Right now the Pizza business must be looking pretty good. Fighting Little Caesars or Papa Johns seems like a pretty good gig compared to this cluster. David, I'm sorry but you have painted yourself into a corner where now it's going to be very difficult to get out of.
Let me be very clear, You don't fire Rich Rodriguez to hire Brady Hoke. You just don't. But what options do you have left? The chips are on the table and it's time to lay down your cards.
I'm now officially concerned that David is not a closer. Which shouldn't be a big surprise, since a number of executives are groomed from the ground up and never had a real sales job. Sometimes they did have a sales job but forget what life was life in mahogany row or while they are traveling to their vacation homes on their private jets.
Well, Dave the folks that ride coach are pretty pissed off right now. You have gone 0-2 with Michigan Men for this opening and your only prospect right now looks like Brady Hoke. The latest flight tracker has David flying to California but hasn't left yet. Who is planning to run that players meeting at 4:00 today? Why the hell isn't David going to Dallas? Who is your next target Cam Cameron?
Maybe David is heading to California to play some golf?
You know what, I'm starting to give a lot of blame to Bill Martin and David Brandon for the current state of this Michigan program.
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
THIS IS NOT GOING TO END WELL!
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This is turning into our own version of Groundhog Day. I can't wait to see who rejects us tomorrow.....
Wait!! Didn't I see some story awhile back about Tyrone Wheatly coaching somewhere?
TYRONE! TYRONE!
The folly of this search is insisting the hire be a head coach. Other teams go for talented, proven coordinators who are much hungrier for a head coaching job. This strategy works. It just might be too risky for a corporate guy like Brandon -- and much of the fan base -- to be comfortable with.
But firing RR WAS the right thing to do. Look at the game last night. RR's system and notion of good players would not work in the Big Ten even with a fourth year.
Hey, there's A LOT of work to be done here. Any decent coach -- including Hoke -- who has the confidence to think they can right this ship is fine by me. We need someone with a fire in his belly.
Wheat is the RB Coach at Syracuse.
Hearing good things about him, might be a good choice with Fred Jackson retires or is not retained by the new coach
That's excellent...I'd love to see him make a return to AA someday!
Backing RR from day one was the thing to do, not leave him twisting on his own the way they did. A RR with vocal support from the AD and the previous coaching regime would have had much more public support for the rebuilding process. also, look at the budget he was working with in hiring a DC, no wonder they ended up with GERG (I think dropping Schafer rather than letting him coach a non 3-3-5 defense was RR's biggest mistake FWIW, we traded down in that one).
Unfortunately, the 'fire in his belly' thing really doesn't help much. I'm sure BH will do his all, but I'm not confident it will translate to success at M and nothing he has done proves that he will. He is on record as not believing in the spread, so we are looking at transition again no matter what.
RR's system can and would work in the Big 10, looking at the game last night, those were two teams that would destroy any team in the B10 except OSU, who they would just beat. Did you watch the TCU vs. Wisonsin game? What the spread won't do is make sophomore players that are still working on fundamentals into senior players for whom fundamentals are second nature and that was a huge part of the issues we saw this year, no way around it. If you are too injury riddled to practice tackling live, then you are not going to get better at tackling, period.
News Flash: The plane to So Cal has left the barn. Hopefully, we may know in about 8 hours if we have a new coach.
To me, last night's game also showed that size matters. Auburn stopped Oregon on short and goal too many times.
RR's ideal players are too small to ever succeed in the Big Ten. Having a speedy intricate offense is great. But even one huge talented defensive player can throw a monkey wrench in the works. It happened in all our Big Ten games.
Much now depends on the Assistants Hoke hires. If it is going to be Old Michigan Week then Brady is the right choice. He can coach and recruit. Not all is lost.
Any thoughts?
Partial List: More the merrier!
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