CC: Premium boards melting like snow cone in July!!
I truly have no idea what will happen in the next few days and i don't think anyone, now not even DB knows! I think we should expect to see RR back at best, if HE doesn't say go F yourself I'm going to greener pastures! Hoke would be a huge mistake and no way we get a NFL guy! Not sure what's going to happen but everyone needs to....shit I dont even know what to say....possibly saddest day in a very long time at Michigan!!! Go Blue
January 4th, 2011 at 8:02 AM ^
Pointless conjecture on the part of people posting. If anything the last 48 hours have just shown us that anyone claiming to have any insider info is just saying what their gut tells them.
January 4th, 2011 at 8:26 AM ^
Pointless indeed. Nonetheless, it's fun trying to determine whether DB is in full panic mode, or smiling like the Cheshire cat with everything under control.
January 4th, 2011 at 8:46 AM ^
Smart money says we'll only see him smiling like a cheshire even if he is in panic mode.
January 4th, 2011 at 9:43 AM ^
The last few days have been ridiculous.
Everybody has assumed that Harbaugh is coming to AA which was never a done deal. I hope he doesn't come if only to teach people a lesson. Fans shouldn't chew out and insult their current coach and bend over for what they assume will be their next coach without any knowledge of the situation. You know what happens when you bend over?? You get fcuked in the ass (que Walter from the Big Lebowski). I'd love to see all the hypocrites having to bite their tongue and support RR when they realize Harbaugh is not coming and he is the best we've got.
Repent... and thou shall be saved.
January 4th, 2011 at 9:54 AM ^
DB probably didn't expect such an embarrasing showing in the bowl game which sort of ties his hands now. RR is gone. The line about evaluating the performance over the season, i.e. that the bowl game would be part of that decision means Gone Baby Gone.
January 4th, 2011 at 8:03 AM ^
Harbaugh isn't coming. His wife's heart (and the money) are in the bay area.
Keep RR for another year (force him to clean house on defense) and he will win 10 games (people will still be calling for his head) and this will all be behind us. It is the best thing for Michigan Football in the short term and possibly in the long term.
January 4th, 2011 at 8:10 AM ^
Seriously, I am perhaps the biggest RR homer on here and even I want DB to terminate Rich. RIght now the ethical action is termination of his position at the university. It sucks, but I feel he would be a much better fit at a southern school in the ACC or Big East. Rich and his family deserve a better position.
January 4th, 2011 at 8:25 AM ^
With all due respect your opinion doesn't matter at this point. This is literally all peoples opinion that have been building onto something that is just a giant dark cloud of peoples opinion. DB said he was going to wait until after the bowl game to evaluate RR. I take him as a man of his word and I think he is doing just that. The win trajectory upward and the perfect storm of unsuitable coaches screams of a press conference with DB telling the world that RR is the coach of Michigan Football and will be for the remainder of his contract. 3 years is not enough time to properly evaluate a college football coach and my opinion is that DB knows that much.
EDIT: This is of course my opinion and it means nothing, at all. It is what I would do, but I would have done it after the OSU loss.
January 4th, 2011 at 8:52 AM ^
If DB preserves the status quo and we have another season anything like the one we just endured, I can only imagine what things will be like at the Big House next year. If Brandon planned on keeping RichRod, what has gone on since the OSU game is NOT the way to do things.
January 4th, 2011 at 9:14 AM ^
Your first sentence of the edit sums your post up perfectly.
January 4th, 2011 at 9:32 AM ^
Do you honestly think that any of the CC threads and/or posts have been anything other than personal opinion and/or conjecture? Other than a very, very few, everything posted over the past 5 weeks has been exactly this. You're a little late to the "game" to be complaining about people posting their opinions.
January 4th, 2011 at 8:14 AM ^
His wife is from Missouri and is only living in the bay area because that's where he's coaching now.
January 4th, 2011 at 8:17 AM ^
harbaugh seem like the kind of guy who has a little more "hand" with his wife....
i also believe JH's first wife who he has a kid with lives in Cali (not necessarily the Bay Area, but within a couple of hours) which may also be swaying his potential decision.
personally, i'm going to let him sleep on his big win last night and hope he wakes up ready to come to AA.
January 4th, 2011 at 8:18 AM ^
Where did they start thier family? Are thier kids in school? Is his wife happy and professionally stable in the bay area? Would she feel happy moving to Michigan rather than staying where they are and having her husband make 10 MIL a yr? Yeeeaaaaa... JH is not coming to Michigan. Time to start our next brilliant plan of action.
January 4th, 2011 at 8:32 AM ^
So in other words, you're just speculating that his wife wants to stay in the Bay Area.
And NFL coaches RARELY stay in the same place for more than a few years. So even if the kids are in school right now, there's a very good chance that they'll be moving in 3 years, anyway. How many NFL coaches have been fired this year? I'm not sure of the number, but I'm guessing there have probably been/will be more than a half dozen changes.
January 4th, 2011 at 8:35 AM ^
Yes.
January 4th, 2011 at 8:56 AM ^
It seems that if his "kids" are a large determining factor the college route would be the way to go. That lends to the idea that it's either Stanford or Michigan. I have a feeling though that his competitive nature would push him towards the NFL. Truth be told, I don't have a damn clue what the hell is going to happen. But it sure is entertaining/annoying/stressful/exciting to watch everybody go ape shit over this.
January 4th, 2011 at 9:49 AM ^
If he planned to stay at Stanford he certainly would have said it. He may yet end up at Stanford again, but clearly this wasn't his plan from the beginning. I suspect he intends to weigh all options, clearly a smart move.
