How bad for the Michigan program would it be if RR went to Miami?
Just a quick reaction to Adam Rittenberg's article where he brings up RR as a possible canidate for the Miami job.
First what a great place for RR. They have a talented team filled with luxuries like Seniors and Juniors. He would be in a recruiting hot bed that he already recruits well.
Oh and the scary part is how many players would go with him? How many of the Florida kids would like to return home? This team still seems loyal to Rich Rod and heaven forbid Denard may want to stay in a RR spread offense. Seems like a natural fit.
The good news is by waiting DB forces RR to miss that opportunity...unless he sees the writing on the wall and resigns.
God I hope RR is back next year.
November 30th, 2010 at 12:33 PM ^
Good thing you posted another RR coaching/not coaching, fired/not fired, to the U/not to the U thread. We needed it!
November 30th, 2010 at 12:37 PM ^
Good thing you were here to put me in check for posting a reaction to the Rittenberg article. Thank you for all you do Captain Ass-Hat.
November 30th, 2010 at 12:42 PM ^
Then put it in the thread that ORIGINALLY discussed the Rittenberg article, not make your own thread just because.
Sincerely,
Captain AssHat
November 30th, 2010 at 12:47 PM ^
You know you now have to officially change your screen name to "Captain AssHat" right? Do it.
November 30th, 2010 at 12:52 PM ^
I made it a signature. Couldn't see where to change my screen name.
November 30th, 2010 at 12:59 PM ^
I'm glad I could be your muse.
November 30th, 2010 at 1:02 PM ^
Good stuff.
November 30th, 2010 at 1:18 PM ^
to do it right I think you need to spell out Captain. Also, is Asshat one work, hyphenated Ass-Hat, or two words, Ass Hat. Grammar Nazis?
November 30th, 2010 at 1:35 PM ^
....one word. Asshat.
November 30th, 2010 at 2:50 PM ^
"Ass-Hat" would be the proper spelling of a hyphenated surname caused by marriage.
November 30th, 2010 at 3:10 PM ^
Nice avatar.
November 30th, 2010 at 5:33 PM ^
Agreed! That's a nice "hat" there...
November 30th, 2010 at 1:39 PM ^
It's at the language-equivalent of the triple point. Eventually it will settle at 'asshat' because that's the inevitable result of word inventions like this, but right now all three are correct. I suspect 'ass-hat' is most widely acceptable right now, though.
November 30th, 2010 at 12:44 PM ^
*****THIS IS AN IMPORTANT POST TO READ BECAUSE IT'S 'THE' TRUTH*****
#1) Michigan is NOT Jim Harbaugh's 'dream job.' He wants an NFL job, because him and his brother are so competitive. SD, SF, Oak and Car (and maybe even Dal and Min) are all going to be fighting over him this off-season.
#2) Dave Brandon is going to be doing absolutely everything he can to convince him to come to Michigan over the next month.
#3) In all likelihood, Rich Rod will be brought back (signing a two year extension after the bowl game), and Greg Robinson will be replaced (along with the 3-3-5). Ron English is supposedly an early DC candidate.
November 30th, 2010 at 1:19 PM ^
No more meannness.
November 30th, 2010 at 12:35 PM ^
it would suck
November 30th, 2010 at 2:00 PM ^
like... aLOT
November 30th, 2010 at 12:35 PM ^
How bad would it be for the Michigan program if a gaping chasm swallowed everything south of Packard and Satan emerged for a 1000 year reign of darkness?
I'm thinking we could probably still snake-oil a few members of the dark army for the secondary. Might be penalty-prone, though.
November 30th, 2010 at 1:39 PM ^
Everyone in my office had to stop by and look in at the psycho laughing hysterically by himself at his desk.
November 30th, 2010 at 12:36 PM ^
Couldn't be worse than these threads.
November 30th, 2010 at 12:58 PM ^
This board has become a very bitter place. I underestimated the strain of the first 6000 DB/RR post on the community. I believed this was a fresh view of the situation but I have failed in my attempt to please all of you.
please note
/s
November 30th, 2010 at 12:36 PM ^
This would cause me to....dissolve
November 30th, 2010 at 2:02 PM ^
kinda like that chick in your avatar pick huh?
November 30th, 2010 at 12:38 PM ^
Pursuant to my new "Neg All Coaching Change Discussions" Policy. No offense intended - its a non-discretionary policy.
November 30th, 2010 at 12:41 PM ^
I understand. I disagree with your choice but I respect you staying true to your word...we will both be stronger for this.
November 30th, 2010 at 1:28 PM ^
Please be advised that the NACCD Policy also includes a time within which requests for appeal can be "filed." Requests must be in writing and posted in response to the ruling and must include well-reasoned grounds for overturning the original ruling.
November 30th, 2010 at 12:38 PM ^
The good news is by waiting DB forces RR to miss that opportunity
I dread that scenario as well because I think he would be wildly successful there. But I don't agree with slow playing RR so he gets screwed out of another job. I think that's an awful reason to wait to fire someone that would bring a terrible PR along with it. And I don't think that is what Brandon is doing at all.
November 30th, 2010 at 12:41 PM ^
http://www.annarbor.com/sports/um-football/making-the-case-for-rich-rod…
The point has been brought up elsewhere on the board, but it behooves M to maintain its brand as a coaching destination by giving a coach time to put his players in place.Conceivably, he could squander another year on Rodriguez while watching two appealing candidates, Jim Harbaugh and Brady Hoke, accept new jobs elsewhere. A preemptive move is a consideration.
But will one more year matter when Brandon looks at a 10-year plan for the program?
Fundamentally, Michigan has been about patience. The trait is one of the hallmarks that makes Michigan unique, that makes it a destination school for coaches.
