Report: Michigan football hires Louisiana DC as its next DB coach
It appears as though Michigan football has finally found its defensive backs coach.
LaMar Morgan, who was defensive backs coach under defensive coordinator Jesse Minter at Vanderbilt in 2021, will join Sherrone Moore’s staff in Ann Arbor to lead the defensive backs, according to reports.
Morgan has been defensive coordinator and safeties coach at Louisiana — his alma mater, where he played safety (2003-07) for four years — the past two seasons.
The hire appears to bring to end a whirlwind 10-day stretch in the defensive backs room, which began Feb. 7, when former defensive backs coach Steve Clinkscale told the team he was staying for the upcoming season.
That was until early Saturday morning, when sources told the Free Press he had reversed course after there were changes in his buyout and he ultimately opted to join Jim
Harbaugh’s staff in L.A.
Earlier this week, reports surfaced that U-M had hired Houston Texans safeties coach Stephen Adegoke — a graduate assistant on Michigan’s staff in 2021 — to coach the secondary; he too changed his mind, though, as reports surfaced Thursday he decided to stay in the NFL.
On Friday, rising junior defensive back Keon Sabb entered the transfer portal, he was the No. 84-ranked recruit in the class of 2022, according to 247 Sports’ composite rankings, and finished the 2023 season with 28 tackles and two interceptions.
Earlier this month, Michigan reportedly brought on Don “Wink” Martindale as its defensive coordinator, though the program still has not announced the hire. Also earlier this week, Moore landed Tennessee linebackers coach Brian Jean-Mary to coach the same position for the Wolverines, according to reports.