"Discus"
Discobulus
Discus Stu
Discus fish.
That's just how the football fumbles in the coaching world. I do not fault him for leaving and I hope he has success unknown to mankind at Buffalo.
Next Co-DC coach up!
Yeah, I don't understand some of the uproar. Dude wanted to be a HC. A school came and offered him the job he wanted. He took said job. Seems pretty linear to me.
I do understand being bummed that a solid coach is leaving, but this one isn't on Michigan.
There's something to be said for leaving some of his recruits in the lurch after telling them he'd be their coach, but ultimately he has every right to leave.
Can we please stop with this take? Whenever a coach leaves, no matter the timing or circumstances he will be leaving his players. Fired, retired, or just leaving for another job. Kids leave coaches these days. Days after committing so this stuff has always happened and will continue to happen. The kids seem to get over it before the fans.
I agree Ldveon1 with your take. Furthermore, the transfer portal evens the "power" in the coach / recruit relationship. The player can leave whenever they want. But as they say, choose the school and not the coach.
Plus it's not like they're actually left in the lurch. They still have tons of time to decide or change their minds. It's not like he left after they signed. The guys he recruited here aren't even seniors in high school yet.
No, there’s really not anything to be said about it. That literally happens every time a coach leaves his job for a new one. You’re always leaving behind recruits and players after you’ve told them you’d be their coach.
A guy who wants to be a head coach was offered a head coaching position and he took it. Period. That’s the only story here. I don’t get the need for all of this extra narrative that’s being thrown around.
Godzilla is advising Mo Linguist
Whoever they hire just let it be someone that makes Domani Jackson flip. That's all.
Mike Zordich is still available is all I'm saying.
Still lives in Ann Arbor too.
Nothing would crack me up more than if they just sent him an email asking why he hadn't been in the office yet and left his old office exactly as it was when he was fired. Just try to trick him into believing it was all a practical joke and he's been on a 4-month vacation he didn't realize he was on.
Call him back from furlough
Yo mama before Mother's Day.
Happy Early Mother's Day all of you MGoBlog Muthas!
DIscus? I was always more of a shot put guy myself. The mental discipline needed to tell people that you stand in a small ring and heave a ball without chuckling must be phenomenal.
I have three ruptured or herniated discus in my low back.
Well, y'see, on one shoulder is a little angel, and on the other shoulder . . .
This is as simple as it gets. Guy was a co DC, got offered a HEAD COACHING OPPORTUNITY at a MAC school and made the easy decision to take the gig rather than stay at what some would consider to be a rather unstable situation in AA. Not much advising needed on this one
Well done sir.
All these downvotes are getting wooshed. Quality shitpost.
I try to do the Lords Work here on this blog.
Yes, this is quality work and the responses are embarrassing.
Someone cunning.
We have gotten along without this self serving clown for 142 years. So don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out buddy.
My strongest sport in high school track was Discus.
You don't know his family situation. His mom may really need team gear from another school.
If he's being advised by someone, then someone very smart... Taking a head coaching job at a school known for being a giant stepping stone to a P5 HC position. At Michigan, he wasn't even the top d coordinator at the school - that belongs to Macdonald. The best he could hope for with staying was that Macdonald would eventually move on and he could be our DC.... and then finally get a HC job after that. It's great that Michigan hires coaches that are good enough that other teams covet them.
I'm confused by the question.. what seems inadvisable about Mo leaving a glorified position coach position at a P5 school for a head coaching position at a G5 school? To me that is a pretty textbook example of how coaches build their careers in the profession.
Now, the timing of it definitely effing sucks for Michigan, no argument there. But I don't think there is any indictment necessary for Linguist or Harbaugh/Michigan in this specific situation. Linguist was unexpectedly offered a great opportunity to significantly advance his career and he took it. Can't be mad at a guy for doing that, and I don't think there is anything inadvisable for doing so. It's another unfortunate cosmic dong punch for Michigan, but hey we're used to those, right?
He took a great MAC head coach position. It sucks, but it's not really an indictment on Michigan or Harbaugh
Well at least he lasted longer than Dan Enos
Now get out there and Shot Put!
Answer: an intelligent person.
It's laughable how many in our fanbase think they're so important, or that a guy like this owes them something. Heaven forbid someone makes a decision that furthers their career.
Yes, obviously he has every right to leave but I still think it's messed up. At least me personally, if I take a job I go in there thinking I'm going to stay at least a year because I believe in the job and the organization and I want to walk away feeling like I accomplished something and made the place better than when I arrived. I've rejected offers with higher salary when I recently joined somewhere. If I was willing to leave at any chance for a raise, I wouldn't have joined in the first place.
Especially when you work with young people, it's not like he's in finance where everyone is there solely to make the most money possible. He's not leaving a thankless low wage job that didn't afford him a high standard of living either. He spent months talking to parents telling them he'll take care of their sons, and then he walked away before the season even started. How can he look at Buffalos players recruits and families and tell them with a straight face that should trust in him? Some P5 school might fire their coach midseason and call him up, no?
He should have at least completed a season and then yeah, obviously a head coaching job is huge step forward in his career and I wouldn't fault him at all for leaving in January.
Just my humble opinion.
That’s life on both ends today. Coaches move, players transfer, and they all do what they think is best for themselves. Both sides now have that option. ?♂️
Except players have to sit out the season if they do that. And players aren't out there telling parents they'll take care of their sons. And they're much younger, a teenager doing something like that in their formative years, especially when they know they might only have a few more years left in their athletic career is wayyy more understandable than a 37 year old who's got three decades of coaching to look forward to. But yeah, I throw my hands up too.