Wolverine TV: Chris Partridge, Ron Bellamy talk Michigan football, their position groups before ECU game
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Michigan Wolverines football linebackers coach Chris Partridge and wide receivers coach Ron Bellamy met with the media Wednesday afternoon ahead of their team’s season opening game against East Carolina. Watch video of Partridge at the top of the screen and Bellamy in the embed below.
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Partridge departed Michigan after the 2019 season to help coordinate the Ole Miss defense, and arrived back to Ann Arbor after being let go this offseason. During his time away from the Wolverines, the program has won back to back Big Ten championships and made two College Football Playoff appearances. Partridge discussed what’s different from his first stint to now, noting the culture was on the rise back then, and now it’s fully formed.
“The victory stuff for the Ohio State game, No. 1, that’s exciting to see,” Partridge said, pointing to murals and memorabilia inside Michigan’s Schembechler Hall from the Wolverines’ two wins over Ohio State in 2021 and 2022. “It’s funny, because I’ve gotten that question from a lot of different areas. First of all, the culture here is A+ — coaches, players. When you walk in this building, when I came back, it is an A+ culture. And I think if you think of it like this — when I was here the first time, it was kind of just still developing. We weren’t there yet. Jim’s culture was developing and who he is, and now it’s like, it embodies who he is.
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“If you take a kid, you have a baby and they’re four or five years old, it’s like, ‘Are you more like mom or are you more like dad?’ You don’t really know, until now all of the sudden it’s like, ‘You’re dad.’ That’s what this team is. They’re Jim. They embody him — hard working, blue collar, consistent, they play with no fear. They know he has their back and they have his back.”
Bellamy, meanwhile, discussed the status of banged up Michigan wide receivers, a freshman trio that is impressing, and how junior quarterback J.J. McCarthy has progressed leading into the 2023 season, his second as the Wolverines’ starter behind center.
