I'm sad for Brandon Graham, Brandon Minor, Carlos Brown, Zoltan Mesko and all of Michigan's seniors. When they came to Michigan they never thought they would not be going to bowl games. That was a given right being a Wolverine. Anything from the Rose to the Alamo was an option. Well, not in 2008 and for all intense in purposes not in 2009 either. Michigan had two good chances to get to 6 wins by beating Illinois and Purdue teams near the bottom of the Big Ten. They now have to face Wisconsin on the road and Ohio State in the Big House, two teams at the top of the Big Ten.
In a day where the Michigan offense showed some life, the defense flat lined. Purdue was shutout by Wisconsin last week and looked liked New Orleans Saints on Saturday. What cures the offensive blues? The Michigan defense does. Look at Illinois, they beat Minnesota on Saturday.
If the next two weeks play out like most of us think, Michigan will have started 4-0 and finished 1-7 with their only win coming against a D1A school Delaware State. That is just pure disappointing all around. Nobody thought Michigan was heading for a New Years Day Bowl after 4-0 but most people thought they could find 2 more wins on the schedule.
Is the team better then last year? Yes, on the offense side of the ball. The defense no.
What about next year? I don't see a lot of improvements coming next year either. Brandon Graham will be heading to the NFL and Warren may join him if he thinks he will be drafted in the first couple of rounds.
Cheers:
- The Brandon Brothers - Minor and Graham both had good days.
- The offensive line showed some improvement
- Roy Roundtree played well in the slot
Jeers:
- The entire defense is terrible
- Greg Robinson
- Rich Rodriguez (please stop getting out coached by Danny Hope)
- Jason Olesnavage a missed extra point and the missed field goal in the 4th
Teams are going to pull out the stops to be the Wolverines, Michigan first better understand that and second start playing that way too. They just don't have enough talent to beat teams straight up.
Thank goodness Michigan Basketball starts next week. Michigan is ranked #15 in the nation and will have the dynamic duo of Manny Harris and DeShawn Simms coming back.
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The post Brian won't let the world see...
Sorry, believers, 2010 is RR's last.
Rich Rod is out next year. Mercifully for everyone. There are factions at UM and in the Athletic Dept that do not like Rich, do not like that one of Lloyd's boys isn't the coach, do not like the hiring and subsequent legal ugliness.
But he will be dismissed for results.
Please do not give me your faux outrage. Please do not fool yourself into believing that Michigan won't be able to do better, won't be able to get a quality coach after dumping someone after only 3 years. It's Michigan. It's a multi-million-dollar salary, the Big House and some of the best football facilities in the country. Stop your delusions.
Face the harsh, cold reality.
Last year's team was an embarrassment. There are many reasons for this. This year's team is a shockingly bad disappointment. That is on Rich's shoulders. Whether you like it or not, Michigan football pays for virtually every sport, every athletic facility on campus. Whether you like it or not, alumni who graduated 30 years ago and moved to Arizona get a warm fuzzy watching Michigan football whip its opponents and send in donations -- in the hundreds of millions of dollars -- that help fund university programs.
That cannot stop. For it to continue, Michigan must win. Win consistently. Win big.
Rich Rod has failed at this. He must win consistently and big next year to have even a hope of staying. This year's team has a single Big Ten win. Thanks in large part to playing the worst team in the conference and the help of some officiating. Do you really believe next year's team will even be able to compete for 2nd place in the conference? Third place? Fourth? Or, to help you think with a clear head, would Notre Dame really be worse off had they dumped Weiss after three years? Come on.
Mary Sue knows what must be done. She knows that if done wrong, Michigan football could be out of contention for a decade, like Notre Dame. If done right, it can be Alabama under Saban.
Let's all hope it's done right. And, Rich, too bad it didn't work out. I really thought it was going to be something special. All the best to you.
This is a team with about 70% of the roster is made up of freshman and sophomores. You have two freshman QB's. Your offensive line is in what amounts to as only their second year of playing together, and your defense has their third defensive Coordinator in three year with only a handful of starters from last year with a unit that was very limited in talent anyway. So now you're surprised with this up and down season and now you want to get rid of the coach?
Dear Anonymous,
your anger is misdirected at me. The university president and the NEW athletic director will be required -- by their positions -- to make the change. In fact, the new athletic director will be told that his/her first big act will be to cut RR.
If you wouldn't mind, please re-post my comment on mgoblog as well. Regards.
The point is that even Amos Alonzo Stagg couldn't win under these conditions. You have to give coach Rod at least two more years to finish building his team. When Mary Sue and Bill Martin hired Coach Rod they were clearly making a decision to go in a totally new direction. They were not merely looking as making subtle changes, they were blowing up the team and making whole new changes. Their search committee told them that. That type of change takes at least three years. If they wanted to minimize the risk they should have hired another coach in the tradition of Lloyd Carr.
Coach Rich Rod's style of ball was not like his predecessors who played a pro style offense and arguably defensive schemes. When you make these whole sale changes you have to be prepared for a transition period that could take a year or two. It takes that long to bring in enough new players and coach them up to perform as you'd need them too. When Bo took over for Bump Elliott, he had enough solid players already here that played his style of ball that made his transition easier. Coach Rod didn't have that luxury.
There is no way that they will fire coach Rod this year. If he struggles next year they will certainly reevaluate the situation knowing that if they make a change next year, they risk setting the program back another year or two with a coach that again wants to change the system and needing to retool all over again.
Michigan does not operate in that fashion. Two more years of improvement carries them to the upper echelon of the Big 10, and in the conversation nationally. If I am wrong then a change will be made.
I think that the correct phrase is "for all intents and purposes".
IT'S A SAD DAY FOR READERS OF THIS STUPID BLOG. Go to Mgoblog.com, it is where all of this information comes from anyway. Besides this is just a journal from a jerkoff
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