Rich Rod Compared UM Football To New Orleans and Hurricane Katrina

Agree... You need to add a link... considering the alleged statements made will be deemed highly controversial (A bad football season caused by controversy and bad play is not a ruined city caused by a hurricane), you at least want to deflect any criticism onto the source... and not yourself.

As an aside... I hope the OP has this out of context. THis would be in the "not a smart thing to say" category

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or the story online. But the saints-michigan comparison was not started by RR. In fact regent White who spoke earlier in the evening talked about adversity and compared UM to the Saints in terms of what the Saints had to overcome with Katrina. RR merely brought it back up later in the night. And, again his focus was not on the comparison as much as it was talking about adversity.

Of all the things to wonder about with RR, this should not make the list even if the list had 689,000 items on it.

Really, he's championing the spirit of New Orleans, and wants to champion the spirit of his team.

I think it's too bad that in this country, people are really into twisting words to find something to get miffed about.

It's as if everyone in America is born with a stick up their asses.

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approach to the media during the latest MSU footballers vs nerd riot.

He has yet to comment on the situation and the media seems to be letting him skate though the fray unsullied.

If this happened at UM, RR would have said something by now and probably would have been been hammered for it.

for "SI.com ripping Rich Rod for the speech?"

The best take I've read on all this bashing RR business was in a comment by "Captain" (http://mgoblog.com/content/dantonio-double-standard?page=3) under the subject line "Double Standard Explained":

"A negative RR piece, on the other hand, is far more likely to get picked up by national news outlets for the same reason that I would probably read a scathing piece about Urban Meyer.

If there's a silver lining behind this double standard, its that we have a coach significant enough to draw national media attention for relatively minor occurrences."

I agree, but I'd also wish the media would quit running with some of these things like they do. It's the BS headline desperation of the media that will get the people with diarrhea of the mouth every time, even if they didn't mean to "offend."

The most accurate critique of RR might be that he didn't understand the media environment surrounding a top tier college job.

I watched his pregame press conference before the Saints game, it was genius. It hardly had a pulse, you would think he was talking about the weather or the taste of oatmeal. BB puts his emotions and work on the field (which many coaches do) but does not give headlines to the press or bulletin board material to the opposing team. The headlines should be so and so WON not so and so said blah blah. I am looking forward to those headlines of Michigan won not RR said blah blah blah.

I live in New Orleans. it's a comparison that's acceptable to draw from the standpoint of a program. the Saints really struggled in that first year after Katrina and have since but what's been brought up time and time again is that it made the program stronger and the team's integral cogs more bonded. I have no problem with the comparison.

Should he be.. maybe not.
Will he be... he already is (see above links... and the e-mail I already received from one of my Sparty Friends making fun of this)

The P.R. we've received the last two years has been horrible. The team has been horrible. Controvertial statements (whether people are over-reacting or not) don't help UM's image...

And, I know, someone will react by saying "who cares what other people think!"

We all do. We love UM and UM football. Negative press (rightful or not) hurts the program (even if on a small level). And that hurts my soul.

i had completely forgotten about this. and you know what? everyone will completely forget about what rich said. when you read the transcript it does come across a little inappropriate. however, we weren't in the room and as always, context and how a statement is conveyed are very, very important. it's like that joke bruce pearl told about being from the hood and wearing hoods in response to team chemistry. it seems crazy he actually said such a thing but apparently the room was cracking up and the players and their parents thought it was funny.

Except, if i'm not mistaken, he's talking to his players, and it's not really meant for people like us; however, he shouldn't do it with the media present.

To me this is a non-issue; but then again, I'm not from New Orleans.

cut the guy some friggin' slack. What happened in August was a shit-storm and I for one don't think the analogy was off base or inappropriate.

New Orleans weathered a storm and so will we.

You're losing your creativity: http://deadspin.com/comment/17310911/

How dare you take the Lord's name in vain?!