Baumgardner reports Bellamy now safeties coach, Helow LBs, Gattis picks WRs back up

I wish I could say the same, but alas all I want to do is beat those bastards in football. :/. But, the basketball win is a nice distraction!  :)

Well they threw several of the chairs overboard and had a few new one's air-dropped in. Maybe they'll float better than the others.

By Wednesday Bellamy will be coaching QBs and Harbaugh will be coaching kickers. 

Yes this shift feels like they were a little thrown off by the BJM leaving and this is what they feel is now the best fit. Let’s hope it all works out 

The Titanic is not the correct historical example here. This coaching staff is not sinking with this new infusion of young talent. 
On the contrary, it is soaring. Just like the Hindenburg. 

Deck on the chairs of the titantic would be what dantonio did..  not hiring or firing anyone.

Harbaugh got literally a new staff defensively

I got the expression with dantonio when he just rearranged his whole staff, but this is a completely wrong analogy from what’s happened here. There is a ton of new blood on this staff. Harbaugh has built a completely new ship with a significantly different staff and focus. 
 

Is it a better ship?  Will the captain make the same disastrous decisions he did before?  Will it reach New York in one piece at a record time?  Those are all valid questions, and I honestly I’m skeptical if this will work. But he’s at least aware enough to know that things need to change, and moving the existing pieces around on a sinking ship isn’t going to do anything. 

I don't think it's as much rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic as much as looking at the sunk Titanic and trying to create a new boat to see if it can avoid smashing into an iceberg in the North Atlantic.  There's a good chance it'll hit something, but it might just be lucky and re-engineering enough to escape that faith.

No that scenario was Dantoni’s last year at MSU.

Harbaugh is at least making actual changes.

If the GA who coached the safeties last year is still around, he should be able to help Bellamy if he needs it.

Linguist will help coaching the safeties and McDonald has a history coaching the secondary as well. That’s two seasoned guys who have been involved in the secondary plus obviously Helow as well. Loads of guys who have secondary experience. No worries there at all. 

Didn't Dantonio just switch around his existing staff's duties?  Bringing in five new coaches feels a bit different from that to me.

We fired most of our coaching staff. It feels nothing like that.

So Dantonio took coaches whom failed in their qualified positional roles and switched them to roles where they were even more likely to fail.  

So that is like hiring Mike Hart to coach running backs and the Dallas Cowboys db coach to coach dbs?

Am I missing something?

How? Dantonio moved coaches around that were already on his staff. Michigan has a staff that is half new guys, and the other half are respected coaches with + recruiting ability. it’s not comparable at all. 
 

if we kept Warinner but had him coaching tight ends while Moore coached the OL and Jay became co-OC with Warinner while Gattis went solely to WRs, THAT would be what similar to what Dantonio did.

You watch Paige try to play in the secondary last year? Not a fan of Bellamy coaching anything but WR! He isn’t a good coach he is a good recruiter 

True, but I don’t want to have no sports between April and November. That’s some Kentucky level of fandom (this season excluded). 

"Men’s BBall is bringing the grit and grind we need on the court/field that we are used to."

Are you used to that for football? I'm for sure on the older end of the readership here and Michigan football has been the same as long as I can remember. Punching above its weight? Upsetting someone? Coming back in a game against a formidable opponent (i.e., not Minnesota)? Rare events in my experience ...