Carr talks re Trent

So now you're faulting Lloyd Carr for taking too long (a day or two, in real time) to respond to this.  I'm looking forward to a time when Lloyd Carr - who stopped coaching in January 2008, mind you - isn't going to be blamed for Michigan's football troubles anymore.

So are you the secret police for Rich Rodriguez? Anyone who is related to anything said under the rainbow and sunshine level gets the kiss of death from you.

The story here was "RichRod badmouths Morgan Trent to NFL scouts, according to Lloyd Carr and Morgan Trent."  The clear implication is that a rift remains between Lloyd and RichRod.

RichRod has denied the statements reported in the book.  Trent has denied the account of the story in the book.  Lloyd Carr, the person who reportedly relayed the information to Trent, calls bullshit (and if you can think of a more unequivocal statement Carr has made in the last 20 years, I'd be surprised). And we have no statements from any named NFL sources. 

What we're left with seems an awful lot like the Free Press reporting of the practice time Jihad.  RichRod MAY have said things to scouts, and Michigan may have exceeded practice time.  But even if some of the underlying facts turned out to be accurate, that wouldn't make the reporting of the event any less bullshit.  Sure, RichRod may have said some negative stuff about Morgan Trent to scouts, but the parties involved have pretty much bitch-slapped the account in the book.

Read what I wrote.  I said that I doubted the whole story, from the beginning; the whole thing was multiple hearsay. 

Then, what I said was that Carr happened to be in the perfect position to refute a story that was basically injurious to Rich Rodriguez.  And the reason that Carr ought to refute the story was for the good of the entire Michigan Athletic Department.  That it would be an easy thing for Carr to do.  Pick up the phone, and say, "The story is completely untrue."

Did you have problems in Reading Comprehension?

the only way RR is a dickbag here is if he *actively* trashed Trent; and that I think the chances of that being true are very small.  But that's just my opinion and I know I could certainly be wrong.  I just don't think RR would go on the warpath like that, but I've never met the man. 

Look, here's what I think has happened.  A scout asked RR for his opinion of Trent.  RR told him the truth. (In my opinion, if he stayed toward the 'no comment' end of the spectrum, that is the honest and honorable thing to do all around.).  Trent heard RR trashed him.  Lloyd heard the same.  Lloyd and Trent talked about it.  An author who needs to make a name for himself ran with it.  And MGoBlog blew up.  Fuck we need some wins around here.  (But we shouldn't.)