It's Tuesday, and Rich is still the coach

what happens if nothing happens?  

Whats to say that Harbaugh isn't available next year? 

I think it makes much more sense to make a move next year.

I'm sure they meant next monday.  One more week of speculation.

Do you know where your child... err.... coach is?

Gonna be a long painful wait to the bowl game isn't it?

Ya think RR might be pullin out all the stop to win that one?

I think the whole saga of Coach Rod getting fired is pure media hype and nothing else. You see when one thinks about a Football Program one has to think long term. 

To be very honest, Michigan has been one of those programs which has never stumbled in the past so it is very hard to see such a thing happening to us. I think until last year we were all pretty mad that we were not being able to make it to a bowl game. I understand that we have some bad streaks against rivals but we should also realize that its been that one time only.

I mean c'mon even GM went bankrupt once. There was a time when GM issued centenary (100 yr) bonds. The thing to realize is that we have regained momentum. We are back to be a wining program and our march will only move forward. Since we have never been through this phase we really don't know what patience is. 

Our offense was explosive this year.  People were wary of our offense and stopping Denard is still a big threat to any of those teams. We have faced a lot of injury/depth problems - for which we cannot blame anyone specially not the coach. We were lucky that Denard inspite of being knocked several times was always starting. He never was injured which was a blessing in disguise. 

We need to be patient and believe that not only will we win a bowl game but also be a much better program next year and the coming years.

My prediction for next year: 11-1 next year.

We will beat OSU and State next year. Mark my words.

All great programs go through a bad phase: Texas is, Florida is and OSU will soon also. It's all a matter of time. 

We are We will and We are destined to be the WININGEST PROGRAM IN COLLEGE FB HISTORY.

LETS. GO. BLUE.

a la Weekend Update?

but if I am not mistaken, the University saves $1.5 million by firing RR after January 1st. So I think we will know the answer to this mystery on January 2nd... Not that this information would ever stop us Mgobloggers from discussing the job security of Rich Rod and the RR vs. JH debate ad nauseam.

We can only hope it remains so through 2012!

All season long DB said that he will review everything after the season is over.  Some cum guzzling thunder cunt writes something along the lines of "Dudez, RR is totes on the outs.  Trust me, I know people" and our fan base goes berserk.  Before this diseased elephant dick of a writer made this story up, our Uncle Jimmys and Joes were the only strong voices with the inside information that RR is getting canned sometime after every single one of our losses this year.  What's changed?  For the past few years, our fan base has stood together on very few issue but the one thing we had in common is that we hated newspaper writers like whoever the fuck wrote this article, why all of a sudden are some of you listening to what he has to say?

I want a time machine so I can warn RR of the shit he's about to get into.  "If you take this job, some dolphin punching spherical asshole will be out for you head.  Don't bother recruiting Pryor.  Be prepared to have two qb's that are able to crank their grit levels up to 11 and give it their all but to no avail.  Watch out for Purdue's hook and ladder and Dantonio's shit eating grin.  Tell Merrill to swing away.  Cover everyone in the secondary with bubble wrap.  Prepare to get Denarded."

By not acting yesterday, he (in the words of Dantonio's little buddy at the Freep) *defined his legacy*.

It's too late -- Brandon will forever be known as the guy who failed to fire Rodriguez on the day designated by the Detroit press.  (Lookin' your way, too, Wojo ... pu$$y!)

Quoth Nelson Muntz:  HA-HA

Back in the day when one read the newspaper for "news," the sports pages were those in which opinion and editorialization were virtually non-existent.  You got a well written re-cap of a particular sporting event, detailed sidebars with interesting points and captured moments, AP/UPI wire round-up of the same sport in other locales, box scores and an occasional column speaking of the latest megabuck team meltdown/championship for the ages.

Fast forward to the end of the first decade of the 21st century.  The sports pages present very little "news" because everyone can get their info elsewhere.  So much so, the dying medium now dips a toe into the internet waters, and WRITES a soy-based ink and paper "blog" for your favorite team.  The ink-stained wretches still employed in this medium are now reduced to opining trolls, lurking in dark corners, spinning anything to generate some sort of attention to their craft (such that it is).  No one under 50 buys a newspaper, and can find all the information, in greater detail, for any story, on the internet.  (Probably 10 years ago, I'd noticed the main section of the Fr**p had all of it's stories pulled from wire services...that they'd done very little actual reporting on issues in Detroit, outstate Michigan or elsewhere in the US.)   How does a dying enterprise attempt to stave off death?  More drama, more lies, more BS.  Not more news.  Because they forgot how to do "news" a long time ago.

Ignore those freaks coming out of the closet at the Detroit Newspaper Agency...their scribblings no longer have value to you or me.  (And much less so, to David Brandon...being a Bo disciple, he knows that the media has very few uses...as we've all read in "Bo's Lasting Lessons.")  If you can't ignore the scuzz op/ed writers at the local paper, just shake your heads, laugh it off, and walk away.  They'll be unemployed soon enough...

DB says otherwise.  Coach Rod needs to win the bowl game, if so he will be back.

Go Blue

You're not planning on doing this every day until September 3rd, 2011, are you?

Well if he gets fired they will claim they were right all along anyway so whatever.

I remember a day when the Freep used to be pro Michigan. Now I use it for cheap toilet paper. A bit rough around the edges but it works.

Somehow, when I read the phrase "Liar, liar, pants on fire," I can't help thinking of Pee Wee Herman.  For that matter, I would be willing to bet that Pee Wee could do a better job of writing about college football than Henning. 

For that matter, Henning's writing is beginning to look, at least metaphorically, exactly like what Pee Wee got arrested for in that theater.