Rich Rod has officially left the building(state).
I was driving through Saline when I noticed a large semi-truck with Arizona Wildcats logos plastered all over it. Behind it was another moving truck. If one considers that RR lived in Saline and the oddity of an Arizona Wildcats semi in Saline, I'd have to say that this was the final act in the Rich Rod drama. I did think it odd that it took this long for his stuff to be removed. He probably has not lived in the area for nearly a year.
April 20th, 2012 at 11:42 PM ^
Not just talent, but impeccable character. That kid is the consummate Michigan Man. Irrespective of Rich Rod's failures, we have him to thank for Denard. That should not be forgotten.
but don't forget RR really wanted pryor.
April 21st, 2012 at 12:14 PM ^
April 20th, 2012 at 11:11 PM ^
how still has them?
April 20th, 2012 at 11:21 PM ^
If I saw that with my own eyes, it would feel... cathartic.
Godspeed, Rich Rod.
April 20th, 2012 at 11:41 PM ^
Okay is this a blog page or is this English/Typing class where everyone must write/type properly without making mistakes. We know most of you got you degree from Mich but doggoneit, enough with the corrections. IJS. oops i made a mistake
to correct your post. You concluded your first sentence with a period when it is clearly a question. This is only one error of many. To answer your question, it's both/and. It is a blog where everyone must write properly without making mistakes. I, for one, am proud of reading a Michigan football blog whose users are scrutinous of grammar and spelling.
April 21st, 2012 at 11:38 AM ^
No can find in the OED, but this might be more of an Urban Dictionary-type place. That definition is too provocative for most gentle readers. Nonetheless I agree with your drift, and I like the sound of the word.
More generally, if not for RR I would never have become so attached to this blog, which helped me appreciate his offense mathematically and graphically, as I was mourning the losses.
April 20th, 2012 at 11:42 PM ^
Good riddance.
April 20th, 2012 at 11:48 PM ^
I actually don't understand how anyone could still be sympathetic to or care about what RichRod does; I will conceed that his time in Ann Arbor was ill fated and that he was never given a fair chance, however, the guy has the hubris to rival Kanye West and he has never, ever, as far as I know, even taken one minute to assess his role in all of this and think rationally about himself as a person and as a coach.
The continued shots at Michigan along with his sour grapes approach just confirm what the RichRod supporters should fear most: RichRod has learned nothing from this ordeal and he will continue to fail (and by fail I mean remain far away from anything at all posing a sembalance of a quality five year run where he stays in the top 25 and competes for a national title).
And to the people who support him: What attracts you to him? Do you care now because you cared before? Because you got fooled by the numbers? Or because you, like I, feel like he wasn't treated fairly and yet you, unlike I, can't wrap your head around the fact that if he could have beaten anyone other than Notre Dame, or not get waxed by Mississippi fucking state, or not lose to fucking Toledo (I could have coached us to victory over Toledo, hell the only person who couldn't have beaten Toledo in that game was RichRod), or not thrown an entire first year or two away because he wanted to win with 'his' offense, he woulds still probably been coach here right now: RichRod isn't coach here now not because of the politicing or the square peg - round hole theory; RichRod isn't coach here and now because he couldn't win a fucking football game... or beat pur'fucking'due for that matter...
I honestly don't understand you guys... and I'm not even being facetious.
April 21st, 2012 at 12:07 AM ^
April 21st, 2012 at 12:10 AM ^
April 21st, 2012 at 12:17 AM ^
I'll also come out and say that I'll forgive him his "swipes at Michigan" because the guy had a hundred times more invested in 2008, 2009, 2010, and partly 2011 than anyone here did (that includes any players on those teams, donors, DB, everyone) and it's understandable that people react to setbacks in different ways, sometimes in a manner not reflective of their true character.
Yes, I hope any future game against Arizona is a curb stomping, yes I like Brady Hoke very much and wish him nothing but success. On the other hand, there's no need to personally attack or insult RR until he does something that warrants personal attack. I haven't seen anything remotely approaching that level of behavior from him.
How about simply not caring...is that okay?
I don't care if Rich Rod goes 0-12 or 12-0, I don't care about Rich Rod just like I don't care about whoever coaches Middle Tennessee St.
Nothing against him, I don't love him...I don't hate him. I simply do not care.
April 21st, 2012 at 10:29 AM ^
what is and isn't okay for everyone else to think. If I was going to give an answer, though, I'd say it's fine not to care. I'm sure there are a lot of people that feel like you do.
April 21st, 2012 at 10:34 AM ^
Get with the program. It's not fine that you don't care. There are two burning issues regarding Michigan football that must be addressed: Rich Rod and the band. Standing on the sidelines without an opinion or showing disinterest in any way is not an option.
April 21st, 2012 at 10:39 AM ^
I choose not to have an opinion about your post saying an opinion is required.
April 21st, 2012 at 10:48 AM ^
And that's the problem with you youngsters today. No opinion. Why in my day, we would have tarred and feathered Rich Rod and run him out of town on a rail. And the band? We would have filled the AD's office with so many unwashed wasted hippies that Dave Brandon would need a freaking gas mask to get any work done. A day or two of working conditions like that, and he'd be signing over checks to fly the band first class and making public apologies on the 6 0'clock news.
April 21st, 2012 at 12:38 PM ^
April 21st, 2012 at 12:39 AM ^
I cared then and I care now because Rich worked with a passion to make Michigan Football better. In the end it didn't work out but I will never hate the man for trying his best.
