My answers ran long on NIL and transfers and Michigan’s clans, so I broke this mailbag into parts. The first is here, and this is the second, focused more on the Michigan 2022 questions. There were enough questions about Michigan’s scheme that I might pop out a third next week, or decide to save them for Neck Sharpies over the offseason.
Program Direction?
UofM Die Hard in Seattle asks:
Do you, Brian, Alex, etc …feel like this ship is finally ready to run on all engines, consistently year in and year out? Do you believe Jim when he says this feels like a beginning?
I can’t speak for the others but I do not, no.
It is the nature of college football to create narratives to fill in for chance. Flip a coin five times; if the first four are tails, Coinflip fans will argue whether the flipper or the coin needs to be replaced. Turn up heads on the fifth flip, and that’s the one we make a Teams podcast about.
“How great was 2021?” and “How good is the program that produced it
Secondary Coaching Candidates Part I: The A-List
Seth
May 10th, 2021 at 3:04 PM
The unluckiest sports program on Earth caught a doozy in the dinglies last week as co-DC/cornerbacks coach/crack recruiter Mo Linguist took the late-opening Buffalo head job. How bad the fallout will be depends on which replacement coach Michigan can get in this late hour. Here are the gentlemen Michigan could take a swing at. We ll tackle some of the big names first and if we re still shopping later this week I ll have a Part II with other candidates once we have a clearer idea of the market.
In the early morning hours of Nov. 22, 2019, Fleet-Davis was pulled over by University of Maryland police along Baltimore Avenue in College Park. He was charged with driving a vehicle while impaired, reckless driving and other misdemeanors, although the state opted against prosecuting Fleet-Davis in February, according to public case information.
Coach Mike Locksley suspended him for the final two games of the 2019 season, and it would be over a year before Fleet-Davis found his way back onto the field for a game, appearing in the 2020 season finale.
But now, Fleet-Davis is primed to become Maryland’s top running back, with his first major action coming in Saturday’s spring football game. Being back on the field at all is something Fleet-Davis won’t take for granted.
Trinity Catholic High School in Spanish Lake township, north of St. Louis, pictured in May 2020 (Wikimedia Commons/DiamondRemley39)
On the evening of Feb. 25, Kimora Williams, 17, and Elijah Brooks, 16, two juniors at Trinity Catholic High School north of St. Louis, both saw emails flash onto their computer screens.
They were from the St. Louis Archdiocese. Trinity Catholic would close at the end of the academic year. The two were stunned. I was angry. I was confused. I was overwhelmed, Williams told NCR.
A letter attached to the email said that enrollment at the school, located in a predominantly African American area just a 15-minute drive from Ferguson, Missouri, had slipped too low and the building was too old to maintain.
Maryland faces more turnover with departure of wide receivers coach Joker Phillips
Emily Giambalvo, The Washington Post
Jan. 26, 2021
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Maryland Coach Michael Locksley has two more positions to fill on his coaching staff.Washington post photo by Jonathan Newton
The Maryland football staff has faced significant turnover this month, with wide receivers coach Joker Phillips the most recent departure. Phillips, who was also the Terrapins co-offensive coordinator, is leaving the program to join the staff at North Carolina State, a person familiar with the situation said Tuesday.
Last week, Michigan football announced the hire of George Helow, who served as Maryland s special teams coordinator and inside linebackers coach last season. Helow will coach safeties at Michigan. Helow worked at Maryland for one year before heading to the fellow Big Ten East program.