Got his start at a few low-level programs, spent time as a GA at Michigan and has worked his way up, he will be named WR coach at Miami (OH).

I know there's a desire to one day coach at Michigan so, who knows what the future holds? If he ever gets a call, he's racing to Ann Arbor to interview.

I think he's perfectly happy as a position coach and doesn't want to be a coordinator at the moment.

Really happy for him, great dude.

It's been a wild ride at times, but Sherrone Moore appears to have his first coaching staff at Michigan complete.
Recap and review of the hires and expectations of the young staff expected to make waves on and off the field.
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Sherrone has his assistants involved in the interview process with DB coach candidates.

For example, Wink and Scruggs were in the room during LaMar Morgan’s interview. It makes sense if you want to talk scheme and all that but it shows that the collaboration from the Harbaugh days is still alive and well.

Michigan got some good news with Jack Tuttle getting a waiver to come back for a 7th year of college football. Where does Tuttle fit into the UM spring QB competition? Thoughts on the future of Alex Orji at UM and a review of my Michigan basketball coaching hot list 2.0.
Breakdown
Open 00:00-1:19
Jack Tuttle 1:20-13:05
QB feedback 13:06-22:00
Orji 22:01-27:04
Orji film 27:05-29:30
Orji & Hurts 29:31-42:29
Schedule 42:30-46:10
Basketball coaching hot list 2.0 46:11-57:49
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Michigan Football will have all new starters on the offensive line in 2024, led by a new coach, Grant Newsome.
In a recent appearance on In the Trenches, Newsome shared his strategy for finding starters and some early leaders heading into spring.
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Dan Hurley.
You guys think we can hire Dan Hurley away from UConn?
The guy is already a national champion and it looks like he has a very strong team again to go back to back.

He's 51 so he isn't retiring anytime soon.

At the end of this video. It’s the only way. Looks great!

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Nm

Has given up 25 runs in their first two games of the season.

Both in losses to Western Michigan.
I miss Erik Bakich

Michigan currently leads the Spartans 50-47 in the 3rd

Could have been a major contributor to the nickelback next year. Guess we were bound to lose someone. @Josh Henschke was this one of the guys rumored to get a big bag.

Does this give Zeke Berry more time to play?

A good friend did the graphics for the book "Fulfilling the Dream" which was about Wayman Britt.
He received this note from him today...

"We are in Ann Arbor today for the MSU game celebrating our 1973-74 Big Ten Championship. It has been 50 years since we beat Indiana for the championship in Champaign Illinois."

Wayman Britt

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The University of Michigan has announced the passing of former AD Jack Weidenbach.
"Weidenbach worked tirelessly to improve academic support programs for student-athletes and to strengthen women's intercollegiate athletics."
- Assoc. AD Kurt Svoboda.
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Watched the game on delayed viewing so this is more a look ahead analysis. I like discussing bball so bare with me. If you want to discuss, play along. Please don't participate here if you aren't interested in chiming in thoughts.

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MY INTERPRETATION OF THIS WHOLE SITUATION:

It really doesn't seem like a one year fix on this. I think the notion of saying one year to fix this is a flawed idea and at this point not how any fix should be approached. This is not the consensus, but the statement of the few that aren't in favor of moving on.

The one thing I think the worst idea for us to be focusing on is all grad players. That's in line with an attempt at fixing this all in one year.

I think freshman and sophomore transfers, spring high school recruits, and maybe two total grad transfers is a sensible route. You simply can't be investing all your time in guys that are for the most part are who they are. Yes older guys can improve, but most have minimal advancement. For every Chaundee Brown (who we did not overuse as a starter or ask him to be more than he is and he improved because it was a realistic role, there are a bunch of tray jacksons (guys who are what they are and 5 minute a game/DNP coach's decision types).

Players gone for sure:
1. Nkamhoua
2. Llewellyn
3. Jackson

Covid year to use (Potential free agent)
1. Twill
2. Jace (appears to already be claiming his covid year).

Potential Flight risk
1. Dug. Hard to know what happens. Imo, the grade thing is a big issue. It is disappointing that it somehow got to that point, but imo it is very risky to so reliant on a player that managed to do that poorly in the classroom. You can't be worried if a top guy on your team will even show up to his classes or get failing grades on his assignments despite a lot of assistance from tutors.

Two years of Eligibility if he wants to use them
1. Burnett. More of a reserve talent, hard to expect a lot consistently if he's a starter.

Future Pieces?
1. Reed
2. Tschetter (2 more years of eligibility)
3. Andersen and Rooths

Iffy Forecast
1. Yoyo. It's not unheard of for a player to become playable in his upperclassmen years, but I do think most guys that are PLAYERS show something in their first two years. He's been here long enough now that he is trending imo to be one of those 2 and done types that moved on under Beilein, than say a later riser in DJ Wilson. Yoyo is also a year older than his class.

Very tough freshman year
1. Gw3. He has a profile of a shooter. He's actually an older freshman too so you'd like to see a bit more. Looks pretty awkward physically and a bit out of place. Hard to give up on him, but I'd say he has a ways to go. I think he's a 2 all the way and not a point guard.

My random guess is Twill uses his fifth year elsewhere, the program parts ways with Dug/he transfers, and Yoyo moves on.

So in my scenario you have 5 open roster spots. Any more attrition increases that number.

Priority #1: An older point guard. This one is tough. You'd like a guy with multiple years of eligibility, but is that out there? Would they come here?

You'd be hoping for a talent better than Llewellyn, but it is difficult to attract.

An actual wing that can create and score and can shoot.

Every program is after that. Again, not sure how that is attainable.

Another center
You are hoping for a level above Tschetter, but this is where you go after a freshman transfer that you can develop.

Two more players (preferably guard or wing). One young (multiple years of eligibility) and a grad transfer.

Overall Conclusion: I don't see how this is anything but a multi year rebuild. Christian Anderson is the perfect type of recruit in this era. Great shooting and a lot of potential without a nba build/prospects at this time. So essentially you are saying if Howard is your guy, he is for 2 or more years. Yeah.

Any tournament or bust mandates on Howard would be absurd and not the right way to look at this. I don't think you can look at this in any other way.

I think you kinda have to rebuild this properly by mixing in developmental guys and maybe a couple old guys. There's only one scenario where a coach gets time to remake a roster and hope for a bid the next year.

this would be a pretty practical impact of NIL - sounds like the G League will die a rapid death unless there's still some benefit for players between college and the NBA that's not too obvious?

Fun fact....Izzo has never beat Juwan in Ann Arbor.

Starting this early because Michigan will be without a starter tonight against MSU. Terrance Williams will not be available.

Game is on FOX at 8 p.m.

MSU is going for its first season sweep over Michigan since 2019, given the teams don’t meet in the Big Ten Tournament.

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Spartans win it by ten in Ann Arbor
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And his relationship with the staff and getting along with the Michigan staff, don’t.

all reports suggest he’s been great to work with and has built a particular fondness for Greg Scruggs. Scruggs and Wink have gotten particularly close, one of those things where it’s like they've known each other for years kind of thing.

nothing but positives so far, which I think is a very good sign for the future.

If "signs" were so bad, I wonder what loser teams like purdue and rutgers are gonna say when oregon beats them by 50.