POSITIVE Article on Coach Rod

I think I really gave you a +1 because you found 70 bucks while running.  That's awesome.  The noteworthy things I have found on runs include a dead scorpion and a wad of toilet paper that looked like someone had actually wiped a poopy butt before tossing it out of their car.

Would significantly reduce his potential...half of his production is on the ground...

He does not have the arm strength of Vick. Denard is neither Pat White or Vick, he is Denard Robinson. Let's stop with the inaccurate comparisons.

I don't put much stock into BR posts either way - they are like Board posts that can be front-paged with little oversight.  I will say that the negative reports tend to read like mlive/rivals/freep rants, while the positive ones are a little more articulate.  This was a good one, but for the sake of completeness I will point out some counter-arguments:

• The defense under RR has cratered and his recruiting on that side has yet to produce solid playmakers like the offense.  At some point the coach has to take the blame for having absolutely no depth in the secondary.  It doesn't matter if some of the recruits naturally wash out - the fact that this team has been one of the worst defenses in CFB for 3 years shouldn't happen at a school like UM.
• Similarly, his mishandling of the DC situation is depressing.  If he stays, that will be 3 DCs in 4 years, and the previous 2 were pushed to run the 3-3-5 even though they had little experience with it. 
• He has yet to beat an "elite" team.  He's lost 3 times in a row to MSU, OSU, and PSU.  Wiscy pounded them all day, and beating an 8-4 "BCS" UConn team is the most prominent win in 3 years.  That doesn't cut it at UM.
• 3-9, 5-7, 7-5+bowl game is simply not that impressive of a run for any coach, and while there might be progress there, it has been glacial from a W-L viewpoint.
• The amount of media-based "damage" that has been done during the RR era has poisoned recruiting and the national image enough that maybe a change is needed just to wipe the slate clean.  Yes, the Freep articles were crock, but an NCAA investigation did occur and some (minor) violatons were found, the first in the team's history.  People have been calling for RR's head for years, and the national dialogue has turned against UM being an elite program.  Do people really want this team to become ND, Miami, or Nebraska in terms of years of national irrelevance (though at least NU came back a bit recently)?  Making a change now saves the team from falling even further.
• Along those same lines, RR's coaching continued uncertainty has definitely affected recruiting, and other coaches are using that against him.  UM needs top talent to succeed, and if this year's class is any indication, some recruits are concerned enough about RR's tenure as to look elsewhere. 

I'm not saying that I agree with everything above, but just for completeness.  The posted article was well-written and informative, but I knock dumb articles, not ones that I disagree with.

because every argument that there is has been made multiple times here.  There is nothing new to say.

Now, having said that, I think the BR poster's most important point is that Brandon risks a great deal more in making a change this year than waiting one year.  I might feel differently if there was a balanced spread mastermind available, but there isn't.