Rich Rodriguez (official thread of last laughs)

[unionfutura]

What a [censored]ing pussy. Does anybody remember JT getting behind a podium and crying like a little girl with a skinned knee when he was catching all the flack for the MoC ordeal? Me either, and that's precisely why DickRod will never win anything significant as a head coach. He's a mental midget whose emotions get the better of him.


Get your head out of your ass.

People handle things in different ways, I remember JT after the Mo ordeal, and he was unable to sleep most nights, JT acknowledges that the best thing that ever happened during that whole ordeal was after the ESPN story broke they went out and beat Michigan, which rallied the OSU fanbase behind him. Imagine if he lost that game, he'd been 6-5 and heading to something like the Motor City bowl, with a scandal sitting over his head. I can't imagine where this program would be.

The problem for RR is he's an outsider in a situation that was tailor made for disaster. Can he survive it? Well see...

Oh yeah if RR does succeed at Michigan once his contract is up, he's gone no doubt in my mind.

 

[BB73]

I think that went over your head. I like to follow BN27 around and quote our friend mh20 to most of his posts. I'm easily entertained.

I guess so - I also assumed that Bucklion was referring to BN27 in his recent post in this thread.

 

[racerbuck]

If Michigan's internal investigation finds violations and they self report this to the NCAA along with self imposed sanctions, would they be able to use these finding to fire RR at the end of the season without having to payoff the rest of his contact? In this way, they may be able to minimize potential NCAA sanctions and not have to continue paying RR after he is gone. This is not what I would like to see a Buckeye fan, but I could see them trying to do this as a way to restore their program.

 

[unionfutura]

Mike Valenti is an MSU grad and he is letting them have it.

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Listen to Valenti today at 4:15 PM

[censored] MICHIGAN

No offense but Valenti is hack

 

[Bucklion]

I guess so - I also assumed that Bucklion was referring to BN27 in his recent post in this thread.

Yes I wasn't.

 

[MaxBuck]

I'm truly torn on this issue. If it's true that UM is doing nothing that other programs do, then it's improper to make them the whipping boy. If, on the other hand, DickRod and his staff are breaking the rules in a way that other schools do not, then they need to get whacked big time.

It's one thing to work your players hard; it's quite another to work them in ways the NCAA says are out of line, especially it other schools actually follow those rules. The problem is, nobody seems to be able to document whether other schools (and let's say, tOSU) also routinely break the rules in this regard. It would be interesting to get Justin Boren's take on this, though I'm sure we won't.

 

[Boilers Fan]

I'm waiting for Rich Rod to pull out this argument...



[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGDBR2L5kzI"]YouTube - Iverson Practice![/ame]

 

[unionfutura]

I'm truly torn on this issue. If it's true that UM is doing nothing that other programs do, then it's improper to make them the whipping boy. If, on the other hand, DickRod and his staff are breaking the rules in a way that other schools do not, then they need to get whacked big time.

It's one thing to work your players hard; it's quite another to work them in ways the NCAA says are out of line, especially it other schools actually follow those rules. The problem is, nobody seems to be able to document whether other schools (and let's say, tOSU) also routinely break the rules in this regard. It would be interesting to get Justin Boren's take on this, though I'm sure we won't.

The major thing that sticks out to me is not the workload, that's common, that happens even at a place like Harvard.

The major problem for Michigan is the snitching. That's why he broke down on the podium, I doubted he saw that coming.

 

[Ohiensis]

What a [censored]ing pussy.

 

[Jaxbuck]

What a fucking pussy. Does anybody remember JT getting behind a podium and crying like a little girl with a skinned knee when he was catching all the flack for the MoC ordeal? Me either, and that's precisely why DickRod will never win anything significant as a head coach. He's a mental midget whose emotions get the better of him.

Guys who cry at press conferences are fags!

 

[buckeyes_rock]

I'm truly torn on this issue. If it's true that UM is doing nothing that other programs do, then it's improper to make them the whipping boy. If, on the other hand, DickRod and his staff are breaking the rules in a way that other schools do not, then they need to get whacked big time.

It's one thing to work your players hard; it's quite another to work them in ways the NCAA says are out of line, especially it other schools actually follow those rules. The problem is, nobody seems to be able to document whether other schools (and let's say, tOSU) also routinely break the rules in this regard. It would be interesting to get Justin Boren's take on this, though I'm sure we won't.

Yeah, I hear ya on this. I'm sure kids at all schools work "overtime" at the old voluntary/mandatory workouts. But if it's bad enough at scUM that kids are leaving the program and/or snitching to the press...well, you know they've got all kinds of internal problems going on over there! But...we already knew that right?

 

[DontHateOState]

Oh yeah if RR does succeed at Michigan once his contract is up, he's gone no doubt in my mind.

If he somehow turns this train-wreck around then he should never leave Michigan. He would have put too much sweat equity in the program to deliver it from the current shell of what it used to be right now.

 

[Bernini]

I'm shocked.

Rich Rodriguez is the guy you hire when you want to achieve an objective by any means necessary. He's like the Donald Rumsfeld of college football. In Michigan's case the objective was reviving a football program that languished a little bit at the end of Lloyd Carr's...at least much more than they were accustomed to. They thought it was their birthright to compete with OSU, so they brought in this guy. But obviously the potential long term consequences of that decision weren't considered.

 

[tsteele316]

The major problem for Michigan is the snitching. That's why he broke down on the podium, I doubted he saw that coming.

Here was RR confronting the freshmen that talked to the DFP:
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcFlp6kl508]YouTube - Godfather II: You broke my heart Fredo[/ame]
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[EDDIE GGGG27]

I just hope and pray the scUM flop week 1. I cant get enough of this story.