Fred Jackson Rehired
More good news: the Freep is reporting Jackson will be on Hoke's staff. Here's a link: 'http://www.freep.com/article/20110113/SPORTS06/110113071/1054/Hokes-U-M-staff-coming-together
January 13th, 2011 at 9:33 PM ^
Little late
January 13th, 2011 at 9:34 PM ^
Doing what?
January 13th, 2011 at 9:37 PM ^
Lifting Weights with the players
January 13th, 2011 at 9:39 PM ^
Actually RB coach...
January 13th, 2011 at 9:35 PM ^
will help with are recuirting class.Also we had to hire this guy back,he's a great RB coach.
January 13th, 2011 at 9:36 PM ^
Never heard of it.
<br>I did read somewhere about Fred being rehired. I remember a few posts below.
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January 13th, 2011 at 9:36 PM ^
Hoke is 3-0.
January 13th, 2011 at 9:40 PM ^
January 13th, 2011 at 9:42 PM ^
This, for some reason, made my day. hahaha.
January 13th, 2011 at 9:42 PM ^
his resume really is becoming indistinguishable from RRs, what with these seemingly impressive wins against sub-BCS competition and all!
(note: that's a joke. i am Mike Hart-esque in my support of M coaches.)
January 13th, 2011 at 9:43 PM ^
...it's too early to tell in recruiting but he's brought back Jackson, kept Denard, kept Martin (and there was a chance he was going to the NFL, not a great chance, but a chance >0%), and hired an O-Cord with an okay track record (who's done better than okay when he's had something to work with). Now comes the hard part of hiring a D-Cordinator (if Shannon's out, any chance of Wannestadt, he knows Pennsylvania's recruiting terrain, he's an above average D-Cordinator, and he's friends with Jim Leyland...).
January 13th, 2011 at 9:55 PM ^
Several teams want him as their D-coordinator. He interviewed in Buffalo.
That's the word from ESPN's Chris Mortensen and Adam Schefter. Wanny is reportedly wanted in San Diego, Carolina, Cleveland and Buffalo.
I'd say our chances are nil. Maybe English wants back in?
January 13th, 2011 at 9:59 PM ^
Do Not Want
January 13th, 2011 at 10:30 PM ^
But...but...our 2006 defense was sooooo good!
/s
January 13th, 2011 at 10:59 PM ^
...because I thought better of it.
January 13th, 2011 at 11:54 PM ^
Yeah, our defense was so good in 2006. It would be great if we could get English. I have no idea why so many coaches and assistant coaches who have actually been successful at Michigan are derided on this blog.
/no sarcasm at all
January 14th, 2011 at 2:25 AM ^
THE HORROR
January 13th, 2011 at 11:56 PM ^
Everyone's so quick to buy into this blog's propoganda that English was fucking clueless and was just lucky when things went well. I think the guy knows what he's doing on defense.
January 14th, 2011 at 1:12 AM ^
Johnny Sears and a marathon's worth of surrendered yardage would like to have a word with you.
January 14th, 2011 at 1:13 AM ^
Um facts and patterns of performance are not propaganda. The defensive performance of The Horror and Oregon Bloodbath is not propaganda. The fact that he inherited 3 healthy NFL Pro Bowlers (Hall, Woodley, and Harris), monster Alan Branch, and solid veteran players like Burgess, Biggs, and Jamison, Crable, Jamar Adams, and Englemon is not propaganda. The only area where we lacked extreme amounts of talent was in the secondary...and the secondary sucked bad.
The fact that Ron English's stint as DC at Louisville had his defenses ranked 70th is not propaganda. The fact that in Ron English's EMU defenses rank 106 (2009) and 113 (2010) and were better in all three years before he arrived in Yypsi is not propaganda. Yes I know, it's Eastern...but if he's some defensive mastermind, I'd expect to see at least a little bit of improvement.
I'm really tired of everyone thinking that anyone who agrees with Brian's generally (extremely) well-researched opinions are just toeing the company line. That schtick is getting really old.
January 14th, 2011 at 12:53 PM ^
Well answered.
January 14th, 2011 at 6:59 AM ^
App State scored 34 against UM.
App State scored 31 against WOFFORD!!!
January 13th, 2011 at 10:01 PM ^
...have someone at Michigan call a favor from (apparently) Wanny-friend Jim Leyland to try to talk his buddy to MIchigan? Yeah, I know, not likely, but still.
