Ended up down a Harbaugh google path over lunch.
Quite a month January 2017.
All of this is came from very public sources.
January 2nd - UCLA announces the hiring of Jedd Fisch
January 2nd - 6thish - Drevno signs a 5 year 1 mill per year extension with Jim. Drevno's contract specifies a $100,000 payment to Michigan if he leaves for anything other than a head coaching job.
January 11th - Jim's son is born premature. Jim's son will remain in the hospital until January 30th.
January 11th - Detroit News' Tony Paul tweets out that Tyronne Wheatley is a candidate for Western Michigan job. Likely to come down to he and Tim Lester (Lester got the job ultimatley)
January 12th - A weird article emerges without direct quotes talking about Drevno's interest in the Western Michigan article citing NFL scouts and NFL sources talking about Drevno being a top college head coaching candidate. That article referenced him signing a five year deal with Michigan the previous week. "Multiple scouts as well as an industry source familiar with Drevno's view of the Western Michigan job, said he would be open to talking to the Broncos". In retrospect the sources seem odd.
[EDIT] Also January 12th - Greg Roman. John Harbaugh hires the fired offensive coordinator of the Bills (the previous September). References his other opportunities in the last few days and being glad he came to Baltimore. Drevno, Jim and Roman had a long run together starting at Stanford and extending through Jim's entire tenure at San Fran.
January 13th - Michigan hires Pep Hamilton on a 4 year 4.25 million dollar deal. Passing game coordinator and QB coach, making more than the offensive coordinator. Hmmmm.
January 16th - Jacksonville announces Tyrone Wheatley as their new running backs coach.
January 25th - Michigan hires Greg Frey to be their tackles, tight ends and running game coordinator coach. That adds to Pep Hamilton - quarterbacks and passing game coordinator and Tim Drevno - interior iine and offensive coordinator, I guess. Frey signs a 3 year contract for $500,000 annually.
By the end of January, when Jim's son comes home from the hospital there's a new brain trust to run Jim's offense in Drevno, Hamilton and Frey. This is the brain trust UM moves forward with, along with Jay Harbaugh moving to running backs and no designated wide receivers coach.
Meanwhile, in Columbus... in January of 2017. After being shutout in the national semi-final game by Clemson, not producing a ton of offense in a close win over Michigan and beating a 3-9 Michigan State team 17-16, Urban Meyer moves on from the Co-Offensive Coordinators Tim Beck and Ed Warriner. He brings in a relative unknown in Ryan Day to assist new offensive coordinator Kevin Wilson.
Aftermath:
In January 2018 Greg Frey leaves to become the offensive line coach at his alma mater for Harbaugh close friend Willie Taggaert. Taggaert fires him a year later.
On March 14th 2018 Drevno "resigns" from Michigan being paid $250,000 on what must have been a negotiated settlement because he left to be a running backs coach not a head coach so according to contract the reports say he should have owed us.
Pep Hamilton left in February 2019. He received a $450,000 retention bonus at some point prior to this bringing his compensation for two seasons to somewhere around $2.5 million although likely more since he was going to be paid through June 30th, 2019.
In a somewhat strange and very active month which included Jim's son being born prematurely, Jedd Fisch left and Michigan assembled a fairly pricey crew of offensive leadership, who lasted all of one season together.
Meanwhile, Urban brought aboard the architects of an offensive juggernaut and the Buckeyes future head coach.
Quite a month January 2017.
All of this is came from very public sources.
January 2nd - UCLA announces the hiring of Jedd Fisch
January 2nd - 6thish - Drevno signs a 5 year 1 mill per year extension with Jim. Drevno's contract specifies a $100,000 payment to Michigan if he leaves for anything other than a head coaching job.
January 11th - Jim's son is born premature. Jim's son will remain in the hospital until January 30th.
January 11th - Detroit News' Tony Paul tweets out that Tyronne Wheatley is a candidate for Western Michigan job. Likely to come down to he and Tim Lester (Lester got the job ultimatley)
January 12th - A weird article emerges without direct quotes talking about Drevno's interest in the Western Michigan article citing NFL scouts and NFL sources talking about Drevno being a top college head coaching candidate. That article referenced him signing a five year deal with Michigan the previous week. "Multiple scouts as well as an industry source familiar with Drevno's view of the Western Michigan job, said he would be open to talking to the Broncos". In retrospect the sources seem odd.
[EDIT] Also January 12th - Greg Roman. John Harbaugh hires the fired offensive coordinator of the Bills (the previous September). References his other opportunities in the last few days and being glad he came to Baltimore. Drevno, Jim and Roman had a long run together starting at Stanford and extending through Jim's entire tenure at San Fran.
January 13th - Michigan hires Pep Hamilton on a 4 year 4.25 million dollar deal. Passing game coordinator and QB coach, making more than the offensive coordinator. Hmmmm.
January 16th - Jacksonville announces Tyrone Wheatley as their new running backs coach.
January 25th - Michigan hires Greg Frey to be their tackles, tight ends and running game coordinator coach. That adds to Pep Hamilton - quarterbacks and passing game coordinator and Tim Drevno - interior iine and offensive coordinator, I guess. Frey signs a 3 year contract for $500,000 annually.
By the end of January, when Jim's son comes home from the hospital there's a new brain trust to run Jim's offense in Drevno, Hamilton and Frey. This is the brain trust UM moves forward with, along with Jay Harbaugh moving to running backs and no designated wide receivers coach.
Meanwhile, in Columbus... in January of 2017. After being shutout in the national semi-final game by Clemson, not producing a ton of offense in a close win over Michigan and beating a 3-9 Michigan State team 17-16, Urban Meyer moves on from the Co-Offensive Coordinators Tim Beck and Ed Warriner. He brings in a relative unknown in Ryan Day to assist new offensive coordinator Kevin Wilson.
Aftermath:
In January 2018 Greg Frey leaves to become the offensive line coach at his alma mater for Harbaugh close friend Willie Taggaert. Taggaert fires him a year later.
On March 14th 2018 Drevno "resigns" from Michigan being paid $250,000 on what must have been a negotiated settlement because he left to be a running backs coach not a head coach so according to contract the reports say he should have owed us.
Pep Hamilton left in February 2019. He received a $450,000 retention bonus at some point prior to this bringing his compensation for two seasons to somewhere around $2.5 million although likely more since he was going to be paid through June 30th, 2019.
In a somewhat strange and very active month which included Jim's son being born prematurely, Jedd Fisch left and Michigan assembled a fairly pricey crew of offensive leadership, who lasted all of one season together.
Meanwhile, Urban brought aboard the architects of an offensive juggernaut and the Buckeyes future head coach.
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