Rich Rod has officially left the building(state).

Submitted by SalvatoreQuattro on

I was driving through Saline when I noticed a large semi-truck with Arizona Wildcats logos plastered all over it. Behind it was another moving truck. If one considers that RR lived in Saline and the oddity of an Arizona Wildcats semi in Saline, I'd have to say that this was the final act in the Rich Rod drama.  I did think it odd that it took this long for his stuff to be removed. He probably has not lived in the area for nearly a year.

The Truth Hurts

April 20th, 2012 at 11:41 PM ^

Okay is this a blog page or is this English/Typing class where everyone must write/type properly without making mistakes.  We know most of you got you degree from Mich but doggoneit, enough with the corrections.  IJS.  oops i made a mistake

AFWolverine

April 21st, 2012 at 9:37 AM ^

to correct your post. You concluded your first sentence with a period when it is clearly a question. This is only one error of many. To answer your question, it's both/and. It is a blog where everyone must write properly without making mistakes. I, for one, am proud of reading a Michigan football blog whose users are scrutinous of grammar and spelling.

Smash Lampjaw

April 21st, 2012 at 11:38 AM ^

No can find in the OED, but this might be more of an Urban Dictionary-type place. That definition is too provocative for most gentle readers. Nonetheless I agree with your drift, and I like the sound of the word.

More generally, if not for RR I would never have become so attached to this blog, which helped me appreciate his offense mathematically and graphically, as I was mourning the losses.

jdon

April 20th, 2012 at 11:48 PM ^

I actually don't understand how anyone could still be sympathetic to or care about what RichRod does;  I will conceed that his time in Ann Arbor was ill fated and that he was never given a fair chance, however, the guy has the hubris to rival Kanye West and he has never, ever, as far as I know, even taken one minute to assess his role in all of this and think rationally about himself as a person and as a coach.

The continued shots at Michigan along with his sour grapes approach just confirm what the RichRod supporters should fear most:  RichRod has learned nothing from this ordeal and he will continue to fail (and by fail I mean remain far away from anything at all posing a sembalance of a quality five year run where he stays in the top 25 and competes for a national title).

 

And to the people who support him:  What attracts you to him?  Do you care now because you cared before?  Because you got fooled by the numbers?  Or because you, like I, feel like he wasn't treated fairly and yet you, unlike I, can't wrap your head around the fact that if he could have beaten anyone other than Notre Dame, or not get waxed by Mississippi fucking state, or not lose to fucking Toledo (I could have coached us to victory over Toledo, hell the only person who couldn't have beaten Toledo in that game was RichRod), or not thrown an entire first year or two away because he wanted to win with 'his' offense, he woulds still probably been coach here right now:  RichRod isn't coach here now not because of the politicing or the square peg - round hole theory;  RichRod isn't coach here and now because he couldn't win a fucking football game...  or beat pur'fucking'due for that matter...

I honestly don't understand you guys... and I'm not even being facetious.

 

 

M Wolve

April 21st, 2012 at 12:07 AM ^

It's not a shot at UM to say that he would have been successful this past year. Whether or not it is an accurate assessment is a different debate. No, Coach Rod wasn't the only coach in America who couldn't beat Toledo, and no, you probably couldn't have coached us to a victory. You're being dramatic and hyperbolic. He's a good man, he's gone, let him be.

justingoblue

April 21st, 2012 at 12:17 AM ^

I'll also come out and say that I'll forgive him his "swipes at Michigan" because the guy had a hundred times more invested in 2008, 2009, 2010, and partly 2011 than anyone here did (that includes any players on those teams, donors, DB, everyone) and it's understandable that people react to setbacks in different ways, sometimes in a manner not reflective of their true character.

Yes, I hope any future game against Arizona is a curb stomping, yes I like Brady Hoke very much and wish him nothing but success. On the other hand, there's no need to personally attack or insult RR until he does something that warrants personal attack. I haven't seen anything remotely approaching that level of behavior from him.

UMgradMSUdad

April 21st, 2012 at 10:48 AM ^

And that's the problem with you youngsters today. No opinion.  Why in my day, we would have tarred and feathered Rich Rod and run him out of town on a rail.  And the band? We would have filled the AD's office with so many unwashed wasted hippies that Dave Brandon would need a freaking gas mask to get any work done.  A day or two of working conditions like that, and he'd be signing over checks to fly the band first class and making public apologies on the 6 0'clock news.

UMxWolverines

April 21st, 2012 at 12:38 PM ^

Toledo was TERRIBLE that year and it was in OUR HOUSE. We weren't good but could have been much better with proper coaching. I was at that game and the entire thing was a blur except for the pick six and missed field goal (a staple of RR coaching), but I'm honestly about to go watch that game and see what went down. It must have been piss poor if we only scored ten, considering we scored 23 on utah, 27 on wisconsin, and 21 on msu.

El Jeffe

April 21st, 2012 at 1:13 PM ^

You have an awful lot of certainty that you know things that you cannot possibly know. And you seem to care an awful lot about things that, in the grand scheme, don't matter all that much. And you are very critical of people who do not share your opinion.

