Who would you bring in to replace Greg Robinson?
by BSU_Alum07 on Nov 28, 2010 11:20 AM CST
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For the purposes of this FanPost, we are going to assume that Michigan either wins or loses a close bowl game and that Dave Brandon has decided that Rich Rodriguez deserves another year as the head coach. Let's also assume that Brandon told Rodriguez that he has to fire Greg Robinson and let the new defensive coordinator pick his own staff members and install his defensive scheme, not necessarily the 3-man front that Rodriguez seems to prefer. So my question is who would you want Rodriguez to hire to turn around the defense?
My choice would be Randy Shannon who was just fired last night as Miami's (yes that Miami) head coach. Mark Stoops of Florida State and Justin Wilcox of Tennessee would also be excellent candidates, but I don't know if they would be interested in leaving secure jobs for a possible one and done tenure at Michigan. Shannon was the defensive coordinator at Miami for six seasons prior to replacing Larry Coker as the head coach and his defenses were ranked 6th, 7th, 2nd, 28th, 4th, and 7th in total defense. Shannon was also the linebackers coach at Miami and is a strong recruiter, which could help Michigan finish strong this season with defensive recruiting.
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I think from a personnel standpoint you’d do best with Dick Bumpas, current TCU D-coordinator and general bad mother. He’s old enough where he won’t be interested in a head coaching job and will instill a killer instinct into the D that hasn’t been seen up north in a long time.
Randy Shannon is an excellent candidate too however, and gives your more inroads with the Florida talent y’all have been trying to bring in of late. Either one of them is a slam dunk A+ hire, but as long as Gerg is gone, there will be progress.
Bumpas. We can dream, can’t we? That would be sweet!
Now for the special teams coaches.
by Pinchy The Lobster on Nov 28, 2010 2:10 PM CST up reply actions
I’m not sure with the restrictions on the number of coaches you can have that Michigan will have room on the staff to hire a special teams coach. I’m not aware of any college team that has a special teams coach. I think that most kickers work with kicking coaches on their own dime to improve their game.
I know Gibson is handling most of the special teams now, but it needs some attention. How many times did Gallon muff returns and do boneheaded things and not lose his job? He gets injured and Stonum (the only guy to return a KO for a TD in who knows how long) comes in and has a 40yd return.
As far as a kicker or punter goes, we just need good ones.
by Pinchy The Lobster on Nov 28, 2010 3:42 PM CST up reply actions
I agree with you that special teams needs some attention, I took your initial comment to mean that we need to hire a special teams only coach, which I don’t know is possible. It’s unacceptable that Jeremy Gallon was allowed to continue returning kicks for as long as he did, especially since we recruited Drew Dileo specifically to return kicks.
Hopefully we can recruit a good kicker or Gibbons gets it together in the offseason. Adding a competent walk-on backup at punter wouldn’t hurt either. Hagerup is a competent starter already, but I never want to see Seth Broekhuizen attempt another punt again.
I'd take Shannon over Bumpas
For the Florida connection. We’ve already got the Pahokee pipeline established; it’d be nice to tap into more of the talent in that state.
From the Florida connection standpoint, you’re absolutely correct. From the actual “call a defense perspective” I’d take Bumpas- and for Rich’s future I think immediate results should be the priority or he won’t be around to take advantage of those recruits.
by HawkeyedFrog on Nov 28, 2010 7:32 PM CST up reply actions
Whoever it is
they should be brought in before the bowl game, a month of actual tackling practice could do us some good
The Key Question
is how do you get a quality defensive coordinator to come to Michigan next season? Coming to Ann Arbor to coach under Rich Rod, who most certainly will be fired if the team doesn’t show significant improvement next season doesn’t seem like the most appealing job opportunity.
True, but...
Having a job for next season beats being unemployed. You’ve got to think that if you’re a good defensive coordinator, you probably have enough confidence in your abilities that you feel that you;ll improve the defense enough for the head coach to keep his job as well. If Ron Zook can get Vic Koenning to come to Illinois when everyone thought that he was gone for sure after this season, you would like to think that Rich Rodriguez could get a good coordinator as well if he’s given another chance.
Randy Shannon
Has also run a very clean program with the highest APR in the nation. He would be a fine addition to the university.
Definitely agree with Randy Shannon
Seems like an obvious choice. Wouldn’t mind Jeff Casteel either
GO CUSE, BLUE, AND EAGLES!
Rocky Long!
Your boy Brady Hoke was smart enough to hire him at SDSU. Rocky may stick with the Aztecs if Brady decides to bolt for Minnesota or Indiana. However, Long knows the 4-2-5 and 3-3-6 better than anybody around
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