SeattleChris

October 3rd, 2014 at 1:31 AM ^

Twas' a bit of a rhetorical question and I while I don't doubt the intent, i disagree with Oregon's execution. Uniformz cost a lot of money, probably a lot more than gloves or towels or wristbands.. I'd love to see the financials on the campaign vs. ROI on donation. Seeing as how nearly every team does some variant of this do you really believe that the donations they get will exceed the cost of the gear (Uniformz, Shoes, etc)..Phil Knight can't keep from grandstanding even when it comes to charitable causes.

CAwolverine

October 3rd, 2014 at 1:24 AM ^

2011 - 70th (class of 29: 9 x 3*)
2012 - 46th (class of 24: 1 x 4*, 15 x 3*)
2013 - 27th (class of 26: 3 x 4*, 17 x 3*)
2014 - 30th (class of 24: 5 x 4*, 16 x 3*)

Michigan Recruiting per Scout
2011 - 29th (class of 19: 4 x 4*, 15 x 3*)
2012 - 4th (class of 25: 1 x 5*, 14 x 4*, 10 x 3*)
2013 - 2nd (class of 27: 4 x 5*, 3 x 4*, 17 x 3*)
2014 - 27th (class of 16: 1 x 5*, 15 x 4*, 7 x 3*)

603_GoBlue

October 3rd, 2014 at 1:26 AM ^

Rich Rod. Im getting all worked up because the current situation is so bad that rich rod would be an upgrade over our current coach. BUT he still needed to go and never eeeheeeehee..ver come back.

603_GoBlue

October 3rd, 2014 at 1:33 AM ^

You mean all the DC's he needed to burn thru before he got one that actually put a reliable defense on the field? Because he certainly recruited the tools for his system.

I dont remember him having this much support at the end. Hes succesful somewhere else and we suck so now everyone wants to claim that they stuck behind him.

natesezgoblue

October 3rd, 2014 at 1:29 AM ^

I'm sorry but we screwed the pooch with rich rod. I can't imagine that Brandon wasn't the same when he was around. Imagine if Rich rod was given the same support from the athletic dept as coach hoke. What Hoke could've thrown money at a DC like hoke did with Nuss.

Rich rod was the light at the end of the tunnel for us and we fucked it up.

ak47

October 3rd, 2014 at 1:42 AM ^

Holy shit no he wasn't.  In case people forget so easily he beat oregon last year and still lost 5 games.  The program was only "improving" by the historically low standards he set in his first year, if you compare him to the previous 100 he was not on an upward trajectory but still below where he should have been in year 3.  Hokes worst year so far (and I want Hoke gone) is still as good as rich rods best.  Rich rod never recruited well at Michigan, the lack of offensive line and senior safetys is entirely on him and by the middle of his third year half the team (the defense) didn't even support him anymore.

Rich Rod doing ok at Arizona and Hoke being the wrong choice does not mean that firing rich rod was the wrong call.  Everyone is operating in hypotheticals and just assuming shit because we aren't doing well now but none of it is based in reality.  Denard wasn't a multi year starter because rich rod started tate over him and roy roundtree was our most talented receiver for a year because rich rod couldn't get athletes to come to michigan, you know why we don't have senior playmakers on this team? because they never came.

People keep liking to point out how great a coach rich rod is because he is succeeding with a young qb but then blame his lack of success at michigan because of a young qb.  Well which is it? Denard was in the program for 2 years by the end of rich rods last season and looked no better at the end of the year against mississippi state than when he started his freshman year, electric but erratic and turnover prone.  People need to stop obsessing that good would have happened, we don't know if it would have and all signs pointed to it not working by year 3, it was time to move on and we should just deal with it,

natesezgoblue

October 3rd, 2014 at 1:49 AM ^

How can you say it's entirely on him? I swear every DB we had was hurt one year. I'm not necessarily saying he didn't have his faults. I just think rich rod has been successful before and after his stint at Michigan. If his track record is success why wasn't he successful at Michigan. I'm not arrogant enough to say that a major part of the lack of success wasn't on Michigan.