Wolverine247 Board

The Head Coach doesn't have nearly as much time w/ the players on the day-to-day operations as the Coordinators and position coaches. There's not enough time in the day for a coach to be everywhere, so they have input on a group (w/ Hoke it's the line play, w/ Meyer the offense).

So to give credit to Meyer for Mattison's defenses at Florida would be silly, especially considering Meyer himself called Mattison the best recruiter in football, so not only did Mattison coach that defense but he recruited it as well.

Typical Michigan university blinders on, mattisons defense, well if I remember correctly he was the co-coordinator.
At Florida, he served as co-coordinator of the defense with Charlie Strong Charlie Strong also served as assistant Head Coach and Linebackers coach while Greg also pulled double duty working as Defensive lines coach, but don't bother giving strong any credit, I mean after all he did get a head coaching gig. How did Meyer ever win a national championship without mattison, because he did!

Hey knucklehead read the original post I was responding to, you are the one who can't comprehend "BRO", you pick pieces out of sentences and chime into others debate, you really are not that bright and actually quite a bore.

Well factually wrong again sorry to say victor, heacock is gone withers is in as the co-coordinator with fickell, thanks

again, factually incorrect, he is the co-defensive coordinator with Fickell, you guys seem to have a problem with the co word, just like mattison was the co-coordinator with Strong.

A little Withers bio on top of your numbers: Yes what a loser he is!

Withers has made accomplishments at several of his coaching stops, both college and the NFL. While he was the defensive backs coach of the Titans, they achieved a top ten defensive ranking in 2002, his first season with the Titans. From 2002 to 2004, the Titans grabbed 57 interceptions, the best ever for a three year span for the franchise, fourth best in the AFC and eighth best in the NFL. The Titans tallied 21 picks in 2004, with 16 coming from the Withers coached secondary.[4] In his first year with the Tar Heels, his defense totaled 20 interceptions, one shy of the school record for interceptions in a year. 2009 was an elite year for Withers's defense as they ranked sixth in total defense in the nation. They ranked 10th against the run, 13th in scoring defense and 14th in pass defense. The UNC defense was the only defense in the nation that was ranked in the top 15 in total yards allowed, scoring defense, run defense, pass defense, pass-efficiency defense, third down defense and tackles for loss. The Carolina defense totaled 19 interceptions and set an ACC record with 508 interception return yards. In 2010 the Tar Heels matched their interception total of 2009 with 19 picks. The Heels also ranked fourth in the ACC and 30th nationally in defense, even with injuries that made Withers play a different lineup every game. During the three total years that Withers was defensive coordinator of the Tar Heels, they totaled 58 interceptions

You forgot about adding a little something called Urban Meyer, they will absolutely be improved to last year, pull up the defensive rankings for the past 5 years, show the history, show the trend, you pull up only one year, admittedly a bad year, Fickell will go back to where he was comfortable as a co-defensive coordinator and will be joined by Withers, they have talented players who will still need to learn to play togather but the elements to a successfull defense is there.

And Urbie fired the architect behind those defenses (Heacock) and replaced him with a guy who oversaw a steady deterioration of the defense over four years at an ACC basketball school (Withers). Gotta give Urbie credit for thinking outside the box. No other coach in the country would have come up with that genius move.

31-10 bama

should be a great environment

I think people should atleast be respectful on another teams board IMO.

Just one of my pet peeves when guys from other fanbases come to our site and can't call Michigan by it's right name. We should at least be able to have a site where we don't hear things like scUM, Michigan University, etc...

If you want to call us that on Bucknuts or tBB that is fine. No problems from me then. This is a Michigan board that we want to remain free from that crap. That is all I am saying. If I was to go over to Bucknuts and use the Ohio thing it would not go over well.

Lisle, O'conner,decker,dodson,gardner... What will we do.....