Atta Boy: Former Michigan coaches right now
The post on Nua made me appreciate some of the fine coaches we have enjoyed here.
Since Michigan is still undefeated, let's be magnanimous and appreciate former coaches:
1. Brady Hoke is 4-0 back at San Diego State. They've already beaten a Pac-12 team. He has his spot.
2. DJ Durkin and Chris Partridge are Co-DCs at No. 11 Ole Miss. The defense struggled last year, but appears to have improved under their leadership.
3. Scott Loeffler's Bowling Green team just beat Minnesota and sit at 2-2. He may have hastened Fleck's exit.
4. Rich Rod is OC at 2-1 Louisiana-Monroe. He did well at Arizona, but was run off for dubious reasons. God speed to his son.
5. Calvin McGee is RB coach at Duke. They have the best rushing attack in the ACC and are high nationally.
6. Nick Sheridan (OC/QB coach at Indiana) got his Penix under control last week. Not as many misfires.
7. Greg Mattison retied from Ohio State as co-DC last year. As you know, chaos - relative to OSU - has ensued. Enjoy the beach, Greg!!
I am sure there are more (and some not doing well), but let's celebrate their success while we are feeling good about our team!!!
October 1st, 2021 at 2:18 PM ^
DJ Durkin
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October 1st, 2021 at 2:22 PM ^
Yeah, what the fuck? I will continue to wonder how he's considered employable, thank you very much.
October 1st, 2021 at 2:37 PM ^
Came here to say the same thing. I think the fanbase had a very bad taste in our mouth about the way he left . . . but he just seems like a legitimately awful person. The fact that he had spent so much time on Harbaugh staffs is still concerning to me.
October 1st, 2021 at 3:05 PM ^
Didn’t you know? Killing a kid (or two) doesn’t bar you from being a football coach these days. Just ask brian kelly.
October 1st, 2021 at 7:24 PM ^
Yeah, I'm learning that my expectations for college football may be out of step with the NCAA's.
October 1st, 2021 at 3:07 PM ^
He's at Ole Miss. They have literally no standards.
October 1st, 2021 at 3:16 PM ^
And typically have no defense. From SEC shorts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVX4gzO4Cd4
October 1st, 2021 at 4:21 PM ^
It was remarkable to me that he didn't end up as an analyst on Saban's staff for a year.
That's usually what ends up happening with a lot of these coaches who have big-time flameouts. They go to Nick Saban's island of misfit coaches for a year or two before they are eventually re-released into the wild.
October 1st, 2021 at 7:18 PM ^
He does work for a former resident of Saban's island, of course.
October 1st, 2021 at 4:37 PM ^
Apparently, nobody cares what you think... Weird, Derek.
October 1st, 2021 at 7:20 PM ^
Thank you for caring enough to get my name right. That's rare.
October 1st, 2021 at 5:50 PM ^
It's the $EC. It just means more.....
October 1st, 2021 at 7:22 PM ^
Re-tread HCs with the taint of institutional failure put butts in the seats. They get the people going.
October 1st, 2021 at 7:53 PM ^
Well on the same Ole Miss staff with him as OC is Jeff Lebby, who was Art Briles’ right hand man and as far as I followed it, directly implicated in the scandals there. So DJ might not have the worst rep even on his own staff.
October 1st, 2021 at 2:21 PM ^
Nothing worse than an out of control Penix.
October 1st, 2021 at 2:33 PM ^
A lot of sloppy ball handling from Penix this season.
October 1st, 2021 at 2:52 PM ^
You can't blame all the sloppy ball handling on the Penix. At some point, the management of Penix is to blame
October 1st, 2021 at 5:39 PM ^
Yeah, you can't let your Penix do the thinking.
October 1st, 2021 at 6:02 PM ^
But did the Penix find the hole?
October 1st, 2021 at 10:15 PM ^
Some Penix envy here.
October 1st, 2021 at 2:21 PM ^
Greg Mattison retired.
October 1st, 2021 at 3:08 PM ^
Glad we got that cleared up.
October 1st, 2021 at 2:22 PM ^
How is DJ Durkin still a coach?
October 1st, 2021 at 5:55 PM ^
Head coaches responsible for a death go to Notre Dame. Since there wasnt an opening there Ole Miss DC was the next logical spot.
October 1st, 2021 at 7:51 PM ^
The good ol' boys network between these pure idiots coaches is Strong!
How else can you explain that obvious dumbshits and truly mentally challenged morons like Marty Mornhinweg and Scott Frost advance as coaches?
Unreal...
