Arizona Basketball Dedicated Its Win Over Michigan To Rich Rodriguez
Of course, Arizona head football coach Rich Rodriguez was previously the head man at Michigan, and it didn’t work out so well — he finished with a 15-22 record in Ann Arbor. There’s nothing like rubbing the salt in some old wounds of Michigan fans — I’m sure that many Wolverines fans just want to forget their own Rich-Rod era.
The basketball team recognized the moment by announcing on Twitter it was giving its official game ball to Rodriguez.
“That was a really proud moment for me,” he said.
December 16th, 2013 at 3:01 PM ^
l;kajdkfjkklaslkj.......Also, in fairness: a;luiaweoiuav89842394i3a;lidf=-1=.
December 16th, 2013 at 3:03 PM ^
Arizona gave up 70 points, so it seems fitting.
December 16th, 2013 at 3:05 PM ^
December 16th, 2013 at 3:07 PM ^
Good job taking down the Sun Devils.
Oh wait........T_T
December 16th, 2013 at 3:09 PM ^
The 2nd article linked was pretty good. You can't get angry at him for how he responds to the questions.
December 16th, 2013 at 3:10 PM ^
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December 16th, 2013 at 3:31 PM ^
and thats a poor winner. AZ your a poor winner, next time just piss on the center court logo after beating your next opponent.
December 16th, 2013 at 3:45 PM ^
The only thing that hurts about this is they tried to do this to the basketball program, which is relatively free of the horrible "insider" politics that run rampant in the football program. These are the forces which hunted Rodriguez and made Brady Hoke such a strange hire.
December 16th, 2013 at 4:21 PM ^
December 16th, 2013 at 4:23 PM ^
Could this be the beginning of an exciting new rivalry?
No? ok.
December 17th, 2013 at 9:28 AM ^
in hell that AZ could've gotten picked to play us in the BWW Bowl?
Their record had to be similar to ours and they would have the (somewhat) local crowd draw...we may have dodged a bullet.
December 17th, 2013 at 7:49 PM ^
It's a big-12 tie-in, #4 on their list. The only way Arizona could possibly have gone is if the Big 12 only had three bowl-eligible teams, which if not literally impossible is extremely unlikely.
December 16th, 2013 at 4:29 PM ^
I mean seriously. It was a win-win. Let's move on.
December 16th, 2013 at 4:32 PM ^
Nothing to see here, carry on.
December 16th, 2013 at 4:34 PM ^
Maybe he wouldn't have had the worst winning percentage of any Michigan football coach in one hundred and thirty five years.
Does anyone honestly think that Mississippi State would have put 52 points on Michigan if DB had Rod's back?
We'll never know what could have been if not for the man keeping Rich down.
/s
As if the tag is necessary.
December 16th, 2013 at 4:50 PM ^
derp derp derp derp
December 16th, 2013 at 5:19 PM ^
December 16th, 2013 at 4:53 PM ^
Okay, great.
The basketball team, the #1 team in America, giving him a game ball after squeaking by an unranked Michigan team, still does not change the fact that Rodridguez led an embarressment of a program here for three years. I'm sure he did his best, but I'm glad he's about as far away from this school as possible.
December 16th, 2013 at 8:14 PM ^
Your critical consideration of college basketball rankings as important exposes your ignorance of the sport.
December 16th, 2013 at 5:18 PM ^
If we'd just let him hire his DC and recruit a few more 5'8" 178lb "skill" guys and a trim a few more O-lineman down to 278lbs we would have been in a perfect position to get run the f**k over by Stanford, Alabama, Wisconsin, LSU, Sparty and anyone else with the sense to realize that there is a reason the NFL doesn't seek out the same players he does. If you can't recruit the best players you resort to trickeration. See Air Force, Army, Navy, Georgia Tech, Oregon etc. If you have a national brand and can recruit the BEST at every position then you do so. Its not brain science. When we hired RR my concern was that we were essentially surrendering. We were going to win with lesser players(something he can and will continue to do) and be content to lose most of the time when we faced top competition. Notice I said "most of the time" because yes, I recognize that sometimes a team of lesser talent can sneak up on a better team and beat them(the horror). However, if we play Appy st. 10X in a row how many would they win? Likewise if Oregon's best team under Kelly plays Saban's Bama or Carrol's USC or Miles LSU they will probably win 1 or 2, and lose 8 or 9. We(Michigan) don't want to aspire to get lucky or sneak up on people with our nifty shifty offense and hope to "catch" them napping. Thats not the Michigan I want to brag about, the one that might just trick you into losing a game. RR caught Oregon after Stanford immasculated them on national TV. Then proceeded to lose to the same Sun-devils that didn't belong on the field with the Cardinal. That told me all I needed to know about the trajectory of a RR coached Arizona team and what would have been at Michigan as well. RR's best recruit(Denard) will be out of the NFL sooner than later. Saban or MIles or Lloyld Carr for that matter often times had his 10th best recruit earn a living in the NFL for 10 years or more. All that glitters is not gold folks.
