Report: BC DC DB TO MI
SI's Thayer Evans is reporting that Michigan will hire Boston College defensive coordinator Don Brown in the same capacity at Michigan:
Boston College DC Don Brown will be Michigan's new DC per source.
— Thayer Evans (@ThayerEvansSI) December 20, 2015
Sam Webb has an unconfirmed report that Brown told BC's players he would depart today.
This is the first that Brown's name has come up in connection with the Michigan job, which goes to show how much this was on lockdown. I was momentarily disappointed and then I remembered spending much of the year mad at BC for having the audacity to be above Michigan in the rankings.
This is not because they beat up on Howard and Maine. S&P ignores that stuff. Meanwhile let's play spot the outlier in Dalvin Cook's season:
15 for 54 is BC. everyone else got nuked except Georgia Tech, which managed the 17 for 82 above.
BC's defense finished the year third in S&P+ behind only FSU and Michigan despite having nowhere near the talent either of those two teams had *and* having the kind of crippling dysfunction on the other side of the ball that usually leads to late landslide victories. You know, the kind of offense that can do this:
Wake Forest 3, Boston College 0: It's okay to hate something you love sometimes
Football Study Hall's Ian Boyd wrote a feature on Brown's defense not five days ago. Read the whole thing but here's the nutshell version:
With a quick LB corps, safeties that can play multiple roles, and effective DL anchored by highly skilled tackles all of the schematics and skill sets on the Eagles' defense were able to pull together to form a dominant unit. They were hard to move the ball against on normal downs and then pure murder on 3rd and long. Too bad about that offense.
Brown doesn't fit Harbaugh's profile in that he's 60 and presumably not looking to move up, but as far as results go he's a very impressive hire. And he's a college guy, so thumbs up for that.
December 20th, 2015 at 4:39 PM ^
Best thread title EVER.
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December 20th, 2015 at 4:40 PM ^
haha, I had the same thought! let's hope this pans out as expected, Go Blue!
December 20th, 2015 at 4:46 PM ^
Not an acronym. They're initialisms. An acronym is SCUBA or FEMA; an abbreviation pronounced as a word.
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December 20th, 2015 at 4:53 PM ^
This guy's nickname is Dr. Blitz. We shall call you Dr. Grammar.
December 20th, 2015 at 5:09 PM ^
Don't care what they are called - if this is a joke DC post, the OP "Brian" is totally getting all his points taken away.
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December 20th, 2015 at 5:00 PM ^
agreed
December 20th, 2015 at 5:13 PM ^
TL; DR
December 20th, 2015 at 7:50 PM ^
Are you German BTW?
December 20th, 2015 at 6:24 PM ^
could have also gone with BC DC DB TO UM
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December 20th, 2015 at 4:50 PM ^
I think his nickname is "The Dude" so there's that.
Edit: He also used #DUDEOFTHEDAY on twitter to highlight individual players. Ok I'm on board with this hire.
December 20th, 2015 at 4:41 PM ^
Well, did not see that coming. I have to say, what he did at BC this past year was extremely impressive. However I don't know enough about his past resume to get a great read. It doesn't look like he'll be leaving anything soon, so hooray for continuity. If he's good.
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December 20th, 2015 at 5:06 PM ^
Called this one a ways back.
December 21st, 2015 at 8:57 AM ^
really. can u share it?
December 21st, 2015 at 9:35 AM ^
all accounts. My question is why did it take so long for him to get a big gig?
December 20th, 2015 at 4:41 PM ^
Old people can be sexy too!
Welcome. Go blue. Harbaugh
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December 20th, 2015 at 5:46 PM ^
50! Or so my wife is telling me.
December 20th, 2015 at 4:42 PM ^
This seems like a really good hire. Does anyone know anything about Brown as a recruiter, tho?
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December 20th, 2015 at 4:42 PM ^
Harbaugh likes him? Then so do I.
December 20th, 2015 at 4:42 PM ^
Hello Brad Bates?
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December 20th, 2015 at 4:43 PM ^
Forget Don Brown, I want whichever defensive coordinator scared Dalvin Cook so much that he didn't play.
December 20th, 2015 at 4:44 PM ^
Go Blue Brown!!
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December 20th, 2015 at 4:44 PM ^
This disappoints. I thought we were supposed to get someone "better than Durkin".
December 20th, 2015 at 4:47 PM ^
http://espn.go.com/college-football/statistics/team/_/stat/total/positi…
Seems to check that box in some categories..
December 20th, 2015 at 4:47 PM ^
We may have, so quit being a Debbie Downer and trust in Harbaugh
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December 20th, 2015 at 4:53 PM ^
On what are you basing your implication that Brown is not better Durkin?
December 20th, 2015 at 5:01 PM ^
Basically the stats that alum96 posted are my worries. He used one good year to catapult to a better job. I mean it could work out fine but it's not the "slam dunk" hire everyone seemed to be expecting. You're telling me you wouldn't have been happier with Orlando or Aranda?
December 20th, 2015 at 5:08 PM ^
Orlando and Aranda? All due respect to Brian the Orlando love was weird as hell. His defense was not good this year and he has very little experience.
Aranda feasted on shitty offenses all year and got BOMBED by OSU last year.
Brown is a flat out stud who shut down FSU and ND with half the talent. And he comes from a great coaching tree in Addazzio and Edsall (two good defensive minds) who hired him.
