RichRod: "Better Times are Coming"

I threw up a little reading those comments. Really makes a person thankful for MGoBlog...

And yes, I'm full expecting a good to great season this year.

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I can't stand "angry" Ann Arbor townies. They don't know shit about football, and they are always looking for something to bitch about. Right now, bashing Rich Rod is the "cool" thing to do, so the townies do it.

They're better than trolls, but they put on this act like they actually know what's best for the team. In reality, they are a bunch of fucking morons.

I'd like nothing more than for M to have a 10 win season in 2010. Not to convince any of the RRod haters (though I'm sure it would redirect the bandwagon) but rather to shit in their argument.

Not that I don't already respect RR, but if this man can turn us around (I think he will) he will go down as a true idol of mine. Will really show what a little positivity and perseverance can do.

to implod when we lose. We do need to get in a bowl this year. Heck, even when we were 4-0 last year he said we have a long way to go. He isn't selling us a bag of lies. He knows talent and he has plan. It will come together and it will be a great perseverance story. It just won't be covered in that local fictional paper we hate.

RR's comments have been consistent with each year he's been at Michigan--08 was very cautious, 09 was more confident, and now showing some excitement. We all now there will still be bumps in the road but each side of the ball will show improvement.

The guy knows the talent he has better then anyone. Each year it gets better. It may not seem like it bit it is progressing. The one thing that sticks out to me is the way he is changing our team to adapt to the new type of college football. The spread is here to stay. We are changing while the rest of the conference stands by. I know Northwestern and Purdue run a spread. They don't get the athletes that we can. This year will surprise alot of critics.

Last year, we all looked at RR's historical jumps from bad year 1s to good year 2s and were hopeful but cautious because of the dynamics going on--particularly the freshman QB--I feel like there's a very good chance we'll see that jump this year because this will be year 2 for key parts of the team.

Tate has run the offense and gotten some downtime to reflect/recover/learn more--I think he'll have a large improvement, my hope is that it's especially in reading the player he's supposed to be keying off and selling the fake, because he was pretty awesome last year without doing either of those well and those would be huge improvements.

I also think that having GERG back is crucial, there's just been so much turnover on DC that this consistency is going to be very helpful.

We're also returning the vast majority of the team, we were still putting a lot of the pieces of the puzzle as last year started--there's always some of that every year but last year was more than usual and I think this year might be a little less than usual which should not only help with experience but also means key players get more reps/attention during spring and summer.

I'm really excited for this season, I think we are going to show a lot of improvement. The only question is how many people are going to try to jump back on the bandwagon?