CC: Rich Rodriguez
October 3rd, 2014 at 3:17 AM ^
she speaks. We aren't still getting blown out by rivals? You miss it?
October 3rd, 2014 at 5:40 AM ^
October 3rd, 2014 at 3:51 AM ^
Both Hoke are RR were some of the worst coaches in Michigan history. Just because he beats Oregon 4 years later doesn't mean that he should have survived Michigan after having the 120th ranked defense out of 120 teams. We needed a change and we screwed it up. Saban failed at Miami. Sometimes it just doesn't work out.
October 3rd, 2014 at 4:53 AM ^
because
he
was
not
allowed
to
hire
a
quality
defensive
coordinator
I am not sure how to convey this to you in a way you will understand. No wonder brady got the job, people who think like you are the ones who would think some dude who can't even see his own dick is able to light a fire under a football team. RR runs with his players, brady waddles with his inhaler.
October 3rd, 2014 at 6:48 AM ^
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October 3rd, 2014 at 9:30 AM ^
because he was fighting half of his own fanbase, a ridiculous crusade by those aholes at the Freep and he was clearly on his way out.
October 3rd, 2014 at 6:57 AM ^
Casteel didn't want to come here, and UM wouldn't pony up the cash to entice him to come.
October 3rd, 2014 at 7:47 AM ^
October 3rd, 2014 at 4:17 AM ^
The AD, press and most fans were against him by his third season. Not sure the AD would have been supported even if he stayed. There's a lot of pressure at Michigan to win! RR did not operate well under this pressure. I think he is happier in AZ, coaching up two star athletes and wining 7 to 8 games per season. Though, he may get 10 wins this season.
Hoke has proven he does not belong coaching at this level. Hoke needs to go along with Brandon!
October 3rd, 2014 at 6:28 AM ^
Michigan paying for its arrogance, guess it had to happen eventually. Oh well, six more days to Red Wings, a month to basketball, somehow the Lions are 3-1, and hopefully more than a few more days of the Tigers...this season's lost and next year looks murky.
October 3rd, 2014 at 6:35 AM ^
October 3rd, 2014 at 10:54 AM ^
As defensive coordinator, Robinson was able to turn one of the worst defenses in the Big 12 to one of the best in a shockingly short amount of time, especially considering his 2-year absence from coaching preceded by high-profile failures at Syracuse and Michigan.[10] By the end of the season, Texas led the conference in sacks.[11]What is it about this place that brings out "special" performances from just about everyone these days?
October 3rd, 2014 at 12:42 PM ^
October 6th, 2014 at 2:08 PM ^
that hire was forced upon him by the AD, he did not hire GERG because his wife was friendly with his wife....that is absurd.
I agree he should have left Schafer alone, given that he was never going to get the proper budget to get a high level DC, Schafer was probably his best option moving forward.
October 3rd, 2014 at 6:37 AM ^
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October 3rd, 2014 at 6:40 AM ^
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October 3rd, 2014 at 7:45 AM ^
October 3rd, 2014 at 7:15 AM ^
UM had it everything it needed in coach Rodriguez. An offensive minded coach for the offensive game of football that is played in the 21st century. And then we fired him because he wasn't a "Michigan Man". Simply put - we BLEW IT! And we will continue to pay a heavy price as long as this nostaligic and antiquated concept continues to dictate the conversation. God speed boys.
October 3rd, 2014 at 7:34 AM ^
your memory is extremely selective. We fired the guy because of the epic losses to every team with a pulse and a decent defense. How easily we forget the ST blunders too. We were a very bad football team, period.
As posted above, his fate was sealed when he stubbornly refused to let his first D Coordinator run the defense he was good at. Then he hired GERG and it was all but over.
October 3rd, 2014 at 8:29 AM ^
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October 3rd, 2014 at 10:20 AM ^
No, his fate was sealed before he arrived in A2 and Michigan would not let him pay his DC to come to UM. His fate was sealed when som eof his players were conviced to leave by the previous coaching stafff. His fate was sealed when the arrogant Michigan fanbase refused to accept him or his football philosophy, because "this is Michigan forgodsakes".
Best part of all... we all proved Dantonio right.
October 6th, 2014 at 3:14 PM ^
he did not hire GERG....AD forced GERG upon him.
M was still vastly underpaying coaching staff at the time and the budget for DC was in the $200-250,000 range.......you simply are not going to get anything but bottom of the barrel for that amount.....and we did.
October 3rd, 2014 at 7:31 AM ^
October 3rd, 2014 at 10:59 AM ^
October 3rd, 2014 at 7:52 AM ^
LMAO... Funny how things work. Definitely when there was ppl like me who wanted to give him another year and got thrashed for saying that.. Now look. hahahaha Michigan fans are insane.
