{"id":470073,"date":"2023-11-17T16:39:42","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T20:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=470073"},"modified":"2023-11-17T16:39:42","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T20:39:42","slug":"michigan-dismisses-lb-coach-chris-partridge","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/michigan-dismisses-lb-coach-chris-partridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan dismisses LB coach Chris Partridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michigan published today that LB manager Chris Partridge has been fired, effective immediately.<\/p>\n<p>The main reason why he was dismissed was that he refused to cooperate with the NCAA probe.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The NCAA presented Michigan with new evidence this week, per <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RossDellenger?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@RossDellenger<\/a>, causing UM to alter its legal approach.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 A Michigan booster \u2014 \u201cUncle T\u201d \u2014 may have helped fund Connor Stalions\u2019 operation<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 LB coach Chris Partridge allegedly helped destroy evidence on a computer <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/89VG0tV4wM\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/89VG0tV4wM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Front Office Sports (@FOS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FOS\/status\/1725566391619580125?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 17, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Rick Minter will be the new linebacker coach when the Wolverines face Maryland tomorrow. Partridge worked as Michigan&#8217;s director of player personnel in 2015, then was promoted to special teams coach and safeties coach, and then he became linebackers manager from 2016-19.<\/p>\n<p>He left Michigan to work for 3 years as a co-defensive coordinator at Ole Miss before coming to school at the beginning of the year and taking his old job back.<\/p>\n<p>The news that Chris was dismissed comes 1 day after the program announced it was dropping its legal case vs. Big 10 and that boss Jim Harbaugh would serve his 3-match suspension that was given to him by the conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michigan published today that LB manager Chris Partridge has been fired, effective immediately. The main reason why he was dismissed was that he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":470074,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[19523,19809],"news_category":[16705],"gn_keywords":[22099,19525,19811],"acf":{"announce":"The program fired the linebacker coach.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/470073"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470073"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/470073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":470077,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/470073\/revisions\/470077"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470073"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=470073"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=470073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}