Though, for whatever reason, Hoke's hires have primarily been people he's been familiiar with from past jobs (with only Borges, Wellman, and Fred Jackson not having been people who only made D-I coaching with Hoke at Ball State).
January 13th, 2011 at 9:52 PM ^
4-0. Mike Martin. I'm on board now that he and Denard are staying.
January 13th, 2011 at 9:55 PM ^
dunno how i forgot that one.
January 14th, 2011 at 12:43 AM ^
I have seen this before... did we just beat Indiana or something? Oh God, I can't watch now...
January 13th, 2011 at 9:36 PM ^
I know you're excited and all but take a look at the first page first:
http://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/fwiw-student-journalist-says-fred-jackson-offered-job
January 13th, 2011 at 9:37 PM ^
Can he play corner?
arghh, I gotta stop saying this about everyone that comes into the program.
January 13th, 2011 at 9:38 PM ^
I have a solution... start saying "can he play corner/safety/godforbidweneedtoincludeQB?"
January 13th, 2011 at 10:40 PM ^
Troy Woolfolk can and Fred Jackson says he's like Charles Woodson with talent.
January 13th, 2011 at 9:38 PM ^
Ya, is a good recruiter. Has been with Michigan for 20 years so he knows Hoke.
January 13th, 2011 at 9:40 PM ^
and Rod Smith stay in B10, according to the piece (at the bottom). IU gets a couple of good coaches from RR's staff, IMO.
January 13th, 2011 at 9:57 PM ^
Good gets for Indiana. I'm surprised they couldn't have found someplace better, though.
January 14th, 2011 at 1:26 AM ^
Those are two guys I perhaps unrealistically hoped would stay. Frey has done an excellent job with the offensive line both in recruiting and in development and Rod Smith has done a very good job working with Denard and Tate. Kinda bummed to see them go. Man if we look back at the 2008 crap fest at both of those positions and how well they developed in the 3 years compared to RB, WR, slot, and TE. I think it's fair to say those guys earned their paychecks. Rod Smith was also a hell of a recruiter for us in FL.
January 13th, 2011 at 9:41 PM ^
Now I understand why the old guard gets so pissed about this stuff. Hey maybe you could start a thread about Cam Newton leaving Auburn.
January 13th, 2011 at 9:45 PM ^
Fred Jackson: UM Minister of Propaganda
January 13th, 2011 at 9:49 PM ^
I would love for Fred JAckson to write a tell-all book about all of his years. Would be interesting to see the contrasts of the different regimes.
January 13th, 2011 at 9:51 PM ^
yea he's been around for what? 18 years now, I would definitely buy that book.
January 13th, 2011 at 9:57 PM ^
What would the title of the book be...... Inside Michigan Football From the Late 1800s to 2010?
January 13th, 2011 at 10:26 PM ^
"Like Moby Dick, Only Better and With Full-Color Pictures" by Fred Jackson
January 13th, 2011 at 10:02 PM ^
The memoirs of Fred Jackson couldn't be contained in one book. Entire libraries couldn't hold them all.
January 13th, 2011 at 10:26 PM ^
For what it is worth, I just spoke with one of the position coaches at Wake Forest, who told me that Hoke has a strong national reputation among his peers and is an excellent hire. I was skeptical when Hoke was first announced, but I am starting to rethink things. Denard, Martin, and Fred Jackson staying are huge pluses.
January 13th, 2011 at 9:51 PM ^
I was hoping for maybe an off-coaching staff rehire of Jackson to a football related part of the AD and a hire of Wheatley, but this is just as good. I like Jackson as RB coach.
January 13th, 2011 at 9:51 PM ^
Fred Jackson is a legend among men.
January 13th, 2011 at 10:49 PM ^
The planets are all starting to align.
January 13th, 2011 at 11:25 PM ^
among Leaders.
January 13th, 2011 at 9:53 PM ^
we need him
January 13th, 2011 at 9:55 PM ^
He's been known to coach a talented QB or two.
January 13th, 2011 at 10:28 PM ^
Anybody want to tell me what's so great about Loeffler? Still haven't figured it out.
January 13th, 2011 at 10:38 PM ^
Just to name the most obvious. He started out with nothing but a monster arm and a stumble, by the time he left he was a pretty darn good college QB who slid around in the pocket sans the stumble.