MGoBlog on S.I. site
The latest Stewart Mandel column on the S.I. site includes two letters about RichRod. One guy is from Aurora, IL and is likely not a Michigan fan. The other is located in Spring, TX and claims to be an alum. (A quick WWW search suggested that he's for real. I'd post a link to his personal site, but that would be creepy and inappropriate.)
Anyway, both letters are pretty negative. What's notable, though, is that in his response Mandel links to MGoBlog. I'm not sure he's done that before.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/writers/stewart_mandel/06/02/pres…
wow, that was actually a semi-intelligent, lucid, and sensible response from mandel.
i need to run out and buy lots of canned goods because the apocalypse is nigh.
though compared to the people who emailed in, Jeffrey Dahmer would look sane.
I find it laughable that the first guy stated that RichRod has recruited horribly. Apparently a top 10 and top 20 recruting class in back to back years is terrible. I cant wait for all the RichRod haters to shut the hell up after a great year this season.
But Mandel's picture is incomplete -- I'd argue that the majority of longtime Michigan fans both supported Carr throughout and now support Rodriguez. The idea that these things are somehow mutually exclusive is ridiculous.
I was just going to post a similar comment. While Mandel gives an overall decent response, I hate how he makes such a clear distinction between the "old guard" and the "new school." There are certainly extreme cases on both ends(mainly SI letter writers), but I'd say the vast majority of Michigan fans are somewhere in the middle.
Honestly at this point it's a luxury to read a national column about Michigan that doesn't essentially read "CRIMINUL HILLBILLY LAWSOOT DEMAR DORSEY HOT SEAT MAJOR VIOLASHUNZ MICHIGAN MAN MICHIGAN MAN MICHIGAN MAN," even if it's not all that insightful.
I agree that the faction bullshit is getting old, but I'll take that response over 99% of the national content out there. He gets accused of Michigan homer-dom by a reader later in the piece, too.
The disturbing thing to me is that most of those people have the legal right to vote.