Rich Rodriguez (official thread)

[gracelhink]

I don't pick permanent captains before the season. It's just my philosophy. I want to see them lead throughout the year and pick permanent captains at the end. Sometimes you pick a permanent captain and he winds up not being one of your best leaders and you're stuck with him. So we will have game by game captains, seniors and at the end of the year, the team, the players themselves will pick the permanent captains at the end of the year.

It does seem strange to pick captains at the end of the season, that is usually when teams select MVP's of offense, defense, special teams etc.
Team captains before the season seem to offer steady leadership especially when teams have an ownership in the captain selection process.
Gameday captains are a safe bet, no to low risk of failure, and offer opportunity for coaches to reward performance in previous games and motivate for weekly practice.
RR may have his own tradition for choosing post-season captains,
but Jm2cw, this decision to sacrifice another sacred cow and hear more TSUN muttering, was driven by the absence of clear cut leadership and experience that should have surfaced in conditioning and spring drills.

[buckiprof]

Originally Posted by gracelhink

It does seem strange to pick captains at the end of the season, that is usually when teams select MVP's of offense, defense, special teams etc.
Team captains before the season seem to offer steady leadership especially when teams have an ownership in the captain selection process.
Gameday captains are a safe bet, no to low risk of failure, and offer opportunity for coaches to reward performance in previous games and motivate for weekly practice.
RR may have his own tradition for choosing post-season captains,
but Jm2cw, this decision to sacrifice another sacred cow and hear more TSUN muttering, was driven by the absence of clear cut leadership and experience that should have surfaced in conditioning and spring drills.

The leadership and experience did surface during spring practices......on the OSU campus as a transfer.

[DaddyBigBucks]

There was a time when I thought there was a 95% chance that Jax would eventually be proven right: that scUM has just hired their John Cooper.

That 5% doubt dwindles by the day. RR is a combination of Cooper and Buddy Ryan. He has a scheme that will work great until everyone adjusts (took 1 season for Ryan). And he is the worst possible match for the job he's in, culturally and philosophically (Cooper for 13 seasons).

The problem for RR is that he may not have the right players for his scheme until after everyone has already adjusted.

[buckiprof]

Originally Posted by DaddyBigBucks

There was a time when I thought there was a 95% chance that Jax would eventually be proven right: that scUM has just hired their John Cooper.

That 5% doubt dwindles by the day. RR is a combination of Cooper and Buddy Ryan. He has a scheme that will work great until everyone adjusts (took 1 season for Ryan). And he is the worst possible match for the job he's in, culturally and philosophically (Cooper for 13 seasons).

The problem for RR is that he may not have the right players for his scheme until after everyone has already adjusted.

But still, how will everyone adjust to the Barwis effect?!?

[TheIronColonel]

Two words: Gamma Radiation.

[HailToMichigan]

I think it's kinda funny how much you guys care about the captain thing. Sure, it's been done that way since forever at Michigan, but that doesn't really make it a "Michigan tradition".....probably 90% of teams in the country do it that way, and Michigan is not known as "the school that selects its captains at the beginning of the year." Doesn't really set us apart.

[Buckeneye]

Tradition isn't necessarily something that "sets you apart" from everyone else.

However if something is done a certain way for over a century, a custom that the school has grown to consider a given, then why change it?

[BUCKYLE]

Originally Posted by HailToMichigan

I think it's kinda funny how much you guys care about the captain thing. Sure, it's been done that way since forever at Michigan, but that doesn't really make it a "Michigan tradition".....probably 90% of teams in the country do it that way, and Michigan is not known as "the school that selects its captains at the beginning of the year." Doesn't really set us apart.

I think it's [censored]ing hilarious how little you care about the captain thing.

Since when does doing something for A HUNDRED YEARS not make it tradition?