December 20th, 2015 at 5:12 PM ^
I'll give you Edsall as solid on the coaching tree but Addazio is brutal. Turrible as OC in Florida (where fans were happy to see him move to Temple). I had to watch his act at Temple (think paleozoic era manball). At BC he's been a significant drop from what they expected. We at TU were glad to see him depart.
Addazio is not a good defensive mind, BTW. Brown, however, appears to be and kept BC in any number of games this year.
December 20th, 2015 at 5:10 PM ^
95-45 coming up as a Head Coach, quality stats at UConn and then BC (of all places, and under that idiot Addazio and his crippling approach to Manball).
Guy seems to know what he's doing. Trajectory looks right.
December 20th, 2015 at 7:01 PM ^
When ACC beat writers are thanking god that he's out of the conference, that says something.
December 20th, 2015 at 6:05 PM ^
He's better than Durkin in my eyes. But you can keep your opinion.
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December 20th, 2015 at 4:45 PM ^
Zero NFL coaching experience but has racked up a collection of COY awards at various institutions.
December 20th, 2015 at 5:07 PM ^
Who reported Harbaugh was saying the new DC would be "NFL tested" - I think MGoFish. Turned out to be wrong.
December 20th, 2015 at 4:47 PM ^
Can he recruit?
December 20th, 2015 at 5:06 PM ^
It won't matter if he can recruit or not. If he posts top 5 defensive efforts yr. over yr. the kids will flock to him.
December 20th, 2015 at 5:34 PM ^
plus he has never recruited for a place like U-M, that makes a huge difference for recruiting abilities.
December 21st, 2015 at 8:05 AM ^
I'm not sure that's accurate. Is there any evidence to say that's true? I know kids like success, but I think being a good recruiter is a lot more than posting top defenses? Mattison is a great recruiter and it's not as though UM has posted a ton of great defenses, right? Same goes for USC and their defenses/d-coordinators. Now, those are great recruiters with not great defenses, not the other way around, but nonetheless. I know it seems logical, but I feel like kids pick a school more based on emotion, feel, coach's personalities, location, tradition, childhood rooting interests, etc. more than statistics.
At a place like UM it's obviously an easier recruiting sell because you already have things like facilities, tradition, etc. And you also want a good schematic coach, so I'm not making an argument that one is more important than another. But, Durkin was a young, energetic, charismatic guy who was a good recruiter. So, all I'm saying is it would be great to have some similar qualities, plus being a good schematic coach.
December 21st, 2015 at 6:10 PM ^
Pretty sure Durkin didn't recruit hardly anyone this past year and our recruiting class is doing fine. Borges only recruited bust qbs and nothing else and our recruiting was fine then too. I'm much more interested in how well he coordinates a defense which history seems to show he does quite well.
December 21st, 2015 at 9:22 AM ^
Highly motivated & motivational recruiter. He recruits his players well. Look at the number of pro's that played for him at smaller FCS & FBS schools.
December 20th, 2015 at 4:47 PM ^
An old style football coach. Can he really coach against the spread? Only 4/6 teams we'll play in our division play the spread now...can he even stop the spread?
December 20th, 2015 at 4:53 PM ^
stop the spread? No such coach exists.
December 20th, 2015 at 5:07 PM ^
Not about scheme entirely. If you don't have the horses, and the other guy does....... look at msu this year vs osu. They got blasted last year, but in a monsoon, they got just enough by absolutely selling out to stop the run and urbz turtling massively. If osu had thrown it in the second half, they win that game.
Scheme is important. Have to give ur guys a chance. But talent? Biggest issue against spread teams along with ball control to keep them from racing up and down the field on you.
December 20th, 2015 at 5:24 PM ^
years down where they say things like "football, pardner", or "y'all watch this kid run". They used to say that about the wishbone, in all of it's various forms.
December 20th, 2015 at 6:07 PM ^
I've yet to see LSU under Miles get torched by a spread. And we all know their O sucks leaving the D on the field all day.
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December 20th, 2015 at 6:32 PM ^
YOu've yet to see that? Well.. feast your eyes...
December 20th, 2015 at 8:11 PM ^
Nice cherry picking. Tell you what. You gather up the best spread team in history and I'll take the best D LSU has ever fielded and beat your ass every time. Ask mighty Oregon how they like facing LSU. Rich rods best team would get waxed by any of LSU's best 5 D's. When people ask why the tempo spread won't work in the NFL I direct them to watch LSU. Give LSU even a marginal O and they win the games you posted clips of. Spread is not stopped by scheming against it. It's stopped by an angry,fast and aggressive D line and a gamblers mentality on D. JT Barret would be a cripple if they tried this years game plan vs. M against an LSU D line. I'm so sick of the sucking of every "spread" penis that falls out of a zipper around here. MSU with their 29th rated recruiting classes would rather play JT's spread than face Harbaugh again even with his stop gap QB and the leftovers of a Hoke dumpster fire O. Go cheer for Casteel. He's your guy I'd guess.
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December 20th, 2015 at 9:06 PM ^
You lost me at "spread penis."
Isn't that what Caitlyn Jenner had done? Ouch.
I'll show myself out...
December 20th, 2015 at 9:08 PM ^
You think.
December 20th, 2015 at 11:14 PM ^
You spelled your name wrong.
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