Michigan football running back coach Mike Hart collapsed on the sideline during the first quarter of Michigan’s game against Indiana.
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Leon Michael Hart is an American football coach and former player. He currently serves as the running backs coach at University of Michigan.
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| Born: | April 9, 1986 Syracuse, New York |
| Height: | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) |
| Weight: | 206 lb (93 kg) |
Hart played college football as a running back at the University of Michigan from 2004 to 2007 and holds the Michigan Wolverines career rushing record with 5,040 yards.
He was selected by the Indianapolis Colts of the National Football League (NFL) in the sixth round of the 2008 NFL Draft. Hart played three seasons for the Colts, mostly in a back-up role, before the team released him in the spring of 2011.
He has previously worked as an assistant football coach at Syracuse University, Western Michigan University, Eastern Michigan University, and Indiana University Bloomington.
What happened to mike hart
Michigan football running back coach Mike Hart collapsed on the sideline during the first quarter of Michigan’s game against Indiana.
With 4:54 left in the quarter, just after Indiana scored a touchdown to tie the game, 7-7, and Michigan’s special teams unit was ready to head on the field Hart, standing near midfield, suddenly collapsed and the team gathered around him.
During halftime of the game telecast, Fox host Rob Stone reported that Hart suffered a seizure.
His team gathered around him and everybody on the field, on both sidelines, took a knee. Medical personnel tended to Hart and made a barricade around him holding towels up to block the view from the sideline.
After about 10 minutes, Hart was brought onto a stretcher and placed on a cart that took him off the field.
Video from the TV broadcast showed U-M running backs Blake Corum and Donovan Edwards visibly upset on the sideline, crying while Michigan staffers consoled them. Hart appeared responsive as he left the field, moving his head; a number of Indiana staffers walked up to the cart to speak to Hart as it drove off.
Fox sideline reporter Jenny Dell reported that Hart was joined by his wife on the sideline before leaving for the hospital and that Hart was alert while on the stretcher.
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The Michigan Wolverines were left shaken up and distraught Saturday when their running back coach, Mike Hart, suddenly collapsed on the sidelines.
Hart, 36, who is the college program’s all-time leading rusher, was carted off during the team’s game with the Indiana Hoosiers.
Rattled-looking players were seen getting hugged by other coaches on the sidelines, including head coach Jim Harbaugh.
The game in Indiana was particularly significant for Hart as he left the Hoosiers to join Michigan in 2021. He worked as running back coach and subsequently as associate head coach from 2017 to 2020.
The trip to Bloomington, Indiana, was therefore his first back to his previous employers.
The fourth-seed Wolverines are off to a fast start this year and, before Saturday’s game, boasted a 5-0 record. Indiana was 3-2.
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In August 2011, Hart accepted a job at Eastern Michigan University as the offensive quality control coach for the Eastern Michigan Eagles football team.
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He served in that capacity for the 2011 season and then for two seasons, 2012 and 2013, as the team’s running backs coach. On February 4, 2014, Hart was announced as the running backs coach at Western Michigan University.
Also On January 4, 2016, he was announced as the new running backs coach at Syracuse University.
It was announced on March 2, 2017 that Hart was leaving Syracuse to assume the vacant running backs coach position at Indiana University under his former coach Mike DeBord.
On October 8, 2022, during the first quarter of Michigan’s game against Indiana, Hart suffered a seizure on the sideline at Memorial Stadium.