OT - Was there something wrong with RR's personality?

a blood relative of the entire fan base

 

Insert WV joke here?

Not that it matters anyway.  RR is no longer the coach whether a fan or not, and i for one would like to move on with my life

Sometimes I get introspective. No, it doesn't matter at all, you are correct.

what Drew Sharp alleges it be; a fan-boy site devoted to unquestioning rah-rah support for the team, the team, the team.  That's all that Drew Sharp can say about MGoBlog.  He condemns the "fans."

If Brady Hoke does well, I expect this blog to chronicle it.  If Brady Hoke fails, I expect this blog to offer harsh criticism.  No matter what, I expect that this blog will supply faster information, better analysis and more content than any other medium covering Michigan football.

As was the case with Rich Rodriguez.  When the Free Press lost its mind with allegations against Rodriguez and the football program, Brian Cook and MGoBlog supplied the blowback.  Almost, but not quite, alone.  Eternal thanks to Jon Chait.A national scandal ensued, and in the end, Brian and MGoBlog were shown to have had the correct take all along. 

I don't know of anyone who was quicker to publish serious doubts about Greg Robinson, than Brian Cook.  Brian's doubts came on Day One.  Not two years later.  Something to think about.

As for rubbing people the wrong way, Bo was no stranger to running people out of town.

This is true. You're completely right. It wouldn't have mattered at all if he won. Just thinking, is all.

Yeah true, plus winning = more happiness on his part and he would have been able to smile more.

I've heard control freak, but never an asshole.  The two are quite different in my opinion, though these could end in the same fashion.

This is one of those "a friend of a friend" things, so take it with a grain of salt.  But a lady i met has 2 kids that spend a lot of time in and out of Mott's said rich rod  was an ahole, while she loved Lloyd.  so take it for what its worth.

Rich didn't give a damn about anyone except himself.  The son of a bitch even tried to start an online petition to have the name of the school changed to RichRod4Life University.  Luckily MSC found it one day when she typed "funny petitions" into Google.  True story.

I went back and forth about whether to respond to this, but decided to do it anyway.  This is such an ignorant statement.  One of my most vivid memories of RR are encapsulated in the first 30 seconds or so of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q47XapDh47g

Rich Rodriguez loved this team as if each player were one of his sons.

Or watch a game this season? RR sat out his best player (one that many analysts claimed WAS the entire offense because he had a headache and was a little whoozy after a hit. That was a game that was going back and forth and one many felt RR absolutely had to win.

TF came in and immediately turned the ball over and still he kept DR on the sidelines. How about WH violating team rules before the OSU game and RR going into the game without a punter?

Your statement is ignorant on so many levels that I can't seem to find it even remotely possible that you followed this team or watched a single game this year.

this picture will forever remind me of the CRex saga.

The memoir. 

(See, Bacon, John U.; Third and Long.  As noted in the post just above.)

So true my friend. If that has taught me anything its that you often will never know why things ended the way they did in a seemly good relationship. That's one of the first thoughts I had when we got rid of RR. It was a relationship that for whatever reason didn't work out and we'll probably never know. For me, I'm ready to move on, but I understand why many still need to know what happened.

And I agree for the most part.

The horrible record and horrible defense did him in.  Even if he was Mothera Theresa he still would have been canned.

15-22 did RichRod in.  THe worst Michigan defense ever did RichRod in.

I remember people calling into local radio and demanding he be let go after that first season.  So its not like he made a good first impression, either.

I would  add the NCAA violations to that but after the Cam Newton shenanigans, and Pryor's "Hey I'll sell my stuff for dolla billz yo",  the stretching-too-long thing really amounts to a hill of nothing, IMO.

Ultimately, IMO it was the fact that he was doing things differently, was not from around here - not a so called "Michigan Man" (OMG HE SAYS Y'ALL AND IRREGARDLESS) combined with the losses that did him in.  If he'd managed to go 6-6 instead of 3-9 that first year people would have just chalked it up to growing pains and shrugged it off.

1) He did not pay attention to the whole program: e.g., compliance, defense, special teams

2) When he focused on defense it was "we're doing the 3-3-5", which apparently works great in the Big East, and MWC (and worked so well against Purdue in year one)

3) On of the first things he said was the past didn't matter, which it absolutely does at Michigan

4) He publicly fired all the Michigan Men - the entire existing staff. (Yeah, he hired Fred back, and almost all the administrative staff, but the headline should have been managed.)

5) His recruiting (may have been cornered into) hinged on some risky academic prospects.

6) He has been loyal to his WVU staff, even when the aren't performing.

7) When things obviously weren't working, he tried them again, and again (see 3-3-5).

When Rich first arrived, I said to myself "there goes quarterback U, but if he can get his offense to work in the big leagues, here comes National Championships". I was dreaming of something akin to Florida (and Urban Meyer had managed the transition from pro-set to spread masterfully). 

At the time our defensive secondary needed fixing (see 2006 OSU game, Rose Bowl against USC, App State, Oregon, etc.), but the rest of the defense did not (see, Branch, Harris, Woodley, et al.), so I sort of expected some Defensive staff to stay on (not English BTW). That didn't happen, all knowledge of Big Ten and MAC opponents were sent packing, and we had three years of a defensive staff fuddling around trying to figure out how to get a stop in the Big Ten.

So we've tried Big East coaching staff, now lets try MWC staff ...