Per Bruce Feldman: Don Brown Has Been Sacked

Couple years were fun. Recruiting and stubbornness was his downfall. GL to him

It's unfortunate that this seems necessary. He mostly had a good run at Michigan. And he appears to be a classy and likeable guy. I'll miss him. But being run off the field by your rival doesn't give you much job security.

Jim Hermann coming back or is it Ron English time? Oh crap, sorry, I thought it was 2005. 

 It worked really well for awhile.   Happy trails and good luck Coach, except if and when you face us.  Coach is a good dude imho.  I will remember his best days here fondly and I'll bet most of his players do as well.  

Fare thee well Mr. Brown. We had some good times. We had some not good times. But you were definitely a Dude.

I for one am grateful for the tenure of Coach Don Brown. The last couple of years were less than stellar but he came in and did what was needed and provided some great defenses. Had some trouble against elite offenses which was his main downfall but I do wish him well and hope he finds a soft landing spot. 

Honestly, I had hoped that Don Brown would have landed another job before being "dismissed". I guess he is in his early 60s. I honestly do hope he has choices. While top tier schools are well aware  that his scheme can be solved, a place like BC or UCONN or even Yale should welcome him back with open arms. This is all from the outward appearances from enjoying his interviews in 2018 and 2019. No idea if something bad happened this year that cratered the whole defense (kinda like what we saw on the field). 

Fuck OSU and fuck Greg Mattison.

Thanks for the memories Don.

Goodbye Dr. Blitz and good luck wherever you end up (retirement maybe? I'm not sure how old he is). The man had a solid run his first 2-3ish years but his tenure at Michigan had run its course, and it was time to move on. Will always remember how vicious his defenses were in 2016 and 2017.

I have a feeling this will be the longest thread for a while outside of game threads.  My thoughts, if anyone cares, I respect the hell out of Don Brown and really appreciate some of the coolest moments I’ve seen from a Michigan defense in my life, especially the revenge tour year, however, I’ve always felt like his defense is the equivalent of a Gary Patterson offense.  Don Brown’s defense is gimmicky and really works best if you just flat out out-talent the opponent or have consistent field advantage.  The game just evolves at a rapid pace, sometimes in a 5 year span.  For example, we saw how successful the quarters defense was until someone learned how to exploit it.  He isn’t a one trick pony, but he has decades of schemes on tape and never delved from that.  Thank you Don Brown for some of the best pressers and for being a loyal, and at times dominate DC.

Would certainly file this under a be careful what you wish for. Yeah it was time for a change but Harbaugh is still the head coach so it is hard to be too excited about any staff changes. 

Yes let’s blame everything on someone else. First it was Durkin, then Speight, then Okorn, then Drevno, then Patterson, now Don Brown. When will you just admit Harbaugh fucking sucks!

Welp.

I liked Don. I really did. But this had to happen.

Harbaugh and Gattis are certainly back in 2021. 

It was real! Hope he get's a G5 job and poaches talent from any and every team in the East besides us. 

He was by all accounts a really good guy, and the defense has carried the lifeless corpse of our offense across the finish line more times than i'd like to count since he came. I guess the complaint is that they underperform against the best offenses, but......yeah, that's what really good offenses do.

I wonder if Harbaugh did this because he thinks it's in the best interest in the team, or it was done to placate the angry masses who were gonna need some blood. Either way, I hope he lands on his feet! 

The Don Brown era was an interesting one for sure, at times his defenses were amazing other times maddening. Also, I wonder if things would have worked out better for everyone if he would have got the Temple job back in 2018. 

Don is a classy dude. Easy to see why guys enjoyed playing for him. No reason or need to take cheap shots while he heads out the door. Thanks Coach Brown.

A needed change but it still sucks it never quite worked out.  He really was a good defensive coordinator but the last couple of years you could tell teams had figured out how to attack him and he didn't quite know how to meaningfully adjust.  And to his credit, he had a good hit rate on New England kids.

Anyway, will be interested to see where Michigan goes from here.  They'll have to pay top dollar for a coordinator and I honestly don't know who is out there.

I thought it was time for Don Brown to go but I feel he did more for Harbaugh during his tenure than vise versa. The offense has been meh for Harbaugh’s entire tenure. At least the defense had some good years. 

And here I thought Don was going to fire Warde.

Godspeed. Sheriff Brown. 

McDaniels gone too and Jay demoted. More shuffling coming soon on defense..