Ed Warinner is the OL coach; Spring Game confirmed for April 14

Submitted by Wolverine Devotee on

Ed Warinner's dormant twitter account has awaken. 

Two things-

He tweeted out a graphic of our spring practice schedule. It says April 14 is the spring game, as originally posted on here awhile ago. It's now confirmed.

Also something way more important: per his twitter bio, he is the Offensive Line Coach.

Wolverine Devotee

February 24th, 2018 at 7:24 PM ^

Well, I found the date originally a few months ago on the MMB website. It said it was tentatively scheduled for April 14th.

Now it has a time and the time is listed as 3pm. OSU's spring game is that same day and theirs is at 1pm. My guess would be that it will be at 3pm due to BTN wanting to have both on live.

umbig11

February 24th, 2018 at 7:36 PM ^

I see 15 local practices. Not sure now about anything across the pond.

"Teams get a maximum of 15 spring practice days, including the intra-squad game that typically caps a spring slate. This doesn't include sessions when players are limited to the film room or the weight room. Everything has to take place within a 34-day window, but spring break and exam days don't automatically count toward that. So some schools spread spring practices over a month and a half.

Teams are allowed to have practices over their schools' spring breaks. Currently, there's no geographic restriction, which is why Jim Harbaugh was able to  take Michigan to Bradenton, Florida, for practices last year. But in response, the Power 5 conferences instituted a ban on off-campus vacation practices, and that goes into effect before 2018. Harbaugh's going to work around this as much as he can, including by taking Michigan to Rome this spring, before the ban is active.

Only 12 of a team's 15 practices can have contact, and the first two must be non-contact. Of those 12, only eight can involve full-fledged tackling. Of those eight, only three can devote more than half their time to 11-on-11 scrimmaging, and the spring game counts as one of those three. So teams only get two pure practices of 11-on-11 scrimmaging."

redwhiteandMGOBLUE

February 24th, 2018 at 7:37 PM ^

Everything I remember was about going to France.

https://www.si.com/college-football/2017/07/25/michigan-wolverines-jim-…

http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2018/02/07/where-in-the-world-…

By DAN GARTLAND July 25, 2017 Jim Harbaugh is planning another European excursion for the Michigan Wolverines, he confirmed Tuesday at Big Ten media days. After taking his team to Rome in late April this year, Harbaugh is setting up another trip at the same time next year to Paris and Normandy. The players voted last month to go to London, Paris and Normandy but London is not on the final itinerary.

ThatTCGuy

February 24th, 2018 at 7:33 PM ^

Considering that OSU's OL got worse the second he stopped coaching them, I'm really excited to have him on! Now, let's hope for good news on the Calvin Anderson/Grant Newsome fronts.

PapabearBlue

February 25th, 2018 at 6:32 AM ^

I just watched the Ohio State v Alabama game from 2014/15.

Ohio State most certainly did not come anywhere close to "road grading" alabama.

They had 5 td's.

1&2 were a result of some penalties and flukey plays

3 was a bomb pass with a massive and blatant hold, cardale was gonna get trucked.

4 was a pick 6

5 was ezekial elliot turning a stop at the line into a huge run by being ezekial elliot, any other RB gets stopped there, otherwise OSU's offense had become comnpletely ineffectual by that point.

For the most part Ohio States run game looked rather crappy and they faced pressure on every damn near every pass, Alabama was rushing 3 and 4 and getting through almost every time even against 6, OSU just had a great quick-pass game called and connected on a lot of them.

What bit of offense OSU did generate game from ezekial elliot and cardale jones playing out of their minds.

I didn't watch the game live but that game was ugly as fuck. Offenses looked like shit, yards came in spurts from penalties and flukey stuff, lots of stupid penalties and decisions. That game was just a show of shittily coached players that just happened to be some of the most freak athletes playing in the league.

It also happened to look a lot like our games against them. I'm getting quite convinced that Urban Meyer isn't really that elite of a coach, he just runs a system that's really hard to stop when you have the horses to run it. At the end of the day you aren't going to play perfect and his guys are absolutely going to outrun your guys.

If Alabama didn't shit the bed that game would've been an asswhoopin.

CLord

February 25th, 2018 at 12:21 PM ^

You lost me at “Urban Meyer isn’t that elite of a coach.” The dude recruits lights out, hires excellent assistants and has a system on offense that lets him plug in Aunt May at QB and she dominates. I hate that chinless mirthless douche as much as any UM fan but mostly because he is in fact elite and at OSU. I also strongly believe JH is elite too.

PapabearBlue

February 25th, 2018 at 4:50 PM ^

I'm not saying he's not a great coach, he will definitely go down in history as one of the better ones. But, with all the talent he has it'd be hard NOT to win games. He definitely is an elite recruiter. I personally think he has squandered all the talent he has. OSU really shouldn't be dropping games, in most years, prior to getting to the playoffs.

YoOoBoMoLloRoHo

February 25th, 2018 at 4:52 PM ^

criticized only for game planning. He has fielded some weak offensive plans in key games that his squad could not overcome despite superior talent.

He is an elite recruiter and excellent developer of talent with a very dependable (albeit talent dependent) offense. UM and JH will need to reach elite level to beat them regularly.

LSAClassOf2000

February 24th, 2018 at 7:34 PM ^

Glad to hear that this is official. 

In all honesty, it seemed like a bit of a waste to hire Warinner merely as an analyst. This makes so much more sense, and in this case, it becomes an astounding hire. 

M-Dog

February 25th, 2018 at 1:17 AM ^

It never seemed like he was going to be just an analyst under the hope that he would maybe someday eventually get promoted to a real job.

Why would he take a job like that?

I don't buy the party line that Drevno leaving was a surprise.  I beileive that Warinner knew all along that he was going to be the OL coach this season.