New Michigan DL coach Greg Scruggs arrested for operating vehicle while intoxicated

Michigan defensive line coach Greg Scruggs was arrested for operating a vehicle while intoxicated early Saturday morning, according to On3’s The Wolverine.

The Detroit News’ Angelique Chengelis was the first to report the news.

“I can confirm he was arrested for OWI by our department just before 3 a.m.,” Chris Page, strategic communications manager for the Ann Arbor Police Department, sent in a text to The Detroit News Saturday.

Greg Scruggs was officially announced as the Michigan defensive line coach on March 6. He came to Michigan after spending the 2023 season at Wisconsin.

Scruggs has experience at the college and NFL levels. He was the assistant defensive line coach for the New York Jets in 2022, helping New York finish fourth in the NFL in scoring defense.

Greg Scruggs played college football at Louisville, before spending five seasons in the NFL.

He started his coaching career at Cincinnati in 2018, working in a player development role. He was promoted to the defensive line coach for the Bearcats in 2020. From there, he went to the Jets, Wisconsin and now Michigan.

Scruggs is a part of a new-look Michigan coaching staff after Jim Harbaugh left for the NFL this offseason. It remains to be seen what punishment, if any, he will face.

How Michigan’s poaching of Ohio State RB coach Tony Alford elevates Big Ten to SEC’s level

In addition to Greg Scruggs, another new addition to the Michigan coaching staff this offseason was running backs coach Tony Alford, who came over from Ohio State.

It’s not so common to see coaches move too much within a given conference, especially to a hated rival. But it is more commonly seen in the SEC, regarded for many years as the most competitive league in college football both on and off the field. And with the Big Ten adding four new, strong programs ahead of the 2024 football season to bolster their respective conference adjacent to the SEC, On3’s Andy Staples is here for all of the drama.

“The Big Ten has become the SEC in all of the best ways. This is what you want, this is the good stuff right here, when you’ve got rivals poaching assistant coaches from one another,” Staples said on Thursday. “Tony Alford was the running backs coach at Ohio State for nine years, nine years. Sherrone Moore comes in at Michigan, decides Mike Hart‘s not gonna be retained, goes and gets Tony Alford. And that’s not a case of, oh Ohio State didn’t want him, he hadn’t been doing a good job. Tony Alford has been recruiting incredibly well at Ohio State, he has developed running backs incredibly well at Ohio State.”