Report: Michigan trying to poach key Mississippi State assistant
New Mississippi State coach Mike Leach is still working on assembling his coaching staff, but at the moment, DC Bob Shoop is still a member of that staff.
Could he jump ship before Leach makes a decision on his future, though?
Per a report from FootballScoop.com, Michigan is trying to add Shoop to its staff:
Sources tell FootballScoop Michigan is seeking to hire Mississippi State defensive coordinator Bob Shoop.
At this time we do not believe a deal is in place. Shoop remains employed by Mississippi State at this time.
Michigan has a defensive coordinator already in Don Brown, so it remains to be seen what, if any, position Shoop would be interested in on Michigan’s staff.
If Leach keeps Shoop around as defensive coordinator, that may be enough to keep him away from Ann Arbor.
Please take him. He ruined our defense. Please Coach Pirateman let him go. He suc ked at UT and at MSU. He was the second worse hire at MSU right behind JOMO.
Uhh. He is not a key staff member. He was probably getting replaced anyway.
We will be glad to wrap in some swaddling clothes and drop him off at Schembechler Hall with a note- “If nobody claims him in 30 days, he’s yours.”
Don’t speak for all us.
I’m beginning to thing some of our fans on this site are watching our games. Shoop is one he should keep, and far better than any dc leach has ever had. Michigan’s defense hasn’t exactly been awful, but against the they’ve started heading backwards. Harbaugh is looking at shoop for a reason. ALL things considered, I thought he did a better job than any should have expected.
He just came in and coached the best defense in the country even though it was on the field most of the time. He gets back 4 starters, one of whom he loses in the spring semeste r along with his best DT, a starting safety, and several from his two deep. Yet, with little help from the offense again, he is somehow supposed to replicate that defense? Let’s not forget that by years end the entire DB three deep had two upper classmen left, unless you Tim washington, a linebacker worked in as a CB. Fletcher Adams went down early, too, another hit for the dl. Add in the BS mess Moorhead allowed and that defense was doomed. I want to see him one more year and out from under jomo.
Same
I wouldn’t be upset at keeping Shoop, he’s a good coach, but I never thought we were going to anyway. When Leach got hired I figured he’d want to pick someone.
Love Shoop or hate him (I’m somewhere in the middle), news that The Pirate has offered the DC job to Brian Newberry of Navy may either be because of, or the cause of Shoop pulling up stakes. If a move for Shoop is the result of Coach Leach wanting to move on, player discipline is probably the issue. And I expect someone who coaches at one of the military academies would be strong in that department.