Michigan Offers Julian Barnett, with a Twist?
The dead period is over, and one offer to go out today was for 2019 4Star in-state ATH/WR Julian Barnett out of Bellville (Same school of 5 star Devontae Dobbs). This is an interesting offer because of how long it took for the staff to extend it. Because of the slow play on michigans part and Barnetts lack of camping, he ended up committing to MSU. But, the twist in this offer was from Pass game coordinator Pep Hamilton who was the coach that offered him. Given the rumors of Pep possibly heading to the NFL, it would seem odd for him to be out recruiting. In the links below are 2 (VIP) twitter posts from Sam Webb. Although they are paywalled, the titles themselves are interesting enough, and provide a decent amount of information.
https://twitter.com/SamWebb77/status/951953241453027329
https://twitter.com/SamWebb77/status/951948006806388741
Per Sam Webb
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He runs an advanced scheme? SC players specifically noted how it took 2 series to pick up our route combinations because they were so simple. When a coordinator comes in your not supposed to just toss the first year out the window. When its a whole new staff, then you understand looking off in year one. But when your coming in to just work on passing game and it gets dramatically worse then something you're doing is not working.
January 12th, 2018 at 7:03 PM ^
I'm not sure if this makes us look good or bad, but it would be nice to build the relationship with Belleville who suddenly is stocked with big time talent.
January 12th, 2018 at 7:04 PM ^
It seems like college coaches tend to do their jobs right up until the end, whether that end is accepting another position or being removed from their duties. That part doesn't strike me as odd at all.
Belleville is the town right next door to me, and it does seem to occasionally produce some talent - Ian Gold and Kris Jenkins plus a few others. For those that don't know, Lloyd Carr was an assistant coach in Belleville in the early 1970s.
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we NEED him
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Based on the structure I expect at least half of PepDrev to stay.
If there was a chance Enos would be OC this year I would expect a lower first year salary in the OC provision (assuming offset language in his Arkansas contract, of course). Enos made $750k for 2017 and was set to make $800k in '18; if his buyout was for either of those numbers I'd expect M to come in below and let Arkansas pay the bulk of it.
January 12th, 2018 at 7:42 PM ^
if there is an offset clause. $150K was as low as they could go for a position coach, equal to what Brian Smith was making. How low can you go for an OC when you have position coaches making over $500K and have three $1M assistants? That's something the legal department would be expected to review.
January 12th, 2018 at 8:08 PM ^
Assuming the approximate market value included other schools and not just Michigan salaries, I would expect them to come out with a number lower than $750k if there was a chance he'd be OC this year.
The Michigan football budget is abundent but there's precedent that they'll let the other guy pay when they can. Fisch made $200k with passing game coordinator title his first year when he had the Jags offset in play.
January 12th, 2018 at 9:00 PM ^
going to have a title like Jedd had. Their contracts were both drawn up by the same legal department. I suppose Arkansas might be more inclined to challenge a lowball figure than an NFL team. The fact that Fisch got a $500K raise with no promotion the year after the Jags stopped paying him shouldn't escape their notice. Can you pay a full OC substantially less?
I don't see why you put the $750K clause in there if there was no chance he'd be the OC. I think it's likely that he will be. One clue is hiring one of his former assistant coaches. Another is hiring his S&C staff. Yet another is his experience level. He looks like someone who should have a role in play calling as long as Harbaugh sticks with his regular approach.
Just calling him a position coach but giving him some play calling responsibility is a shady practice. I'll assume that's not the plan.
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has been partial offsets.. Something like 50%. So with a $750K salary, Enos makes what Pep and Drevno made this season and Arkansas is kicking in $375K.
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I think Enos ends up the OC. The contract just makes me think it happens next year.
Interesting note on the partial offset trend. If that's not the case, on the hypothetical "what number could Michigan give him while he still gets offset $" front, there are several B1G OCs who make $500k or less so I think that would be a reasonable comp for a legal department to make the case for. Here's a salaries list that's not perfect but it was interesting to skim for me; at a glance it's more profitable to be a top DC than a top OC.
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Often quite a bit more money.
If I'm working for Arkansas, I'd look at schools with similar salary pools for assistant coaches as being more relevant than other BIG schools. If I'm Michigan, I'm looking at the lower numbers.
I see that Enos got a raise and an extension last year. He was due to make $850K this year and $900K in 2019. So it looks like Arkansas will be kicking in some money no matter what.
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Pep is a nonentity as a recruiter, so this seems like a case where Michigan is just doing the bare minimum so they can say they tried. But it is looking increasingly like Pep and Drevno will be back, which will place a hard ceiling on what we can accomplish next year. Really strange that Harbaugh, the guy with the reputation of winning at all costs, is unwilling to fire his underperforming friends. I wonder if Stanford Harbaugh would've put up with an offensive performance like the one we had this year.
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Same. Apparently producing the worst passing offense in over 4 decades isn't a fireable offense. Just have to hope Shea's improvising skills are good enough to cover for our coaching deficiencies.
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