CB Coach Candidate: Jesse Minter
I don't subscribe to any premium services, but there sure is a lot of noise on Twitter tonight about Michigan hiring Jesse Minter as one of the defensive coaches (probably CB). His face is also front and center of Balas's ITF tweet. Minter is a 37-year-old and is currently the DB coach for the Baltimore Ravens, who had the #2 passing defense in the NFL this year (#1 overall defense in terms of yards per game). This was Minter's first year as the DB coach after he worked as a defensive assistant for four years. Before that, he was an extremely young defensive coordinator for Georgia State in their initial years as an FBS team. His defenses from 2013-2016 had the following FEI rankings: 119, 128, 57, 52. Their defensive rankings plummeted in the years after he left. Before Georgia State, he was a really young DC at Indiana State, where his defense was 3rd in the FCS in scoring and 6th overall in his final year.
January 14th, 2021 at 1:57 PM ^
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January 14th, 2021 at 12:34 PM ^
Interesting, and potentially promising hire. For no reason at all I started thinking of Michigan DBs who played in the league who got into coaching and I saw that Jordan Kovacs is on the Bengals staff. He might be someone to keep an eye on down the road if he has some success. He's a young guy, played in the league, and presumably wouldn't mind working in Ann Arbor.
January 14th, 2021 at 1:39 PM ^
I’m actually of the opinion that these speculated hires are very positive. Young energetic coaches usually have success recruiting from. John Harbaugh has always fielded tough defenses and if he’s co-signing these guys infer like the game plans will be plus. I know many are saying no experience had a tads...but this is what the too programs are doing: having a few long term “fixture” type coaches. And making hires on young promising coaches.