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    The team has brought in some new faces to help the offense, including Michigan quarterback Cade McNamara, who helped the Wolverines beat Iowa in the Big Ten championship game in the 2021 season, as well as Michigan tight end Erick All, Miami (Ohio) offensive lineman Rusty Feth and Saginaw Valley offensive lineman Daijon Parker.

    The announcement of Ferentz’s amended contract comes just five days after head coach Kirk Ferentz, Brian’s father, said there will be no changes to the staff.

    “As I stand here today, I anticipate no changes in our staff moving forward,” Ferentz said at the time. “That’s my plan. Certainly, I think we do have a terrific staff and I thought they did a terrific job last year in tough circumstances and navigated us through, I think, some big challenges.”

    Kirk Ferentz told reporters he didn’t say the team would have the same offensive scheme, but it won’t look radically different if changes are made.

    “The thing I’m most focused on would be the points because that is what counts,” Ferentz said Wednesday. “Obviously everything you do offensively goes into that. I look back, we’ve had years like this and it’s not much fun, certainly. To win eight games, that’s no easy trick when you score 17.8 a game — that’s not easy. But I’m optimistic. I think I know the causes, as I’ve covered, for our challenges this year, and we’ve taken steps already in terms of addressing it.”