Michigan is the problem at Michigan
October 3rd, 2014 at 2:02 AM ^
Brandon is not only our Jerry Jones but our f****** Matt Millen.
October 3rd, 2014 at 2:31 AM ^
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October 3rd, 2014 at 2:02 AM ^
October 3rd, 2014 at 2:03 AM ^
We need manbaw and leather helmets! Never evolve! Never change!
October 3rd, 2014 at 2:05 AM ^
Someone said this on the game thread and got downvoted but its entirely true.
If RR had never been at UM he would now be the #1 target for UM's fanbase for 2015 - a MANBALL fucking spread offense combined with a PHYSICAL defense that punched Oregon's teeth in better than MSU did. Goes on the road with a FRESHMAN QB and beats #2? Are you kidding me.
October 3rd, 2014 at 2:10 AM ^
he would still be at WVU or have moved on to something bigger. Arizona wasn't something bigger to RR 6 years ago.
He might be a top target but then if we hadn't hired him we might have got someone who would have built a rock solid program by now, you never know.
October 3rd, 2014 at 2:12 AM ^
Whoever stepped in after Carr was going to fail because LC left a tire fire behind him and then allowed everyone tangentally related to him to pour gasoline all over it.
October 3rd, 2014 at 2:30 AM ^
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October 3rd, 2014 at 2:05 AM ^
in 6 weeks when AZ is 8-4 or 7-5
October 3rd, 2014 at 2:07 AM ^
and we could honestly be 3-9
October 3rd, 2014 at 2:07 AM ^
October 3rd, 2014 at 9:50 AM ^
And beat the #2 team in their house
October 3rd, 2014 at 2:08 AM ^
Either way with his two star recruits he just beat Oregon. and has beaten a top 10 every year he's been there something Hoke hasnt and wont EVER do
October 3rd, 2014 at 2:16 AM ^
In Hoke's defense, he was about as close as you can get last year with Ohio State.
That being said though, I still think RR undoubtedly a better coach than Hoke.
October 3rd, 2014 at 2:17 AM ^
SHit, you mean DG was close. That had nothing to do with hoke's skill as a coach.
October 3rd, 2014 at 2:27 AM ^
Al Borges called a heck of a game. Fuck BranHoke for firing him and bringing dinosaur offense in.
October 3rd, 2014 at 2:30 AM ^
Okay I may be all onboard the wagon in hiring RR back somehow lol, but there is NO WAY IN HELL Im getting on the wagon to hire Gorgeous Al back..
October 3rd, 2014 at 2:08 AM ^
8-4 is possible with USC, UCLA, Washington and ASU still to play, but 8-4 is a fuck of a lot better than Michigan is going to be this year, and he is playing a lot tougher schedule than Michiqan is.
October 3rd, 2014 at 2:08 AM ^
Lol don't be so bitter.
They'll finish 10-2 or better and that's with a true freshman QB
and even if they did go 7-5 they're much better than us in the second best conference.
October 3rd, 2014 at 2:28 AM ^
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October 3rd, 2014 at 4:06 AM ^
Marking you down on this one!
October 3rd, 2014 at 2:08 AM ^
Michigan football is presently in a continuous state of seppuku.
October 3rd, 2014 at 2:37 AM ^
Seppuku at least ends with an honorable death. I'd take that to the water boarding they are currently undergoing.
October 3rd, 2014 at 2:08 AM ^
Congrats Rich Rod.
I am now convinced Michigan will never get better. Nothing that our team has done this season has made me feel as bad as seeing that Arizona victory.
:(
October 3rd, 2014 at 2:08 AM ^
... when you start placing more value on tradition than progress. You see it in so many examples, whether it is business, sports, or empires, etc...
October 3rd, 2014 at 7:03 AM ^
October 3rd, 2014 at 2:09 AM ^
We wouldn't get Casteel for an IMPROVING richrod but we'd hire some mouth breathing airhead and pay for any coordinator he wanted no matter the cost, and we'd pay him more to sit around and clap like a child.
October 3rd, 2014 at 2:15 AM ^
... And that he never offered Harbs or Miles...
1. Brandon wanted a HC he could monitor
2. Brandon wanted such HC because, He, Brandon, was of the belief that he was smarter than most HCs and could provide valuable insights and strategies and now is his chance
3. He tells Hoke "Don't worry, we'll get you bullet-proof OC/DC, if anything happens we fire them, keep you, get a new Coordinator.
4. Profit (Literally, as Dave sucks every penny he can find from every wallet within the continental US)
5. Losses? "Frankly, I haven't had the time to consider this as I have been doing, frankly, more important things"
October 3rd, 2014 at 2:19 AM ^
..... too much truth and sad, man.
hire the big manball looking doofus figurehead.... and try to micromanage behind the scenes.
