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Coaching Hello: Dan Enos Comment Count

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Per Bruce Feldman, Michigan is hiring another former Arkansas assistant:

For what is as of yet unknown. Rumors that Pep Hamilton and/or Tim Drevno are on their way out seem likely to come to fruition as a result of this, since Enos is another offensive architect type and not a recruiting-maven/position-coach sort.

Enos is a former MSU quarteback who entered coaching immediately after his playing career ended; since 1991 he's been a college coach. After bouncing around small schools for a decade he landed at Cincinnati as Mark Dantonio's QB coach and followed him to MSU for four years; he landed the head job at CMU in 2010. That didn't go that well—a couple of 3-9 seasons to start followed by .500 ball after—but he was something of a trendsetter in college football when he voluntarily left the CMU job to go be a P5 coordinator, joining Arkansas as OC in 2015.

His tenure through the lens of S&P+:

RUSH O PASS O OVERALL
2015 5 1 2
2016 74 22 39
2017 9 47 43

That's better than I expected in the SEC West; Bielema would probably still have a job if his defense hadn't cratered to the 113th this year.

Enos is a college guy whose most prominent stints as an assistant were at mashing pro-style programs, and he had good results despite working at a substantial talent disadvantage. College-lifer pro-style coaches are an endangered species, and while Enos doesn't have a Don Brown resume he's probably the best available coach who's at all a fit for what Michigan wants to do.

Comments

SpilledMilk

January 5th, 2018 at 4:53 PM ^

Georgia is able to get away with it because they happen to sit in the middle of the most fertile recruiting ground in the country. If you give Georgia our personnel, you would see similar results to 8-5

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stephenrjking

January 5th, 2018 at 4:28 PM ^

I'm not blown away here. I wasn't on the Roman-hating bandwagon many were, Roman produced some great stuff with Harbaugh, including one of the great coaching RPS wins of all time in that SF playoff win over Green Bay.

Enos is just a guy. Maybe he can be part of an effective offensive braintrust, but I don't know. I don't think Harbaugh should be looking for a radically different system, but he needs thoughtful guys who can cook up good ideas without him holding their hands and I'm not sure this is it.

I'd still like him to go after Canada. LSU challenges aside, Canada has proven he has talent in this neighborhood.

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SyracuseWolvrine

January 5th, 2018 at 4:30 PM ^

I see a lot of folks commenting that he's not a great OC hire. Has it been confirmed anywhere that he will be our OC? Just because that was his last position doesn't mean that he'll be doing the same thing. We are allowed a 10th assistant this season, so this could be filling that spot and there still could be a new, more exciting hire for the coordinator position. There could still be a large-scale shakeup of titles among the offensive staff.

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viewfromalbany

January 5th, 2018 at 5:13 PM ^

Harbaugh, similar to Beilein, seems to be moving away from hiring friends / associates from his past. Best example Don Brown. Latest examples: Herbert Washington & now Enos Also, all four have spent entire careers at college level. Understand one only has 20 hours / week for a limited # of weeks with college players. I wonder if Hamilton, after several NFL seasons, expected too much from our QB’s & receivers. Speight regressed before being hurt.

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wahooverine

January 5th, 2018 at 5:25 PM ^

Don't put too much stock into mediocre past coaching results unless it's a long track record of bad/mediocre results (and those tend to not exist anyway for obvious reasons (except for Jeff Fisher)).   Some coaches/coordinators are awesome, get a bigger job, then suck (Nussmeier); and others are meh then go somewhere else and are really good (Belichek, etc.)  People learn and get better and also have better talent and many other variables change.   Saying, no good at CMU + okayish at Arkansis = bad for Michigan just a dumb invalid argument. 

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UofM Die Hard …

January 5th, 2018 at 5:34 PM ^

Welcome to the fan base Enos. Who cares if he isn’t liked during his time as CMU headcoach. A lot of coordiantors who give it a try don’t last and are better suited as an OC. I’ll take a 39 or 43rd offense compared to what we were this year. We get there with our d, that will win us some games

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Toledo_M_Fan

January 5th, 2018 at 5:41 PM ^

The delusion on this board never lets me down. Geez,why dont we just get the #1 rated position coach and best recruiters from every successful program across the country? Just pay them, right? You people are hilarious.

