sherrone moore

1 hour and 47 minutes

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1. Updated State of the Basketball Program and NFL Draft Stuff

Starts at 1:00

We’re not going to talk about basketball, but this is mostly a basketball segment. Discussing Sanderson’s departure from the program from Sanderson’s perspective. It’s unbelievable that Juwan didn’t get fired for this. Basketball standings are the Big Ten West’s revenge. There’s no reason to believe that Michigan will be good next year, teams that mainly use the portal have not been that great and Michigan probably won’t even fill the roster. This is year five, that’s on Juwan. If Juwan is retained, add it to the list of Warde Manual bag fumbles. Apparently Warde is good with speaking to people and managing non-revenue sports. Has he even had to make a hire in major sport? Sherrone Moore and Naurato were a given. Warde likes to just sit around and wait for whatever happens to happen. Even Craig Ross says this is one of the worst teams since he was in school. If Juwan gets fired it won’t be until the end of the season.

Do you enjoy watching the Combine? Dave does, Brian does not. The NFL draft will be fun to watch this year because there will be a lot of Michigan players getting drafted and every time they do there will be a lot of highlights of Ohio State getting dunked on. Mike Sainristil knew Washington’s plays because Mike Sainristil is football smart. It was Mikey all along!! According to scouts, all of Michigan’s offensive linemen are two years ahead of everyone else in terms of maturity. Cornelius Johnson tested out amazingly. He didn’t get a ton of targets but he bailed out JJ a lot, and that skill set will translate to the NFL. Blake Corum changed his skill set from speed back to inside guy based on what the team needed.

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1 hour and 44 minutes

The Sponsors

Thank you to Underground Printing for making this all possible. Rishi and Ryan have been our biggest supporters from the beginning. Check out their wide selection of officially licensed Michigan fan gear at their 3 store locations in Ann Arbor or learn about their custom apparel business at undergroundshirts.com.

Our associate sponsors are: Peak Wealth Management, Matt Demorest - Realtor and Lender, Ann Arbor Elder Law, Michigan Law Grad, Human ElementSharon's Heating & Air ConditioningVenue by 4M where we recorded this, The Nose Bleeds, which is the Sklars Bros’ reboot of Cheap Seats on UFC Fight PassAutograph: Fandom Rewarded, who just launched an app where you earn rewards for things like reading MGoBlog and listening to this podcast, and introducing Champions Circle, the NIL fund keeping our team together.

1. The Final Coaching Staff

Starts at 1:00

Jack Tuttle has been approved for a 7th year, does this incentivize you to switch over your offense since he's so different from Orji? Whoever the quarterback is, they just need to have a Cade McNamara year. Sabb hitting the portal is sad. The coaching staff is final (other than what's up with Mike Hart). The average age of this coaching staff is too close to Alex Drain. The Tennessee message boards are like "RHWRRRGHREWRGRR". Things seem to be moving positively on the NIL front. Michigan is losing assistants at a higher rate because if you succeed at Michigan you go to the NFL. 

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[Milwaukee Journal Sentinel-USA Today Sports]

Last year I did an offseason series looking at changes via NFL decisions/coaching changes/transfer portal for every team in the B1G. While I hope to still do that, it hasn't yet felt appropriate when Michigan is going through major changes of their own on. Instead, it feels like a better idea to do a piece looking at some of the changes that have been made to the coaching staff we have yet to cover at MGoBlog, as well as some NIL and off-field staffing news. 

 

Introducing: Greg Scruggs, DL Coach

Though not yet official, it appears that Wisconsin DL coach Greg Scruggs will be joining Michigan's staff. Insiders on both the Michigan and Wisconsin side have confirmed the news and Josh Henschke tweeted on Tuesday that Scruggs has begun calling Michigan players to announce his arrival. Seems like it's happening. 

In which case, what's the story with Scruggs? Firstly he's 33 years old, beginning a theme of many of these coaches that Sherrone is targeting being on the younger side. Scruggs is from Cincinnati and played at St. Xavier in Ohio, home of Michigan DL recruit Ted Hammond, among many other players. Scruggs played his college ball as a defensive end at Louisville, competing on the 2010 and 2011 teams coached by Charlie Strong, that featured young Sherrone Moore on staff as a GA. That is the basis for Scruggs' relationship with Moore, which was then followed by Scruggs' transition to the NFL. He was a 7th round pick by Seattle who played some in 2012 but then was mostly a reserve piece after that, seldom competing in actual games (he did, however, participate in a photoshoot where he modeled kilts). After winning Super Bowl LI from the sidelines with New England in February 2017, Scruggs called it quits as a player and went into coaching. 

Scruggs returned to his hometown as a coach, joining Luke Fickell's staff at Cincinnati for the 2018 season. He spent two years as Director of Player Development, before getting the DL Coach job for the 2020 season. Over two seasons running Fickell's DL, Scruggs coached some talented players who were dominant within the American Athletic Conference. The 2020 Cincinnati defense featured one 1st Team All-AAC lineman and two 2nd teamers. The 2021 defense didn't have any 2nd teamers, but had two 1st Team All-AAC linemen. Among the players to earn honors under Scruggs were Curtis Brooks (6th round pick), Myjai Sanders (3rd round pick), Marcus Brown, and Elijah Ponder. The latter two went undrafted but Ponder got a cup of coffee as a UDFA in Tampa and recently signed in the CFL. For an American Athletic Conference team, Cincinnati had talented, strong defensive lines and Scruggs had a hand in coaching and developing those. 

[AFTER THE JUMP: the other hires]

"They're NIMBY'ing the alleys where people throw up after going to Rick's"

a schematic demolition 

another vacancy on the staff

"I am the commissioner of the Gimmicky Top Five and I have declared that your #2 pick is now property of the Dave Ravens. The Davens."

meet your new head football coach

report: trophy still shiny 

He didn't even get the Nick Saban; he's working for Bert!

answering your hottest questions this holiday season

win #1000 counts the same as all the others

the dead-eyed stare of a million-year-old evil