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Greg Robinson Officially Named Michigan’s Defensive Coordinator
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It’s official: Michigan head coach Rich Rodriguez has named former Syracuse head coach Greg Robinson as his new defensive coordinator. Robinson replaces Scott Shafer, who spent one year U-M before taking the D.C. job at Syracuse.“Greg brings a wealth of experience as a defensive coordinator, both at the collegiate and professional level,” said Rodriguez. “We are excited to have Greg, Laura and their entire family, join our Michigan family. I know that Greg will work well with our defensive staff, entire football staff and players.”
I’ll have more tomorrow.
May we live in interesting times.
Robinson’s college coaching career was quite good. As Def Coordinator and DL Coach under Terry Donahue, UCLA tore a hole in the PAC 10 between 1982-1989 and left USC and Washington programs to the wayside.
Some still argue that UCLA’s finest teams were from that era. Donahue was the offensive mastermind, but Robinson was the DC.
But the KC Chiefs and Syracuse stints were not very impressive performances. Could be due to Robinson’s coaching style or just due to having poor players, or both.
I’d attribute Robinson’s poor performance at KC due to bad players. KC drafted way too many offensive players and spent little on defensive free agents. Robinson isn’t cut out for being a head coach and thus the failure at Syracuse. With good talent, Robinson excels (Denver w/ 2 super bowl wins, Texas). Michigan’s excellent recruiting staff will bring in the great talent, and Robinson will help put it together and bring results.
After last season I would think we would try and make a splash this year and start this season off with some excitement. Robinson!!!!!
Somebody calm my fears.
With the low amount of money that we were offering for the DC position (I’ve heard $250K), who are we honestly going to land? That’s peanuts for NFL assistants and DCs, and hell even Illinois was offering $500K to Larry Johnson to join their staff. Robinson is a good hire; our options were limited here, and we should get a good bang for our buck here.
So the positives are he had a good season 5 years ago, several good seasons over ten years ago, and a 7 year stretch in the 80′s. And he comes cheap. Okay. The only thing I want to know is, does he know how to stop any of the various versions of the spread?
This guy is a proven DC. The folks at Texas loved him when he was down there. He will do a good job at UM.
This seems like a mediocre hire…..he might have won SBs in the past but discounting his record at KC and Cuse seems like a bad thing to do…..i mean those years were atrocious. We have had good experience with this scenario…..Debord??….and know how that ended.
The thing is GR is not bad..but is this what we want to be shooting for?? We should be willing to fork out more money if need an excellent…somewhere in the half a mil range…else we are banking on questionable hires to turn our program around….and GR is questionable hire at best. And lest not forget this past year, at a time we needed a shot in the arm to prop our sagging emotions we get a mediocre hire.
If Rod thinks he can get by with a mediocre D and a stellar O…yeah he can win B10 titles but will get exposed in the Bowl games…..we don;t need the nations best D but when going against BSC opponents…a strong is also a prerequisite to win games, this is true 90% of the time.
Its funny to see people countering the “GR can’t recruit” argument by saying that M has/gets talent on D…..well these were the same folks who said a couple of months ago that talent on this year’s D was putrid and hence the blame should not be on the coaching staff.
Well we are starting of with a bunch of frosh on D….let’s see where this goes and how people spin this.
Again….this is not a bad hire….but under the circumstance that we are in i would have hoped for a better one, that’s all.
Hope he does well..pray to god/whatever you like that he does will….we need stability on the defensive side.
And hope we close out strong…we need talent everywhere on this team.