of USC and Michigan, and induce a move.
Lots of people are mentioning Jim Leonhard, who was a very successful DC at Wisconsin until Paul Chryst got fired and Wisconsin install him as a mid-season interim, clearly with an eye towards giving him the full-time gig. Instead they pivoted amongst lots of rumors that Leonhard had stabbed Chryst in the back, and when that didn't work he got a job at Illinois. As an analyst. After their DC left to be Purdue's head coach. I have is-this-dude-a-good-dude questions. Maybe this is spurious, sure.
OC is one of those things where Michigan might internally promote Campbell and lean on Moore. In that case you'd need a QB coach. LB/QB/whatever position coaches could be anyone. I would like to offer Courtney Morgan whatever he wants to come back.
January 25th, 2024 at 1:48 PM ^
No offense Old but can you put where you got this from. If I didn't just read this I would have thought you wrote this.
January 25th, 2024 at 2:40 PM ^
I think when I first read it I missed your sarcasm. My bad. Lol.
January 25th, 2024 at 2:52 PM ^
No worries. I just laugh because Brian LITERALLY just posted on the front page his take on what's going on and what might happen and what should happen. Which makes it an awesome spot to post suggestions on who we think should be the OC/DC in an Moore administration.
And then, like the swallows heading back to Capistrano, somebody posts a thread asking the exact same question which Brian just asked & answered which I found predictably hilarious.
On the bright side though it gave me a chance to use one of my favorite Gifs so not all was lost. Every time I watch that one it makes me laugh, from the extremely delayed hand going up to catch the ball to Data's look afterwards.
January 25th, 2024 at 3:09 PM ^
I figured we had 10 threads about who our next HC would be why not 2 for the Coordinators?
Just honestly thought people mentioning coordinators would be a better waste of our time then the HC because it is already a done deal except for a few Ts being crossed and I being dotted.
January 25th, 2024 at 4:05 PM ^
Lots of us don't even bother with the front page. The board is where it's at.
January 25th, 2024 at 1:48 PM ^
Nice!
Also, I'd prefer an innovative mind for OC over Brian's promote Campbell idea. If there is one comparison to Shaw I don't want to be made is, Shaw's offense didn't evolve year to year like Harbaugh's did. If Moore can do it, great, but I'd love another innovator.
January 25th, 2024 at 2:11 PM ^
Wanting an innovative mind is fine, but you have to figure out who that might be. And, you know, work within the parameters of the roster. There are lots of Air Raid guys out there but that would be a RichRod level disaster. Maybe worse.
I'd actually like to see what Campbell can do. He has OC experience (at Old Dominion) and has spent five years at Penn State and Michigan. He's experienced both the upside of the Harbaughffense and its limitations. He's seen the Joe Moorhead offense up close.
It remains to be seen how Sherrone manages his time. I think he's going to have to step back quite a bit from overseeing the offense, but of course he'll still be involved. It'll be best if he's got an OC he can trust to implement his ideas while also bringing other ideas to the table.
January 25th, 2024 at 4:44 PM ^
I don't want anything to do with Air Raid. This offense is pro style and in my opinion that's the best offense to run. One trick offenses eventually get shut down by a good Defense.
What I love about what Harbaugh has done each year is within that style of offense. Gap schemes that evolved to IZ and back again over the last three years. Duo becoming the base offensive play when it was just a change-up with Haskins. The offense we started the year with was most definitely not the offense we ran against Alabama and Washington.
We don't have the talent to just line up and run the same thing and win. Moore has a hard enough job running a whole football team without experience. I want someone else with the same mindset and Fisch, Moore and Harbaugh to be OC.
January 25th, 2024 at 2:28 PM ^
I’d been leaning previously towards Leonhard but Zachary Orr is the guy I’d want if minter goes with Harbaugh. You mentioned his background already which seems to fit in nicely with Michigan’s previous two DCs. He knows the scheme as well as how the LBs fit into it and it would make for a nearly seamless transition IMO.
For OC I’d honestly go with Hart as the main guy and Campbell as QB/Passing game coordinator. Newsome for the OL and then look for some young guys for TE and WR coach.
