Will there be any consequences for Arizona violating the NCAA concussion policy?

When you refer to "White LIghtening" are you talking about Ricky Leach?  If so, I had not heard that he had no memory of playing for Michigan.  If not, who are you talking about?

I had not heard that Leach had severe memory loss.  If so that is very, very sad.

FIRE RICH ROD this morning, I don't know if my brain can handle it today. 

Well he did  win on Saturday in a very big game while we sort of....you know.......didnt.

Therefore he must die.

BTW...if there was EVER a guy who needed a full-time PR consultant to handle his every move it's him.  I have never, ever seen anyone generate so much media-hate and that includes political, religious and sporting world nutjobs from left to right and all points in-between.

If the medical staff clears a kid to play that means he has no symptoms of brain trauma which means fire Harbaugh.

I thought we were done with OT on the board????????

Apparantly all of you sick bastards can't get enough of FIRE RICH ROD! 

Now I have to spend the rest of the day listening to Rilo Kiley and sobbing my brains out. Thanks Guys!!

In the game thread Saturday I said we had a long post with people killing Dantonio for putting Gholston back in. Even got some front page derision.  Yet someone we like does something very similar, maybe worse, and most here are defending him. 

Hey, if you were one of the few who said "you're not one of the team doctors, you don't know if Dantonio did the right thing" and are doing the same thing here, more power to you, I respect your consistency. If you killed MSU's staff and are now going "oh come on, how would he know?!", well, you might want to take a look in the mirror.

I think the primary lesson I've learned from this weekend is this:

The absolute worst thing that can happen to the MGoBoard is a bad Michigan loss with a poor offensive performance on the same day as a big Arizona win with a stellar offensive performance.  It's brings out the RichRod zealots' most obnoxious behavior, which brings out the RichRod zealot haters' most obnoxious behavior.

Here are my thoughts on this story:

(1) I'm not willing to believe it based entirely on this Forbes article.

(2) If this is essentially accurate, that's awful, and I'd be furious if a Michigan coach did this to one of our players.  (I believe this to be a really disgusting side of college football.)

(3) I feel like this is where the essence of the RichRod debate/issues comes in.  If this is true and he had done it at Michigan, it would (rightfully, I think) be on the front page of espn.com right now.  The spotlight and expectations - both for performance and behavior - are just different at Michigan.  At Michigan, you'll see Undergraduate Admissions saying "hold on a second" when you try to bring in Demar Dorsey, and the local media will smell blood if you disregard some NCAA rules.  This isn't necessarily the case in places like Morgantown and Tucson.  Like many others here, I think Rodriguez will be great at Arizona just like he was great at West Virginia.  I don't think he ever would have been great at Michigan.  That's not because he didn't have a Michigan degree or anything stupid like that; it's just because his strengths (and weaknesses) happen to be a poor fit for the Michigan job.  Some people think that's because of Michigan's shortcomings.  Maybe that's true, but I think a lot of the stuff that makes us unique is what I really like about our football program.

I'd like to ask where the writer's priorities are.  Granted, you can make a case that Matt Scott should have come out of the game immediately.  That said, he did come out not that much later.  Shouldn't we really be taking the USC staff to task for allowing their team to take no fewer than six personal fouls, including at least two each of targeting the head and late hits on a sliding quarterback, as well as one taunting penalty?  It's piece-of-shit Lane Kiffin and his piece-of-shit team that should be taking the heat here, particularly #7 as I think he racked up about 60 yards' worth of personal fouls on his own.

1. Scott has long been famous for throwing up quite often, during sprints, at hot practices, etc., so when he explains that he threw up because of his workload in the game (see stats, he was performing at an uncommenly high level), perhaps we should just take a 21 year old QB and the medical staff there as knowing something we don't. He says he was fine, he was checked.....and was/is fine.

2. RR never displayed any kind of disregard for player safety at any time during his tenure at UM, in fact on several occasions he demonstrated very high regard to player welfare with regard to concussions or any other type of injury, nor am I aware of any such thing occuring while he was at WV. One would think that given the number of rocks turned over and crevices sniffed in order to discredit him over the last 5 years, this would surely have been brought to light were it any kind of trend. People did knock him over his 'use' of Denard and the seemingly common dings he sustained, but I think that can safely be regarded as not limited to RR at this point. He was arguably in a worse situation career-wise when on the hot seat at UM and would have had as much or more reason to roll the dice on a player's welfare as he currently does at AZ and as far as I can remember he never did.

The guy is building something very cool at AZ right now and we should just wish him luck and stop trying to tar him from a distance. I do believe he will have AZ playing on an entirely new level within the next 3-5 years, assuming he doesn't end up going back to Auburn should that job open up. 

I actually met Coach Rod in his office the Thursday before Arizona played Oklahoma State.  I was in Arizona for work and it was set up as a favor from a super well-connected and awesome mutual friend.  I was super emotional and thanked him for being so great to us.  He asked me to sit down and chat with him for a little bit even though he had a huge game to prepare for.  He was nothing but super positive about Michigan, the folks up here, etc.  He said, "I knew there were a couple of you up there who still liked me!" lol.

I know there may be no place for this in the realm of sports and fandom, but I was always taught that how one treats people is the most important thing in life.  It's more important than winning, than any job, than absolutely anything.  Do what is just and be excellent to each other. I identified with RR because he's all heart and always says exactly what's on his mind.  I understand how that's counterintuitive to the success and business of coaching college football, but I respected and identified with that part of him.  That's why I was so heartbroken at how he was treated by some Michigan fans.  You don't start wearing Stanford gear to Michigan home games with four games left on the schedule.  That's tacky, disrespectful and mean.

I found myself apologizing to him for how things went down in Ann Arbor...for how he was treated, how unsupportive people inside the program and in the fanbase were, etc.  He smiled super big, thanked me and said, "It's all alright now!  We couldn't figure out why there were people against us on the inside, but it's okay now."  

A lot of people, ranging from random Twitter followers to my best friends, freak out about my love for RR and question my loyalty to M.  I'm an alum, I have a block M tattoo on my lower-left hip (never tell my mom that part) and I love Michigan in a way I've never loved anything in my life.  I always will.  But I'm deeply disappointed in how our fanbase continues to chastise, taunt and disrespect Coach Rod.  It didn't work out.  We could debate the reasons, but the bottom line is it didn't work out.  I don't understand why so many people act like it's this ex-girlfriend you don't want dating anyone else even though you don't want her back.

If you were truly over it, it wouldn't incite such a response every single time he or Arizona does something remotely newsworthy.  There's no need to root against him.  It's really not that serious.  Let's be respectful of his success and our own and stop comparing.  The success of Michigan, Arizona and any school Coach Rod coaches for in the future is not mutually-exclusive.