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For years, former Michigan football defensive coordinator Don Brown said that once his time in Ann Arbor had come to a conclusion that he would ‘go to the Cape Cod.’ Well, it turns out he’s not so ready to retire to his New England getaway.
With former Wolverines pass game coordinator Jedd Fisch taking over the Arizona Wildcats head coaching job, there’s a bit of maize and blue reunion in Tuscon, as the 2016 Michigan staff members find themselves running the show in the Pac-12 program. Fisch made it official as he hired Brown to run the Wildcats defense as their new defensive coordinator, The Athletic’s Bruce Feldman reported on Thursday morning.
SOURCES: Don Brown has agreed to become #Arizona’s new defensive coordinator. He and Jedd Fisch coached together at Michigan. In five of the past six years, Brown’s defenses ranked in the nation’s top 10 in fewest yards per play allowed. Twice, they were in the top two.
— Bruce Feldman (@BruceFeldmanCFB) January 7, 2021
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Before coming to Ann Arbor, Brown had the nation’s best defense at Boston College in 2015. He had no worse than the No. 11 defense while overseeing that side of the ball for the Wolverines until this past season, when the maize and blue finished with the No. 84 defense in the country — the worst season defensively since it finished at No. 110 in 2010, Rich Rodriguez’s final year as the head coach.
Brown isn’t the only former Wolverines coach landing in Tuscon. Former offensive analyst Jimmie Dougherty, who was most recently at Oregon, has been named the Wildcats pass game coordinator.
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