January 25th, 2024 at 4:45 PM ^
Outside of the DC suggestion of Orr, only cauee I hadn't heard of him, this is the exact scenario I had in my mind as well. Give the OC title to one of Campbell/Hart and make the other the pass/run game coordinator with a raise.
January 25th, 2024 at 2:40 PM ^
I see what you did there...
January 25th, 2024 at 2:43 PM ^
If Jay Harbaugh leaves, we'll also need a new special teams coordinator and safeties coach
January 25th, 2024 at 2:55 PM ^
I see someone listened to the MGoRoundtable.
January 25th, 2024 at 3:03 PM ^
If promoting Campbell to OC, they wouldn't have to find a new QB coach. He could be the QB coach, and OC. Much like Moore was the OL coach, and OC
January 25th, 2024 at 6:25 PM ^
OC/QB coach is also much easier to handle for an individual than OC/OL.
January 25th, 2024 at 5:12 PM ^
This must be AI generated..
January 25th, 2024 at 6:28 PM ^
Who has coached higher up the defensive ladder for more years concerning the style of D we run than Clinkscale. Minter and McDonald? I think 3 solid years should be plenty of time to learn and be very good at running the scheme. I dont know but a Co-D coord that is running out number 1 defenses for a few years should be very good no? Wish he had the recruiting buzz he used to though. A linebackers coach cant have near as much experience in this system as our D coordinator yeah?
January 25th, 2024 at 7:25 PM ^
Really?
You just had to break up the fun?
Nobody knows what's gonna happen and your fan opinion isn't worthy.
January 25th, 2024 at 11:18 PM ^
Don't know where you heard that Leonhard "stabbed Chryst in the back". I have some well-connected friends in Madison who say that is BS.
January 25th, 2024 at 1:43 PM ^
Nick Saban/Bill Belichik
January 25th, 2024 at 1:56 PM ^
What about OC? Those two dudes are DC.
January 25th, 2024 at 1:59 PM ^
They are co-DCs. Pete Carroll is OC.
(I'd take Minter over all 3 of them)
January 25th, 2024 at 4:19 PM ^
Co OC with Tom Brady.
January 25th, 2024 at 3:19 PM ^
You neglected to add Pete Carroll (special teams).
January 25th, 2024 at 1:43 PM ^
D'Anton Lynn, the new USC DC who was with the Ravens from 2021-2022.
Sherrone: "Hey buddy would you rather coach Will Johnson, Mason Graham, Kenneth Grant, Rod Moore, Makari Paige, Derrick Moore, Josaiah Stewart, Rayshaun Benny, Ernest Hausmann, Jaishawn Barnham or.....enjoy the sunshine?"
January 25th, 2024 at 2:23 PM ^
If asked do you wanna pay 1.5 mill for the home in Florida that cost 250k in the north, my answer would be the sun everytime. Unfortunately I don’t have a rich relative and haven’t won the lottery, even though I don’t play. So north it is.
January 25th, 2024 at 8:49 PM ^
That's the most shameful thing a Midwesterner could say. I'll never understand people who have lived here their entire life and still have no appreciation for the seasons.
The only thing I don't like about the Midwest (weather-wise) is that global warming is ruining our winters and we don't get enough snow or sub 20 degree temperatures.
January 25th, 2024 at 1:43 PM ^
Did I miss the official announcement that he's the head coach?
January 25th, 2024 at 1:50 PM ^
Well, you know, Michigan's a stickler for following obviously stupid rules everyone else ignores, so 7 day waiting period and stuff.
January 25th, 2024 at 2:25 PM ^
I guarantee you can go to the U-M job listing web page and you'll find the head football coach job listing. It's so stupid, because almost every job they post there (especially this one), there's someone that they already want for the job, but can't hire right away because of this rule.
January 25th, 2024 at 2:35 PM ^
That is true. There is a law that says an official hire can't be made until the job has been posted for x amount of days. Which what I heard and read was 7 days.
January 25th, 2024 at 3:20 PM ^
As a practical matter, the 7-day thing is about as effective as the Rooney Rule.
January 25th, 2024 at 4:56 PM ^
cut to Leslie Frazier and David Shaw nodding sadly
January 26th, 2024 at 9:26 AM ^
Michigan should just hire SM immediately and pay the fine.