Focusing in on Brandin Echols
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Welcome to the 11th article in the “Focus in” series. Today we’re taking a look at former Kentucky cornerback Brandin Echols. We’ve already touched on a number of players and you can read those by clicking the names below. As always I hope you enjoy and if there is a prospect you’d really like covered, then drop their name in the comments below.
I wasn’t overly familiar with Brandin Echols when his name was called, with the 200th pick in the 2021 NFL Draft, the Kentucky product was off to the Big Apple. So I’ve gone back and looked at a lot of Kentucky games to try and get a handle on the type of skills he’ll be bringing to the Jets. Lets just all the way back first.
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The 2021 college football season will go down in history as the Year of the Transfer.
Because the 2020-21 academic year did not count against anyone s eligibility clock and because the NCAA finally approved the one-time free transfer proposal (undergraduates aren t required to sit out for a year if it s their first time transferring), transfers are taking place en masse.
The vast majority of those transfers will be either inconsequential or only mildly consequential, but a handful could make a College Football Playoff-altering impact in their new homes.
A player leaving one team to lead another to championship heights is not a new phenomenon. A former transfer won the Heisman Trophy in 2017, 2018 and 2019, after all. But it feels like there have already been at least five times as many Oh, wow, that s a huge pickup for an already solid team reactions to transfers as usual.
Michigan to hire Kentucky DB coach Steve Clinkscale, reports say
Updated May 11, 2021;
Posted May 11, 2021
Kentucky head coach Mark Stoops walks out onto the field to get his team s attention in the first half of an NCAA college football game against South Carolina Saturday, Sept. 24, 2016, in Lexington, Ky. Steve Clinkscale, middle, was recently hired by Michigan. (AP Photo/David Stephenson)AP
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Jim Harbaugh has found a replacement coach for the recently departed Maurice Linguist and he’s reportedly tapping the SEC for help.
Steve Clinkscale, an assistant at the University of Kentucky with extensive experience coaching defensive backs, is expected to accept an offer to join the Michigan coaching staff on Tuesday, according to The Athletic’s Bruce Feldman.
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May 11th, 2021 at 1:11 PM
Well, finally.
Sam Webb, Chris Balas, and others are reporting Michigan has come to terms with Kentucky defensive backs coach Steve Clinkscale to be the Wolverines new defensive pass game coordinator and defensive backs coach.
Michigan had one name on everybody’s lips when co-DC/cornerbacks coach Maurice Linguist, hired just last January, couldn’t pass up an opportunity to be the head coach of Buffalo. It was the same name bandied about before Linguist was hired. And the same name this site was all but banging the table for a year before that, when Chris Partridge departed for Ole Miss and Michigan ended up replacing him with Bob Shoop. It’s also one of very few names you could be reading at the top of this post that might actually make you feel better than Linguist did, especially when it came to guys Michigan could find in mid-May.