Miami Herald: Sources say Devin Bush Sr to join Michigan

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A move that we have all been expecting for a while, there hadn't been much said about the current status until now. This from the Miami Herald: 

 

Multiple sources have told the Miami Herald on Tuesday that Flanagan coach Devin Bush is on the verge of joining the staff at Michigan where three of his Falcons -- son and linebacker Devin Bush Jr. and safeties Devin Gil and Josh Metellus -- have signed. Bush Jr. has already enrolled at Michigan for the spring semester.

Another interesting tidbit:

One source said an announcement is expected sometime next week. Both sources said defensive coordinator Stanford Samuels would become Flanagan's next head coach.

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Mr Miggle

February 10th, 2016 at 1:18 PM ^

Our staff got to work with numerous HS coaches in their element. Harbaugh has said he wants to hire HS coaches and these camps became scouting trips for coaches, not just players.

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GoBlueNorth

February 10th, 2016 at 1:51 PM ^

Some might bitch (justifiably so or not) about the pattern being developed:

Gwendolyn Bush - Player Development - Wayne Lyons

Chris Partridge - Director of Player Personnel in Recruiting to LB and Special Teams Coach - Rashan Gary (Paramus #3 LB in the country in next year's class)

Antonio Richards - Analyst - Kingston Davis and Dytarious Johnson (Prattville 12 x 4* players in next year's class)

Devin Bush Sr. - ??? - Devin Bush Jr., Devin Gil and Josh Metellus (Flannagan has Samuels #7 DB in next year's class)

 

Some very qualified people here.  Whether or not they were the most qualified remains to be seen.  Unfortunatley it's easy for the doubters to see this in a different light.

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EastCoast Esq.

February 10th, 2016 at 3:13 PM ^

What pattern?

Other than Bush, each of those guys...

(1) Helped build a top-notch high school football program by recruiting talented kids (recruiting)

(2) Coached those kids to the point where they were worthy of D-1 scholarships (coaching)

(3) Has great connections in a talent-rich part of the country (recruiting again)

College football is about recruiting and building talent. Coaches at top-notch high school programs are exceptional at both. The fact that they can also pull-in players who they previously recruited and coached makes it an even better hire.

 

As for Lyons' mother, she is an entirely different situation. She put together surveys for Wayne that forced programs to give an in-depth overview of what they could offer. Harbaugh hired her because he saw the opportunity for her to sell the program to other parents by taking a similar detail-oriented approach.

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Mr Miggle

February 10th, 2016 at 3:21 PM ^

Jabril, if you're trying to make it look suspect. Of course those were two different coaching staffs and Partridge was out of work after his job with Rutgers fell through.

I could see how people might question hiring coaches after signing their players. A dishonest coach might offer a quid pro quo. But what's shady about hiring coaches whose players you want to sign to future classes? I must be missing something there. It's not like we're funneling them money while they're still at their HS jobs. Everything is in the open and they have to follow all the rules for recruiting.

Other than Bush, the players we got from Prattville and Flanagan were four of the lowest ranked recruits in our class. Not a very good return if we're doing something unethical. 

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LAUNCH

February 10th, 2016 at 3:24 PM ^

I was thinking about the Blind Side and remembered that there was something about his coach joining the staff at Ole Miss.  I did not realize that Coach Cotton in the movie was actually about Hugh Freeze.

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ca_prophet

February 10th, 2016 at 4:37 PM ^

We are hiring these guys to be recruiting assets, and the fact that they have special relationships with certain recruits is part of their resume, in effect. What would be shady is if we hired them to a do-nothing job or to a job for which they weren't qualified, and then dropped them a year later after getting the recruit. That's the sort of quid pro quo we would be up in arms about. Partridge and Bush are both qualified and would be hired in many places for the jobs they're doing for us, and Patridge got a promotion to a spot for which there were many qualified candidates. I understand that it can be spun as "we bought a recruit by giving his dad a job", but I don't think in this case there's anything wrong here.

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