Silver Lining in these coaching changes/rumors

The silver lining is that it's basketball season. 

Mattison's not a huge loss IMO.  He's like 70 years old, not the recruiter he once was, and the DL was not the elite unit that it has been in the past.  Appreciate all he's done here but this is an opportunity to upgrade his position.

Did I just see on ESPN (I know, first mistake) Tampa Bay Bucs are interested in Kirby Smart? That could be big if it were to happen but I don’t see it 

If a kid really wanted to make a stink, he could probably get out of his LOI if the coach that recruited him is gone. 

The poor kids. Ok

Is it me or is college football becoming too much about 50+ year old men?  The head coach was always good fodder for conversation but a d-line coach?  It is the kids who play the game.  Whatever with Greg Mattison.  Go be a Buckeye and don’t let the door hit you.

Will more highly ranked recruits wait because of coaching changes?

Are there more coaching changes now or is this the same it was last year, the year before that and the year before that, etc? Highly ranked recruits can wait and some do, but I don't see a reason to forecast their numbers changing. 

I like this kind of discussion.  Obviously Harbaugh knows good assistants because even OSU wants some.  It does hurt the players, that’s not really OSU’s top priority though.  I think higher ranked kids will starting waiting til the 2nd signing period due to these crazy coaching swings happening before that deadline.

I would imagine some kids will now wait to sign, yes.

Nice post.  Tired of the whining and bitching around here from many.

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Still trust Harbaugh will put together a winning staff and team.

Go Blue!!!

So many people apply a dated romanticization to current college football, and it doesn’t work. “Kids should commit to the SCHOOL, not the coach.”  Some kids do, some kids don’t. I know  a Michigan RS Frosh who did both. Committed to one school early “because they were the first to really recruit me”, then flipped to Michigan “Because Harbaugh!” Players should fight for their teammates in a bowl game! Bowl games are sacred!” MOST players do, but only a few bowl games are truly ‘sacred.’

You’re married with kids now, and it won’t ever be like before you had kids and were dating. 

I was blindsided by the Mattison defection, but the Al Washington rumors of have been around for a week or two. Gotta think Harbaugh has a short list already.  

I'm also interested in the poster speculation that some of the people leaving had something to do with Mattison.  Loved him when he was here, but defecting to our rivals not once but twice is sort of unforgivable.

I don’t really know what the big deal is.  The guy left for a promotion that he was never getting in AA.  He took a demotion when JH came to town and was passed over after durkin left for Maryland.  If memory serves me correctly he was the interim during the only bowl game they won under JH.  So we as a fan base should be upset because he left for Columbus?  Comong!!!  No way.  This guy was the DC for an elite NFL defense and you think he was going to be pacified and happy coaching only d-line just because your threw some more money at him?  These guys need constant challenge regardless of age.  I say good luck and Godspeed.  

Any kid whose position coach, coordinator, or HC changes should get a second crack at signing. It’s bullshit that a dude like GMatt can go to osu because he feels like it, and some 18 year old who’s coming to michgian to play for GMatt is stuck with their commitment. 

Day appears to have decided to not retain a good chunk of the staff Urban built.  That’s a pretty big change and a risk, because who knows what the coaching/team chemistry will become.  I think the churn down south is another potential silver lining.  Fingers crossed for a bumpy road.

Kids getting fucked isn't a silver lining

Might this be a good time for Jim Harbaugh to consider what Urban Meyer did and what Ryan Day is doing at Ohio State?  Pair an experienced, older coach with a younger coach who might be a rising star and make them co-coordinators.

Greg Mattison will be Ohio State’s co-coordinator on defense with Jeff Hafley who has both college and NFL experience.

If Al Washington is leaving and Don Brown is staying, then making Brown and Chris Partridge co-coordinators and letting them find new defensive line and linebacker coaches might work out well.

If both Don Brown and Al Washington are leaving, then Harbaugh might consider offering Greg Schiano a job and then have Schiano and Chris Partridge serve co-coordinators for the Michigan defense in 2019 and let them choose the new defensive line and linebacker coaches.

Both Don Brown and Greg Schiano are younger than Greg Mattison; Chris Partridge is slightly younger than Jeff Hafley.

Both Schiano and Partridge, as well as Hafley, are natives of northern New Jersey where some of that state's top football schools are located -- St. Joseph Regional of Montvale (ranked number one among New Jersey's football teams in 2018; from Hafley's hometown), Don Bosco Prep (where Jabrill Peppers first played), Bergen Catholic, DePaul Catholic (the school that gave Michigan Michael Dwumfour and one-time highly rated recruit Kareem Walker) and Paramus Catholic (where Jabrill Peppers finished his career and where Rashan Gary, Juwann Bushell-Beatty and one-time Michigan recruit Drew Singleton played).

The silver lining is OSU takes another step back.  They lost their Co-DC to Oklahoma and replaced him with Mattison. Things are looking up for Michigan. Go Blue!