ANN ARBOR, Mich. – University of Michigan J. Ira and Nicki Harris Family Football Coach Jim Harbaugh announced Tuesday (Feb. 7) that Josh Sinagoga has been hired as an offensive analyst for the football program. Sinagoga joins the Wolverines’ staff after spending the past three seasons as an assistant coach at Youngstown State University.
Sinagoga worked with the quarterbacks in 2022 after coaching the receivers during the previous two seasons (2020-21). He also served as the Penguins recruiting coordinator during his entire tenure and helped lead YSU to its highest rated recruiting class in school history in 2022.
Prior to joining the YSU staff, he was an offensive quality control coach at the University of Cincinnati during the 2019 season. Sinagoga was part of a team that posted an 11-3 record and won the Birmingham Bowl. UC also played in its first-ever American Athletic Conference Championship Game against Memphis. He helped mentor Desmond Ridder at Cincinnati, currently the starting quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons, who rewrote the record books during his career at Cincinnati.
Sinagoga has worked in the Big Ten during his career, serving as an offensive graduate assistant coach at Iowa during the 2017 and 2018 seasons.
He joined the Iowa staff from Central Michigan, where Sinagoga was a graduate assistant coach who worked with the quarterbacks, running backs and wide receivers during his two seasons (2016-17). He was a quality control coach at CMU in 2015 and a graduate assistant coach at Northwood University in 2014.
Sinagoga played quarterback at Northwood, serving as a team captain during his senior season. He was voted a team leader and earned conference all-academic recognition all four years. Sinagoga was nominated for the AllState Good Works Team in 2013.
A Madison Heights native and De La Salle alum, Sinagoga graduated from Northwood in 2012 with a bachelor’s degree in entertainment and sports promotion management. He earned his MBA from Northwood in 2015.
Nick Gilbert Joins Michigan Football Staff
ANN ARBOR, Mich. – University of Michigan J. Ira and Nicki Harris Family Head Football Coach Jim Harbaugh announced Tuesday (Feb. 7) the hiring of Nick Gilbert as an offensive analyst for the Wolverines’ coaching staff. Gilbert comes to Ann Arbor after spending the 2021 season at the University of Colorado.
Gilbert worked directly with former Michigan analyst Kyle DeVan as a quality control specialist with the offense in Boulder, assisting specifically with the offensive line.
Prior to joining the Colorado staff, Gilbert was the offensive line coach at the University of Idaho in 2021. The Vandals had a solid run game under Gilbert’s direction, averaging 171 yards per game to rank 31st in FBS. They also set a school record with seven rushing touchdowns in a game.
During the 2020 COVID season, Gilbert was an offensive quality control analyst at the University of Memphis. He worked with the running backs and tight ends, played an active role in scouting and recruiting and helped manage the team of graduate assistants.
Gilbert was the offensive line coach at Concord University (Athens, W.Va.) during the 2019 season. Prior to that appointment, Gilbert was a graduate assistant coach working with the offensive line at Idaho for three seasons (2013-15). He also served as a graduate assistant at Memphis in 2016 and spent two years in the same role at the University of Louisville (2017-18), working with the offensive line at both stops. The Memphis and Louisville offenses’ ranked tops in their conferences during Gilbert’s stints with the programs. He began his coaching career as a volunteer assistant coach at Division III Heidelberg University, coaching the outside linebackers during the 2012 season.
Gilbert earned his bachelor’s degree in Homeland Security in 2012 from Tiffin University (Ohio), where he was a three-year letterman playing on the Dragons’ offensive line. Gilbert and Michigan quarterback coach Kirk Campbell crossed paths at Tiffin, where Campbell was the wide receivers and tight ends coach in 2011. Gilbert started his collegiate career at Erie Community College. Gilbert earned his master’s degree in education from Idaho in 2016.
A Syracuse, N.Y., native, Gilbert graduated from Onondaga Junior/Senior High School where he lettered in football, basketball and lacrosse. During his time at Onondaga, Gilbert played alongside current Michigan running backs coach Mike Hart, the Wolverines’ all-time leading rusher.
Chris Partridge Rejoins Michigan Football Staff
ANN ARBOR, Mich. – University of Michigan J. Ira and Nicki Harris Family Head Football Coach Jim Harbaugh announced Wednesday (Feb. 8) the return of Chris Partridge as a member of the Wolverines’ staff.
“Chris has been a trusted agent, known friend and ally since we started working together in 2015,” said Harbaugh. “He is a phenomenal teacher and coach and will be a major asset to our team, program, and university community. We are so excited to have Chris, his wife, Marissa, and daughters, Mia and Gianna, back in Ann Arbor and part of the Michigan Football family.”
“My family and I could not be more excited to be back in Ann Arbor,” said Partridge. “Michigan has always remained a huge part of us. I appreciate Coach Harbaugh for having continued trust and faith in me to help him with the championship brand of football he has established. I look forward to working with the staff to recruit, mentor and coach the incredible young men that make Michigan the best football program on and off the field in the world! Go Blue!”
Partridge spent the past three seasons as the co-defensive coordinator and safeties coach at the University of Mississippi (2020-22). He was the Rebels primary defensive play-caller in 2022.
During his time in Oxford, Ole Miss tied the school record for most wins in a season with 10 during the 2021 season. Partridge helped make a massive improvement in the Rebel defense over the past few seasons, with his safeties increasing their production each season. The program also tied the record for the most players drafted with six during the 2022 NFL Draft, including four players on the defensive side of the ball.
Prior to joining the Ole Miss staff, Partridge spent five seasons on staff at Michigan beginning as the program’s director of player personnel. He served as the team’s special teams coordinator for four seasons (2016-19), which included two seasons as safeties coach and two seasons as linebackers coach. Partridge was the Wolverines’ director of player personnel in 2015.
He was named National Recruiter of the Year by Scout in 2016 and received the same honor from 247Sports in 2017. Partridge was ranked a top-five recruiter again in 2019 by 247Sports.
Partridge helped lead a defensive unit which has ranked among the nation’s best during his first stint on the U-M staff. The Wolverines ranked first or second nationally in pass defense in each of his four seasons and helped make the defense one of the stoutest third-down units in the country over that span.
Under his direction, seven Wolverine defenders earned nine All-Big Ten accolades, including two first-team honors. He also helped Jabrill Peppers to a decorated season in 2016, when he was a consensus All-American at linebacker, won the Big Ten’s Nagurski-Woodson Defensive Player of the Year, Butkus-Fitzgerald Linebacker of the Year and Rodgers-Dwight Return Specialist of the Year awards, and finished No. 5 in the Heisman Trophy voting. Peppers was a winner or finalist for seven additional national honors.
Michigan’s special teams also saw an uptick under Partridge. Six individuals earned 10 All-Big Ten honors including 2018 second-team All-American punter Will Hart, also named the Big Ten’s Eddleman-Fields Punter of the Year and set the single-season and single-game punting average records.
Partridge came to Ann Arbor after serving as head coach at New Jersey’s Paramus Catholic High School. He grew a football program listed 4,250th nationally and 112th in the state of New Jersey to the top-ranked team in the state and No. 4 nationally by USA Today. He coached and mentored more than 30 Division I football players during that time, as well as various All-Americans.
Partridge earned his bachelor’s degree in government and law from Lafayette College in 2003.
