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Mike DeBord, former Michigan football offensive coordinator, dead at 69

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former Michigan Football Attack coordinator Mike Depard He died on Tuesday at the age of 69.

Born in February 7, 1956 in Montisi, Indiana, the Dibord football career began at Manchester College, where he started every four years on the offensive line, and he mentioned an honor to honor from Naia all-american and served as a leader in 1977. After obtaining a master’s degree in Ball State in 1981, he began his career in training in 1982.

He went up to the highest ranks, moving from places such as Franklin College, Fort Hayes State University and East Illinois, to a little higher levels of the college in Paul State and the state of Colorado. After obtaining a Big Ten break in Northwestern (1992) as the offensive coach, he joined Gary Melller in 1993 and stayed in his position when Lloyd Car took in 1995 for two other seasons.

Then he was promoted to the coordinator of the attack in Ann Arbor in 1997 and helped to guide Wolverin to the first national championship for nearly 50 years and remained on the employees until 1999.

He mocked this successful work in the only training for his brilliant professional life, as he led Michigan from 2000-2003, before Brian Kelly succeeded. He returned to Ann Arbor in 2004, in favor of the second UM from his professional team who trained the special teams, before working as a narrow coach for the attack and the attack coordinator again in 2006 and 2007.

Then he ventured in the American Football Association, with a stop in Seattle and Chicago, then returned to Ann Arbour for two years in 2013 and 2014 as a sports official. Then he trained in Tennessee and Indiana before working as an attack coordinator in San Diego (US Football Alliance) in 2019.

He achieved his fourth and final return to Ann Arbor for the year 2020 as an offensive analyst.

His last stop in Kansas came in 2021, before suffering a stroke that year.

“God has blessed (such) to be directed before and a coach with Mike Depard,” Tom Allen saidThe former coach in Indiana, now Clemerson’s defense coordinator, on X. “He was one of the best men I know in the training profession!

Tony Garcia She is Michigan Wolfirin A writer to enter Detroit Free Press won. Send it by email on APGARCIA@freepress.com and follow it on X in RealtonyGarcia.

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