After finishing his sophomore campaign with 44 combined tackles and five TFLs (tackles for loss), LB Cole Sullivan decided to leave Michigan. While Michigan’s head coaching change may have influenced him, the move wasn’t about what was happening at Ann Arbor. It was about the chance to learn from a coach who bills himself as ‘the linebacker doctor.’
“It was kind of funny, the first time I met him, he was like—he called himself the linebacker doctor,” Sullivan said on an episode of 10klahoma, an Oklahoma-based podcast. “He said if you’re sick, do you go to some random doctor you’ve never heard of, or do you go to a doctor that specializes in whatever is wrong with you?
I was like ‘well, I want to go to the specialist.’ He’s like, ‘Well, I’m the linebacker doctor.’ That was one of his pitches to me.”…