Michigan football has fired co-offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Matt Weiss, athletic director Warde Manuel introduced on Friday.
“After a overview of University insurance policies, the athletic division has terminated the appointment of co-offensive coordinator/quarterbacks coach Matt Weiss,” Manuel stated in a press release launched on Friday. “Consistent with college coverage, we may have no additional touch upon this personnel matter.”
Weiss, 39, was positioned on depart earlier this month after the University of Michigan police obtained a “report of pc entry crimes” that occurred in Schembechler Hall from Dec. 21-23 According to the UM Police log, a college worker knowledgeable the police concerning the incident on Jan. 5 and quite a few experiences have surfaced that authorities had been seen in marked and unmarked automobiles on the Weiss’ Ann Arbor house a couple of days later.
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Michigan football group spokesman Dave Ablauf confirmed on Tuesday that Weiss was positioned on depart.
Minutes after UM launched its assertion, Weiss posted a message on social media:
“I’m pleased with the success we achieved during the last two seasons and grateful to all the Michigan gamers, coaches and employees,” it learn. “The potential of Team 144 is aware of no bounds.
“I’ve nothing however respect for the University of Michigan and the individuals who make it such an important place. I look ahead to placing this matter behind me and returning my focus to the sport that I like.”
Weiss has been on employees with one of many Harbaughs, Jim or John, since 2007 when he was a graduate assistant at Stanford (2005-08), the latter two seasons underneath the now-Michigan head coach.
He then joined the Baltimore Ravens, led by John Harbaugh, and held greater than half a dozen positions in his 12-year tenure: head coach’s assistant (2008); defensive assistant (2009-13); linebackers coach (2014); cornerbacks coach (2015); assistant quarterbacks coach (2016-17); assistant huge receivers coach (2018) and operating backs coach (2019-20).
Weiss accepted the quarterback teaching job in 2021 at Michigan and helped lead the Wolverines to their first Big Ten championship in 17 years whereas Cade McNamara was named third-team All-Big Ten quarterback.
Last offseason, when Josh Gattis left UM for Miami (Florida), Weiss and Sherrone Moore had been promoted to co-offensive coordinators and the offense took one more step ahead. In 2022, Michigan went undefeated within the common season, gained the Big Ten once more, beat Ohio State in Columbus for the primary time in 22 years and made a second straight journey to the College Football Playoff.
The Wolverines had been sixth within the nation in scoring (40.4 factors per recreation).
Weiss’s dismissal is the newest in a variety of scandals surrounding the Michigan football program that date again all through the previous season; from operating again Donovan Edwards’ antisemitic retweet that was “a glitch” to defensive lineman Mazi Smith’s gun cost, to an energetic NCAA investigation into Level I and Level II violations (impermissible contact with football recruits and Harbaugh being accused of mendacity to investigators, which he denies).
The Wolverines will a minimum of want to rent a quarterbacks coach or appoint somebody from inside the program to take over the place group.
It is unclear if Moore, coach of the Joe Moore Award-winning place group as the very best offensive line within the nation the final two seasons, will now change into the solo offensive coordinator or if somebody will be part of him in tandem.
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