Rich Rod talks to CBS Sports
Rich talks draft, college football, more-
http://www.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/24156338/28735583
Sure to end in a flamewar/meltdown, but of interest to this site.
That bastard's everywhere!
I love it! I laughed so hard my friend.
BOOM! /Godwin'd.
...Rodriguez will follow.
And a Super Bowl shall come to pass.
The prophet has spoken!
wow deja vu
But I thought Rodriguez sounded fine. I hope he finds a good head-coaching job next year and does well.
I see Clemson dumping Dabo Sweeney after next year and picking up RR. He was their OC before going to WVU (IIRC), and the ACC would be a great place for him to dominate.
I think he would be able to recruit lots of players to Clemson being close to his favorite state of Florida.
He see's bcs before we do.
April 24th, 2011 at 12:06 AM ^
He probably will go to a crappy conference like the Big East, where every team is slower and smaller than every other major conference. There, his rigid flag football playbook that every respectable defense in the country has figured out, might work. That won't mean he did not put an embarrassing product on the field for 3 years and nearly drive this program off of a cliff. Your bitterness towards his departure is being countered by an alumni base that can't be happier. Find me one alumni out there who really thought RR should have stayed, and I will find you 300 that are absolutely thrilled that he's gone. Personally, I'll defer to their opinions over those of a bitter blogger who can't accept the fact that RR was the single biggest fail in the history of this 132 year program.
argument may be valid. But, it is entirely ruined by the naivety of your opening statements:
"He probably will go to a crappy conference like the Big East, where every team is slower and smaller than every other major conference. Here, his rigid flag football playbook"
The argument that his "rigid flag football playbook" doesn't work in the Big Ten continues to be the most idiotic, head in the sand argument I've heard outside of politics and religion in a very long time. It is also amazing that so many are still convinced of the "great" athletic chasm that exists between the talent level in the conferences.
Can you provide statistics that show that the Big East is "slower and smaller" than the Big Ten please?
Bowl Record of the slower and smaller Big East since 2005:
vs BCS teams: 12-10
BCS Games: 3-3
vs non-BCS 9-0 (.1000)
vs SEC 3-1 (.750)
vs Big 12 3-1 (.750)
vs ACC 6-5 (.545)
vs Pac-10 0-3 (.000)
vs Big 10 0-0
It's actually pretty impressive and don't they play most of their games as away games in SEC/PAC-12/Big 12 territory, just like us? I'm not going to make a conclusion. The facts are the facts.
Did you see UConn this year? RichRod would have made a BCS bowl in 2010 if Michigan was in the Big East. Unfortunately / Fortunately, this is not the case. Meanwhile, our competitive peers in our actual conference were Indiana, Illinois, and Purdue.
Did you see Cincinatti last year? If you can't simply watch a game and see how much slower and vastly less athletic the top Big East teams are relative to the Big 10, SEC, and Pac 10, then I don't know what to say.
I'm not saying it's the case for the entire conference, but the argument here is over getting to a BCS game. I don't really care about your stats when the #4 Big East team is lining up against the # 5 team in another conference. In the Big East, he needs to go through UConn and Cincinatti. In the Big 10, he needs to go through Wisconsin and OSU, and in the SEC he needs to go through more stud teams than I feel like listing right now. Please tell me you can at least acknowledge that if these teams squared off, the Big East schools would get completely blown off the field. We were superior to the top team in the Big East and every one of these other schools either did or would have completely destroyed us.
Moreover, 2005 was back in a time when that rigid flag football playbook was still a fresh new look. Unfortunately, Chip Kelly has taken it to another level, while RR is still living back in 2005.
had better freaking hope that Brady Hoke wins 8 or 9 or more games this year. And 2012 looks to be a challenging schedule. One of several interesting dates on that 2012 schedule will be Alabama, with Sophomore Dee Hart.
Ummmm the alums are basically what matter in the program. They know more about football than us, they know more about college football than us, and they know more about playing college football at Michigan than us. I don't think it's trash talking for an alum to be pissed that his nationally respected Big 10 winning program was shot to hell by a new coach who followed up 4 top 12 Carr recruiting classes with 3 of the worst seasons in the history of the program.
Because right now, Brady Hoke has zero losses.
And zero wins.
And there will be 12 games in which to change those numbers.
You can spout shit like "shot to hell," all you want. But just know that with assholes like you out there, I really don't care what sort of "divisions" or "clans" might haunt our program. I have nothing in common with any portion of the Michigan fan-base that wants to scapegoat Coach Rodriguez.
I'm not ready to root for Brady Hoke to fail. But I'll have no pity for shitheads like you if he does.
"Rodriguez: Leaving WVU 'a mistake.'"
the comments, too. The comments at sportsline are always are rung below mlive and rivals, though, so I just decided not to get worked up. Haters are definitely going to do their little weak thing. . .
Most notable thing (for me) about the interview was RR acknowledging that maybe he shouldn't have left WVU. The guy's fault has never been a lack of candor.
Let it go.
April 24th, 2011 at 12:57 AM ^
Very nice, but illegal in all 50 states.