October 3rd, 2014 at 2:27 AM ^
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October 3rd, 2014 at 2:12 AM ^
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October 3rd, 2014 at 2:19 AM ^
he adjust to his personnel. At Tulane, they pretty much air it out with Shaun King at QB. At Clemson, he did both passing and running with Woody Dantzler. At WVU, he ran the ball a ton with Pat White who can't throw the ball and has a electric RB in Slaton as well.
Threet and Sherdian were not good QBs yet RR threw the ball more in his 1st year. With Tate Forcier, his offense was more balanced but leaned towards zone read. Finally, with Denard, they ran the ball a ton bc Denard isn't a good passer.
October 3rd, 2014 at 2:24 AM ^
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October 3rd, 2014 at 2:32 AM ^
Gotta remember that Terelle Pryor somehow got snakeoiled by Tressel and OSU when he was committed to WVU and supposedly wanted to follow RR to UM.... sigh. So much QB misfortune....
October 3rd, 2014 at 2:35 AM ^
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October 3rd, 2014 at 2:40 AM ^
Pryor was never committed to WVU. I'm not sure where you even got that information.
October 3rd, 2014 at 2:41 AM ^
Pryor barely considered WVU as an interest. He was fully engaged with OSU from the beginning. He only showed serious interest when RR took the job at UM. I'm not sure if it was the known lack of players on the roster at UM or if he was just playing RR. I have doubts he ever intended to go anywhere but OSU. Mostly, we lucked out, he was a problem child.
October 3rd, 2014 at 2:45 AM ^
When RR came here, he made a push, and basically it was UM or OSU. WVU was a distant and faint possibility.
October 3rd, 2014 at 7:37 PM ^
RR always adapted to what he had. At Tulane he had Shaun King as QB:
- 1997: 199/363 (54.8%) for 2577 yards and 24 TD vs. 14 INT. 124 carries for 511 yards and 5 TD.
- 1998: 244/364 (67.0%) for 3495 yards and 38 TD vs. 6 INT. 156 carries for 633 yards and 11 TD.
At WV he had Pat White and used his skill sets. RR didn't "learn" anything at Michigan except stay away from dysfunctional institutions.
October 3rd, 2014 at 2:17 AM ^
You guys are hilarious. Last year AZ beat Oregon and limped to a 4-5 conference record. This win over Oregon brings his conference record at Arizona to 10-10. Now I know that's better than 6-18, but maybe let's at least wait until he goes above .500 until we talk about what a giant mistake we made. This is what Rich Rod does. Hot start, beats a good team, then total implosion.
But sure, go ahead and continue thinking that having Ray Vinopal as Michigan's starting safety was somehow the fault of our institution and not the coach who put him on the field.
October 3rd, 2014 at 2:17 AM ^
Hoke has NEVER beaten 3 Top 10 teams his ENTIRE career. ... RR did that in 3 - with lower ranked recruits.
October 3rd, 2014 at 2:21 AM ^
I'm not arguing that Hoke is a better coach than RR. By almost any objective measure, he's much worse. That doesn't mean we should have kept RR.
October 3rd, 2014 at 2:32 AM ^
What? We fired him after 3 years which is virtually unheard of......he had no upperclassmen......Denard was a SO setting offensive records.....the team he left behind won 11 games after the AD doubled the salary for the DC.....I could go on and on.
Are you seriously saying there isn't any circumstance that would make you think we should have kept him?
October 3rd, 2014 at 2:44 AM ^
We fired him after 3 years because the team was a diaster. The defense was historically bad, the offense couldn't do anything against decent teams, his recruiting was falling apart as was his image, and the program was in the worst shape it had been in for decades.
The team won 11 games when he left because unlike anyone on RR's staff when he was here, Greg Mattison is actually a capable defensive coach.
October 3rd, 2014 at 2:47 AM ^
I had to read this twice before I knew which UM coach you were referring to with...
The defense was historically bad, the offense couldn't do anything against decent teams, his recruiting was falling apart as was his image, and the program was in the worst shape it had been in for decades
October 3rd, 2014 at 3:05 AM ^
Interesting.....because maybe if Brandon had given him a budget similar to Mattison, he could have had a competent DC. But Brandon said no, so we got GERG'd. And then DB fired RRod and doubled the salary for the DC position. DOUBLED.
You think that might have had something to do with us getting great coaching all of a sudden?
His recruiting was fine....he had 3 5* players committed and pulled in a couple the year before.
October 3rd, 2014 at 7:11 AM ^
Look back at some of Magnus' posts about the attrition and tell me that his recruiting was fine. Give me a break, you have to actually keep someone on campus long enough to play to really get credit for recruiting them.
October 3rd, 2014 at 12:31 PM ^
I think your timing is off. Bill Martin was AD when RRod and Schaffer were hired....Brandon when Gerg was hired. Brandon was here for most of his tenure and could have raised his budget for a competent DC but did not.....then he allowed Hoke to massively increase the salary for all assistants.
October 3rd, 2014 at 2:20 AM ^
When's the last time we beat a top 2 team?