Help Rescue the SI Rodriguez Interview
I believe this has been mentioned once before, but CNNSI has a regular feature where they ask a college football coach questions submitted by fans online. The next interviewee is Rich Rodriguez. The deadline for submitting questions is today. They can be submitted here.
The slate is currently dominated by inane and thoughtless insults framed as questions. I urge you to visit the page and:
- Submit a thoughtful question,
- "Vote up" other thoughtful questions,
- Flag the unserious ones, and
- Take some solace in the fact that the fans who lost RR appear to be even more upset than those who have him.
Please -- if you can stomach braving the uninformed RR hate -- do your part in salvaging this interview, which could actually pose some interesting questions.
October 19th, 2010 at 12:22 PM ^
Some of that is WVU hate. There was one thoughtful question so far, IIRC.
October 19th, 2010 at 12:29 PM ^
I don't know why SI is even doing this "ask the coach" feature. I checked the one a few weeks when it was Brian Kelly (just out of curiosity) and it was full of insults and total horseshit questions. I can imagine that the Coach Rodriguez feature is also attracting a bunch of garbage...but if I can think of something intelligent to ask then I'll post it.
October 19th, 2010 at 12:37 PM ^
Understanding you have to be polictically correct but what are the biggest differences between the Big East and the Big Ten ?"Getting a coaches perspective would be cool
October 19th, 2010 at 10:24 PM ^
I can answer that:
"Shit that worked in the Big East ain't flying here."
October 19th, 2010 at 12:41 PM ^
October 19th, 2010 at 12:51 PM ^
I totally agree. That said, you gotta spell "idiotic" correctly. You just have to.
October 19th, 2010 at 1:25 PM ^
October 19th, 2010 at 12:42 PM ^
I was similarly upset with the bad questions on the site. Please take a moment and post some thoughtful questions. Let's just give the coach some respect for a feature that can help our school and see if we can find out something new. It's clear he's a really smart guy whether or not everyone is down for him as a coach.
Sample questions to get the creative juices flowing (I have not used any of the following):
- What is it about Michigan that convinced you to become head coach there?
- Which is the biggest challenge running a program of 18-22 year olds? Monitoring their schoolwork and off-the-field behavior to keep them out of trouble or teaching them on the practice field and at games?
- What would be your dream offensive or defensive scheme (or favorite plays to run, etc), given you have all 5 star recruits with great tenacity that you have not been able to run thus far at Michigan?
- You said once you will sometimes have a pad of paper next to you to jot notes while watching other games to develop new strategy. Where does most of your inspiration come from? NFL? College? Any particular coaches?
October 19th, 2010 at 1:00 PM ^
I love the fact that there were a bunch of worthless whiny WVU posts that I flagged, and I'm sure other members of the MgoBlog community did too, and now half the list says "This item has been flagged by the Community." Way to go guys. The remaining questions are acceptable.
October 19th, 2010 at 1:36 PM ^
...work by the MGoBlogerati. A +1 to each of you!
October 19th, 2010 at 1:45 PM ^
agreed. I co-sign the +1. that's why I love this board.
October 19th, 2010 at 1:11 PM ^
I don't see any objectionable questions--did you guys flag them?
At any rate, we should still upvote the good ones in case the mods unflag the trolls.
October 19th, 2010 at 1:24 PM ^
Here's a question: Why would RR agree to do this?
He knows that there is a rabid WVU fanbase out there. He knows that the team is involved in NCAA violations, he knows that there has been a lot of controversy surrounding his hire (not justified, but it exists), he knows that there is a large faction of his own fanbase (which might actually be more than 50%, but who knows) that wants to see him fired.
In these circumstances, why would he subject himself to this? Is is not like he is going to set the record straight in this forum. I just don't see what he is hoping to accomplish.
October 19th, 2010 at 1:42 PM ^
Public Relations.
It's something he needs to do to seem personable and he also knows that SI isn't going to give him any venom from WVU because it sabotages them as much as it does him. If I were a coach I'd be hoping for some real question from the fans because the reporters don't ever ask them.
October 19th, 2010 at 1:47 PM ^
I'm sure that SI would let a bunch of angry WVU and UM fans take their shots at Rich Rod. As someone above pointed out:
I checked the one a few weeks when it was Brian Kelly (just out of curiosity) and it was full of insults and total horseshit questions.
I'm also hoping he gets some good, legit questions, but I wouldn't put it past SI to just hold him up to be pounded by the anonymous internet.
October 19th, 2010 at 7:24 PM ^
October 19th, 2010 at 2:02 PM ^
I admit, I do like the question that asks "How do you deal with the competitive advantage that the Ohio State University has by the fact that they pay their players?"
October 19th, 2010 at 2:06 PM ^
2:05 on Tuesday, and the only questions left are good ones. The first one on the list is about zone read contain and the midline option, so we must be doing our jobs well.
October 19th, 2010 at 2:32 PM ^
I laugh at/love this question at the same time because it's so specific compared to the general stupidity from the haters. I logged in with three different screen names to vote for it!
October 19th, 2010 at 2:38 PM ^
...mejunglechop should probably post in this thread so he can receive a proper posbang for that zone read/midline option question.
October 19th, 2010 at 2:43 PM ^
Make sure you're looking at the most recent ones as well as the most popular, there are some real "choice" questions in there.
October 19th, 2010 at 2:59 PM ^
I was just about to say the same thing.
October 19th, 2010 at 2:59 PM ^
Is this what the "What would you do if you could be a moderator for a day?" post was all about?
October 19th, 2010 at 3:31 PM ^
October 19th, 2010 at 3:38 PM ^
Do you buy Jim Tressel a Father's day gift?
Were you drunk when you hired Greg Robinson
Glad they got flagged, but I got a good laugh. Lets hope they do one of these for Tressel and we can upvote questions about sweatervests and wine coolers.
October 19th, 2010 at 4:49 PM ^
back in Sept.
GO BLUE!
October 19th, 2010 at 11:19 PM ^
Question: Is Drew Sharp more deserving of the Hot Carl or Bukkake treatment?
October 20th, 2010 at 1:32 PM ^
Not sure if they loaded up the video (it's not playing for me), but the questions they asked Rich Rod are up. Not surprisingly, they skewed it to ask generic MSM type questions. Kind of softball questions, and stuff we've already heard. It seems like all the favorite questions of MgoBlog were not asked.