That was more difficult than it should have been. Michigan should have blown out MSU by more than 22 points. Offensively, the Spartans couldn’t do anything more than toss prayer balls up to 6’4″, 215 lb. wide receiver Keon Coleman, who had a great game with 5 catches for 155 yards and 1 touchdown. MSU averaged 4.75 yards per offensive player, a lower average than any game except when Ohio State held them to 4.21. But somehow a team ranked in the 100s in most pass defense categories held J.J. McCarthy to 15/25 completions, 167 yards, and 1 touchdown. The lack of a passing game forced Michigan to call on kicker Jake Moody 5 times, and he kicked 5 field goals, including a 54-yarder. It was a beating, but not as decisive as I wanted.
I don’t know about you, but sometimes I lose track of what off-the-field staff members are where, when they’re hired, when they leave, etc. There’s so much movement that it can be hard to keep tabs on them all. So I decided to put them all in one post and update it whenever necessary.
ON FIELD FOOTBALL STAFF Head coach: Jim Harbaugh* Offensive coordinator/QB coach: Matt Weiss Offensive coordinator/OL coach: Sherrone Moore TE coach: Grant Newsome*# RB coach: Mike Hart* WR coach: Ron Bellamy* Defensive coordinator: Jesse Minter# Co-defensive coordinator/CB coach: Steve Clinkscale DL coach: Mike Elston*# LB coach: George Helow S coach: Jay Harbaugh
OFF FIELD FOOTBALL STAFF Associate head coach: Biff Poggi Graduate assistant (QBs): Mimi Bolden-Morris# Graduate assistant (LBs): LaTroy Lewis# Graduate assistant (OLBs): Dylan Roney Offensive analyst: Kirk Campbell Offensive analyst: Jack Clark Offensive analyst: Bret Ingalls# Offensive analyst: Fred Jackson Offensive analyst: John Morookian# Defensive analyst: Garrett Cox Defensive analyst: Doug Mallory* Defensive analyst: Rick Minter# Defensive analyst: Joe Staab Special teams analyst: Bradford Banta Special teams analyst: J.B. Brown
STRENGTH AND CONDITIONING STAFF Director of Strength and Conditioning: Ben Herbert Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach: Sean Lockwood Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach: Ben Rabe Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach: Kiero Small Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach: Justin Tress
RECRUITING STAFF Director of Player Personnel: Tom Gamble# Assistant Director of Player Personnel: Denard Robinson*# Director of Recruiting Operations: Albert Karschnia# Director of On Campus Recruiting and Operations: Christina DeRuyter Assistant Recruiting and Operations Director: Paige Shiver Assistant Recruiting Coordinator: Jonathan Herd-Bond# Director of Player Development: Chris Bryant*
*Former Michigan football player #Hired following 2021 football season
Michigan has a new defensive coordinator in the form of Jesse Minter. Minter comes to the Wolverines after spending one year at Vanderbilt as the Commodores’ defensive coordinator.
Minter is the son of former Cincinnati head coach Rick Minter, and he played wide receiver at Mount Saint Joseph in Ohio. He then spent time at Notre Dame and Cincinnati as a low-tier assistant before becoming a linebackers coach and then defensive coordinator at Indiana State (coincidentally, where several former Wolverines now coach, including head man Curt Mallory). Minter then moved on to become Georgia State’s defensive coordinator in 2013 and was a Broyles Award nominee as one of the top assistants in the country.
Minter was hired in 2017 to be an assistant for the Baltimore Ravens, coaching defensive backs through 2020. After just one season as the primary defensive backs coach in 2020, he was hired away by Vandy to be their defensive coordinator.
