Michigan football adds to football personnel department under Kyle Whittingham
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The University of Michigan has beefed up its football personnel department with multiple new hires, sources with direct knowledge told USA TODAY Sports on Monday, March 23.
The Wolverines are adding former New York Giants director of scouting Chris Pettit and ex-Wolverines player and assistant coach Ron Bellamy to the staff of new general manager Dave Peloquin, who was hired last month by Kyle Whittingham and worked closely with Whittingham in these moves, according to people familiar with the process.
Pettit will serve as Michigan’s assistant general manager of player personnel; Bellamy has been tabbed as the program’s senior director of recruiting relations.
Sources spoke on condition of anonymity because the new hires have not yet been publicly announced by Michigan.
Working with the NFL’s Giants for almost two decades, from 2004-2022, Pettit was a part of the organization as it won a pair of Super Bowl championships and eventually rose from intern to the role of director of college scouting.
The Giants dismissed Pettit in May 2022 after they hired Joe Schoen as general manager.
Pettit had founded a scouting data service, Scout Smarter AI, that leaned into technology and data to supply what the company previously termed “a stat-based scouting” service for football.
Bellamy, who played at Michigan from 1999-2002, had been on the Wolverine coaching staffs of both Jim Harbaugh and Sherrone Moore from 2021-25. He first served as Michigan’s safeties coach before he transitioned to coach wideouts, the position he played, the past four seasons.
Initially, Bellamy was not retained by Whittingham after Whittingham was hired away from Utah in late December.
But sources familiar with the process told USA TODAY Sports that Peloquin and Whittingham worked together to find a way to bring Bellamy back into the program.
In the overhauled personnel department, Bellamy and Pettit will join Skylar Phan, whom Michigan hired away from USC last month to become the Wolverines’ director of recruiting.
Michigan has completed its first week of spring practice under Whittingham and is scheduled to host its annual spring game on Saturday, April 18.
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Michigan is hiring a former standout player and an ex-Giants scout
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