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12-16-2007, 08:14 PM
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Originally Posted by NFBuck
I agree he is a good coach and he'll win his share of games up there once he gets his system going, but he has a history of having mentally soft teams and losing a lot games that really count. He'll certainly make scUM football more interesting, but I don't see it as a huge step forward for their program.
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Not sure Im following the soft thoughts...he has run some damn good offenses at Tulane, Clemson, and now WVU. Not sure I would classify them as soft...
This move surprises me because he was finally getting some recruiting momentum going in WVU.
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12-16-2007, 08:18 PM
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Not sure Im following the soft thoughts...he has run some damn good offenses at Tulane, Clemson, and now WVU. Not sure I would classify them as soft...
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Soft as in they haven't responded well under pressure.
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This move surprises me because he was finally getting some recruiting momentum going in WVU.
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Me too. Was kind of a whirlwind courtship. Like I said earlier, IMO, this was just Martin and Coleman reaching for a "big name" to appease an increasingly restless fanbase and alumni network. The name they should've gone after was Brian Kelly. That would have worried me.
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12-16-2007, 08:27 PM
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Not sure Im following the soft thoughts...he has run some damn good offenses at Tulane, Clemson, and now WVU. Not sure I would classify them as soft...
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I think this softness issue falls from the way his teams seem to implode when faced with a tough defensive team (USF) or when they should be blowing out an opponent in a rivalry game (Pitt).
That said - toughness is the metier he is said to bring to practices, which should translate to the field - and he did have Pat White running at speed despite a clear case of injury or ill-health in more than two games this year.
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By all accounts, Rodriguez brings a no-nonsense approach to the Michigan program. Carr announced his retirement Nov. 19, two days after his team?s fourth straight loss to rival Ohio State. Michigan plays Florida in the Capital One Bowl Jan. 1 and needs a win in that game to avoid a fifth consecutive bowl defeat.
?He is more intense than any other football coach I have seen,? said Chris Richardson, a reporter for the Blue and Gold News, which covers WVU athletics. ?You may not see that on the sideline during games, but his practices are some of the hardest things I have witnessed. He is a throwback in that regard.
?A lot of the players who have played for him in the past and those who have played for him at West Virginia, they say the one thing they realize is that the practices were harder than the games. The tempo is so fast and so much expected of you.
?If you?re not going to work hard, you?re not going to play for Rich Rodriguez. He brings that in-your-face mentality.?
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For example.
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This move surprises me because he was finally getting some recruiting momentum going in WVU.
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Interesting thing on that recruiting is that the tone of Jenkins reaction makes it sound like he is not happy with this change. Case of the state's highest paid employee taking liberties that Josh cannot afford?
As for the general recruiting uptick, much of the recruiting improvement he brought to WVU was from the Sunshine and East Coast (PA, NJ, MD) states.
Now he has a shinier bauble to entice recruits with.
As long as he restrains his urges to bring in a player no matter what, this could be a deadly combination.
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12-16-2007, 08:33 PM
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I wish I could dismiss this hiring as easily as some of you have...but I can't.
Rodriguez is a damn good coach in my opinion. How that translates in Ann Arbor remains to be seen...
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I agree. RR did an admirable job at WV and I think that it is a solid hire for UM. Time will tell how good a fit he is at TSUN. Given the right athletes, and we know that scUM recruits well, he could build a formidable team.
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12-16-2007, 08:33 PM
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So, can we start calling tsun the West Virginia of the north?
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Give NF a GPA for that one, also you have to check this thread;
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12-16-2007, 08:49 PM
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It's official. He's the next coach at Michigan. This worries me a bit if TOSU will have to face the thread against scUM. Also, Pryor has contacted Rodriguez and has told him that scUM is now in his top five schools.
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12-16-2007, 08:54 PM
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Originally Posted by osugrad21
Not sure Im following the soft thoughts...he has run some damn good offenses at Tulane, Clemson, and now WVU. Not sure I would classify them as soft...
This move surprises me because he was finally getting some recruiting momentum going in WVU.
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Not sure it's soft, but they are not physical on either side of the ball. In WVU's two losses, USF had better athletes than them and outran them sideline to sideline. They beat them at their own game. Pitt, on the other hand, just physically manhandled them up front, leaving them looking for answers, to which they could not find. Big East teams don't play a physical style of football. His style fit in very well. This will not be the case going forward.
I've always said that there are 3 kinds of coaches. The one's who want to trick you (RichRod), the one's who want to beat you up (Miles), and the one's who can do both (  ).
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