Change of heart: UM's Rodriguez keeps 1 assistant

 
Fred Jackson was brought back as Michigan's running backs coach on Friday, a day after new coach Rich Rodriguez fired all the assistants on Lloyd Carr's staff. [link]

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After 40 years of stability, change hits Michigan hard

Every one? He fired every single one of Lloyd Carr's assistant coaches? Seriously? That was my initial reaction to Thursday's news that new University of Michigan football coach Rich Rodriguez had essentially taken a broom to Schembechler Hall, informing every current assistant coach that they would not be retained after the Capital One Bowl.
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U-M coach Rodriguez brings back RB coach Fred Jackson

New Michigan coach Rich Rodriguez will re-hire running backs coach Fred Jackson, U-M assistant athletic director Bruce Madej said today. Rodriguez told all nine U-M assistant coaches on Thursday they would be released.
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