December 16th, 2013 at 8:36 PM ^
Your post would be amazing if it were satire, but it clearly is not. Therefore, I am glad it is here, for posterity's sake. No, I won't engage in intelligent debate with you, other than to say that your statements about scheme and superiority of MANBALL are really just wrong, man. Like, provably, by statistics, wrong.
December 17th, 2013 at 4:59 PM ^
It's not about scheme, other than the coincidence that spread scheme teams seem to be overpopulated with fast and undersize players. Auburn won a national championship running a spread scheme. Using NFL level players. Florida under Urban won a NC, once again NFL all over the field talent wise. RR didn't recruit top level talent PERIOD. Regardless of scheme that point cannot be debated. It is fact and "provable" like by reality and stuff. I'd venture to say Carr had more players earning a reqular NFL paycheck in say 2001 if you took a snapshot then RR will have in his entire coaching career, which by all accounts may be only 1/2 over. Wanna take that bet?? Manball means nothing to me, I could care less what scheme is used and agree that all can be effective BUT..Lets not get caught up in "Like...statistics" because that makes Oregon look better than USC over the past 10yrs when we know USC's national championships trump everything Oregon has accomplished.
December 16th, 2013 at 9:24 PM ^
December 16th, 2013 at 5:21 PM ^
But he didn't do anything wrong in this instance. Dumb Dumb Dumb Dumb Dumb!
His only "crime" was:
a. Being a former Michigan head football coach
b. Saying "that was a proud moment." and
c. Saying Michigan has "got a really good (basketball) team".
Dumb Dumb Dumb Dumb Dumb!
"Why can't he keep his mouth shut forever?" Smart Smart Smart Smart Smart!
December 16th, 2013 at 6:07 PM ^
Yeah, he did.
He had an embarassing tenure here and was awarded a game ball by the basketball team to somehow stick it to the place that gave him the opportunity.
And he's proud of that? Try "no comment", Rich.
December 16th, 2013 at 6:26 PM ^
Yeah, that's a great thing to do to your basketball team at the school who has treated you well. Receive an unprompted gesture? Say "no comment" instead of "I appreciate that; thank you."
Maybe you should opt for "no comment" instead of posting dreck like this here.
December 16th, 2013 at 8:09 PM ^
Bah. If it was a victory over any other team it's supportive. This was cynical, sophmoric and lil' bro stuff.
December 16th, 2013 at 8:15 PM ^
Why would they do it for a win over any old team? It was pointed. Don't be an idiot.
December 16th, 2013 at 5:29 PM ^
I would be somewhat impressed if they had made that public before the game.
So, I'm not impressed.
They waited until afterward when it was nice and safe, Meh...
Next.
December 16th, 2013 at 6:31 PM ^
December 16th, 2013 at 7:03 PM ^
So if we beat Arizona in baseball or soccer or gymnastics then we get them back, right? Oh man... I'll bet we'd destroy them in hockey. That would really teach Rodriguez a lesson.
December 16th, 2013 at 7:37 PM ^
I'd just as soon forget about his failed experiment at UM. By the sounds of things, he hasn't gotten over UM yet.
December 16th, 2013 at 8:17 PM ^
If RR was a "failed experiment," what is Hoke? You now have the same amount of data to determine.
December 17th, 2013 at 12:15 AM ^
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December 16th, 2013 at 7:38 PM ^
doesn't know defense ... And that basketball game makes me madder than it should! Should've won! Damnit!
December 17th, 2013 at 7:39 AM ^
but it seems like he is way too thin-skinned for a job like head football coach.
December 17th, 2013 at 9:09 AM ^
Maybe they should have simply "raised him up."
December 17th, 2013 at 10:04 AM ^
December 17th, 2013 at 10:19 AM ^
this paragraph wasn't long enough.
I do like the dramatic ending too: ",."
December 17th, 2013 at 5:30 PM ^
Thank goodness Hoke drew the line at providing a Lazy Boy recliner in the film room for the AD. Such negotiations seperate the boys from the men.