October 3rd, 2014 at 8:02 AM ^
October 3rd, 2014 at 8:16 AM ^
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October 3rd, 2014 at 9:03 AM ^
College football, hell, SPORTS, is fickle and can change in an instant. We're all bemused/bewildered by the state of our program, especially when we look at Arizona right now; but at the same time we could be reading an article about RR getting fired from Arizona in two years saying:
"despite memorable victories against the likes of Oregon, Rodriguez could never win consistently enough to hold onto his job. His ability to beat very good teams from time to time only made the losses to clearly inferior opponents all the more frustrating as his tenure wore on."
Sports, man. It rarely fits into a neat little narrative, despite the fact that this is how its always packaged and sold to us.
Right now it feels like this story is going to play out a certain way; Michigan continues to flounder while the coach they ran out of town has wild success somewhere else. Dantonio's prophecy fulfilled. What a perfect comeuppance... for everyone but us. But this story is going to take many twists and turns before the final chapter is written and, in the end, it probably isn't going to be quite so "paint-by-numbers" as it looks today.
Although today kinda does suck...
October 3rd, 2014 at 9:17 AM ^
The offense NEVER worked against good teams.
The Illinois game.
Wisconsin running the ball 30 STRAIGHT TIMES. Easily the worst fucking thing I've ever witnessed in terms of Michigan football
Rod lost his last 3 games by a total of 137-49.
485 yards to Miss St.
Nailbiters against Purdue, Indiana, UMASS!
For the love of christ, the 3-3-5.
Deciding that we can play football without recruiting OFFENSIVE LINEMEN
And if all of that shit wasn't bad enough, he was able to do something that no other Michigan coach in history has accomplished. He successfully gave MSU the time, and the opportunity to become a force in college football.
October 3rd, 2014 at 9:43 AM ^
His system didn't really entail needing a dominant offensive line. If you could stand in front of someone for 0.9 seconds while the QB blast was ran or the screen/pop pass was thrown, you could play offensive line at Michigan from 2008-10.
Not even our HIGHLY TOUTED offensive linemen Hoke has recruited can stay in front of anyone 0.9 seconds right now, and they are required to actually give 3 seconds which doesn't happen often. It's funny you make fun of his offensive line which included Taylor Lewan, David Molk, and Schofield (all of whom are in the NFL).
Please tell me, what three individuals on our offensive line right now are going to the NFL? None, yes none, would be the correct answer.
October 3rd, 2014 at 12:56 PM ^
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October 3rd, 2014 at 9:26 AM ^
we are now the Cubs of College Football. Inept and cursed.
October 3rd, 2014 at 9:37 AM ^
No....not even close. Give it another 100 years, then we'll talk comparisons with the Cubs.
October 3rd, 2014 at 10:03 AM ^
Triple digit ranked defenses..........never forget.
October 3rd, 2014 at 10:26 AM ^
Treating a coach like a leper before he ever sets foot on campus....... never forget.
October 3rd, 2014 at 10:40 AM ^
Oh, yeah, we let him go didn't we. Woops.
October 3rd, 2014 at 11:20 AM ^
Perhaps RR would consider returning if we gave him "fuck you" money and the power to "review" Dave Brandon's job performance before firing him.
We could even offer to let his wife take the embarrassing photos of Dave and his family solemnly driving out of Schemmy Hall after being dismissed.
October 3rd, 2014 at 7:12 PM ^
http://espn.go.com/blog/ncfnation/post?id=100044
Didn't see this posted:
Even after Michigan athletic director Dave Brandon told the Michigan Daily student newspaper that he has no plans to fire embattled coach Brady Hoke, it’s hard to imagine Hoke keeping his job unless the Wolverines can turn their season around dramatically. But Rich Rodriguez’s success at Arizona should serve as a cautionary tale for the Wolverines. Rodriguez was one of the country’s hottest coaches when he left West Virginia for Michigan after the 2007 season. He went 15-22 with the Wolverines and was fired after three seasons. Rodriguez told ESPN’s “SVP and Russillo Show” this week that he didn’t think he was given enough time to establish his program at Michigan. “There were a lot of things, and a lot of things that probably people don’t know about that we went through when we got there,” Rodriguez said. “We knew we had some issues to fix when we got there. Without going through the whole story, we thought we finally had them fixed and were on our way. We thought we were getting better. By the time we got to Year 4 or Year 5, we thought we’d be ready to compete for championships. “We never got to Year 4. We wanted to see it through, and we never got that opportunity, and that was unfortunate.” Rodriguez was a good coach before he arrived at Michigan and was a good coach when he left. Maybe it’s not Michigan’s coaches who are the problem.
October 4th, 2014 at 3:44 AM ^
October 6th, 2014 at 5:31 PM ^
they look pretty good this year actually.....way better than a certain team in Ann Arbor.
The operative phrase in your comment is 'beat', because they actually won....think about that.
October 6th, 2014 at 2:28 PM ^
Cal is better than us. They are getting votes in both polls.