Greg Frey Gone per Feldman

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Feldman- Sources Frey hired as O line coach at Florida St.
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iMBlue2

January 4th, 2018 at 7:06 PM ^

Reading the coaching stuff and think there’s dysfunction I mean why even bring in his guy and Hamilton for just a year. And then Jaybaugh as TE coach to RB coach now he’s going back to to theTE room, I know if I was a player I’d be thinking in the back of my head it’s a bit of a circus.

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SlickNick

January 4th, 2018 at 7:08 PM ^

The line was at its worst when we were running all of his zone schemes..and looked functional when we went back to the power game. The TEs looked good..but they did before we had him too so its hard to judge if he had any positive impact this year.

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CarrIsMyHomeboy

January 4th, 2018 at 7:16 PM ^

I blame Drevno for Frey not working out here. Which, I guess, means I blame Harbaugh twice for it -- once for hiring and sticking with Drevno and once for failing to meld Frey+Drevno into something coherent.

Meanwhile, those who say that Frey built the best Michigan OL of the last decade are precisely correct. Given that Molk/Schofield/Lewan unit and what he did at IU, he's far closer to a rising star than someone deserving our grumpusing. He didn't fail for lack of coaching talent. He probably** failed because he wasn't put in a position to succeed.

It's all so strange. Harbaugh knowingly hired a star coach who didn't clearly fit on his staff and...never bridged that gap. Which is doubly antithetical.

 

**(because how could I, an outsider, know more than to say that some interpersonal dynamic in Schembechler Hall is maybe / probably true?)

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greymarch

January 4th, 2018 at 7:11 PM ^

Frey was a hack, is a hack, and will always be a hack.  It's not an excuse.  Its the truth.  He was a bad hire in the first place.

 

Hamilton, Frey, Drevno.  I am starting to worry that Harbaugh, while still a 110% energy kinda guy, no longer puts 110% into finding good hires.

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midwest M fan

January 4th, 2018 at 7:52 PM ^

the hire to begin with.  One of the reasons the defense reloaded with 9 new starters is because the scheme did not change.  I think it was a critical error on Harbaugh's part to bring Frey in and introduce a totally new concept to an inexperienced line.  

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old98blue

January 4th, 2018 at 8:03 PM ^

Its the nature of the game you bring in young up and comers and other teams offer them OC DC or HC postions so you lose them after a few years at the most you bring in older guys and they retire after a few years in Freys case hes going back to his alma mater I don't fault him for that at the same time I think we needed a change too

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mfan92

January 4th, 2018 at 8:15 PM ^

Ya if harbaugh would commit to zone or power then they wouldn't clash. I prefer power over zone. But drevno was a good o line coach at Stanford and 49ers. When he left the niners for USC the line went down. They did lose a couple lineman that year but still they were next man up every other year. But for some reason Michigan hasn't worked out. He needed to do one or the other

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CHUKA

January 4th, 2018 at 8:19 PM ^

I don't get all the downvotes on people's post who are glad he's gone. Did most of you want him to stay or something? And if so why?

 

IMO him and Drevno's schemes clashed and one, or both had to go. 

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lhglrkwg

January 4th, 2018 at 10:08 PM ^

There's sure a lot of vitriol in here for a guy who did really well here in his first stint and gets an incomplete for his 2nd time around. I suspect he's a very good OL coach who walked into an offensive mess this season. One which he had no hope to transform in a few months

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Neversatisfied

January 4th, 2018 at 10:26 PM ^

I wish Frey success. Hope he does well at FSU. Juse wasn't meant to be here, didn't have enough time to put the right people in the right places to work out. Don't think the players were well suited for the zone scheme.

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MaizeGVBlue

January 5th, 2018 at 11:29 AM ^

i feel like this staff was hap-hazardly put together for 2017.  Yeah, positions were filled, but they seemed like they were just in those spots to check off a box.

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