The upside to all the Rodriguez ire
This is probably quite obvious to alot of you however I thought I'd mention it to those not enlightened.
It is apparent that the only surefire way for Rodriguez to get all the unprecedented angst, hate, and misery to go away... is to win the national championship. For there really is no other solution. Talk about a movitation to do so... his home state and alma mater now despise him, he has the NCAA still breathing down his neck, he has a very less than ideal percentage of the M fan base in his corner backing him...the list goes on, and it is quite remarkable to think of all of it. And I really don't think it goes away until at the very minimum he beats Ohio State (which will quell some of it) and later a national championship, up to the point he is no longer the coach here.
It'll totally muffle all the WVU hate because the new perception will be its their sour grapes.
It'll quiet alot more of the M traditionalists, but not all.
It'll put Sparty back in mental purgatory.
It'll get the media to write and view about Rodriguez as a champion.
Go Rodriguez ! And GO BLUE !
August 20th, 2010 at 2:18 PM ^
honestly, i think michigan is at least a few years away from a legit shot at a NC
August 20th, 2010 at 2:24 PM ^
... your post looks like it was written in 2008, but it says 2010. I'll send the "Your website is broken and stuff" email to Brian and get this corrected right away.
August 20th, 2010 at 2:20 PM ^
But what is the upside to the Rodriguez ire? Yes, winning a MNC would make it disappear, but how is that an upside?
August 20th, 2010 at 2:30 PM ^
I think he's saying that it gives RR additional motivation to win. RR often contends, however, that he enters each game with maximum motivation, and it would be impossible to muster another motivatiota (the unit of measurement for motivation) for any particular game, including Ohio State.
August 20th, 2010 at 2:22 PM ^
and I hear they are building Rome with it!
August 20th, 2010 at 2:22 PM ^
Right, so we now know that if Rodriguez wins, things will be cool. Very informative.
August 20th, 2010 at 2:26 PM ^
These are the types of threads that clutter the board.
August 20th, 2010 at 2:33 PM ^
The OP is right: winning a national championship would probably be a good thing. I can't say that I had ever thought of that.
August 20th, 2010 at 2:41 PM ^
idea along with the "Don't Move the Game" petition. DB has an open door policy!
August 20th, 2010 at 2:27 PM ^
I can back this up, guys. I have it from a very reliable source that if we win, people will be happy about it.
August 20th, 2010 at 2:37 PM ^
I hope the "source" was not a tweet
August 20th, 2010 at 2:38 PM ^
If people are happy, that would be telling.
August 20th, 2010 at 8:38 PM ^
Happiness has stumpy legs.
August 20th, 2010 at 2:45 PM ^
that other people will be very unhappy. And that's good.
August 20th, 2010 at 2:47 PM ^
That is NOT confirmed!
August 20th, 2010 at 10:28 PM ^
,,,The spread does in fact cause cancer.
August 20th, 2010 at 4:23 PM ^
I would rather have a boring, losing season playing real football under a real Michigan Man than win a NC under RR and his new-fangled, cancer-causing spread offense.
August 20th, 2010 at 2:38 PM ^
I had a birthday once. I was 44.
August 20th, 2010 at 2:40 PM ^
Winning the national championship would be good for RR and the University.
Thanks, guy.
August 20th, 2010 at 2:43 PM ^
No, thank YOU, Captain Obvious!
August 20th, 2010 at 2:46 PM ^
August 20th, 2010 at 2:50 PM ^
Fear and humiliation are not good motivators, they are simply threats from someone who has nothing better to offer. You can't win when you're scared, maybe that's the problem.
August 20th, 2010 at 2:58 PM ^
Hawaii bowl or bust.
August 20th, 2010 at 3:01 PM ^
gritty, edgy and thought provoking literature that one would normally associate with junior high students from Kentucky.
August 20th, 2010 at 3:08 PM ^
Wonderful. Another crazy Rich Rod opinion. As long as the team shows improvement he should not be fired. Any philosophical shift from the spread to another style will require even more of a wait until we become decent again. IMO, Harbaugh must be avoided at all costs.
August 20th, 2010 at 3:12 PM ^
Go put on the solid blue helmet and sit in the corner. Your right to wear wings has now been revoked.
August 20th, 2010 at 3:12 PM ^
. . . will be like winning a national championship. Rich Rod does that, he's golden for at least another four years.
