Yahoo College Football: Enos to Bama

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Source: Dan Enos expected to leave Michigan for Alabama. He’s expected to be associate HC and coach QBs.

— Pete Thamel (@PeteThamel) January 26, 2018
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Mo Better Blues

January 26th, 2018 at 12:08 AM ^

Some (Edit: Not) Quick MoThoughts:

1.) As stated by everyone, optics are absolutely terrible.

2.) Actual, on-field impact somewhat more nebulous, but believe I read Smart wanted him at Georgia, so, Saban + Smart = dude can coach. 

3.) However, that fact, (that Smart wanted him first), could be revealing: perhaps Saban is really going after his direct SEC/CFP competitor Smart, rather than mostly irrelevant Harbaugh. (Making Harbaugh look bad could just be a bonus.)

4.) Whatever Drevno's actual culpability for this year's struggles, (as opposed to those resultant from injuries, QB problems, lack of blocking scheme cohesion, inexperienced players, etc.), perception becomes reality, and Drevno may have just gone from 'mediocre and apologizing for it' to 'radioactive'. Cronyism charges also appear to carry additional weight in the wake of this development, (note: I say 'appear').

5.) While Harbaugh's not the only coach to go without a pure OC, the lack of a clear-cut coaching hierarchy may now be contributing to a general confusion about team identity/vision that goes beyond the field. With no obvious "fall guy" for this year's results--that role being split between both Pep and Drevno, (and ultimately Harbaugh)--this angst could eventually seep/is already seeping into other parts of the program. One reason for having OCs and DCs in the first place is to establish accountability.

Without the assurance of accountability a true meritocracy cannot exist, because "when everyone's in charge, no one's in charge." If Enos was, as has been suggested, hired "in case Drevno couldn't turn it around", one can't be surprised he left for Bama, and hardly even angry about it. That's just not a sound method for hiring someone, much less engendering loyalty. Nobody wants to be Plan B.

Egos and friendships must be set aside, and Coach needs to approach this "with character and cruelty", or things could get out of hand. I have faith, but this kind of thing simply does not inspire confidence.

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Bill22

January 26th, 2018 at 1:39 AM ^

Agree completely. Is there any confusion about who does what and who’s in charge on the Defensive side of the ball? NO! I love seeing Don Brown on the bench with the whole defensive around him coaching during the game. You never see anything that resembles that with the offensive coaches. Why?!? No one can answer who called the plays. Sam Webb dances around the question. It shouldn’t be a secret or complicated. Fire Pep and Drevno. Put Warriner on O-Line duty and hire a young creative OC that can work with anything. Who’s the next Lincoln Riley? You bring him in for half of what Pep or Drev makes, establish him as the play caller and move on. It’s gotta change. If 2018 even closely resembles 2017, I’m gonna cry.

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Mo Better Blues

January 26th, 2018 at 11:23 AM ^

Well, thanks. Means a lot coming from you, mGrowOld. Also, I hope it doesn't offend that, based on your avatar--the flowing hair, the bone structure, the jaunty pose--I've long pictured you as vintage Kurt Russell, a personal favorite of mine.

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AMazinBlue

January 26th, 2018 at 12:02 AM ^

so we don't have a 10th asst and he might give Marky D a call on his way out with some info and Saban still gets to take one of our coaches.  And to top it all off. We're two weeks from signing day and we look like we don't have a clue.  JH better have some evil plan to turn this around that we cannot see.  Cuz this just looks bad.

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Ty Butterfield

January 26th, 2018 at 3:48 AM ^

Some of us could see the program was in trouble while most on here wanted to hide their heads in the sand.

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MWolverine7

January 26th, 2018 at 6:52 AM ^

We heard after the season from multiple sources that Harbaugh was not happy and changes were going to be made on the offensive side of the ball. If Harbaugh wanted to make changes and Drevno and Hamilton are only on the staff because he couldn’t fire them or their contracts were too prohibitive to buy-out, that is a problem. If they are on the staff because he wants them to be there then I’m OK with that but that does not align with what we heard after the bowl game. Let’s not go back and re-write history and pretend those rumors were not out there.

