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2010 TSUN News offseason (football)

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Practice nuggets from Michigan - Big Ten Blog - ESPN
We get to see Tate Forcier's wing-less helmet very early in the show, although we know now that he has regained his wings. Forcier seemed to be No. 3 in the quarterback rotation during drills, behind both Denard Robinson and Devin Gardner. "Denard and Devin got most of the reps today," DiNardo said. But head coach Rich Rodriguez maintains the race is open. Forcier, to his credit, made some crisp throws in the practice.
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Looks like another first year starter at QB for UM.

Bye bye Rich.
 
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brutus2002;1750499; said:
Who is gonna take the Michigan jobs? Les Miles...I can only hope...Harbaugh...why would he leave Stanford?
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Because it's still Stanford, money and a much higher ceiling is why you leave Stanford. Stanford isn't going to pay him what he could make at Michigan, and the ceiling at Stanford is competing to win a Pac 10 championship once every couple years or so if your lucky and losing the Rose Bowl. Michigan is still Michigan and can be a perennial Big Ten championship contender if the right guy is coaching them.


brutus2002 said:
If there was a time in the B10 it would be bad to be rebuilding or in the cellar it would be now...MSU,Iowa, Wisconsin, NW are surging.
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Don't know that I really see those schools "surging". Michigan is still Michigan, you give Harbaugh the time to clean up the mess you aren't going to be consistently worrying about any of those programs.

Michigan State: I don't mean to throw a former Buckeye coach under the bus, but watching Dantonio's prevent defense makes ME want to call for his head and I don't even like MSU. (The only thing it prevents is it preventing there from being any time left on the clock when the opposing team scores the go ahead TD).

Iowa: yeah they had a good year, they do that from time to time with Ferentz, I don't think you can call them "surging" they field a pretty good team 1 year then go away for a couple years and then field another good team etc.


Northwestern: I actually really like Pat Fitzgerald as a coach, but these guys are pretty much at their ceiling.

Wisconsin: They have been just about what they've been for the past decade. Yeah this year is supposed to be their big year but that remains to be seen and even if it is, once those kids are gone they go back to right where they were, they are getting high praise because they happen to have a lot of returning starters, not because they can reload like the elite programs in the country which puts the programs ceiling is lower then it is at Michigan, you might break above your ceiling every once in awhile but generally you stay below it.



Yes it's going to take time and it's not going to be easy to reverse the mess, but I reckon Michigan will be paying a fine amount to the guy who is willing to give it a shot, and if you can do it then you'll have yourself one of the top 3-4 jobs in the conference easy (Harbaugh is still a young coach he's got plenty of time to commit to something like that)
 
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At the risk of making a premature judgment, Harbaugh at Michigan makes as much sense as Brian Kelly at ND: they both have a good track record, display ample competence both calling plays and running a program, and are high character guys. Harbaugh could be a real home run for UM.
 
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TheIronColonel;1750533; said:
At the risk of making a premature judgment, Harbaugh at Michigan makes as much sense as Brian Kelly at ND: they both have a good track record, display ample competence both calling plays and running a program, and are high character guys. Harbaugh could be a real home run for UM.
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I remember last year seeing an interview during a Raven playoff game with Harbaugh about exactly this. He didn't receive it well, and continued to deny even considering the position. It could be smoke and mirrors, but something tells me he's committed to Stanford and it will be very difficult to pry him away.
 
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Jaxbuck;1750490; said:
Well there was that whole NFL thing.
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He did alright. He lead the Colts in 95 to the AFC championship against the Steelers and almost won that game. The Colts were the laughing stock team back in those days. Not a great NFL career, it was a decent one. Hardly a failure.
 
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zwem;1750551; said:
He did alright. He lead the Colts in 95 to the AFC championship against the Steelers and almost won that game. The Colts were the laughing stock team back in those days. Not a great NFL career, it was a decent one. Hardly a failure.
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I know, I was just busting balls.
 
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jlb1705;1750452; said:
PULL THE STRING!!!

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YouTube - Bela Lugosi - pull the string!
 
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zwem;1750480; said:
I still want him gone.

Jim Harbaugh would create a real family atmosphere, bring in top notch recruits who excel on and off the field, won't get in trouble with NCAA, send players to the NFL (Michigan was one of the best of sending them), and compete with the top teams.

He is a the guy we need. He knows nothing but success.
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My son's married to a real loser--lousy housekeeper, bad mother, ugly, lazy, a total failure. I want her gone.

I just know my precious boy would be so much better off with Angelina Jolie. She's everything his current wife isn't.

She's the gal he needs. She knows nothing but success.

There's only one teensy problem with my plan...
 
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muffler dragon;1750561; said:
I don't know that that isn't necessarily the case. They did put a $50-$70,000 [censored]ter next to his office. :biggrin:
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lol the people that I talk to that know the Pac 10 say that Stanford tends to underpay coaches. He's making $1.25 million a year now which is the most a football coach has ever made there (not shocking). Rodriguez is making $2.5 million a year plus the $4 million they gave him for the buyout. Don't see Stanford being able to match a similar offer.
 
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JBaney45;1750594; said:
lol the people that I talk to that know the Pac 10 say that Stanford tends to underpay coaches. He's making $1.25 million a year now which is the most a football coach has ever made there (not shocking). Rodriguez is making $2.5 million a year plus the $4 million they gave him for the buyout. Don't see Stanford being able to match a similar offer.
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And TSUN probably won't have to pay any buyout to get rid of RRod after this season. Assuming they lose the NCAA appeal and win less than 8 games, they'll can him for cause (major NCAA violations involving him), and he won't have much of a case if he sues them for the buyout money.

I believe that's why TSUN appealed only 1 of the 5 aspects of their violations last week - they appealed the one stating that RRod didn't foster an atmosphere of compliance - because if they lose that appeal and then they fire him, they can say they backed him all the way, but he was guilty of NCAA violations and they are thus terminating him for cause, which means they'd owe him nothing beyond that date.
 
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