Michigan football's offseason to-do list
The Michigan Insider
247Sports, Michigan Football, Michigan Wolverines, Michigan, Michigan athletics, College Football
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🗓️ 14 January 2020
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
The first, most pertinent issue that we address for Michigan’s to-do list is look at its lone assistant coaching vacancy. We recap our discussion from last week on what direction the Wolverines should go to replace departed safeties coach Chris Partridge. We also break down why the apparent retention of outside linebackers coach Anthony Campanile can be beneficial to Michigan, and how it changes what the Wolverines are looking for in their 10th assistant.
Next on our list, we look at potential transfer portal targets, and explain why we both hone in on the defensive line. We discuss one major defensive tackle target, and explore some of the young defensive linemen the Wolverines might want to bring some depth and experience around.
We next look at the upcoming quarterback battle between Dylan McCaffrey and Joe Milton. We debate when Michigan should come to a decision, what to watch for in the battle, the significance and what to expect in terms of transfer fallout when an eventual winner is selected.
Breaking down some smaller options, we look at defensive adjustments that should be made, how Michigan re-equips its secondary and offensive line, the importance of second-year defensive standouts, players the Wolverines must find more usage for and the opportunity in 2021 recruiting to hit the ground running.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody. Welcome to the Wolverine 24-7 podcast, your audio source for all things, |
| 0:04.0 | Michigan football, basketball, and recruiting. I'm your host, Zach Shaw. Steve Lorenz here with me, |
| 0:09.3 | and this podcast, so we're gonna, I know we just said we'd start to do more regular basketball |
| 0:15.2 | once, but they literally lost the exact same way we predicted kind of the exact same struggles that occurred against Purdue. |
| 0:22.2 | So if there's interest, I might sneak in a quick preview podcast before I head down to Iowa City on Friday. |
| 0:30.8 | But realistically, it might be more something next week. |
| 0:33.9 | This episode is going to be the official Michigan football offseason checklist by us. |
| 0:41.2 | So, of course, we're going to write about a lot of this stuff over at the Michiganinsider.com |
| 0:45.4 | and Michigan.247sports.com. Some of the stuff has been written about already in different |
| 0:51.0 | forms. But every year entering the offseason, unless you win the national title, |
| 0:58.5 | even then there's probably a few things on your list. |
| 1:01.6 | Unless you win the national title, there's going to be things on your checklist. |
| 1:05.0 | Michigan went 9 and 4. |
| 1:06.1 | They finished the season ranked 18th in the country. |
| 1:10.0 | Certainly quite a few things that they want to do. |
| 1:13.1 | But it is interesting. |
| 1:15.2 | I don't think the list is quite as long in terms of objective, legitimate changes you have to make. |
| 1:23.6 | Last year, they needed a new offensive coordinator. |
| 1:27.6 | Well, they needed a offensive coordinator. |
| 1:30.1 | You know, there were some defensive holes they had to fill. |
| 1:33.5 | There were some, so a few more coaching vacancies than there were this year. |
| 1:39.6 | But regardless, there are a few, and we can start with, oh, let's start with the literal one that they actually do need to fill. |
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