RichRod and his assistants

Please, no more.  I can't deal with hypotheticals right now.  The world is chaos.  Even if I would prefer him, RR has taken the long walk down the tracks to memoryville, where people sing hymns of love and steak costs a buck fity.

trying to kill some time??

RR is gone, get over it. end of the story

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I don't think most people would rather take back RR. I wouldn't.

Of The Brain.

As above poster said, he's gone. Move on.

And I feel like no one's taking into account that there were multiple reports that Michigan players had lost faith in RR after the Gator Bowl. You can't keep a coach under those circumstances.

And no, I'd rather have Miles than RR even if RR hadn't lost player support.

If you are just going to make up hypotheticals with no basis in reality, at least make them entertaining.

Either that or share your factual knowledge of Les Miles's outrageous and disturbing sexual history.  Otherwise there was no need for this thread.

Les Miles is the laughing stock of the SEC.  He took over a team once removed from a national championship (and loaded from freshmen to senior class with top tier talent).  This is not the move to unite the fanbase.  We are just adding gas to the "Michigan Man" fire.  Coaches who don't have the right lineage are going to be afraid to come here from this point forward.  Fans who didn't graduate from Michigan are going to do the same.  For a former CEO this sure doesn't seem like a hire to help our national brand.  All that to say I would keep RR over Miles anyday.

I would take him back. The positives I see is that all the players would stay and we would pick up Dee Hart, Kris Frost and others. BUT I would have prefered a new DC. RR still does not have all the pieces of the puzzle he needs, therefore, he is not yet able to get the players he need to adapt to the Big 10. The shortest coaching reign in Michigan was 5 years I believe, but Michigan lied to all of their recruits/players by denying them the chance to be with their coach for 4 years! *gasp*

I personally like the thought of seeing how Denard progresses under RR and seeing our top 10 offense get better next year. I think defense is going to improve next year, no matter what because we just hit a perfect storm where we didn't have our best players available on defense.

I posted this a response to "A World Held Hostage: Mailbag", but it might make for a more interesting discussion here:

But, my top choice was RR with an entirely new defensive staff.  Check that, my first choice was RR three years ago with Scott Schafer and Schafer's choice for position coach.  Tony Gibson has been RR and Michigan's downfall. 

I'm one of the few that would have prefered Rich Rodriguez to Jim Harbaugh (or anyone else for that matter), but I've moved on.

Can we name Calvin Magee head coach and throw a bunch of money at a hotshot DC?

I'm kidding but kind of serious.

The biggest issue with RR was inability to get the right defensive and special teams staff in place.  With an average defense, we would have won at least one more game this year, and with an actual special teams staff that can groom an adequate (60%) kicker, at least two.  So I've concluded that even Hoke is acceptable provided he builds the right staff.  I'm skeptical as to whether he will on the offensive side, though, so I'm not saying I'd support the decision before it is made.

(After it's made, like any real, maize-and-blue blooded alumnus, I'll blindly support whoever it is...at least until he has proven me right or wrong.)

Question misses the point.  Can we please just have back RR and the recruits he was going to bring on and just forget all this nonsense?

I'm new on here and absolutely baffled RR has any supporters to be honest...

I'd rather hve RR than Hoke.  IMO, RR would be Hoke 7 or 8 times out of 10 if they played eachother with equally talented teams.  But I agree this no longer matters, as its important this mess gets sorted (not wasting time wondering what ifs with RR).   Best of luck to him, though... just hope we don't face him in a bowl game in a few years and lose.

Must we really dwell on what  WOULD have happened? After the Illinois game, I even thought to myself, "Well, just can Greg Robinson....", but then I realize that three DCs in four years makes that the scapegoat position and no one who COULD fix the defense would want the job. That left me thinking that we could find someone to fix special teams, but then I realized how little that would have swayed the outcome of the games we played against the upper tier of the Big Ten. No, it wasn't sufficient.

People played up the offense all year, and when it was running on all cylinders, it looked pretty cool on the field. If one cylinder wasn't punching it, however, it was average at best, and in a few games, totally impotent for extended periods. Again, not sufficient.

By the Ohio State game, I saw no point in keeping Rodriguez. That's just me though.