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Michigan Coaching Speculation

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Anyway, the two assistants (drumroll)... defensive backs coach/recruiting coordinator Tony Gibson and offensive coordinator Calvin Magee (bios), which implies those two guys will be following RichRod to Ann Arbor. Which would mean that our current staffers in those positions will not be retained. Which is, depending on the position we are talking about, either mostly indifferent or totally awesome.
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OCBucksFan;1030446; said:
I can't believe so many people are giving RR so much crap about this... it's not like it's ever rainbows and unicorns when a good coach leaves a program, feelings are hurt and people are pissed off. Maybe he stays at tsun, maybe he goes onto something else in a few years, however, the reality is Michigan is a better job than West Virginia. Face it, the pressure was starting to get applied, people were expecting him to win a National Title, and that wasn't going to happen. They don't get the recruits needed for that and the competition level in the Big East is a joke. The only thing I see here is people looking at last year and that resentment coming into play.

Here's what I see, he found a job where they paid him out of his contract, and he's gone to a program where the expectations are "beat tOSU" not win a national championship, so he thinks he's coming out ahead in this deal.
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So you think "IF" (key word there) he beats OSU a couple times in the next few years and doesn't win the Big 10, make it to BCS bowl games, ect.... that everyone in ann arbor will be ok with that? He'll go running to the next big job opening and leave these kids w/o a coach when the pressure of the rivalry gets to him just like he did with Pitt. The thing is, if you can't face the pressure of beating a rival that goes sub .500 every year, how is he going to handle the pressure of a rivlary where the other team makes it to a BCS Bowl game and challenges for a title on a yearly basis?

:oh::io:
 
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CausticMick;1030456; said:
My particular issue in this matter, not like it matters to anyone involved, are that this guy didn't pay the respect to his administration and players he should have. Would you give your letter of resignation to the secretary or mail kid?
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yeah, but maybe that's what scUM looks for in a HC. after all, didn't Bo (when he was the president of the tigers) fire Sparky Anderson by fax?

sorry...:topic:
 
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OCBucksFan;1030446; said:
I can't believe so many people are giving RR so much crap about this... it's not like it's ever rainbows and unicorns when a good coach leaves a program, feelings are hurt and people are pissed off.
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Man, absolutely. "He didn't tell people in the proper order!" "He did this and not that!"

If there's a handbook for leaving, I'd like to see it. And if anyone's got truly inside info on Rodriguez's thought process, I'd like to see that too. You can read anything into anything. Even this:

At a first-day-of-the-semester meeting with his team Wednesday at 7 a.m., Tressel told his players he was interested in the job just 145 miles away. By late afternoon, Tressel had left and a school spokesman said he did not know where the coach was headed.
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CNNSI.com - College Football - Ohio State hires Youngstown State's Tressel - Wednesday January 17, 2001 08:47 PM

Does that quote tell you much? Me neither. But would it be hard to bash Tressel for not telling anyone? No, not with the right perspective.
 
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HailToMichigan;1030471; said:
Man, absolutely. "He didn't tell people in the proper order!" "He did this and not that!"

If there's a handbook for leaving, I'd like to see it. And if anyone's got truly inside info on Rodriguez's thought process, I'd like to see that too. You can read anything into anything. Even this:

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CNNSI.com - College Football - Ohio State hires Youngstown State's Tressel - Wednesday January 17, 2001 08:47 PM

Does that quote tell you much? Me neither. But would it be hard to bash Tressel for not telling anyone? No, not with the right perspective.
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There is a handbook, but you just haven't seen it because they don't sell in places that start with an "M" and end in "N" (I'll spell it out for you- i.e. Michigan and Morgantown). Tressel told his players he was interested. So because one school official didn't know where he was when a reporter called means he abandoned his team? Please note he accepted tOSU position (his dream job, not something "bigger and better" alone) out of season, as well.
 
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Best Buckeye;1030458; said:
From mgoblog:

Anyway, the two assistants (drumroll)... defensive backs coach/recruiting coordinator Tony Gibson and offensive coordinator Calvin Magee (bios), which implies those two guys will be following RichRod to Ann Arbor. Which would mean that our current staffers in those positions will not be retained. Which is, depending on the position we are talking about, either mostly indifferent or totally awesome.
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I was just going to mention that Vance Bedford probably doesn't have the greatest job security at the moment -- and just now noticed he's disappeared from our staff page.
 
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Good hire for Michigan. Guy has recruited nationally at WVU and his hit Western Pa pretty hard his entire time there. Michigan will open a lot more doors. He ran an effective offense at Tulane with Shaun King so I think it's a little early to speculate he'll try to exactly duplicate the WVU offense there.
 
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In case this hasn't been mentioned, Rich Rodriguez actually gains his coaching power from dining of the souls of unborn children, in West Virginia, the number of babies to die at birth has tripled since he became head coach. It's no coincidence that he's had more success as that rate has gained. Players have been reported seeing news stories on the television, then walking into the locker room, him having both arms raised to the sky screaming "MORE POWER!" At this point, if I was in Michigan, I would watch the rate of children born and dying, because the higher that rate is, the greater your chance is of winning a national championship.
 
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DaytonBuck;1030477; said:
Good hire for Michigan. Guy has recruited nationally at WVU and his hit Western Pa pretty hard his entire time there. Michigan will open a lot more doors. He ran an effective offense at Tulane with Shaun King so I think it's a little early to speculate he'll try to exactly duplicate the WVU offense there.
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Who is this person named "Guy" you speak of?
 
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Like to see both sides of the opinions on this. I dont think it'll work out. RR did excellent.........in the big east. Everytime there was a game that he SHOULD have won, he didnt. Gee, that sounds familiar. That spread is very dangerous, and can burn you at any time, but has so many flaws, and so many turnover/mistake possibilities, that I truely believe it will never go anywhere. Note that WVU has NEVER had a good defense, or at least a high caliber one (remember, Big East).

I find it funny that everybody is saying "Well at least Michigan is willing to shake it up and go a different direction". Wow, can say that again. Went from a coach who would hardly run the shotgun, to this.....that is funny :biggrin:

Oh and it cracks me up that they stole WVU's football AND basketball coach in a year :)
 
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