October 1st, 2021 at 2:23 PM ^
DJ Durkin deserves no "appreciation." Being a fucking co-defensive coordinator for a team that looks mildly good absolutely pales in comparison to the human cost of his tenure at Maryland. The word "leadership" should not appear in the same paragraph as his name.
Also, RichRod wasn't run off from Arizona for "dubious reasons."
October 1st, 2021 at 2:43 PM ^
I thought both of them were exonerated by internal investigations, but fired because the public perception.
I guess you could never trust the results on internal investigations... or you could...or not.
I don't know. All I know is that I don't know.
It's a curse not being as knowledgeable as some people.
October 1st, 2021 at 4:02 PM ^
Rich Rod’s accuser didn’t participate in the investigation, but it did not exonerate him.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2018/01/03/sports/rich-rodriguez-fired.amp.html
October 1st, 2021 at 5:04 PM ^
I don't think RR was fired for dubious reasons I think he was fired for dubious morality. Just because a legal entity or institutional investigation didn't convict you beyond a reasonable doubt doesn't mean that you didn't shower in front of your female employee and other creepy stuff. Due process yada yada, you can't have a creep in charge.
October 1st, 2021 at 8:07 PM ^
He was also fired because he was 9-18 in the Pac-10 over his last three years.
October 2nd, 2021 at 4:20 AM ^
PeterKlima has definitely been on the wrong side of some of the moral arguments that have come up on this board from time to time. I can't remember specific comments, but it's the reason I know his username. And I don't just mean partisan stuff, even stuff like 95% of the board agreed was wrong.
October 2nd, 2021 at 9:26 AM ^
By the wrong side you mean not your side. If all we have on here are bunch of sheep that all think the same what good is this blog. Last time I checked this is America and we can say what we want. Ask Nicki Minaj.
October 1st, 2021 at 5:13 PM ^
DJ Durkin may not be criminally liable for Jordan McNair's death, but the way he ran the program at MD should disqualify him from working in collegiate sports forever.
October 1st, 2021 at 2:26 PM ^
Mattison retied?
October 1st, 2021 at 5:13 PM ^
his buyout was 30 pieces of silver
October 1st, 2021 at 2:31 PM ^
I thought that some law existed that, until death do they part, Calvin McGee should be linked with Rich Rodriguez. It's strange to see them listed at different schools.
October 1st, 2021 at 2:32 PM ^
How is getting fired for sexual harrasment dubious?
October 1st, 2021 at 2:36 PM ^
Dubious can mean suspicious or untrustworthy. That could fit the circumstance.
October 1st, 2021 at 2:43 PM ^
Fair, but considering what transpired, that's a really bad choice of a word...especially considering the context....
October 1st, 2021 at 2:38 PM ^
My thought as well. Maybe he meant "fired for dubious behavior"?
October 1st, 2021 at 2:53 PM ^
I don't know why I am still baffled by the way people rush to judgment. It's almost like they hear one thing and make up their mind immediately.
I don't know what happened, but I know RichRod was cleared in an Internal investigation and that he was going to counterclaim for extortion and his kids revealed some weird texts with the accuser.
There are a lot of things I don't know though.
Some people do bad things. Others do not. But, there is a whole branch of government dedicated to figuring it out with evidence. I leave it to them.
October 1st, 2021 at 3:21 PM ^
Were either RichRod or Durkin part of lawsuits arising from their firings? I didn’t think so, but could be wrong. If not, which branch of government do you think should be determining what actually happened? If it’s the judiciary i can only imagine how much you’d rail against ‘overreach’ or ‘expanding their jurisdiction’ or whatever nonsense you were spouting in the nlrb thread the other day.
October 1st, 2021 at 4:02 PM ^
They were both sued. Any scandal leading to the firing of a head coach is going to involve a lawsuit eventually one way or another.
That is the job of the courts. It's not an expansion of a roll.
October 1st, 2021 at 11:37 PM ^
RR was not cleared by that investigation. In fact, UA fired him after it produced its findings.
October 1st, 2021 at 2:33 PM ^
Ron English is the DB coach at Purdue.
October 1st, 2021 at 2:43 PM ^
I remember him being the safeties coach at Mississippi State most recently, but I didn't know he was brought on at Purdue.
I still remember that he was named MAC Coach Of The Year for getting Eastern Michigan to a 6-6 mark in 2011, which at the time had been their best season in almost 20 years.
October 1st, 2021 at 2:34 PM ^
You forgot our guys at 0-4 Arizona (Jedd Fisch and Don Brown)
Their defense is allowing 31 pts/game.
October 1st, 2021 at 2:56 PM ^
LOL. Wow. That is pretty bad.