Rivals still hinting Rodriguez in danger...

Submitted by Search4Meaning on

In an otherwise "meh" article, Rival's Larry Lage takes the opportunity to take a poke at Rodrigeuz.

"Rodriguez, who’s in his third pressure-packed year with the Wolverines, hopes he has enough time to assemble the talent he wants playing for college football’s winningest program."   (I inserted bold font)

In fairness, it does eventually compare Ferentz's less than stellar start and Iowa's patience with him to Rodriguez.

Link:  http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/news?slug=ap-t25-iowa-michigan

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wolpherine2000

October 16th, 2010 at 11:44 AM ^

...Under Bo, it was well understood that the Michigan Football program was stationary, and the rest of the universe rotated around it.  This notion was allowed Copernicus to correctly identify retrograde motion as illusory.  Has something changed in our physics?

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Mitch Cumstein

October 15th, 2010 at 7:59 PM ^

I think we can all agree that RR does in fact "[hope] he has enough time to assemble the talent he wants playing for college football’s winningest program".  Whether or not its something that is of an immediate worry to him, I'm pretty sure all new coaches that haven't been incredibly succesful in the first couple years are hoping.  I don't see what the big deal is.  Are you really that shocked and appalled that a writer would even insinuate that RR's job wasn't the most secure job in the world? There are many scenarios (likelihood is debatable) where RR doesn't in fact have time to get the talent he wants before getting canned. Actually, I'm pretty sure every coach thats ever been fired for lack of performance has probably wanted to assemble more talent, do they fall in that category?

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Tater

October 15th, 2010 at 8:13 PM ^

Lage grew up in Ann Arbor; his dad worked for the Ann Arbor News for about thirty years.  Unfortunately, a google search reveals that he went to MSU and worked for the student newspaper there.  Great to have such an "objective" writer as the AP stringer for the entire state.

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jmblue

October 15th, 2010 at 8:20 PM ^

We had a J-school and dropped it when it became clear that writing for the Daily offered better training than any class could.  The list of Daily alums who have gone on to become professional journalists is long and distinguished.  There is no point in spending tight tuition dollars by bringing that school back.  Besides, we already have a communications major in LS&A.

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Mitch Cumstein

October 15th, 2010 at 8:23 PM ^

As you can tell I know next to nothing about journalism (and education to qualify for a writing positions), I was just thinking that this could be a reason many of the local media personalities are MSU grads.

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imablue

October 15th, 2010 at 8:48 PM ^

  This guy isn't even waiting until the end of the season to start taking jabs at RR.  As far as the hot ass, I'd leave that one up to the ladies to decide.

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outwest

October 15th, 2010 at 9:03 PM ^

Have to also think that UM has a huge fan base.  Anything mention Michigan is going to get people reading.  Unfortunately this "journalist" still thinks that the bashing of RR is a bigger story than Denard.  This will continue to be a story until UM makes a bowl game, no matter what is said by the AD

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pullin4blue

October 15th, 2010 at 9:50 PM ^

Because of Michigan's huge fan base, controversy sells papers and gets hits. Write negative articles about RR or Michigan and get everyone excited and lots of hits.....good for business.

If you had the opportunity to listen to Michigan's AD or some ass-wipe beat writer from MSU who would you listen to? I guess it all depends on what you want to hear. All the RR haters , Sparty and tosu fans will listen to the Bull****, the rest of us will listen to Brandon.

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shorts

October 15th, 2010 at 10:13 PM ^

Lage isn't with Rivals -- he's an Associated Press writer who covers lots of stuff in the southeastern part of the state. Rivals just posts AP content sometimes, as do most websites and other publications with an AP membership.

I can assure you that Larry Lage is not in the loop regarding Michigan's decision-making.

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BlueGoM

October 15th, 2010 at 10:17 PM ^

All this "RR's job in danger" talk will go away if they win.  Expect all sports media types to continue talking about this stuff until UM gets at least bowl eligible. 

With every loss the "RR job in danger" talk will grow.

Hate to say it, but there it is.

 

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mxair23

October 15th, 2010 at 11:32 PM ^

I'm so tired of the media reaching for stories that don't exist. I stopped reading everything UM related as of 2008. I use mgoblog (THANK YOU EVERYONE) for all my UM news and ESPN for all the other sports teams in my life.

I work with these Sparties who both say RR will be fired after this season...SOOO I bet them $1,000 each. Can't wait to cash that check lol They should stick to basketball cuz their knowledge of football is distorted!

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mgobleu

October 16th, 2010 at 7:22 AM ^

Get used to it. Dude could bring home a MNC in the next 2 years, and then with their first loss after, still find idiots talking about how hot his seat is. tO$U has been the bully of the b10 for a decade and hugely successful, but when they couldn't get it done against USC or in the MNC, you couldn't swing a dead cat in columbus without hitting 8 people who wanted Tressel fired.

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