CC: Rich Rodriguez

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can we Kiss and Makeup? come on back we were wrong....

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bluewithenvy

October 3rd, 2014 at 2:08 AM ^

Good for RR. He could never succeed at Michigan. Michigan needs to clean house. All the politics need to be removed before the program will sniff success again.

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alum96

October 3rd, 2014 at 2:08 AM ^

He RAISED me up tonight.  Good on him - was nice to see that man smile after all the hell he went thru.  It will be like watching Hoke smile after his team wins a Division 2 conference championship at his next HC gig.

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groovyJABRONI

October 3rd, 2014 at 2:10 AM ^

Not appearing in a Bowl Game for the first time in 3 decades... twice. Never beating OSU or MSU and finishing 1-7 in conference play his last year. 5 NCAA violations. Taking a top ten recruiting class his first year and having nearly a dozen of those students transfer by the end of his stint at Michigan. No support from the Regents or the fan base. He could recruit and he's doing a hell of a job at Arizona. He maybe could've turned UofM around, but nobody was willing to wait to find out.

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Woodson2

October 3rd, 2014 at 1:59 PM ^

Not could have turned U of M around. He absolutely would have turned Michigan around given time. Even with the undermining of everything he did. Yes he is that good of a coach and that will be proven in time. Nothing Michigan fans can do now but sit back and watch Rich Rod turn Arizona, a really bad football school, into a top 25 team consistently. It will happen and it could have been even better at Michigan but he was not given time. And that is why it was Michigan that was a failure, it is completely on them. RR will admit mistakes and all coaches make them but he was given no chance, the problem was Michigan.

He was rebuilding the roster and it takes time! I can understand fans who have little knowledge of football and just want to see "winz" over MSU and OSU without evaluating the roster RR inherited but there is no excuse as an institution to hire a man for as big of a rebuild job as he needed to complete and get rid of him in three years. It's laughable and it will be even more laughable as RR continues to show his coaching ability when he is given time to revamp a roster. Arizona is at the tip of what they will be when he actually has depth on that team. They have defensive issues due to depth and youth just as Michigan did but Arizona AD is completely aware of these issues and was all about giving RR the full amount of time to rebuild it.

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MGlobules

October 3rd, 2014 at 10:05 AM ^

is that he is such a likable, frank guy. The hostility toward the spread was SO FUCKING REACTIONARY. Just moronically so, when 90% of college ball had already embraced it. The Michigan Man talk was dumber than a pail of dead eels, when none of Michigan's great past coaches were Michigan men, either by the stupid defintion of those in charge. Now we're up to 95% of the sport employing it, and the fact we'll STILL have to somehow F*CK AROUND with a conversation about whether we stick to fake manball before we even make another hire just makes me so sleepy. . . 

 

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Sopwith

October 3rd, 2014 at 2:17 AM ^

Rich Rodriguez, in his three years at Arizona, has had a new QB every year yet managed to beat a top 10 team each year.

The last time Michigan beat a Top 10 team?

Rich Rodriguez, 2008.

Fuck.  Just fuck.  

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Mr. Yost

October 3rd, 2014 at 9:41 AM ^

...but that offense only put up 16.3 points in the last 3 games when Rich Rod was at Michigan.

So not only were we get ass raped on every offensive drive by the opposing team. We also couldn't score, the man who's an offensive guru and has a specialty, couldn't get it done.

Doesn't make him a bad coach, just is more reason why he was fired. Maybe if we scored 120 to the 137 and we showed a promising offense, he would've returned. But scoring 16.3 ppg didn't even give himself a fighting chance. It wasn't just Brandon who wanted him gone.

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ChasingRabbits

October 3rd, 2014 at 10:10 AM ^

Listen to yourself dude.  Its beyond moronic sitting where we are right now.  We have averaged 14.5 in our last 4 games..  thats ALL the games we have played against BCS teams.  The whole program is a dumpster fire.  RR couldn't get his kids to focus in the middle of the "fire RR, who is our next coach going to be" circus that started just before he arrived in A2 3 years prior and was at a boiling point from midseason on that year?  Shame on him! 

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mtzlblk

October 6th, 2014 at 2:01 PM ^

...imagine if he had not been saddled with a tiny budget to hire a DC?

What if Carr had not all but told the entire team at thye time to transfer? 

What if he had not been undermined from day one from inside the program and externally?

What if he had publicly been given another year rather than left in limbo that entire time?

Just the DC aspect alone would have been enough to get him through.

Damn.....what if M had just welcomed him with open arms and suported him 100%......after all, he ran an offense that was more like Bo's original option attack than any other coach in the country.....wouldn't that have been nice?

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uminks

October 3rd, 2014 at 2:58 AM ^

fired the good coach and hired the bad coach! Karma's a bitch!

That RR D looke pretty damn good to me and of course the offense was moving the ball all night on Oregon!

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A Fan In Fargo

October 3rd, 2014 at 3:09 AM ^

how many clowns wanted him gone on this blog. Many things kept getting better while he was Michigan's coach. Had to show him the door. Good call dippies.

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RobSk

October 3rd, 2014 at 12:06 PM ^

I believe (and believed) that RR is a superb coach. By the end of 2010, I also believed that it was highly unlikely he could succeed at Michigan, for many, many reasons.

The question is for me - Could he have fixed the D the next year the way Mattison did?

I don't know. I really just don't. GERG was so incredibly bad, and it's not obvious that he was going away. Why does this matter? Cause here we are again..Except I'm not convinced Brady Hoke is a superb football coach. Weirdly though, I do believe that both Mattison and Nussmeier are excellent - But it's also obvious that Nussmeier can't fix what's broken very quickly. :(

So the question is, are we about to do something similar to what happened with RR, where we have the right people (OC/DC) in place, and we're going to get rid of them because we're fed up and don't want to give Nussmeier enough time to right the offensive ship, much like many were fed up and didn't want to give RR the time to right the defensive ship?

Who the heck knows...

      Rob

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Baloo

October 3rd, 2014 at 3:13 AM ^

Yeah, let's rehire the worst coach our program has ever had.  I really miss getting blown out by rivals, commiting NCAA violations, having Wisconsin run the ball on 28 straight plays against us, missing bowl games, giving up 65 points to Illinois, not scoring against any defense with a pulse, and having half the team transfer.  That was a real blast.

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