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Michigan football coach Jim Harbaugh says staff overhaul not due to a disconnect

Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh on Thursday said he did not sense a disconnect among his staff or with players last season, but he cited his desire to make "improvements to everything" for hiring seven new assistants, including defensive coordinator Mike Macdonald.

"I didn't find any kind of disconnect, but wanted to be strong in all areas, making improvements to everything," Harbaugh said Thursday, following Michigan's first two spring workouts. "I would describe it as that. I didn't feel there was a disconnect, no."

Harbaugh completed the staff overhaul Monday by hiring quarterbacks coach Matt Weiss, who worked for him at Stanford before spending the past 11 seasons with the Baltimore Ravens under Harbaugh's brother, John.