Anthony Campanile set to remain at Michigan according to The Michigan Insider sources
There had been major specualtion about him leaving for some time now. One of our "insider" board members who shall remain nameless even claimed he knew Campanile was gone, along with Chuck Filiaga. Doesn't look like either is happening now.
January 14th, 2020 at 9:25 PM ^
Which insider said Campanile and Filiaga were leaving?
January 14th, 2020 at 9:26 PM ^
Umbig11?
January 14th, 2020 at 9:27 PM ^
Chernobyl300mSvharbaugh?
January 14th, 2020 at 9:58 PM ^
Hahahahahahahaha
Fake insider
January 14th, 2020 at 10:17 PM ^
I used to think this place had insider information. That expectation died a slow, ugly death.
January 14th, 2020 at 10:36 PM ^
In the TomVH heyday, there wasn't anything available on the internet, pay sites included, that didn't show up here within 24-48 hours. That regarded recruiting details (obviously), staff hires, player progress, etc. And the information bore out at a clip equal to or greater than info shared anywhere, even behind paywalls.
Losing TVH hurt that. But so did other things. Even though the site seemed to replace TVH at first, no one proved his equal. Compounding matters, mgoblog has since stopped hiring an employee devoted to the mgoboard. Then there's a baseless speculation I have (based on pattern recognition [logic], not behind the scenes facts) that Brian was getting heat for this board's free leaks.
At this point, I don't expect the information trove to return to the mgoboard. "Resident mgoboard expert" isn't coming back and now Brian is perhaps too buddy-buddy with his competitors, like Sam, to willfully support paywall info appearing here, even if it appears indirectly (not because it was robbed from pay sites and shared but because it was independently reproduced).
January 14th, 2020 at 11:18 PM ^
I don’t know if I agree that Brian and Sam are competitors. Sam gets subscription and sponsorship dollars and Brian gets ad, merchandise, direct contribution and sponsor dollars. So they both sell sponsorships but I don’t know if that is really a big deal. And I can’t conceive of a reason that Sam gaining a subscriber would have a tangible effect on mgoblog ad revenues. People are still going to come here even if the have a 247 subscription.
And if they are competitors, why does Sam host a segment every week explicitly called the MGOBLOG round table and promote HTTV on his show?
January 15th, 2020 at 10:57 AM ^
Not direct competitors but I do think Sam and Lorenz have asked mgoblog to crack down on paysite info being posted here for free as a professional courtesy.
January 15th, 2020 at 12:22 AM ^
IIRC TomVH was replaced on here by Brandon Brown, who fairly quickly got hired by Rivals. Then it was Lorenz (I think his Blog username was Aquaman or something), and he got hired by 247 fairly quickly as well.
January 15th, 2020 at 3:47 AM ^
i think it went TomVH to Lorenz to Ace for a bit then to Brandon. And I remember Brandon not being very good. Lot of interviews with dudes that weren't even really considering Michigan.
January 15th, 2020 at 8:35 AM ^
I'm mgoblog old enough to remember the whole Teryn Savage dust up, when Brandon posted an interview with a sophomore recruit, and when a couple commentators remarked that he looked young, Brian got pissed and banned like 15 people.
January 15th, 2020 at 9:06 AM ^
Brandon Brown is a fraud, with super sketchy ethics. Also tone deaf, and annoying. Good riddance.
January 14th, 2020 at 11:03 PM ^
I don’t follow umbig11 very closely so I’ll let others litigate how he’s been lately. What I will say it he knew about the annual summer trip stuff before anyone knew there was something to know. That’s what put him on my radar
January 15th, 2020 at 4:50 AM ^
To be fair, everyone thought Campy was leaving, so claiming it wasn't really "inside info", but the Filiaga story was a swing and a miss. Although it's weird how these guys are announcing. It's almost like they planned it out with the administration to announce 1 a week for staying or going.
January 14th, 2020 at 10:21 PM ^
Yes, it was UMBig11.
January 14th, 2020 at 9:40 PM ^
Brady said he was staying at LSU as well. I wouldn't believe anything you hear this time of year, especially from "sources".
January 14th, 2020 at 10:14 PM ^
....and satan is still coaching the Dolphins!
January 14th, 2020 at 9:44 PM ^
Not sure about the Filiaga stuff as I’m pretty sure he’s in line to get minutes next season. But the Campanile stuff was/is legit. He was looked at by multiple teams. Campanile is a good coach who will eventually move up. There were definitely truth to those rumors.
January 14th, 2020 at 9:53 PM ^
So explain why coaches at other teams were looking at Greg Frey?
January 14th, 2020 at 10:10 PM ^
What? I have no idea what you are asking. I didn’t say a word about Greg Frey nor did I say anything about other coaches. So you’ll have to clarify what you’re even saying. I’m talking about Campanile and that’s it.
NJ.com’s Rutgers Sports Insider first reported Campanile was no longer considered in the running to join Schiano’s staff with the Scarlet Knights. Rutgers was prepared to make Campanile the highest-paid coordinator in school history, according to people with knowledge of the negotiations
January 14th, 2020 at 10:19 PM ^
You're saying that because other teams were looking at him that made him legitimate.
January 14th, 2020 at 10:32 PM ^
I was saying the rumors were legit. I mean I personally think Anthony is legit but that’s not what I was saying. What I was saying is legit is the information that umbig11 was given. Anthony was in a 3 team bidding war essentially and Harbaugh won by offering more responsibility and better pay.
