Rodriguez and Belein similarities
After seeing a post quoting Belein on how up and down the second year can be, I started to think about how similar our two biggest sports' coaches and teams are based on the early football season. My thoughts:
1) Both coaches have unique, successful offensive systems that change based on the players used
2) Both systems require the players to be smart and understand a variety of different looks, make a variety of decisions
3) Both coaches had dissenters but are completely embraced by the remainder of the team (well..took a bit of time for Manny but)
4) Both teams have one big star (Tate, Manny), and another great player to fall back on (Minor, Peedi)
5) Both teams had big early season wins in their second year (ND, UCLA) that were won due to the opponents inability to defend the offense
6) Both coaches have one hell of a future lined up for their respective programs
As our bball struggled in several games last year, I expect the same of our football team. But, I do believe that the consequences of those struggles are much more manageable over the course of a football game than a basketball game. Also remember how much M's defense improved over the course of the Bball season. I'm assuming that our football defense has to and will improve over the course of the year. But, I really hope it's not exactly the same since we didn't beat OSU in Bball last year!
All in all, As a life-long Michigan fan (23 yrs) I couldn't be more satisfied with the coaches we have in these two programs. I now actually think that one of these years we could potentitally pull a Florida and win NCs in both sports.
What do you guys think, do the coaches/teams have any more similarities? What are some differences?
September 17th, 2009 at 10:43 PM ^
7) Both from WVU
seems kinda obvious
September 18th, 2009 at 10:51 AM ^
Good one. I'm not trying to belittle WVU, but I'm surprised they were able to attract and keep (for some time) two high quality coaches like Coach Rod and Coach B. We couldn't have been the first school to knock on their doors.
September 17th, 2009 at 10:49 PM ^
Both were hired by Bill Martin, good job Bill. Some thought Bill was not up to the task.
September 17th, 2009 at 10:53 PM ^
I don't know that I'd compare Tate to Harris quiiiiiiiite yet. Other than that, yeah, there are quite a few similarities, and they're all good!
September 17th, 2009 at 10:56 PM ^
Your right, but I hope that Tate becomes that (super?)star player, because we're going to need him to win us close games down the wire. Manny was all about that.
September 17th, 2009 at 11:40 PM ^
Absolutely. I think he'll get there. Heck, he's already shown that he can win a close one.
September 18th, 2009 at 12:56 AM ^
They are similar in their supposed lack of size for the professional ranks. Our coaches help them do what they're best at.
September 17th, 2009 at 10:59 PM ^
8) Neither of them has been in my kitchen.
September 18th, 2009 at 12:23 AM ^
This is one of those "over the head" references that is so fucking funny and apropot I just wet myself.
September 17th, 2009 at 11:39 PM ^
shouldnt graham be in there somewhere as a star?
September 17th, 2009 at 11:49 PM ^
If only Justin Feagin were around with matches...
September 18th, 2009 at 2:35 AM ^
9) Both have been compared together by the mgoblog community awhile ago