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.

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DrMantisToboggan

February 24th, 2018 at 7:59 PM ^

You look at his career, and his offenses were literally only bad when he had Nuss. I'm really just thinking that guy is a fool. Florida fans will also tell you that McElwain scripted the first drive and then Nuss called the game after, and that the first drive was always the best of the game (it was against us).

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rainingmaize

February 24th, 2018 at 10:56 PM ^

One of the hardest parts about being a head coach is both knowing when to move on from an assistant and being willing to pull the trigger on forcing a coach out. Look at Harbaugh. He basically forced out a guy that has been with him since his San Diego days. Shark humper and Nuss worked together at Bama, and were likely good friends. He just probably didn't have it in him to fire Nuss.

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JonnyHintz

February 24th, 2018 at 8:33 PM ^

If he wants another shot as a HC, he’s probably going to have to prove himself as an OC. Nothing is going to build his resume for a P5 job more than turning around the Michigan offense. He’s not a very enticing candidate if he leads a mediocre at best offense after having some pretty damn bad offenses at Florida. A good year or two at Michigan would go a long way to showing those Florida offenses were anomalies caused by not having an actual QB.

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Mongo

February 25th, 2018 at 9:36 AM ^

the clearest indication that Shea is the starter. Taking an OC job to rebuild his career hinges on landing with the right QB. Shea is that guy who fits McElwain's offense tendencies - power spread with lots of RPO mixed in. At CSU, he even ran the Pistol ... power run game and play action but from the gun. People doubted Harbaugh had the 'nads to make this kind of sweeping change, but he is swinging for the fences with these steps ... (1) find an athletic, elite QB; (2) find an OL coach who is a hard-ass; (3) get a strength coach who demands "one more rep" at every session; (4) hire the best OC available to put the whole thing together in the image of Don Brown's defensive success. One guy - McElwain - accountable with all the tools he needs for success. Landing Calvin Anderson would be some extra icing on that cake. Well done Coach Harbaugh, well done. Let's strap it on and find out - Go Blue !!!

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Perkis-Size Me

February 24th, 2018 at 7:39 PM ^

Fucking right.

I know OSU fans hated him as their OC, but the ones I know LOVED him as their OL coach. He built an OL that ran over Bama and laid waste to Oregon en route to a national title. Will he do that next year? I don’t think so. It’ll take time to get there. But he’s the best man for the job. When he gets to focus just on the OL, he may be the best in the country at his job.

He’s the best chance of saving this OL and bring it back from the depths. To turn it into the killing machine it has the potential to become. I hope this hire becomes as good as the Brown hire, where Harbaugh hires the best man for the job and gets the hell out of his way.

Fix the OL and the rest of the offense takes care of itself.

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JFW

February 26th, 2018 at 11:12 AM ^

and yearn for a kick ass O line again. But I think we need to pump the brakes on our first year expectations. Hopefully they are better enough to be a functional B1G line, but we won't have a corps of road graders/pass rush killers yet. He wasn't able to do that in Minnie in one year. 

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evenyoubrutus

February 24th, 2018 at 8:00 PM ^

I felt like we were all going to wake up tomorrow to learn that Warinner was going to remain an analyst while Darrell Funk was hired as the new OL coach. Because that's just how things have been going these days.

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1VaBlue1

February 24th, 2018 at 8:12 PM ^

Your sense of humor seems awful today.  Darrell Funk should be banned from this board.  I mean, we've managed to ban reporters and sketchy websites, why can we not ban the architect of the worst OL's UM has ever seen from even getting a mention on here?

Ughh...  He was just awful.  Horrible.

Thanks for dredging up that memory...

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MGoTakedown

February 24th, 2018 at 8:21 PM ^

That's what I thought too. It doesn't exactly fit the narrative people have been spreading on here about Harbaugh "learning his lesson" in regards to zone blocking. Personally, I like it. I think the problem was trying to coach both. In college, it's better to pick one and rep it to perfection. Here's to hoping we just had the wrong guy installing the zone blocking scheme.

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JFW

February 25th, 2018 at 10:05 AM ^

Especially a 'new' vs. 'old' bias. 

Scheme is scheme. On a meta level It's kind of an arms race between offense and defense to look at the scheme across the LOS and figure out its weaknesses to exploit. So you get a season where you have something like the zone read on O or the Cover 4 on D that looks AWESOME for some team. It might last a few seasons as other teams pick it up and tweak it. But eventually it gets downloaded and you are stymied till you adjust yourself. 

I think honestly you see schemes get tweaked endlessly till they evolve into something new. 

Since I've started watching football I can think of, in no particular order:

WCO, Zone Blitz, Cover 4, Zone Read, greatest show on turf, R&S, various flavors of spread.....

In my opinion....If you have the right guys and they execute it properly it will all work to some extent. If you had Bo's offense from '69 and ran it with the right guys today who executed it perfectly, it would work and people would be hailing the amazing power offense. 

What has failed us often on the O line isn't scheme, it seems to me. Its individual execution. If the O linemen start picking up twists and stunts and block them effectively with good footwork, our season last year looks dramatically different....

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JFW

February 26th, 2018 at 9:49 AM ^

but I think that the weakness there, ironically was defences set up to defend against hard run teams facing PAC -XX teams that could do both. 

Ball control with this defense is, IMHO a winning combination. Of course, so is the spread with this defense....

All assuming you have the guys to run it. 

My base argument I guess boils down to the Jimmies and Joes one. As we saw with the read option, a great scheme with the wrong guys sucks. A 'non modern' scheme with great guys or guys who fit will be fine ('Bama early on, Wisconsin, etc.). 

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Honk if Ufer M…

February 25th, 2018 at 7:16 AM ^

It doesn't matter what his blocking scheme is because scream beats scheme & Harbaugh will scream "it's MY fucking team & we'll do it my fucking way" no matter what coaches or trainers or strength coaches or players ever say.

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M-Dog

February 25th, 2018 at 1:25 AM ^

He's a Brady Hoke. He's a Mike DeBord.

If he would have just stayed a Line coach, he would have probably been OK.

Some guys are just not cut out to be Coordinators or Head Coaches, despite their career ambitions.

 

 

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