At one point he was definitely 90% out the door. Also as far as him being legit, he is young and has been offered a DC position at three schools that I know of and more will come. Usually guys don’t get offered DC positions unless they are good coaches.
With all that said, I believe Campanile is probably the second best coach on the defensive side of the ball and would be a better fit as DC if Michigan were to replace Don Brown over Partridge. Partridge was a great recruiter and a good coach. Campanile is right there with him as a recruiter and I personally believe him to be a better coach. Now that has nothing to do with the information that was shared, which is what I was saying was legit. But since you kind of brought it up, there are my thoughts on Anthony. He is a very good coach. He will be a DC sooner rather than later in his career.
January 14th, 2020 at 10:47 PM ^
High praise there. Have you seen his coaching in action? And who’s a better coach, Anthony or Nunzio?
January 15th, 2020 at 10:09 AM ^
He was clearly saying that the rumors of him leaving were legitimate.
January 15th, 2020 at 12:24 AM ^
Because Greg Frey is a very good OL coach.
January 15th, 2020 at 12:27 AM ^
QBs getting x-rays is a witness to something different than what you say.
That didn't happen before Greg Frey, and has not after.
January 14th, 2020 at 10:14 PM ^
Rutgers offered him a Milly. A million dollar promotion to coordinator to go to your Alma Mater and coach with your brother.
It was a “no way he turns this down” offer. But here we are.
January 14th, 2020 at 10:37 PM ^
Yeah, him staying with us is frankly pretty shocking. Is he the DC in-waiting for when Brown retires? Does he view Rutgers as being such a bad place that it's just not worth it because of the damage it will do to your career?
January 15th, 2020 at 10:01 AM ^
He very could be DC in waiting. I know at least Don Brown thinks of him that highly. He’s also a great recruiter, so I’m sure we are giving him some kind of extra title right now as well.
January 14th, 2020 at 11:27 PM ^
Part of the reason the Peter Principle is a thing is people jump at any promotion, regardless of fit and without considering what the situation will be at their new role or title.
If Campy is as good as people think the right job will be worth putting off the big pay/position raise rutger was offering
January 15th, 2020 at 12:22 AM ^
First time any man has turned down Milly. Her...talents are legendary around New Brunswick.
January 15th, 2020 at 4:55 AM ^
I brought this up 2 weeks ago. Where is the better job security. D - coordinator at Rutgers, where you are guaranteed to get your ass handed to you on a weekly basis, and getting blamed for loses and becoming a scapegoat, or a position job with a pay raise at Michigan where you can wait for a better opportunity, and not get blamed for anything?
January 14th, 2020 at 10:41 PM ^
Oh I definitely don’t believe everything from everyone and I have definitely seen umbig11 be wrong, I’m only stating in this instance that I believe he had good info for a number of reasons and then Anthony changed his mind. He obviously didn’t answer me there, so who knows what all he knows or where he gets it. But there was a time when most believed Anthony was out the door.
January 14th, 2020 at 9:48 PM ^
Heck yes.
January 14th, 2020 at 9:52 PM ^
I'm not impressed with LB play this year. Or a couple of other positions too. But I guess that's the new Michigan football.
January 14th, 2020 at 11:30 PM ^
McGrone and Khaleke both looked good to me. And Uche was great but I’ll leave it to more knowledgeable people to separate his already established elite pass rush from the finer points of SAM play
January 15th, 2020 at 12:00 AM ^
LBs looked much better coached by Chris Partridge.
January 15th, 2020 at 4:03 AM ^
No, they didn't.
LB play this year didn't see a significant drop-off even after losing an AA in Bush.
January 15th, 2020 at 4:58 AM ^
McGrone was 1st year starter, and Hudson was just not very good. Glasgow improved and Uche became a draft eligible player in 2 years. I think LB as a position was a pretty good group, considering the D Line didn't do a very good job of keeping them clean.
January 15th, 2020 at 12:26 AM ^
Campy coaches the Vipers/OLB. Don coaches the ILBs.
And as a whole, the linebackers player pretty well.
Regardless, Sam thinks Camp will get moved to safeties, which is what he coached at BC.
January 15th, 2020 at 6:33 AM ^
I was wondering how that worked. I couldn't remember who coached who as far as brown and linebackers. This clears up for me why hudson had such a downturn since 2017. Partridge was a much better lb coach and it showed once he was moved to safeties. I was/am also hoping Campanile gets moved to safeties. He hadn't coached lb since 2006 at a high school.
January 15th, 2020 at 11:23 AM ^
You are a bad take machine. Hey, maybe post some more gifs of Harbaugh from his SF days with the caption of "Where'd this guy go?" It's been a few weeks.
January 15th, 2020 at 8:37 PM ^
So the LBs were better this year than last? Uche lit it up this year like last year? Hudson came anywhere near a 8 TFL game like he had in the past? LBs were an exciting part of the defense like they were in 2017 and 2018?
January 14th, 2020 at 10:08 PM ^
Umbig11 needs to read better pay sites.
January 15th, 2020 at 4:01 AM ^
Oh how times have changed. Not too long ago you would have negative 50 points by now and lots of comments calling you an idiot for daring to question the great UMBig11.
January 15th, 2020 at 8:38 AM ^
UMbig11 is just another Harbaugh basher on this site.
January 14th, 2020 at 10:19 PM ^
I wonder if Campanile is going to coach safeties next season?
January 14th, 2020 at 10:30 PM ^
meh, who cares really?
Just tell us who will bring in some DT's