Kanye says "that shit cray!"
You have an awful lot of certainty that you know things that you cannot possibly know. And you seem to care an awful lot about things that, in the grand scheme, don't matter all that much. And you are very critical of people who do not share your opinion.
I conclude from these observations that you are a young person. Wait until you get married, get divorced, have children, suffer one of them getting seriously ill, watch your parents die, or have one of a thousand other experiences that make life trying for adults. Then I encourage you to re-read your post and understand at how juvenile and petty you sound.
My own view? I believe that Rich Rod is a flawed but fundamentally decent person. I believe that he tried hard at Michigan, failed, and is still bitter about how things went down. I see no reason to laud him as some sort of supernatural martyr or to piss on his grave.
I will go to my grave believeing that only RichRod could have lost that game. I believe this because of three things:
1.) I believe our talent level alone was enough to line up, knock them over, and win the game. (There will be people who talk about the importance of strategy and whatnot, but this game, on this day, didn't feature some great gameplan by Toledo, or even a particularily inspiring performance by them but rather a Michigan team entrenched in an offensive philosophy change employing players not fit to run an offense and driven by a coach looking three years down the road.)
2.) I believe that RichRods offense was not designed in the least bit around the players he had (this is fact, I don't know who, or how they, would argue against this). In light of this fact I believe that he actually had our offense in the worst possible position to win the game.
3.) It actually took bad luck to lose the game. In a sense even we should have won that game but two of RichRods defining characteristics (turnovers and missed field goals) urged us just far enough in the direction of failure.
you can neg me to death, or whatever, but my original post was an honest question; I honestly don't understand why people not related to, or the best friend of, the man can possibly care what he does now that he is gone. There may be some sick morbose connection that some people carry to the man but that is about all that comes to mind...
over Appalachian State too. Damn, I wish you had been our coach instead of LC.
Appalachian State was very good. They won the national title that year.
April 20th, 2012 at 11:50 PM ^
April 20th, 2012 at 11:52 PM ^
Rich Rod...something about not eating cake....Bear Down....this story is getting old.
April 21st, 2012 at 12:11 AM ^
i think rich rod is a bad ass. of coarse i just moved to tuscon recently haha. and i think he wouldve succeeded in AA if he had a couple more years. just wait he'll take over the pac 12
April 21st, 2012 at 12:13 AM ^
April 21st, 2012 at 11:25 AM ^
It's not every day that you see an Arizona Wildcats truck driving through Saline. I found it interesting in the fact that I was witnessing the literal final act in the Rich Rod Era. That's all.
April 21st, 2012 at 12:16 AM ^
The way world turns, we'll probably see the guy again in the Rose Bowl or something one of these days.
At least RR had the balls to give it a shot at Michigan. Many great coaches will never ever get a shot like that in their lifetime. If Bo, Carr and Hoke had respect for Rodriguez, then I don't understand why people feel the need to take a shit on the guy anymore.
April 21st, 2012 at 12:15 PM ^
April 21st, 2012 at 12:19 AM ^
Practically every RR post for the past year has been useless, but they can still be a hell of a lot of fun. They're kind of like after a bad marriage ends. About 50% of the posts are like when the ex-wife gets remarried, the ex-husband expects the new marriage to fail, because, after all, she's a loser bitch. About 25% of the posts are like the mother of the bride who thinks the ex-husband never gave her a fair chance, and now that she has a new husband (her 3rd or 4th or maybe even 5th, btw), everything will be just dandy. The rest of the posts, like yours and mine, are bitching about or in some other way commenting on all the other posts.
Well, either that, or in nobody's lifetime on this board has Michigan ever had a head coach of the football team coach another college team after coaching at Michigan (I believe you have to go back to the 1920s with Elton Wieman). So people are understandably curious about what RR is up to. Michigan is where coaches end their careers in successful fashion--not where they flame out and try to rehabilitate their reputations somewhere else.
Practically every RR post for the past year has been useless, but they can still be a hell of a lot of fun. They're kind of like after a bad marriage ends. About 50% of the posts are like when the ex-wife gets remarried, the ex-husband expects the new marriage to fail, because, after all, she's a loser bitch. About 25% of the posts are like the mother of the bride who thinks the ex-husband never gave her a fair chance, and now that she has a new husband (her 3rd or 4th or maybe even 5th, btw), everything will be just dandy. The rest of the posts, like yours and mine, are bitching about or in some other way commenting on all the other posts.
Well, either that, or in nobody's lifetime on this board has Michigan ever had a head coach of the football team coach another college team after coaching at Michigan (I believe you have to go back to the 1920s with Elton Wieman). So people are understandably curious about what RR is up to. Michigan is where coaches end their careers in successful fashion--not where they flame out and try to rehabilitate their reputations somewhere else.
April 21st, 2012 at 12:32 AM ^
I'll root for either one. Go Rich.
April 21st, 2012 at 12:37 AM ^
tired of this shit...its past news. move on. Rich was a good guy who got the short end of the stick. Hoke has brought a better situation upon us. Move on, assholes. Bear Down! Go Blue!
I think that this little girl might have something to teach you. I'll let you figure out the symbolism on your own.
April 21st, 2012 at 10:31 AM ^
April 21st, 2012 at 11:32 AM ^
LMAO I immediately noticed the same thing.
April 21st, 2012 at 12:11 PM ^
April 21st, 2012 at 12:13 PM ^