Michigan Wolverine Football: D.J. Durkin– Officially in as DC/LB Coach
Posted at 2:30pm — 1/8/2015
Michigan Wolverine Football: D.J. Durkin– Officially in as DC/LB Coach
Seems like along time since most knew D.J. Durkin was “rumored” coming to Ann Arbor with Coach Jim Harbaugh. He was even recruiting earlier in the week with prospects before even being mentioned, but no longer as it was officially announced today that Durkin was at Michigan.
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He worked with Jim at previous stop at Stanford where he was the defensive end and special teams coach. Durkin after leaving Stanford he went to Florida. While there under Coach Muschamp the past two season he was the defensive coordinator for the Gators. After Muschamp was fired, Durkin was named interim-head coach for the bowl game. Earlier in his career he was a graduate assistant at Notre Dame where he worked for current Michigan Coach Greg Mattison along with Urban Meyer at Bowling Green.
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Durkin talking to the MGoBlue site, the home of the University of Michigan web site about what type of defense he will likely have at Michigan.
Durkin has evaluated videotape of his new players. “I’m excited about it,” Durkin said. “I think we can put a good group out there. Just the past couple days, meeting and getting to know these guys, I think they’ll do just fine learning what we’re going to do. They seem very ready and willing, and I’m excited about that.”
Durkin was named Recruiter of the Year by Rivals.com in 2012 after personally recruiting five of the top 250 players in the country, according to that recruiting website.
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“You’ve got to be relentless at it,” Durkin said of recruiting. “Whatever you are doing, you better have a passion for it, and you better be relentless. You’ve got to do it as a staff and as a group. The year I got named that, we signed some really good players, great players. But there were a lot of people that they go in and revolve with.”
Talking about the type of defense Durkin will likely use both the 3-4 and the 4-3 defenses, Durkin said he’ll employ both the 4-3 defensive front used by Michigan in 2014 and a 3-4 front as well.
“We’ll be multiple,” Durkin said. “We’ll play both a 3-4 and a 4-3. How much we play of each will depend on our personnel — what I feel fits us best. But we’ll definitely be multiple — week to week we’ll carry both fronts into the game.
We will have more on Durkin a little later on along with telling our readers about his profile in the near future.
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