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One of the telltale signs of a successful season in college football is if your coordinators and/or assistant coaches get poached by higher ups. For Michigan football, that would mean the NFL.
Such was the case after the 2021 season, as one-year defensive coordinator Mike Macdonald returned to the Baltimore Ravens, where he was previously a linebackers coach, but now leading the defense in its entirety.
So, that meant that the Wolverines would have to find a new name to head up the defense, their third defensive coordinator in three years after Don Brown was let go in 2020. According to ESPN’s Pete Thamel, Michigan is zeroing in on former Baltimore Ravens assistant Jesse Minter, who spent the last year as Vanderbilt’s defensive coordinator.
Sources: Michigan is expected to hire Vanderbilt’s Jesse Minter as the school’s new defensive coordinator. He’s a former Ravens assistant who brings experience in defensive system.
— Pete Thamel (@PeteThamel) February 8, 2022
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With Minter coming to Ann Arbor, the Wolverines theoretically would have consistency from a schematic standpoint. Minter was under consideration last year before Michigan hired Macdonald, and he comes from the Ravens, where he coached from 2017-20.
Minter worked his way up from being Indiana State’s linebackers coach to the Sycamores’ defensive coordinator, and then was Georgia State’s DC for four seasons before heading to the NFL. His last role with the Ravens was the defensive backs coach under Wink Martindale in 2020.
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