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Toledo_M_Fan

January 5th, 2018 at 5:55 PM ^

Bringing in a like minded coach who will mesh, unlike a Greg Frey zone/spread coach is a good move. Bringing in a guy that has coached qbs and wrs at the college level is a good move. Bringing in someone who will accept his role in developing a game plan is a good move. This is not a bad hire by any means.

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brad

January 5th, 2018 at 6:05 PM ^

This interests me in that I'm wondering if Harbaugh is trying to get deeper into Dantonio's head. Enos is more or less qualified to be our pass game coordinator or whatever, but he may be supremely qualified to instruct on the day to day aspects of dantonio and his program. Who knows how this will man out, but it is at least intriguing.

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Ham sandwich

January 5th, 2018 at 6:56 PM ^

I'm not a Enos hater but I am a doubter. I don't like that Arkansas's offense got worse with time under Enos. Having said that I haven't done the homework to have the apropriate context so it may not be fair. I dont like his body of work at CMU. I am a CMU alumn and can say after following the program closely over the last 2 decades that he did not perform well as an HC. I suspect that he will perform better as an oc (assuming that will be his position which may not be true),but as stated by the OP, he may be the best available fit.

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Cromulent

January 5th, 2018 at 8:10 PM ^

As someone married to a Chip who roots for the football team but can't spend the time on details, I'm contractually obligated to keep up on doings in Mt Pleasant so I can intelligently answer questions each fall. Yeah, Enos was a tire fire as HC. Enos' career trajectory at the time pointed to an eventual HC position but he really needed some seasoning.

But I was surprised at how decent the Arkansas numbers were. Given the growing problems Bert couldn't get a handle on Enos really did a decent job there.

I'm curious to find out whether Enos has matured personally. The details are foggy now but he was a real jackass in Mt Pleasant.

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BrightonB

January 6th, 2018 at 1:16 AM ^

Some people just function better as a coordinator .... not everyone is meant to be a Captain and good at running a ship. Sometimes people are just great at certain things.  I honestly can't see Don Brown as a head coach .. love the guy ... but being a D Coordinator and being fully focused on that IS who he is in my opinion.  That is not a cut down at all. 

I am truly hoping it brings good things to the table.

Michigan   230th in Passing  and 78th in Rushing

Ark  161st in Passing and 115th Rushing

We need the bump in the passing area and we had a decent running game but the pass will open the running game up more and we all know this.

It will be interesting to see who we bring in for the offensive line if others leave.  JH obviously has seen something he likes from this guy.

Plus, is it at all a possibilty to get Matt Canada (or other) as well and make that work somehow as a combo?  Maybe Enos to RB coach and asst OC?  Canada or other at OC?   Hmmmmm

 

 

 

 

 

 

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babarblue99

January 5th, 2018 at 10:30 PM ^

I know nothing about this guy other than this write-up, but his S&P+ trend at ARK makes my stomach turn like when I read Brady Hoke's record trend in Brian's Hello post in 2011. Hoping for the best, but am staying humble about our program.

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Asilver21

January 5th, 2018 at 10:51 PM ^

Most everyone in mount pleasant was excited to see him leave. He would have been fired if he stayed another year and kept losing. I heard the rumblings of him coming, was hoping it wasn’t true. I Went to almost every home game when he coached @ cmu. Can’t imagine he can help our offense. Don’t like the hire but hope it works out somehow.

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Asilver21

January 6th, 2018 at 7:12 PM ^

He would have been fired the next year if he didn’t compete for the MAC again. Smart for him to go to Arkansas. He came in to cmu with a group of spread players on offense and tried to go power and that didn’t work at all. He replaced butch jones (who replaced Brian Kelley) and talent was there. 3-9 his first 2 Years and was coaching on 1 year contracts in his last 2 Years before he bolted for Arkansas.

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JTrain

January 6th, 2018 at 9:33 AM ^

Brian, dying to hear your thoughts on this being an MSU guy in our Maize n Blue world. Something about it just “don’t feel right” to me.....

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KC Wolve

January 6th, 2018 at 2:43 PM ^

I won’t answer for Brian, but I’ll answer for Brian. That is a really fucking stupid thing to be worried about. This is a grown as man making “probably” around a million dollars a year, not a fucking teenager.

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Geaux_Blue

January 6th, 2018 at 8:38 PM ^

This fan base also had a damn fit for YEARS about a coach not being a "Michigan Man" IIRC... so the idea some would care a coordinator is a through and through MSU "creation" can't be that shocking

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