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blueblueblue

January 26th, 2018 at 8:47 AM ^

This take is so rediculous. We've lost a lot of time, effort, and opportunity in terms of finding a new coach. Outside of that, we've lost face, and have incurred more perception that the program is in disaray. Forget the guy, think about the program. 

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Glennsta

January 26th, 2018 at 9:30 AM ^

Per M&B, enos had a non-compete clause in his Arkansas contract that prevented him from signing with another SEC team after leaving Arkansas.  By signing with Michigan, Enos gets around the non-compete clause due him not going to an SEC team directly out of Arkansas.

I'm glad this guy won't be around, regardless of the rationale. 

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4th phase

January 26th, 2018 at 10:16 AM ^

This thread is ridiculous. People are angry at Harbaugh for hiring a coach that is in demand? Enos leaving so soon says more about Enos than it does about Harbaugh. Add that to the fact that Saban has gone after 2 of our assistants. The hate for Harbaugh from this fan base is out of control. When we hired Enos the board went crazy talking about how he was mediocre at best and he was the best we could do because Harbaugh wouldn't fire Drevno. Now Saban wants him and all of the sudden Enos is an offense genius who was being held back because Harbaugh won't fire Drevno. It's clear people are just inventing narratives to blame Drevno and to some extent Harbaugh. Calling for Drevno to be fired is fine, calling for Harbaugh to be fired is insane. At first, I was underwhelmed by the Enos hire, but in the past week I had warmed up to him because of his recruiting ties to #1 TE Henry mostly, but also ties to the south and Michigan. So for recruiting alone, Enos is a loss. I think it's clear that is why Saban wants him, after not getting Partridge.

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Don

January 26th, 2018 at 10:35 AM ^

and I don't recall ever seeing a Michigan offensive coaching staff situation that looks like the disorganized clusterfuck that it does currently.

From a lack of having a clear-cut OC to hiring coaches with no defined duties at the time they're hired to hiring OL coaches whose blocking philosophy is at odds with the OC's to hiring guys who bail on you barely two weeks later, it appears that there's no overall strategic plan, but just a series of impulsive, poorly thought-out short term moves.

All this would be bad enough on its own, but coming hard on the heels of an absolute offensive disaster of a season that was bad enough that the HC apparently took control of the offense for the Ohio State game only to apparently relinquish that control for the bowl game, and it's no wonder to me at all that getting top-level OL recruits is proving to be a problem.

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maize-blue

January 26th, 2018 at 11:06 AM ^

Meanwhile, for the second straight season a playoff caliber defense was wasted. I expect the defense to only improve in 2018.

The one and only thing that everyone thought would take off like wildfire under JH was offense. Yet that side of the ball looks almost lost. 2018 is a huge year for JH and the UM football program.

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uminks

January 26th, 2018 at 12:38 PM ^

are still young. When they're Juniors and Seniors and Michigan is still  having problems at the QB position, then I'll be disappointed. Harbaugh did a great job with Rudock and Wilton improved in '17 but would still make big mistakes in big games. Wilton lost all his veteran WR, which made it more difficult for him, then he was hurt. Our OL is young too, so I will not judge Harbaugh on that for a few years as well. I think many Michigan fans are just impatient and expect Harbaugh to be a miracle worker and some were expecting a NC in his third year. I think we are still several years away from being an elite team, may be during the 2019 season we may see a big turn around.

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KC Wolve

January 26th, 2018 at 3:52 PM ^

It isn’t like young QBs can ever be good or lead a team of veterans in big games. Wait what? No, I didn’t watch the national championship game. What? For both teams? One of them came in for the starter after half and he barely played a snap all year and won the game???? Wow! Yep, looks like your young QB argument is wrong.

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Footdog

January 26th, 2018 at 1:00 PM ^

Getting on here is beginning to be depressing. I mean, we continuously lose big name recruiting battles, our offense is going to suck AGAIN, and we can't even keep an AVERAGE coach. like WTF is going on? I'm hurting inside.

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mfan92

January 26th, 2018 at 2:00 PM ^

Had Enos gone out and recruited for us yet? I know the other new guys have been making rounds. Haven't heard if Enos went out. And if so who'd he visit?

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