Previous Alabama co-offensive coordinator Josh Gattis has left Tuscaloosa to turn into the offensive coordinator at Michigan, the faculty announced Thursday.
“The offense and passing online games underneath Josh’s path have obtained at a pretty high amount all over his coaching occupation,” Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh reported by means of statement. “Josh will give leadership to our offense although being a good mentor to our college student-athletes and an remarkable addition to our coaching personnel.”
Gattis, 34, has specialised in coaching huge receivers throughout his 1st nine years of coaching at the faculty amount.
“It is an honor and a privilege to sign up for the College of Michigan football household underneath Coach Harbaugh, a single of the most effective head coaches in all of football,” Gattis reported in a statement. “I am deeply humbled by the possibility to serve as your offensive coordinator. This is the leadership obstacle I have coveted. The football tradition at the College of Michigan is amid the pretty ideal in faculty athletics. My household and I couldn’t be much more fired up to get there in Ann Arbor.”
Michigan did not have a coach with the title of offensive coordinator on personnel final period. Pep Hamilton, listed as an assistant head coach and passing-activity coordinator, played a significant part in the Wolverines’ offense and is nevertheless a member of the coaching personnel. Gattis fills a emptiness left by Jim McElwain, who took the head-coaching career at Central Michigan after a single 12 months with the application.
Gattis coached at Penn State, Vanderbilt and Western Michigan before expending the 2018 period with Alabama.
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