January 4th, 2011 at 10:00 AM ^
I'm pretty sure that Jim has three kids from his first wife (whom I believe is based in California and is obviously not moving with him no matter where he goes) and two with his second wife. One of the older kids is at Oregon State (remember when he gave his opinion on the coaching situation a few weeks ago?) and I assume the other two w wife #1 are younger.
Thus, if Harbaugh takes a job outside of Cali, he will see his older three kids less b/c they're with his first wife in Cali.
Now excuse me while I try to forget I have come to learn the divorce status and child care situation of a college coach.
January 4th, 2011 at 8:26 AM ^
No way...so Harbaugh might take the Mizzou job?!
January 4th, 2011 at 9:16 AM ^
....keep RR and watch the Big House be about 3/4 full next year......if that.
January 4th, 2011 at 10:23 AM ^
That would really slam home one of the main lessons from the last few years, that M fans are frauds. It would be nice to stretch my legs for once.
January 4th, 2011 at 9:32 AM ^
DB can't keep RR anymore. DB went all in for JH. He has cut RR balls off this last month and he can't ask him to now go out and reproduce.
January 4th, 2011 at 10:03 AM ^
DB went all in for JH.
Says who? Honestly. I haven't heard a single word from DB that says he even went after JH. I know ESPN has been blowing up about it, but if you take DB at his word (which everyone has always said we should) then he has waited until now to do anything other than put out feelers. If that is going all in for JH then that is weak as hell. I just don't believe anything out of Bristol becaus eit has proven itself to be full of shit too many times in the past.
January 4th, 2011 at 9:37 AM ^
January 4th, 2011 at 10:00 AM ^
If you could ask for anything that would help this team out right now what would it be?
I would ask for two veteran cornerbacks and we will have them.
We also might get a DC worth a shit. That's what I am hoping.
Edit: Also 7 is greater than 5. That's a fact.
January 4th, 2011 at 8:03 AM ^
Rabble rabble rabble
January 4th, 2011 at 8:04 AM ^
But what if the snow cone is in Antarctica!!! WHAT THEN?? It's still cold enough there in July!!!1 If you're going to tell us when, you have to say where otherwise the analogy might be misinterpreted by those who are detail-oriented (read: OCD)
January 4th, 2011 at 8:05 AM ^
With all the CC crap on here already, you came on here to tell us that message boards are melting down?
January 4th, 2011 at 8:11 AM ^
Nine of the front page posts on the mgoboard are CC.
If Rodriguez is retained will this go on all summer, too?
January 4th, 2011 at 8:15 AM ^
Yes. To some he will never be a Michigan Man. He could go 10-2 next year and there will still be calls for his head.
January 4th, 2011 at 8:25 AM ^
I guarantee you, if he goes 10-2 next year he'll be the darling of the entire university
January 4th, 2011 at 8:29 AM ^
Eh, not if those two losses are to MSU and OSU. People will still hate him.
January 4th, 2011 at 8:30 AM ^
I honestly think the bridge is burned at this point. He could win a national championship and sections of the fanbase would still want him out. It just didn't work.
January 4th, 2011 at 9:49 AM ^
If RR won a national championship, all the haters will claim they supported him all along. It's called a bandwagon.
January 4th, 2011 at 10:26 AM ^
Some rubes might still hate him, but they would be forced to STFU, which is good enough for me.
January 4th, 2011 at 8:10 AM ^
between a premium board poster and any other board poster?
I can pay the Freep for a full-page ad detailing the reasons why I feel that DB and MSC didn't do squat. Doesn't mean that I'm somehow more clairvoyant than the dude who reads the funnies or jerks off to the lingerie ads.
January 4th, 2011 at 9:34 AM ^
What about the guy who jerks off the comics and reads the lingerie ads? I hear that guy knows his shit.
January 4th, 2011 at 11:03 AM ^
But he still cried with "Cathy" stopped running.
January 4th, 2011 at 8:11 AM ^
Really? The media has been back and forth like this for days now. Nothing new. We will know when DB announces who the coach is going to be. If JH signs with a NFL team before then, then we will know he isn't coming. Settle down and wait it out.
January 4th, 2011 at 8:16 AM ^
they have not been allowed to drive Brandon's bus. The fallout from this is going to be interesting.
January 4th, 2011 at 8:23 AM ^
Yeah. No matter what is decided people are going to be upset about who the coach is. I am just mad at how this is all going down and being handled. But what can I do?
January 4th, 2011 at 9:26 AM ^
lack of facts when the local media report. Yesterday they write someting and its taken as truth. Today something is written and now its the truth. No one knows the truth until DB or other key parties make a statement. Change the subject.
January 4th, 2011 at 8:14 AM ^
If Harbaugh orders Dominos pizza in this week, you can be sure he's coming to Michigan.
January 4th, 2011 at 9:04 AM ^
The sign is triple anchovies.
January 4th, 2011 at 8:15 AM ^
I feel keeping RR would be worse then getting Hoke. If we keep RR we are going to be here in the same place next year. After what you seen at the bowl game, Ohio State game, Wisconsin Game, MSU Game on and on do you really think RR has turn the corner and this team is fundamentally sound and on the verge of greatness.
January 4th, 2011 at 8:34 AM ^
I don't know what you "seen" when you "turn the corner," but you appear to pay as much attention in grammar class as you do to what is actually happening on the football field. Maybe you should go to Barnes and Noble today and hire Strunk and White as your personal head coaches.
January 4th, 2011 at 8:54 AM ^
Just on my first cup of coffee after 3 hours sleep. I didn’t mean to offend you with my grammar, apparently I not the football expert you are I'm just trying to have some fun I thought when I ran a rescue that was life or death apparently not. Sorry
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