Chris Partridge and Michigan's recruiting stature
The Michigan Insider
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🗓️ 11 January 2020
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
In a more news-focused football podcast, we dissect two recent going-ons with the Michigan football team.
First, we break down the Wolverines’ loss of safeties coach and special teams coordinator Chris Partridge. We break down what made Partridge such an impressive recruiter, other things he brought to the table as a position coach and what made it compelling for him to leave to become a defensive coordinator. We discuss what characteristics Michigan should be looking for in Partridge’s replacement, and offer some of our opinion of key candidates or areas that the Wolverines are looking at.
Then, we discuss a hotly contested debate on the 247Sports message board this week about how and why Michigan is getting out-recruited by Ohio State and others. In doing so, we look at how the Wolverines’ recruiting approach has changed over the years, what issues Michigan is facing on the recruiting trail and what the Wolverines are doing and can do to close the recruiting gap.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Wolverine 24-7 podcast, your audio source for all things, Michigan football, basketball, and recruiting. |
| 0:05.7 | I'm a host Sackshaw. Steve Lorenz here with me, and we just did a basketball episode yesterday. So today, we're switching back to football. |
| 0:13.9 | You know, we got a few questions. There's a lot of interest in maybe some of the macro, big picture stuff, breakout players or position group, |
| 0:23.8 | we're going to work those in. We're going to try to go back to our twice a week episodes |
| 0:28.2 | throughout the month of January. So we'll try to work some of the football ones in, but |
| 0:32.8 | it's going to be a long off season. It's not like we're going to run out of things to talk. |
| 0:40.0 | I mean, actually, we're more likely to run out of things to talk about than run out of time. |
| 0:43.5 | But still, lots of time for some of the less time-sensitive ones. |
| 0:49.0 | So when there is news, we're going to discuss it. |
| 0:51.4 | And there's two big elements of news. |
| 0:54.6 | Steve, you have followed Partridge's career pretty closely. |
| 1:01.0 | You know, you've written about what an asset he has been on the recruiting trail. |
| 1:04.9 | We actually haven't talked to you since he left. |
| 1:08.4 | On the outside, it looks like he wants to be a defensive coordinator that probably isn't |
| 1:13.3 | going to happen with Don Brown being the defensive coordinator at Michigan. |
| 1:17.8 | Even if they did make him a co-DC, it kind of, my hunch knowing Don Brown and how he |
| 1:23.7 | operates is that it would have been, Partridge wouldn't have been as involved in scheming the defense as he will be at Ole Miss. |
| 1:34.3 | His goals are beyond being a defensive coordinator. |
| 1:37.3 | I'm sure he wants to be a head coach. |
| 1:38.6 | I know Jim Harbaugh has mentioned he has what it takes to be a head coach. |
| 1:42.8 | So I guess your thoughts on his decision to depart, salary will play a role as well. |
| 1:48.5 | But your thoughts on his decision to leave and kind of what he did at Michigan. |
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