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Rich Rodriguez (official thread of last laughs)

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BUCKYLE;1167971; said:
What's the first one? I just read we had two. I didn't read where it said what they were. If I had to guess, I'd say it has something to do with our colors, garnett and silver.
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I was going to ask you what the first one was next :( I am just the coach here, it's not like I am expected to know anything about a job when I took it... And what are these color things? Does this mean I have to buy a new shirt?
 
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BUCKYLE;1167980; said:
We have a marching band!? :groove:
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Neat huh...

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Truth is something found on a sliding scale for RR.

Another twist from Rich and other notes
Cleaning out a crowded notebook and a cluttered mind while trying to avoid a case of whiplash in the wrangling over the Rich Rodriguez buyout mess:

Rodriguez sat down with Michigan writers this week and did what he does best with the media - he turned on the charm and 90 minutes later sent them away happy even though he really didn't say anything new.

Now that might sound like a slam on ol' Rich, but it's not. Saying nothing and making it sound like something is a quality only the best coaches and politicians have mastered. You don't even realize it until you sit down to look at your notes and can't find anything more than a few laughs.

This quote did, however, catch my eye:

"I don't want to give the perception that we had all these people at West Virginia telling me how to run the program, what plays to run, who to hire, or anything like that,'' Rodriguez said. "I was stubborn enough that I kept things at arm's length. But there were times when I thought ... there's a lot of meddling factors in our program that shouldn't be in there.''

Now wait a minute. Isn't it universally accepted that the reason Rodriguez left WVU was because, while he already had virtually complete and total control of the nuts and bolts of the program, he was incensed that he didn't enjoy even more control over peripheral things like Web sites, sideline passes, textbooks and where Rita was allowed to mingle?

I don't recall even one instance - either while he was here or since he left - when Rodriguez complained about people meddling in his program. His complaint was never that people were "helping" him too much, but not enough.

Ah, another day, another twist.
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Rodriguez, on the captains: ?I don?t pick permanent captains before the season. It?s just my philosophy. I want to see them lead throughout the year and pick permanent captains at the end. Sometimes you pick a permanent captain and he winds up not being one of you best leaders and you?re stuck with him. So we will have game by game captains, seniors and at the end of the year, the team, the players themselves will pick the permanent captains at the end of the year. We will also have honorary captains that are former Michigan greats. For every game, we?ll have one or two.?


MICHIGAN CAPTAINS SINCE 1879
According to the Michigan Athletic Department
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#1 picking permanent captains at the end of the years seems like quite a stupid concept
#2 a "Michigan man" wouldn't break 100+ years of tradition
#3 DickRod is still a dick
 
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