College Football

Michigan promotes assistants to co-offensive coordinator, hires Vanderbilt defensive boss

Michigan recently found itself tasked with filling both coordinator positions on the heels of a Big Ten championship and first-ever trip to the College Football Playoff in the 2021 season. The Wolverines have now completed that task. The program announced on Wednesday that it has promoted quarterbacks coach Matt Weiss to co-offensive coordinator, where he will join offensive line coach Sherrone Moore in the role. Additionally, the program has hired Vanderbilt defensive coordinator Jesse Minter for the same position. 

Wolverines coach Jim Harbaugh made the changes after losing both offensive coordinator Josh Gattis and defensive coordinator Mike Macdonald amid his flirting with NFL jobs — particularly the Minnesota Vikings, with whom he took an interview on National Signing Day. Gattis left to join Mario Cristobal as the new offensive coordinator at Miami, while Macdonald headed to take a coordinator job in…

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