Former Michigan LB hired as Indiana State linebackers coach

Previously at Maryland then Minnesota, Desmond Morgan took a step up at an FCS program.

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Joe Bolden isn’t the only former Wolverines linebacker from the 2015 team that’s made a move in the college football coaching world.

While the former Michigan team captain took a defensive quality control position at rival Ohio State, his sidekick in the middle during his tenure in Ann Arbor has also made a switch to a new team.

Desmond Morgan got his coaching start with Wayne State as a grad assistant, and parlayed that into a job with the Maryland Terrapins. That lasted one year before he managed to get a promotion, staying in the Big Ten but moving to the West, as Minnesota’s special teams quality control coach in 2019.

And he’s gotten yet another promotion, with the announcement on Tuesday that Indiana State has hired him to be its new linebackers coach.

The Sycamores are a Division I FCS program who has a history of hiring former Wolverines. Most recently, ISU had hired former Michigan recruiting assistant Adam Schrack — who’s now with Notre Dame College — but also once had Roy Roundtree as a wide receivers coach before he returned to Ann Arbor as a grad assistant.