Michigan football hires Nick Gilbert, an analyst with offensive line background and strong ties to fellow staffers
Michigan Wolverines football has added analyst Nick Gilbert, who will help bolster an offensive line unit that won the Joe Moore Award for the nation’s top group each of the last two seasons.
Michigan offensive line coach and co-coordinator Sherrone Moore is expected to have more responsibility on his plate this season, following the departure of fellow co-coordinator Matt Weiss. As potentially the sole play caller and offensive line coach, bringing in Gilbert could help Moore handle all of his duties more smoothly.
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Gilbert spent the 2021 season as a quality control specialist at the University of Colorado, where he assisted former Michigan analyst Kyle DeVan, who was the program’s offensive line coach, with that position group.
The Michigan analyst was the offensive line coach at University of Idaho in 2021. The Vandals averaged 171 rushing yards per game, ranking 31st in the country, and set a school record with 7 rushing touchdowns in a game.
He was a quality control analyst at the University of Memphis in 2020, working with running backs and tight ends, and “playing an active role in scouting and recruiting and helping manage the team of graduate assistants,” per a Michigan press release.
Previous stops for Gilbert include being the offensive line coach at Concord University in Athens, West Virginia in 2019, a graduate assistant coach working with the offensive line at Idaho for three seasons from 2013-15 and grad assistant at both Memphis (2016) and Louisville (2017-18). Both Memphis and Louisville had top-ranked offenses in their respective conference during Gilbert’s time with those programs. He began his coaching career as a volunteer assistant coach at Heidelberg University, a Division III program, working with outside linebackers in 2012.
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Gilbert scored 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 quarterbacks coach Kirk Campbell crossed paths at Tiffin, where Campbell was the wide receivers and tight ends coach in 2011. Gilbert began his collegiate career at Erie Community College. He earned his master’s degree in education from Idaho in 2016.
Gilbert is a native of Syracuse, N.Y., and played alongside Michigan running backs coach and run game coordinator Mike Hart.
This is the second of two analyst hires Michigan has announced Tuesday, with Gilbert joining Josh Sinagoga, also an offensive analyst.
Those two are part of an analyst staff that includes Jack Clark, Bradford Banta (special teams), James Brown (special teams), Bret Ingalls, Doug Mallory (defense), Anthony Marciano, Richard Minter and Connor Stalions.
