Michigan Football: What key people are saying about Josh Gattis

Michigan Football may have found a gem in offensive coordinator Josh Gattis, a guy who managed to steal the keys to the offense from head coach Jim Harbaugh.

Michigan Football has been handcuffed at times by offensive schemes which may have been outdated or conservative; however, the newly hired offensive coordinator Josh Gattis has come in and reignited the program with exciting phrases and an uptempo, no-huddle approach.

Could it be all hype?

His fellow coaches, future stars, and the guys on the current roster don’t think so. In fact, they love the new style of play which is headlined by the phrase speed in space.

Coach Gattis explained the new offense:

"“We’re a no-huddle team, when people ask who we are from an offensive standpoint, we’re a pro-spread. And that’s what I like to tell people. We run from spread mechanics, we’re no huddle, we don’t huddle ever. But we still have a big pro-style emphasis and one of the things with speed in space is we’re still going to have a mindset that we’re an attacking offense, but also we’re a physical offense.”"

Coach Gattis went on to explain what speed-in-space meant:

"“The whole speed in space deal is something we preach with all of our skill guys and the concepts that we really emphasize. But ultimately, it can be run-pass oriented and obviously moving guys around, getting our best skill players out there and getting them active in the offense. “(We’re) trying to create open holes and putting conflicts on defenses from a run-pass conflict standpoint, one of the things we talk about on offense is having to dictate the aggressiveness of the defense. And so we feel like if we can stay aggressive on offense, we can limit how aggressive the defense is going to be.”"

As we all know, coaches can talk a lot about what they’re going to do but what’s more interesting is what everyone else is saying after the new strategy has been implemented.