Further Brandon Support for RR
Please don't judge me too harshly for clicking on a Freep link, but an aa.com headline wooed me and I'm desperate for U of M information these days.
Anyhoo, I won't link to that paper here, but they reported a recent quote that I didn't see anywhere on the board from Dave Brandon concerning our head coach:
“All I can do as athletic director is make one thing perfectly clear over and over and over again. Rich Rodriguez is the coach at the University of Michigan football team. He’s our coach. He’s my coach. He should be everybody’s coach. We should respect him. We should respect the position that he holds, and we should support him and help him in every way we can to be successful, and that’s what I’m going to try to do.”
Nice to see such a firm statement from our AD, kind of sad that he has to make such a statement.
That pizza sucked for a long time with no change until he left from what I have heard. I live in San Diego but Dominoes here isn't that good. And I doubt that the AD in his first year can confront firing the head football coach barring a disaster, such as going backwards in the win loss column from last year. RR will go through 2011 in my opinion and he should.
you're saying that RichRod is old and busted Dominoes sauce; Dave Brandon: he like-a tha sauce; Dave Brandon: he will not change-a tha sauce (nor should he)...even though you begin by saying the pizza sucks? Because old and busted sauce isn't a complete "disaster" for the biz, you keep it for another year. That's your argument?
You keep the sauce, but you offer cinna-stix.
The 2011 night game is cinna-stix.
I really don't know what you are saying, but to sum up what I said, Brandon will not make a change for two years no matter how bad the team is, he wont do it after this season even if they go backwards. I do not think the team will go backwards on offense at least. And I support RR as my last sentence suggests. I don't think a first year AD with no AD experience prior is ready for a big change. Thats it.
Change our attitudes about this team! Don't get me wrong we've been through a lot lately. Losing seasons, NCAA Investigations, Negative Press, etc.....
Our constant search for anything positive to make us feel better about this upcoming season, RR future, most importantly Mich Football's future will drive you mad!!!
Take a step back. I knew and I'm sure most of you knew that the 1st 2 years of the RR era were going to tough. We were changing a culture that has been here for the last 40+ years. A change that most of us wanted. I will say there were some unexpected bumps in the road. RR open the doors for the media, something Carr would never allow. By opening the doors RR thought it would have been a positive approach but d-bags like Rosenberg used it to their adavantage. O well move on, screw the Freep and anyone that doubts this program.
This 3rd year is our year! This is the year that we have all been waiting for in the RR era. This is the year that we fully turn the corner and prove the doubters wrong! He has most of his own players, granted a little inexpereienced at that but still players that have bought into his system.
I know the seed of doubt has been drilled into our heads over the last 2 seasons. Its time to remove that seed and realize that whats ahead is exciting. I fully believe that this year we will win 8-9 wins.
The haters have had their day with us, rightfully so, we beat their ass's for the past 40 years. Its time to shut them up again and put them back in their place! They see whats coming and will say and do anything to stop us from getting back on top.
Sorry for the rant but i'm sick of us looking for anything positive to talk about. Don't worry about what the outsiders think. The future is right now! The 3rd year is what we've been waiting for, block out the hate and embrace the now.
We have a huge chip on our shoulder and we are pissed! Watch out UConn were coming to run you over.
see some major ups and major downs with this team this year... but I'm very hopeful we get to a bowl and get to '11 with RR. Then he can officially have experienced players who fit his style and we can see what we have and can expect for years to come.
I am one that is fully in support of RR and no one is hoping he gets to 2011 more than me. I truly think that is the year we get to contending for championships. We can not afford to go through another transition of styles. Unless we're ready for another three years like these past two.
DB is a combination that was sorely needed at UM. He is part of the "old school," having played for Bo, but is part of the "new school" when it comes to business. Brandon was a major force in the changing of the Domino's product, and the campaign was pretty bold. He got the people at Domino's to change the way they had been doing things for forty years but managed to maintain their tradition.
And this is exactly what he is doing at Michigan. The night game was a bold stroke, indicating that "business as usual" isn't happening at UM anymore. I think we can all rest assured that he is doing whatever he can to reunite the "old" and "new" factions within the UM athletic department right now.
While it is sad that he felt he had to make a statement about RR, it reflects more on the media and the cancers (oops, I meant "moles") within the athletic department than anything RR has or hasn't done.
The systemic NCAA violations for which RR is falling on the sword were in place long before he got there; it is only the interpretation that has been changed. DB knows this but isn't making a big deal of it, preferring not to stoke the flames of the story any further.
DB is as intense as Bo and as savvy as Don Canham, with a very good finger on the pulse of college athletics. UM will be fine and RR will be fine.
9-4 sounds about right for this year.
I think DB's comments have little to do with shaping public opinion and very much do with reinforcing this attitude amongst his colleagues within the athletic department. Anyone not toeing the line will soon meet the trap door. This is very good and something BM could never accomplish.
...it would have been great to have heard him add, "...and we intend to keep him as our head coach for many years to come."
I understand the ramifications of this language and why he didn't say it, but it sure would quell the concerns of recruits out there and silence the Dantonio's who are almost certainly issuing disparaging remarks and exaggerating the truth.
What kind of intelligent businessperson or executive who recognizes he may very well be in the position to have to fire someone in the next couple years gets on the radio and says he expects said person will be coach for "many years to come?" Like it or not, there is a very real possibility David Brandon will have to navigate a coaching search sooner rather than later, and he (privately) would acknowledge that.
You think he wants to be in a position to hire a coach later on where a candidate says to him "hey, you gave that interview where you said Rich Rodriguez would be coach for many years to come. Yet you fired him 9 months later. What's going to stop you from doing that again? How can I take you seriously?"
Personally, I don't want Brandon to go out there and put his foot in his mouth because the radically pro-RR faction wants him to guarantee the guy a perma-contract. IMO, Brandon was appropriate in his comments, encouraging and positive, yet not promising anything he felt he would have to back out on later.
Brandon is desparately looking for the magic words that will finally convince people that he's serious.
DB: "RichRod IS the coach. RichRod WILL be the coach. No one else is, or will be, the coach. When a coach takes the field, it will be RichRod. If someone else takes the field, that person will NOT be the coach. On a scale of 1 to coach, he is. Any questions?"
Media: "Mr. Brandon, do you have any thoughts on the coaching situation?"
DB: [facepalm]
Maybe if Brandon created an annoying marketing jingle people would remember.
Save big money at Menards
Rich Rod coaches at Michigan
I think that is an endorsement of the Michigan football coach, a position that RR holds. He abstractly states that he supports the head football coach and so he will TRY to support RR. ("that's what I am going to TRY to do."}
I totally agree with the sentiment. He doesn't say RR is the best man for the job or even that RR is good for the job. He says RR has the job. He is the head coach at Michigan and we should respect and support him as such. I agree.
I don't think this means a whole lot for RichRod's future job security, but it at least sends a message to dissidents within the Athletic Deparment, if there are any.