Michigan Football’s coaching staff will nearly double this week

The NCAA on Tuesday approved a rule change that would make all football staff members coaches starting this fall, nearly doubling the size and reach of Sherrone Moore’s Michigan team staff.

The Division I Council has voted to adopt a change at the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) and Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) levels that would allow analysts and quality control coaches to provide hands-on instruction during practices and games this fall.

The Wolverines currently employ 10 full-time assistant coaches and nine analysts, a group of individuals who work behind the scenes on tasks such as film analysis, game preparation, analytics and recruiting on campus. Until now, they were prohibited from coaching on the field.

Under the change, analysts will still be prohibited from traveling to recruit new players, but “any staff member will be able to provide technical and tactical instruction to student-athletes during practice and competition.” The change will give some college football programs the resources and ability to expand their staff overnight.

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The NCAA announced that the regulation will be officially adopted on Wednesday.

The nine analysts currently employed at Michigan are:

• Jack Clark (Analyst)

• Garrett Clawson (special teams)

• Nick Gilbert (Attack)

• Bret Ingalls (Senior/Attack)

• Anthony Marciano (Juniors/Defense)

• Pernell McPhee (Analyst)

• Josh Sinagoga (attack)

• Lionel Stokes (Defense)

• Kevin Wilkins (Analyst)

Four of the analysts on the list – Clark, Gilbert, Ingalls and Sinagoga – are holdovers from the Jim Harbaugh era, several of whom had previous Division I coaching experience before coming to Michigan, where they each earned annual salaries ranging from $45,900 (Clark) to $178,500 (Ingalls) last year.

Moore, who was named head coach in January, has since added the other five. Clawson came from Southern Methodist, McPhee is a former star linebacker at Mississippi State who briefly played in the NFL, and Stokes is a former defensive coordinator at FCS Jackson State.

Wilkins now brings extensive experience at the NFL level, first as a video intern and video operations coordinator for the Baltimore Ravens from 2015 to 2021, then as an on-field defensive assistant for the New York Giants from 2022 to 2023. In both stops, he worked directly with Don “Wink” Martindale, with the new Michigan defensive coordinator describing Wilkins as his “right-hand man.”

The analyst role is notable because two current Michigan coordinators began their time in Ann Arbor this way. Kirk Campbell went from offensive analyst to quarterbacks coach before being promoted to offensive coordinator in the offseason, while new special teams coordinator JB Brown was a special teams analyst just last season.

The Wolverines are currently on probation for multiple violations of NCAA recruiting rules and improper use of an analyst during the 2020 season and leading up to 2021. Michigan has won three straight Big Ten titles and was the 2023 College Football Playoff champion.

Since taking the job, Moore has added more people to expand the Michigan football team’s recruiting department and is now improving on-field training as well.