Poll re. Coach Rod online at AnnArbor.com
November 20th, 2010 at 9:18 PM ^
I don't think these are the data points Dave Brandon's looking for.
November 20th, 2010 at 9:19 PM ^
Man i love irrelevant polls that result in no beneficial information what so ever.
November 20th, 2010 at 9:25 PM ^
Whenever I worry that th MGoBoard is getting out of hand, I take a peek at the comments at AnnArbor.com or MLive. This was seriously a comment posted in this article (from commentor "Obama from Kenya):
RichRod simply needs to recruit a faster QB. It's perfectly obvious that Shoelace is not fast enough for this offense. Its not the coaches or the scheme. Its the lousy players not following Mike Barwis' conditioning regimen. I'm tired of everyone throwing the coaches under the bus. The players are responsible. What are they majoring in again? They don't even deserve to wear maize and blue.
So... yeah.
November 20th, 2010 at 9:31 PM ^
I mean, this is his Mlive avatar.
November 20th, 2010 at 9:50 PM ^
is this guy trying to be cute or what?
November 21st, 2010 at 2:24 AM ^
Looks like Randy Moss in a couple years
November 21st, 2010 at 2:16 AM ^
Apparently that guy doesn't understand what speed actually is....
November 21st, 2010 at 12:12 PM ^
sarcasm.
So...yeah.
November 20th, 2010 at 9:26 PM ^
Here was a good quote from John Ferrara's father:
“People got to realize, this isn't the pros, you can't go to free agency and you can't pick up players. We got to recruit, and we got to recruit the right players, and I think you've already seen what (Rodriguez) can do on offense, now we just have to give him a chance to get the players on defense."
November 21st, 2010 at 2:39 AM ^
I've been a long-time RR supporter, but this line of reasoning doesn't work. Getting better on offense and defense aren't mutually exclusive. It isn't like we needed to finish rebuilding the offense before we could start improving the defense. We've had 3 years to work on improving both sides of the ball.
November 21st, 2010 at 7:02 AM ^
So, then, the best explanation is that Rich Rod just did not know that to succeed in college football generally and the Big Ten in particular he needed both an offense and a defense.?
Fire. RR. Now.
November 20th, 2010 at 9:36 PM ^
Gee, who'd have guess, Michigan fandom is split. Thanks AnnArbor.com!!
November 20th, 2010 at 9:39 PM ^
Dissapointed we actually have people who want to see him go. These are probably the same people who wanted to see LLoyd go. Some fans will just never be satisfied. Nevermind the fact that Denard broke 2 NCAA records today...Amazing.
November 20th, 2010 at 10:01 PM ^
Denard is a special talent. It'd be impossible to debate that, but the fact that one player is a superstar (i.e. Klingler, Andre Ware) doesn't mean that our program is headed in the right direction. Was anyone satisfied that Denard broke two records today given that we got stomped? I doubt it.
November 20th, 2010 at 10:44 PM ^
November 20th, 2010 at 11:00 PM ^
was. Sorry you weren't as happy for the kid. Outperforming Cam Newton and Pyror with a younger, less experienced team is impressive if not more because of it.
November 20th, 2010 at 11:10 PM ^
I am talking about performance of the team...the team...the team. Denard is a great player, but today's team performance was nothing to do happy about.
November 21st, 2010 at 9:08 AM ^
Yea, Denard is great and what he's been able to accomplish in this offense is amazing. However he's still arm punting quite a bit even though that should improve.
The main problem with the team though is that there are 3 phases to a football team and Michigan is absolutely HORRIBLE in 2 of them. The D and Special Teams are plain bad. RR in his 3rd year should have a better handle on both and people still want to make excuses about attrition and bare cupboards. I'm not jumping up and down saying he needs to be fired, but I have serious doubts that he can turn this thing around and get the D going. Brandon is going to have to make a tough decision on whether or not RR can learn from his mistakes (and possibly part with some loyal D staff) to get this team back on track.
November 20th, 2010 at 9:46 PM ^
November 20th, 2010 at 9:51 PM ^
career hangs in the balance of this poll. Vote early and vote often boys and girls.
November 21st, 2010 at 11:51 AM ^
if you ever need to feel good about your lives, then read the comments on mlive and annarbor.com. You can feel good you don't suffer from the same bipolar delusions as these people commenting on mlive.