Cube: Fear, Paranoia, Suspicion, Desperation in Michigan Football

This guy gets it. Thanks for the post.

Even your reference to Lloyd had to be included in that post because it's important. I'll tell you why in a bit.  The past couple of days I've been worried we might lose RR, and I thought how disastrous that would be for Michigan fans in the future as we witnessed him turning another program into a top-notch team and then began second guessing ourselves and asking, "Why didn't we wait just a bit longer."

My reading of history of RR and his coaching career tells me he's had success at every stop, although almost never immediately. I then thought of his playing on a bigger stage, many of his decisions, but always in the back of my mind was the thought of this year's offense, running behind a first year qb yet again. I thought of Dee Hart and Justice Hayes and of the receivers already on board, those rsed and those coming.  I concluded, Oh hell no. Brandon isn't going to let this guy go. He might have faced a bigger task against stronger competition than he had previously faced, but even though I was tempted to lean the other way, I thought of Oregon and finally decided  yeah he has to boost the performance on the other side of the ball, smooth out the offense a couple of degrees, but No,he's not going anywhere.  

I thought of Belotti who ran a pro-set, but prior to his retiring and taking over the job of AD, had seen the future and decided it was RR's offense, which he implemented his last two seasons, gave us Dennis Dixon, an ass-kicking in front of the home fans in AA and the hiring of a bright young coach with full understanding of the team and a roster already seet in place for success.

Hell, I even wondered about Greg. We know he can produce with talent, but this isn't the NFL. We don't have a draft. Can we attract defenders like we are offensive players? That, ultimately, will be the determining factor.

I mentioned I'd get back to Lloyd. As I said, I'm so happy you mentioned him and the players who carried him off the field. I still wonder if he was tossing RR a welcome to AA party, showing what the spread could do, albeit in this case, a passing spread with a helathy dose of AA running behind Jake Long and Mike Hart. We couldn't run the read-option, but we didn't need to. We still had our AA QB, RB and receievers. Where would you like to try and stop us Urban? Typically he would, and he opted to stop our running. He, and the young defenders were lost when we ran the spread and shred through the air. I want to think LC saw the future also and was reaching out to Rich. Afterall, he had always proven to be a kind man.

Does RR have some things to learn? Answer: A coach, like anyone else never quits learning. Is he closer today than he was in '07? Only about 90% closer. 

Not too much longer friends; not much longer at all.  

Blaze, I gotta say you did a bang-up job with this. Cube is one of the better "mind-f@ck/edge-of-your-seat" movies I've ever seen, and is especially impressive for being so low budget. I thought Cube 2 (hypercube, or whatever) was terrible, but for fans of Cube I highly recommend Cube Zero (the prequel). None of these films, however, are for people who need answers and endings in which loose ends are tied.

Thanks for the entertaining read!