Assessing Michigan's new assistant-coaching hires

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🗓️ 21 January 2021

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we assess the hires and coaching decisions made by the Wolverines, looking at the strengths and questions of the new assistants and some big-picture talk.

We begin by discussing Michigan's decision to hire former star running back Mike Hart away from Indiana, which we both claim to be the home-run hire of the offseason. We discuss why Hart offers so much more than being a former star player, and what kind of impact he'll make on Michigan's equipped running backs room.

Then, we turn to the defensive side of the ball, looking at new defensive coordinator Mike Macdonald, co-DC and cornerbacks coach Mo Linguist and safeties coach George Helow. For each individual coach, we look at the strengths they bring and the question marks about them.

We close with some broader discussions on the coaches that stayed, Michigan's timing of the hires, if the Wolverines are "going cheap" this year and if Michigan addressed all of their needs.

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0:30.2	Hello everybody.
0:30.8	Welcome to the Wolverine 24-7 podcast, your audio source for all things, Michigan football,
0:35.2	basketball, and recruiting.
0:36.9	I'm your host, Zach Shaw. Steve Lorenz here with me. This episode, pretty straightforward. Michigan has made
0:43.5	a number of assistant coach hires, the football team, that is, in the last week or change, I guess
0:52.0	maybe two weeks, if you want to go back to when Mike Hart was hired.
0:55.8	We're going to assess them.
0:57.5	We're going to break down why each hire makes sense, the questions that surround each hire.
1:04.4	And then at the end, we'll have some general big picture questions about the entire staff.
1:12.9	It's college football, so certainly things could change,
1:16.8	but they do have assistant coaches,
1:19.4	and it seems to be a picture of who's coaching at every position.
1:23.9	So, Steve, I know that Michigan formally announced the George Hilo and Mo Linguist
1:31.7	hires yesterday, but I thought maybe we could go chronological here because we didn't actually,
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