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Rich Rod Fired

Do you agree with Rod's firing.

  • Yes

    Votes: 28 41.8%

  • No

    Votes: 5 7.5%

  • ...the balls up in the air, CAUGHT! CAUGHT BY WESTBROOK FOR A TOUCHDOWN..."

    Votes: 34 50.7%
  • Total voters
    67

michase10

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Fired after three seasons 15-22 in those seasons. He's getting a 2.5 mil buyout. IMO i disagree with the firing.
 
You disagree? Hve you seen their defense or did you watch that bowl game on Saturday I think it was?
 
Okay I'm not talking about the offense. I'm talking about the defense, which was abysmal. He had plenty of time because it's not like Michigan has any issues recruiting good players.
 
There's no reason why UM should be a bad team in a bad conference. They have talent, resources, fan support and proximity to hotspots along with tradition to make sure they don't suck. He should be fired. Their defense was perhaps the worst defense I've seen all year. You can win in the Big East with bad defense, but there is no way you are going to win the Big 10 with bad defense. The 3-3-5 defense gets run over by Big 10 teams. The guy is also a scumbag.
 
They should have never hired him. Now they're set back big time because of his goofball offense, they better be working on some awesome spread OC if they plan on winning in the next couple of years.
 
michase10 said:
Yea but it was three freakin years and he tried to completely changed the offense.
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Tell that to Harbaugh who doesn't really have any of the things Michigan does. They were 1-11 4 years ago. Good coaches don't make excuses for sucking wind.
 
tgruenler said:
Okay I'm not talking about the offense. I'm talking about the defense, which was abysmal. He had plenty of time because it's not like Michigan has any issues recruiting good players.
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the two UM fans i know say that RRod scapegoated his first year DC (name maybe Shaw, who did a pretty good job at Syracuse this year) and they aren't very talented on D....and RRod had Greg Robinson (who i think sucks anyway) running a 3-3-5 which he had never done. AND, that RRod didn't let either DC have much say in their D position coaches. it's partly convincing up to a point.
 
INCREDIBLE!

Joy and exultation for the Buffaloes of Colorado.
 
They should have backed off after Rich Rod made a huge deal out of not wanting to pay the exit fee to WVU. Absent knowing exact details, it indicated to me that Rich Rod had questionable character.
 
Rich Rod was a horrible coach. He deserved to be fired. UM gave him every chance to succeed, and he failed anyway. If you can't win at UM, you can't win. I guess he managed to step into a solid situation at WVU, because he couldn't get anything close to that going at UM.
 
sackman said:
Rich Rod was a horrible coach. He deserved to be fired. UM gave him every chance to succeed, and he failed anyway. If you can't win at UM, you can't win. I guess he managed to step into a solid situation at WVU, because he couldn't get anything close to that going at UM.
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I believe WVU was 4-7 or 3-8 the year before he took over. Nehlen did not leave him with much.


I think Rich Rod is a good coach but was just a bad fit at Michigan. His scheme went against everything that Michigan football is about. I feel he'll end up at Clemson and do very well there with his spread option attack.
 
I usually say a HC needs more than 3 years, but given everything richrod has done at UM so far, yeah, I'd say the firing would be justified.
 
I saw their bowl game and many of the sets that were run on offense, defense and especially special teams were very reminiscent of watching the Buffs during the Hawkins years. It seemed like they were taking blinds stabs at anything that might work.

After seeing almost 5 years of that here I could never fault a school for letting someone who had that little control over his own program go.
Add that to the fact that as fast as his offense improved statistically his D went the opposite direction just as fast.

It does beg an interesting question though - how long should it take for a quality coach to rebuild a traditional power?
 
F.I.M. said:
I saw their bowl game and many of the sets that were run on offense, defense and especially special teams were very reminiscent of watching the Buffs during the Hawkins years. It seemed like they were taking blinds stabs at anything that might work.

After seeing almost 5 years of that here I could never fault a school for letting someone who had that little control over his own program go.
Add that to the fact that as fast as his offense improved statistically his D went the opposite direction just as fast.

It does beg an interesting question though - how long should it take for a quality coach to rebuild a traditional power?
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Teams like USC or OU or UM always have talent on their roster. May not be AAs, but is always better than the other teams, maybe minus a few key players. 3 years is plenty at the nations winningest program. At the least they shouldnt get blown out. Don't have to be stellar, but Miss St put a beating on them and it wasn't even THAT close.
 
NMBuff said:
Teams like USC or OU or UM always have talent on their roster. May not be AAs, but is always better than the other teams, maybe minus a few key players. 3 years is plenty at the nations winningest program. At the least they shouldnt get blown out. Don't have to be stellar, but Miss St put a beating on them and it wasn't even THAT close.
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That's the way I see it as well
 
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