WorldwideTJRob

December 27th, 2017 at 7:07 AM ^

Coaching is coaching! If I’m trying to improve my staff to ensure I have my position for as long as I can, then I’m trying to get the most qualified guys I can. Regardless of what staff they are currently on. Jim has the first right of refusal. If he does not want Frey to leave, he will just sent Taggart permission to speak with him. However, Jim is a solid guy so if Taggart wants to promote Frey to OC he will grant permission because it is a promotion. Same way he gave Durkin the ok during OSU week to speak with the Terps about their HC vacancy.

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Wolfman

December 27th, 2017 at 2:46 PM ^

where there would be many from both leagues standing in line hoping for a phone call for that position.But as you said, Harbaugh is going to protect his staff and this would be nothing but a lateral move and Frey remembers who got him out of IN and even tried to get him to the NFL before getting him back to AA. 

if it came down to OL coaches only, my predicition would be  Frey stays. We know Drevno wants to go. He wanted the WMU job and so if he keeps looking Harbaugh will want his line coach in place which would actually be an inducement to the OC

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FrankMurphy

December 26th, 2017 at 2:38 PM ^

I know Taggart and Harbaugh are close, but I don't think that would prevent Taggart from trying to poach a Harbaugh assistant if he thought that assistant was a good fit for his staff (nor would it prevent Harbaugh from doing so if the shoe were on the other foot).

Also, we seem to be assuming that the initial feeler came from Taggart and not Frey. It's equally possible that Frey reached out to Taggart. I can see Frey wanting to coach at his alma mater, especially since Florida State is, at worst, on par with Michigan. 

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FrankMurphy

December 26th, 2017 at 5:06 PM ^

"Loves Jim" might be an overstatement, since the two had no prior relationship before Frey joined Harbaugh's staff last year. Also, I don't think going from co-OC and OL coach at a place like Indiana to an assistant coach responsible for multiple position groups and the running game (perhaps a quasi-OC role, since I'm sure he has some influence over playcalling) at a place like Michigan is a demotion, especially since he's probably getting paid significantly more at Michigan. 

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FL_Steve

December 26th, 2017 at 12:34 PM ^

 

Florida State: Offensive line coach Rick Trickett will not be retained on Willie Taggart’s staff, according to a report from Warchant. Trickett has spent 10 seasons on staff at Florida State and 44 overall in college football. Warchant also notes that Michigan tackles and tight ends coach/run game coordinator Greg Frey, a former Seminoles player, is expected to replace Trickett.

 

Their site sucks, full of adds and terrible loading times. I'm beginning to think their is collusion afoot as well.

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Clarence Boddicker

December 26th, 2017 at 12:47 PM ^

Warchant is probably the biggest team site on Rivals--for any sport. Lots of insiders post there and the site owners and mods have hooks deep into FSU's programs, so their info is tight. It is very much like MGoBlog---but with that shitty Rivals interface and without the witty and urbane level of discourse we so enjoy here. If Warchant is calling this it's probably a done deal.

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OwenGoBlue

December 26th, 2017 at 1:42 PM ^

Harbaugh incorporated inside zone with the 49ers and at Michigan in '15 and '16. It will be part of the offense next year regardless of who is on staff. This year the IZ results weren't great early but when they started calling more of it later in the year it was pretty good. If Shea wins the job they'll run it more than we've seen the last three years; IZ is way more effective out of shotgun formations with a QB run threat on the fake.

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I Like Burgers

December 26th, 2017 at 3:57 PM ^

That's just flat out wrong when it comes to matching salary.  Frey's salary this year was $500k.  Trickett, the guy he would be replacing at FSU made $602k.

Also, I don't know where the idea that FSU is some sort of budget program came from.  According to USA Today's annual salary database, they had the 8th highest assistant coach salary pool ($4.69M).  Michigan was 4th ($5.64M).

And if he wants to go, he can go.  GTFOH with this "Harbaugh's blessings" nonsense.  Taggart is offering a job, not asking for his hand in marriage.

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PaulWall

December 26th, 2017 at 1:07 PM ^

losing frey would be a huge loss. he has been successful everywhere, so much so that harbaugh brought him back to Michigan. people say the tackles and o line sucked this year. yes, they did, but it was year 1. let's have some continuity and let him develop some guys before we say it's his fault and run him out of town. this would be a significant blow. but if he does leave, I'm sure harbaugh will get the best available.

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OC Alum91

December 26th, 2017 at 2:07 PM ^

We know from IU that he can coach. looking back, having the 2 OL coach sitution seems weird and was a failed experiment. If OL takes years for players to develop, how must it have felt to Frey if we gave up on zone runs halfway through season. People say preparing for Air Force was a waste of practice time, was it wasted time repping zone blocks? Is is possible Frey and Drevno were,really far apart in styles, and we gave them a poor setup? Just seems like we wasted Frey's talent here.

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Ty Butterfield

December 26th, 2017 at 1:39 PM ^

Hope it doesn’t happen because of recruiting. Michigan needs to close on some O-line recruits. Any O-line recruits.

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OC Alum91

December 26th, 2017 at 1:41 PM ^

If he does leave, his time here will be quite odd. Making him share coaching OL with Drevno, we never really gave him the freedom to do his thing. We abandoned zone blocking after poor initial results, but we know Frey can coach OL. With a longer time frame required for OL development in general, seems like we only halfway committed to him, not giving him what he needs to do his thing. Things got better after we dropped runs, but Looking back, seems like the 2 OL coach thing was simply a bad experiment and a waste of Frey's talent.

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SD Larry

December 26th, 2017 at 8:49 PM ^

awfully excited to be back at Michigan, and working on Harbaugh's staff every time I listened to him being interviewed.  Maybe that's professional coach speak now days, but it sounded sincere to me.   I hope he stays unless its for the OC position at FSU.  He's a good recruiter and a good coach.  Systems can take time to implement.   Also not sure who was responsible for rb blocking in pass protection, but there was room for improvement in that pass protection well.  

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