Every Wolverines football coach has gotten at least five years to prove himself since Elton Wieman only received two in 1927 and ’28.
As someone well-versed in and enamored with the athletic traditions of the school, Brandon knows that stability is part of the Michigan brand.
Rodriguez’s record has improved by two games per season every year. Risks aside, he deserves the same treatment others in Michigan’s coaching lineage have received.
November 30th, 2010 at 12:46 PM ^
Yeah, Elton Wieman got a raw deal!
November 30th, 2010 at 12:48 PM ^
I don't even know Bigelow, but I'm ready to declare him a moron for putting "Brady Hoke" in the same sentence as "appealing candidates." Equating him with Jim Harbaugh is also stupid.
November 30th, 2010 at 12:42 PM ^
You would think people would finally get the point about threads like this, it is starting to speak poorly of the MGoCommunity. I also remember reading something that Brian once said about having regrets of allowing us to post crap like this because it starts to look like MLive. I am starting to agree with him.
November 30th, 2010 at 1:10 PM ^
It's too painful to think of what a person in his position must be thinking right now. I sorta wish he would do the same thing to negative RR speculation threads that he did to the bad female Sparty word and Auburn threads. That way, the agony of reading the threads could be balanced by the humor of seeing a few posters reading something like "-999,732" in mgopoints.
Even if the steps weren't quite that drastic, I wouldn't mind seeing some very aggressive moderation on the "how many different ways can we find to indirectly say 'RR is outta here' today" posts.
November 30th, 2010 at 1:25 PM ^
Yeah I think the Mods are overwhelmed right now, but it puts a dangerous precedent on not being able to talk about a coach/coaching situation without getting neg bombed 1,000,000 points. This is one of those times where I don't think you can use this practice, but we as users should start to realize what topics are starting to get on peoples nerves and stop.
November 30th, 2010 at 3:29 PM ^
All of these threads concern Michigan football and are directly on point with respect to the rules of the blog. It is up to us in the MGoCommunity to police these things and the only weapon we weild is the down-vote. I am prepared to lose all of my MGoPoints in order to make this stop. Who's with me?
November 30th, 2010 at 12:44 PM ^
I think it would be great for RR to go to Miami. After all the bullshit he has had to put up with here in Ann Arbor and reading all the crap on MGoBlog he will really need the vacation before he comes back to work.
You were asking how bad it would be if he went to Miami weren't you? I assumed you meant for vacation. I think it's a lot better than Ft. Lauderdale.
November 30th, 2010 at 9:35 PM ^
You want to link to that? A quick check didn't mention anything about that, and I have no idea where they would have found the money to pay him or his buyout. Just because someone posted a thread on this board doesn't make it so.
Miami does everything on the cheap, has a fickle, disinterested fanbase, and Rodriguez would walk into another shitshow trying to implement a run-first spread down there.
These threads are getting beyond ridiculous.
Edit: I'll link to CBS pointing to Gruden and Dan Mullen as the two top choices. http://college-football.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/24156338/26158541
November 30th, 2010 at 12:45 PM ^
Considering that he's an expert on all the inside coaching carousel info...
November 30th, 2010 at 12:47 PM ^
what if Jim Harbaugh went pro and RR went to Stanford!
Or Jim Harbaugh went to Miami and RR to Minnesota!
November 30th, 2010 at 1:58 PM ^
well what if your aunt had balls... she would be your uncle...
November 30th, 2010 at 12:50 PM ^
No offense to RR, but I don't think he's the most desirable candidate right now.
Though in all fairness, if RR were to hypothetically coach in the ACC, I think he'd do very well. I can see him excelling at a school like Clemson.
November 30th, 2010 at 1:01 PM ^
You're right, after all RRod is no Gene Chizik....oh Chizik was 5-19 when Auburn hired him.
November 30th, 2010 at 1:38 PM ^
Haha. Nice analogy, but the Chizik scenario is completely distinguishable. Chizik was a former DC at Auburn, coaching during Auburn's undefeated season in 2004, and thus was pretty revered by the fanbase (though I don't think there were many pleased with his hiring in 2009). Chizik is also from the south, growing up in Florida, and played in the SEC (at UF). Rich Rod has absolutely no ties whatsoever to Miami.
More importantly, there are many who think that Chizik was hired, and his subsequent role has evolved into such, to be a puppet for AU's boosters such as McGregor.
November 30th, 2010 at 2:15 PM ^
You're right, just pointing out that RRod record at Michigan is much better than Chizik and there is a claim out there that if fired that RRod would be hired somewhere a couple days later.
They say ( I listen to interviews on Rivals Radio, o.k. I know ) that among the people that count that RRod is in the top 10 or so best coaches in the nation.
All I can do is listen (or not ) to these people and take it or leave it .
+1 sir
November 30th, 2010 at 5:29 PM ^
How is RR's record at Michigan better than Chizik's at Auburn? Not trolling, I'm honestly confused; Chizik is headed to the national championship and RR has yet to finish above .500 in the conference.
His WVU resume is much more impressive, but I don't see anything more impressive than Auburn's 2010 season in RR's tenure so far at U-M, do you?
November 30th, 2010 at 7:06 PM ^
Chizik record when he was hired at Auburn was 5-19, The thought around is that RRod might have a tough time finding work if he is let go .
I was pointing out that RRod record at Michigan is much better than Chizik was before coming to Auburn.
Yes I know that Chizik was part of the past element of Auburn.
November 30th, 2010 at 7:17 PM ^
...what was Gary Moeller's head coaching record when he was basically (I forget if it was officially) Bo's chosen successor? Here's a hint, it wasn't good.
November 30th, 2010 at 12:52 PM ^
It's bad enough having to wade through all of the RR-Harbaugh-DB threads, now we're adding RR to Miami? Really?
The Insight Bowl can't come soon enough...