SIAP - OFFICIAL: Ed Warinner is OL Coach
you mean.
Pretty sure Drevno was considered a good hire at one point in time, too.
Who???
Huge if true, folks
Good. Fix the OL, please. It's been holding this entire program back for the better part of a decade.
Might be better if he waits another six weeks before making a decision. Act in haste, repent in leisure, y'know.
I think Drevno has been a good - if not very good - OL coach for much of his career. But I also think we'll end up being extremely happy with Warriner given the results his units have helped produce and given the way people like Bill Greene and Mark Mangino talk about him.
Losing your top 2 left tackles alongisde a slew of recruiting misses impact line play.
Excuses don't forgive performance though.
Drevno was qualified and capable. Seems to me the on the field results stemmed from the fact that he was distracted with OC duties.
Tim Drevno was most certainly qualified for the position. Unless you dont think 15 years of college and pro coaching on the OL, for Stanford, USC and the 49ers is enough.
His results didnt end the way we hoped, but come on man.
Yet, some people around here think he can't recruit?
Did he get hot one year and then regress to a low mean?
What up?
I posted this in a thread about Drevno a couple weeks back, but it was an old thread & I don't know if anybody saw it. (only 1600 more posts to go until I'm considered human again!) I was looking for a perspective on the job Warinner was doing with Minnesota's OL & found the following article to be something we haven't heard much of from Ann Arbor for a while. It got me excited to see how these young guys will develop.
"(L)eft tackle Donnell Greene is developing into a formidable NFL prospect as he receives more instruction. Prior to this season, Greene was playing off raw talent. He has tightened up his footwork and displayed a more noticeable attention to detail. He isn’t just showing up as a pass protector, but he is sealing the edge as a run blocker and developing improved vision to find defenders in the second level."
http://www.1500espn.com/gophers-2/2017/10/gophers-offensive-line-quietl…
Yep, Drevno is a stellar o-line coach. That is why Warriner was hired and Drevno was brought in by usc to coach the running backs. It all makes sense to me.
There has to be something to his apologizing to the o-line and then being hired to coach another position. Can someone please connect the dots for me.
I'm expecting great things the next chapter of Michigan football.
GO BLUE!!
Seems like a great hire. I do wonder though.
When we first got Doug Nussmeier, people seemed pretty happy since he came from Alabama. My first question was - why did Alabama let him go if he was so great. Ed was at OSU for 5 years and was pretty sucessful - what were the circumstances of him leaving OSU to basically have the same gig at Minnesota? Why did OSU let him get away?
FYI
5-3 vs Michigan in his last 8 years as OL coach at Minn, OSU, and ND.
4-4 against MSU in his last 8 years as OL coach at Minn, OSU, and ND.
Probably would have been a good OL coach here but he was the lead OC which took up much of his time. Kind of a bad idea from the start. I'm glad the shark will be working as OC and Warinner can spend all his time fixing the OL and recruiting.