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Rich Rodriguez (official thread of last laughs)

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UM sold out by hiring Rich Rodriguez


By: Andy Van Sistine /The Daily Cardinal - September 16, 2008

Columnist Andy Van Sistine marvels at the fall of the Michigan Wolverines and attributes it to the lack of character shown by Rich Rodriguez over the past year.
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For many, it might have seemed like another big upset. Michigan started off its second consecutive football season with a loss at home to a seemingly innocuous team like Utah.
Utah has since proven to be a real threat on the national scene. But if you have been catching the warning signs all along, you would have seen the Wolverines? loss coming well before it happened, regardless of how good Utah was. And you surely would have figured out by now that Big Blue has steadily been sinking into a dark era in the legacy of its storied college football program.
The ugly start of last year?s football season was only the first indication of tough times ahead, losing to a FCS team and getting slammed by Oregon?both at home?in the first two weeks. Two losses to end the regular season, including a fourth-straight loss to Ohio State, the retirement of an embarrassed Lloyd Carr and the loss of offensive weapons Chad Henne, Mike Hart and Jake Long to the NFL draft only made things worse.
The hiring of a new head coach capable of providing stability to a team in turmoil could have gotten Michigan back on track after a really rough year. Instead, they got a basket case.
Enter Rich Rodriguez, born and raised on West Virginia soil and heralded alumnus of West Virginia University. He is a skilled man that had great success coaching at Tulane and Clemson and later became a highly successful head coach at his alma mater. In nearly seven years with the Mountaineers, he led his team to six top two finishes in the Big East conference, three Gator Bowl appearances and a BCS bowl victory in the 2006 Sugar Bowl.
Now, why a man who had pioneered his team?the team he cheered for and played for as a young man?to elite status and was earning more than $1 million coaching for that team would want to leave, one can only guess.
But as it happened, Michigan made an offer to Rodriguez that he felt he had to take before he had even finished coaching at West Virginia. He bailed from West Virginia, leaving them scrambling to find an interim coach to lead them in the Fiesta Bowl.
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There is a post on the UM board started by an LSU fan asking who they would rather have as coach at UM right now - Miles or RR.

Miles is winning 52-48.

This is BEFORE a run of Wisky, Illinois, Toledo, PSU and MSU.

Circle Oct 25. If UM loses to MSU the party gets real interesting.
 
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Oh8ch;1262668; said:
There is a post on the UM board started by an LSU fan asking who they would rather have as coach at UM right now - Miles or RR.

Miles is winning 52-48.

This is BEFORE a run of Wisky, Illinois, Toledo, PSU and MSU.

Circle Oct 25. If UM loses to MSU the party gets real interesting.
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The fact that any UM thought they could have a successful season with their current QB situation is mind-boggling. Any time someone said UM was going to have a good season, my first question was "Did you see their spring game?"

I think they'll start winning games once he gets a good QB for the system, but he'll be far from winning championships. He just isn't going to live up to the hype.......Not that this is groundbreaking news to anyone here
 
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The FSB legal team also included an individual who is all too aware of the OSU vs. Michigan rivalry, Jaclyn Bryk. Miss Bryk, a 29 year-old attorney at FSB and an Ohio State University law graduate, handled much of the research and legal writing on the case. In fact it was Bryk who pulled an all-nighter to draft the complaint that was filed to open this case.
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She's married, but she just made my hold out list, should she ever decide that she wants a side fling with a married 35 year old guy who drinks too much, is losing his hair and is a total computer dork.
 
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Oh8ch said:
There is a post on the UM board started by an LSU fan asking who they would rather have as coach at UM right now - Miles or RR.

Miles is winning 52-48.
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billmac91;1262681; said:
The fact that any UM thought they could have a successful season with their current QB situation is mind-boggling. Any time someone said UM was going to have a good season, my first question was "Did you see their spring game?"

I think they'll start winning games once he gets a good QB for the system, but he'll be far from winning championships. He just isn't going to live up to the hype.......Not that this is groundbreaking news to anyone here
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But if they had Miles, they might have a better quarterback situation (and a different system). OK, so Ryan Mallett doesn't live up to his thread here on BP...but he probably is better than the current UM situation.
 
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Steve19;1263036; said:
I don't know, Big Ten and all, it just hurts me deeply to see TSUN struggling like this...just devastating...very sad...
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apologize if I am missing the sarcasam font but screw that.

I hope not a single ray of sunlight hits their collective ass for the rest of their natural lives.

This is payback for all the arrogance, hopefully its just the beginning.
 
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