I conclude from these observations that you are a young person. Wait until you get married, get divorced, have children, suffer one of them getting seriously ill, watch your parents die, or have one of a thousand other experiences that make life trying for adults. Then I encourage you to re-read your post and understand at how juvenile and petty you sound.

My own view? I believe that Rich Rod is a flawed but fundamentally decent person. I believe that he tried hard at Michigan, failed, and is still bitter about how things went down. I see no reason to laud him as some sort of supernatural martyr or to piss on his grave.

jdon

April 21st, 2012 at 3:20 PM ^

I will go to my grave believeing that only RichRod could have lost that game.  I believe this because of three things:

1.) I believe our talent level alone was enough to line up, knock them over, and win the game.  (There will be people who talk about the importance of strategy and whatnot, but this game, on this day, didn't feature some great gameplan by Toledo, or even a particularily inspiring performance by them but rather a Michigan team entrenched in an offensive philosophy change employing players not fit to run an offense and driven by a coach looking three years down the road.)

2.) I believe that RichRods offense was not designed in the least bit around the players he had (this is fact, I don't know who, or how they, would argue against this).  In light of this fact I believe that he actually had our offense in the worst possible position to win the game.  

3.)  It actually took bad luck to lose the game.  In a sense even we should have won that game but two of RichRods defining characteristics (turnovers and missed field goals) urged us just far enough in the direction of failure.

 

you can neg me to death, or whatever, but my original post was an honest question;  I honestly don't understand why people not related to, or the best friend of, the man can possibly care what he does now that he is gone.  There may be some sick morbose connection that some people carry to the man but that is about all that comes to mind...

 

Tyang

April 20th, 2012 at 11:50 PM ^

If it wasn't for richrod, we would never have Hoke, and all we have now, God works in mysterious ways. All things happen for a reason.

stressman989

April 21st, 2012 at 12:11 AM ^

i think rich rod is a bad ass. of coarse i just moved to tuscon recently haha. and i think he wouldve succeeded in AA if he had a couple more years. just wait he'll take over the pac 12

JHendo

April 21st, 2012 at 12:13 AM ^

This thread is making me sick. My personal thoughts on RR aside, this thread has turned into half pathetic pity fest and half no holds barred RR bashing. RR really needs to be a banned topic here as every thread on him always ends up going down this same path. I love you all, but just shut up about it already.

markusr2007

April 21st, 2012 at 12:16 AM ^

The way world turns, we'll probably see the guy again in the Rose Bowl or something one of these days.

At least RR had the balls to give it a shot at Michigan. Many great coaches will never ever get a shot like that in their lifetime.  If Bo, Carr and Hoke had respect for Rodriguez, then I don't understand why people feel the need to take a shit on the guy anymore.

UMgradMSUdad

April 21st, 2012 at 1:05 AM ^

Practically every RR post for the past year has been useless, but they can still be a hell of a lot of fun.  They're kind of like after a bad marriage ends. About 50% of the posts are like when  the ex-wife gets remarried, the ex-husband expects the new marriage to fail, because, after all, she's a loser bitch.   About 25% of the posts are like the mother of the bride who thinks the ex-husband never gave her a fair chance, and now that she has a new husband (her 3rd or 4th or maybe even 5th, btw), everything will be just dandy. The rest of the posts, like yours and mine, are bitching about or in some other way commenting on all the other posts.

Well, either that, or in nobody's lifetime on this board has Michigan ever had a head coach of the football team coach another college team after coaching at Michigan (I believe you have to go back to the 1920s with Elton Wieman).  So people are understandably curious about what RR is up to.  Michigan is where coaches end their careers in successful fashion--not where they flame out and try to rehabilitate their reputations somewhere else.

UMgradMSUdad

April 21st, 2012 at 1:05 AM ^

Practically every RR post for the past year has been useless, but they can still be a hell of a lot of fun.  They're kind of like after a bad marriage ends. About 50% of the posts are like when  the ex-wife gets remarried, the ex-husband expects the new marriage to fail, because, after all, she's a loser bitch.   About 25% of the posts are like the mother of the bride who thinks the ex-husband never gave her a fair chance, and now that she has a new husband (her 3rd or 4th or maybe even 5th, btw), everything will be just dandy. The rest of the posts, like yours and mine, are bitching about or in some other way commenting on all the other posts.

Well, either that, or in nobody's lifetime on this board has Michigan ever had a head coach of the football team coach another college team after coaching at Michigan (I believe you have to go back to the 1920s with Elton Wieman).  So people are understandably curious about what RR is up to.  Michigan is where coaches end their careers in successful fashion--not where they flame out and try to rehabilitate their reputations somewhere else.

goblue2008

April 21st, 2012 at 2:07 AM ^

tired of this shit...its past news. move on. Rich was a good guy who got the short end of the stick. Hoke has brought a better situation upon us. Move on, assholes. Bear Down! Go Blue!

allintime23

April 21st, 2012 at 7:23 AM ^

Even as a guy who in some ways used to supper RR, I'm over the once a day posts about him. That's nice for him, I wish him well unless he plays us or EMU.