Detroit — Michigan defensive coordinator Don Brown, in his first season with the Wolverines, spent the spring installing his system and concepts.
What accelerated the learning was the fact Michigan has a number of veteran defensive players now on their third defensive coordinator in three years, so picking up Brown’s defense has been challenging but efficient because the players have a better grasp of the game.
“I thought we did a great job of grasping the verbiage and continuing to make strides and didn’t let new concepts and so forth slow us down, which is a huge concern,” Brown said Thursday night at the Horatio Williams Foundation Detroit High School clinic.