RichRod subtly draws comparison between Arizona and Michigan welcome
Rich Rodriguez quoted yesterday making a subtle comparison between the way he was welcomed at Arizona vs Michigan.
August 1st, 2015 at 11:00 AM ^
Without RR we wouldn't have had Hoke. Without Hoke we wouldn't have Harbaugh. Personally I think we should thank both RR and Hoke! Long live Harbaugh!!
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To be fair, the reigning Pac 12 Coach of the Year was simply telling the truth. If he wanted to be inflammatory, he could say he got "fucked" at Michigan.
To be fair...he could also say that the AD would not let him bring his Def. Coord. along (which Arizona did) and the coach that followed him at Michigan had money falling out of the sky to hire most anyone.
To be fair...RR answered a question. He gave a short and reasonable response.
I mean wtf do you expect him to say? The question wasn't, "Why was your tenure at Michigan an epic failure?"
Let's stop being fair.
Rich Rod was an unmitigated disaster at Michigan, used the lack of a seasoned running quarterback to claim (falsely) that he took over a team completely devoid of talent, refused to at all modify his gameplan to utilize the talent he did have, botched media relations to the point that Michigan graduates launched an investigation into his program that resulted in NCAA violations and probation, lost to Toledo, completely wasted the best defensive player that has been at Michigan in like 20 years, said things like "there is only so much hours in the day," had the team hold hands and sing along to a balad at the football banquet, and lost by like 50 points to a middling SEC team in his "show me" bowl game.
Actually, that may still be fair.
*ballad
I guess I should consider you a dumbass now. You know, to be fair.
know? To be fair.
I'll forever be looked down upon by ijohnb now. Boo hoo.
have a drink or a smoke or something. Relax. You go all spelling police on me and then freak when I show you how petty it is to pick through posts to find spelling or gramatical errors.
(And you really should have put the "now" right after "I'll." Just a better sentence structure).
Do you not realize that I "went all spelling police" on you because you were going "all grammar police" in the first place?
("Just a better sentence structure," isn't a sentence, by the way. Also, place your period inside the parentheses.)
where?
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I think that the Freep came off looking worse in the aftermath of the investigation than Michigan did. The NCAA report specifically said that the articles about practice hours were inaccurate.
Brady Hoke won in his 1st year by going 11-2 with a Sugar Bowl win. RR brought in talented players and didnt' leave the roster bare for Hoke.
Really? And how many of the players he brought-in stuck around for their career?
1. Jeremy Gallon
2. Denard Robinson
3. Brock Mealer
4. Taylor Lewan
5. Jake Ryan
6. Andre the Giant
7. Jake Fisher
Crap, now that I finished this list I realize none of these guys were even ninjas.
Had you won a few games, people would've supported you and you might still be here.
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He answered a question.
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You must be high (maybe it's just the avatar)!
Hard to recruit? Rich was actually a solid recruiter. His problem was player retention. He lost more kids than Boko Haram. Sometimes for random reasons (injury, family), other time for foreseeable reasons (not solid citizens, poor academics). RR's attrition was worse than the PSU sanctions. It had nothing to do with alumni "harpooning" his recruiting.
The 2008 defense was also stacked with talent.
for the 4 years before RR took over. Top 10 classes almost every year. People that say Lloyd left the cupboard bare don't know WTF they're talking about. Did RR inherit a young team? Sure. But it was not devoid of talent.
Also, Steven Threet was the #9 ranked QB coming out of HS.
Henne, Mallett, Manningham, Arrington, Long, Hart and a few other stalwart players.
Threet went undrafted and didn't amount much in college. He wasn't a very good QB. Look at the players drafted during that time and that gives you an idea of how talented a team really is.
Michigan isn't nearly as talented that many make them out to be. Is it a 3 win team? No. They would struggle to win 7-8 games in that year even with LC at the helm. Mallett was going to transfer regardless.
wasn't very good because he wasn't developed or coached properly? I'm not saying he was a world beater, but he could have been serviceable.
Even 6-6 would have been acceptable for a transition year. 3-8? Never.
...and you got a giant bag of money from A2 for all of your troubles. Now hush.
Let me get this straight: If I ask you a question about some ex that you dated five years ago, and you say, "Yeah, they didn't treat me as well as I'm being treated now," that means that you need to "get over it?"
according to people in this thread, is to state how he failed in that relationship and show how he should have been better there in a very long drawn out response.
Your scenario isn't really applicable here, because if it were, then we would be the ex, stalking him on facebook, looking for any innocent post he writes as a burn on us. Oh, nevermind, I see it now.
Amen.
The correct answer is, "I love the person I'm with now, couldn't be happier, and really don't want to relive a rough time." And people will stop asking because that's not entertaining.
He only mentioned how great Arizona was. That they were on board from day 1. He didn't mention any rough time, which would have gotten an even worse response. I honestly can't see how he can win with some people when his answer above is taken the way people are taking it.
I knew someone would post "Get over it, Rich Rod!" and be upvoted very soon in this thread. Did you even click the link? It wasn't a dig.
I'd like to know how some of you Rich Rod critics would react to having a horrible job experience where you were attacked by horrible people and then have the media constantly ask you about that experience throughout the years. I'm sure you'd always take your own "Get over it" advice, every time. Sure you would.
Sounds alot like the child insult "well why don't you marry it!"....did you even read anything Ronnie posted? Nothing he said was incorrect. The hell is wrong with everyone in here? Upvoting any post regardless of how childish and idiotic it is if it's "anti-RR", downvoting anything mildly supporting anything RR. Please shut this whole stupid thread down. RR didn't say anything. He asked a question about Arizona and how he was welcomed from day 1. That's it.
He wasn't supported from day 1. His opening press conference showed he didn't understand Michigan. He didn't get complete support or buy in from his players, football alumni, athletic department or fans. He didn't bother working with what he had on offense in year 1. He didn't get to bring his DC with him. He didn't have big budgets for assistants. He couldn't stop meddling with the defense and created the three worst defenses in school history. His team mailed it in against Mississippi State. And...Josh Groban happened.
It's all true. It was all a mess. And there's plenty of blame to go around.
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