Drevno to Resign, per Brandon Justice

I get the sense that no one really knows with absolute certainty if Drevno was good or bad. My two cents: the biggest problem last year wasn't the pass pro or the play calling, it was the godawful quarterback play. There must have been a reason Peters was behind O'Korn, and we've had enough of a sample size to know that O'Korn did not belong on the field. Now we did see a number of bizarre pass play calls which took far too long to develop considering our young receivers and our jittery quarterbacks -- but isn't that also on Harbaugh? 

Maybe I'm  way off but something doesn't sit right with me about all the Drevno bashing.

Son will be a frosh next year at Vandy.  I hear they are really close, so maybe this was in the works for a while.  Drevno may have just been negotiating his exit package from his Michigan contract.

Jimmy H didn't believe that everything would get better just by being a year older.  At least we can stop hearing those arguments. 

Lets hope the new coaches can actually coach

Be careful what you wish for.

I don't see how his replacement will improve things.

Hopefully we can get that offensive line play to a championship level.  Drevno demonstrated humility rarely seen by acknowledging his failures this year and apologizing to the players. I'm  curious to see if he was stepping down because of his admitted own poor performance or if there was some other motivator that we do not know about. Anyways, I wish him well.

It is very convenient that we already have on staff guys who can step up to be an OL coach and the OC, both of whom took jobs where they were probably underemployed in their previous roles.  So it seems like this might have been the plan all along with both Warinner and McElwain asked to bide some time before they were promoted.

What I don’t understand is how Enos fit into this.  Why would he leave to be Alabama’s qb coach instead of waiting a bit to be Mi’s OC?  Did something change between the Enos and McElwain hires?

Also, I doubt he volutarily resigned.  More likely he negotiated and accepted a buy-out.

Sounds like the best for all parties involved. Warriner should help with the line. Playcalling will still be the same, but hopefully the group brings more creativity to the game plan. 

He has been a loyal Harbaugh assistant for years and obvious been very successful.  It must be super difficult for him to move on.  Hopefully he will have success in his next position. 

At the same time, Harbaugh has to do what he thinks is best to get Michigan's offense working again. 

One subplot to the #Michigan staff moves: Drevno had been recruiting gifted grad transfer LT Calvin Anderson who I spoke to this morning. He told me UM's new OL coach Ed Warinner actually was an assistant at Army when Anderson's dad was a DB at West Point. https://t.co/N6LXW0CZcJ

— Bruce Feldman (@BruceFeldmanCFB) February 23, 2018

We lost a lot of "bigger name" OL recruits.

- Devery Hamilton

- Isiah Wilson

- Emil Ekiyor

to name a couple I remember where we seemed like we seemed like we were in the drivers seat and it fell apart late.  That seems wrong.

My wild guess is that Harbaugh went to every assistant and coordinator and ask them how they planned to get better than last year and if Drevno's answer was: "we just gotta keep pumping"....then I think it might have been a poorly chosen answer.

It seems like Drev was a good-enough coach, but the recruiting seemed lacking, and in this game...its big.  It seemed like Harbaugh himself put recruiting on his personal back at first, but I don't think that  level of effort could hold up forever.  So the expectations were probably rising on each of the staff having to chip in more effort and land more 'croots, and let Harbaugh step back and assess the team needs and special projects like Shea Patterson.  Pure speculation here.