The Ostrich Effect
The Ostrich Effect: Ignoring the warnings
Spread Offense Losing Ground?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122385025105726963.html?mod=article-out…
Michigan 2008 is officially Notre Dame 2007
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/blog/dr_saturday/post/Michigan-20…
Profiles in Disillusion: Of course you know, losing to Toledo means war
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/blog/dr_saturday/post/Profiles-in…
Struggling Michigan takes first loss to MAC team, off to worst start in 41 years
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/recap?gameId=282850130
U-M football player suspended for alleged attack of hockey player
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=3645575
No. 3 Penn State breaks Michigan hex, 46-17
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/recap?gid=200810180034&prov=ap
“Oh, we executed for a while and then we didn’t,” said Rodriguez, whose team needs to win four more games to avoid Michigan’s first losing season since 1967. “That’s what happened. We executed, we moved the ball a little, and when we didn’t, we didn’t.”
Damn, that is some good coaching!
October 18th, 2008 at 9:56 PM ^
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October 18th, 2008 at 10:04 PM ^
Best response to this is probably "yawn."
or
DICK ROD SUCKS, OMG!
See, I used "Dick" instead of "Rich," that's why it's clever, get it?
October 18th, 2008 at 10:30 PM ^
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October 19th, 2008 at 12:18 AM ^
October 19th, 2008 at 10:00 AM ^
That's actually a decent point. I had thought we would go 7-5 this season, so it is virtually guaranteed that we will not get to my expected season. I still think that we'll get to 5 wins though.
It is worse than I thought it would be, but part of the reason why I am not more disappointed is that I see how low of a margin of error we have. In each game we have had the potential to win, but when things go wrong we're not able to overcome them and win. Hopefully next year the players will know what they're doing better and not make as many turnovers. But when we do turn the ball over our offense will be able to make up the points.
October 19th, 2008 at 10:38 AM ^
I don't see your point. Do you want me to apologize "for being wrong"? Or do you want me to get really angry about the team's record? So, those of that expected 7 or 8 wins are wrong. There's two possible explanations:
1. As an avid Michigan fan whose last game of organized football occurred 16 years ago, who does not know a member of the team, staff, or Athletic Department, who did not see a single practice, my expectation of what the team's performance level should be was 100% accurate, and their failure to meet it is a sign of disaster.
2. My expectation was not realistic.
October 19th, 2008 at 5:25 PM ^
October 19th, 2008 at 5:33 PM ^
OK, so we expected more. I think we'd all admit that. Where's the umbrage coming from?
October 19th, 2008 at 12:19 AM ^
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October 20th, 2008 at 3:07 PM ^
What kind of team did RichRod have when he took over West Virginia? I wonder if they were 3-8 for the same reason that we are 2-5. Just from reading some box scores from that year, they had a better offense than we have now, but they did get blown out a lot and they even lost to Temple. From what little I was following them at the time, Don Nehlan sort of left in the same fashion as Lloyd Carr. The fans appreciated him, but they weren't really sorry to see him go. I don't remember their offense being as young and decimated as ours.
Regardless, I'm surprised by how bad we are. What's keeping me going now is faith -- faith that RichRod can engineer the same kind of turnaround as the one that happened at West Virginia (and Tulane, which I give him a lot of credit for).