August 20th, 2010 at 3:23 PM ^
I just want to say that just because a fan doesnt think the current coach is the right coach for the team doesn't mean thay can't be a fan of the team anymore. We don't all agree that obama is the best person for the presidency but we're all still americans (we'll the ones who have citizenship are) with that being said, maybe its time to start looking at the fact that this might not have been the best fit and it might not work out. It seems everyday now we're hearing about transfers, we haven't been to a bowl game in 2 years, we've committed major recruiting violations, we can't even beat msu, ect. Plus our starting cb gets injured and we're completely screwed? this is RR's third year, why hasn't he done a better job recruiting cb's? the fact that we're playing a true freshman is nobody's fault but his, even if a bunch of players transfered its still up to him to get them to buy in or fill the gaps, and he hasnt done that. I have been a U of M fan my whole life, I cheer for them and spend money on merchandise, buy tickets and over pay for concessions, I am entitled to my opinion that I don't think RR is the right man for the job anymore. I'm not claiming that I'm right, I want to win and I don't care with who, I even hope I'm wrong, its not like I'm saying I hope we lose so RR is gone, I just plain don't think he is going to be the coach that brings us a national title and back to glory
August 20th, 2010 at 5:22 PM ^
First off, what are these recruiting violations? Second, uh, it isn't all on RR that our secondary was thin. Who did Lloyd leave? Warren (Pro) and a bunch of other guys that were serviceable at best up until this point. RR did recruit some great corners. Cissoko and Turner were both great get's out of HS. He got a couple more this year. I figure his first recruiting class was the one after his first year coaching. That means he has only had two. You can't fill the gaping holes Lloyd left in the secondary in two years. You just can't expect to start a walk on RS freshman. RR has brough in plenty of DBs. It just so happens that two of them didn't work out. You have to be able to recognize that LC did not leave much in the cupboard. Look how many of his guys played last year on either side of the ball. I still firmly believe that had Lloyd stayed another year, he would have struggled to win 7 games that year. That is the shape we were in.
August 20th, 2010 at 6:00 PM ^
Oops, I didnt mean recruiting violations, I was just getting ahead of myself in what I was writing and wrote recruiting. but lloyd was 4 years ago, RR was able to add players to his partial class and didn't add CB's, so he has had 2 classes to recruit DB's that arent true freshman, this isn't lloyds fault anymore that we are playing who we are at CB. RR's job as a coach is to make the players into servicable D1 players, part of the blame of what happened to cissoko and turner falls on him, thats just the way it is as a coach. same with warren leaving, I bet Carr would have been able to talk him into staying. Also, you're right, RR HAS brought in plenty of DBs, but 90% of them have been safeties. I'm willing to bet that other programs who have gone through a coaching change don't have the problem of only having true freshman and DOOM when a single cb gets injurered. I hope that if RR doesn't last and the next coach wins a nat'l championship you don't become a hypocrite and tak about how glad you are that we got a new coach.
August 20th, 2010 at 5:33 PM ^
....you also believe all University of Michigan students are "douchey", based on daily interaction with sorority girls at Cosi.
In conclusion, shut the fuck up.
August 20th, 2010 at 6:08 PM ^
or it might be the fact the bookstores around here have shirts that say "harvard, the michigan of the east" haha, yeah right, thats not douchey or arrogant, let alone a false statement
edit: I've lived here for 2 years, thats 730 days of straight douche, and not just at cosi
August 20th, 2010 at 8:50 PM ^
The derivation of that quote came from John F. Kennedy. In the 1920s and 1930s, the Ivy League schools had a quota on the number of Jews they'd admit, so Michigan became the favorite alternative for East Coast Jews, and became known as the Harvard of the West. John F. Kennedy jokingly turned this around, saying that he went to the Michigan of the East, Harvard.
Being critical of the school without even understanding the traditions is pretty "douchey."
August 20th, 2010 at 10:14 PM ^
And ask the majority of the people who buy those shirts why it says that and they will say "lol, cuz michigan is a better college than harvard, duh". and the students who go to the school without understanding the traditions are the biggest douches
August 20th, 2010 at 3:26 PM ^
Lou Holtz compared RR to Hitler back in 2008, that should have given us a clue about what we were in for
August 20th, 2010 at 3:30 PM ^
...and thought it was going to allude to David Brandon saving some of Rich Rod's ire by putting it all on himself with the statements of this morning...
August 20th, 2010 at 4:27 PM ^
I have a serious question for the OP:
Do you really believe that RR needs this motivation to win? To wit: if he did not have to deal with all of this crap, he would sort of just dial it in and ask V. Smith to just run into the scrum or have Tate just ad lib out there with no game plan, but now that he is under fire, he is going to actually try? If that is your serious point, then please explain the motivational factors that led RR to tear it up in West Virginia.