Rich Rodriguez (official thread of last laughs)

[gracelhink]

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 your 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.

It does seem strange to pick captains at the end of the season, that is usually when teams select MVP's of offense, defense, special teams etc.
Team captains before the season seem to offer steady leadership especially when teams have an ownership in the captain selection process.
Gameday captains are a safe bet, no to low risk of failure, and offer opportunity for coaches to reward performance in previous games and motivate for weekly practice.
RR may have his own tradition for choosing post-season captains,
but Jm2cw, this decision to sacrifice another sacred cow and hear more TSUN muttering, was driven by the absence of clear cut leadership and experience that should have surfaced in conditioning and spring drills.

 

[buckiprof]

It does seem strange to pick captains at the end of the season, that is usually when teams select MVP's of offense, defense, special teams etc.
Team captains before the season seem to offer steady leadership especially when teams have an ownership in the captain selection process.
Gameday captains are a safe bet, no to low risk of failure, and offer opportunity for coaches to reward performance in previous games and motivate for weekly practice.
RR may have his own tradition for choosing post-season captains,
but Jm2cw, this decision to sacrifice another sacred cow and hear more TSUN muttering, was driven by the absence of clear cut leadership and experience that should have surfaced in conditioning and spring drills.

The leadership and experience did surface during spring practices......on the OSU campus as a transfer.

 

[DaddyBigBucks]

There was a time when I thought there was a 95% chance that Jax would eventually be proven right: that scUM has just hired their John Cooper.

That 5% doubt dwindles by the day. RR is a combination of Cooper and Buddy Ryan. He has a scheme that will work great until everyone adjusts (took 1 season for Ryan). And he is the worst possible match for the job he's in, culturally and philosophically (Cooper for 13 seasons).

The problem for RR is that he may not have the right players for his scheme until after everyone has already adjusted.

 

[buckiprof]

There was a time when I thought there was a 95% chance that Jax would eventually be proven right: that scUM has just hired their John Cooper.

That 5% doubt dwindles by the day. RR is a combination of Cooper and Buddy Ryan. He has a scheme that will work great until everyone adjusts (took 1 season for Ryan). And he is the worst possible match for the job he's in, culturally and philosophically (Cooper for 13 seasons).

The problem for RR is that he may not have the right players for his scheme until after everyone has already adjusted.

But still, how will everyone adjust to the Barwis effect?!?

 

[TheIronColonel]

Two words: Gamma Radiation.

 

[HailToMichigan]

I think it's kinda funny how much you guys care about the captain thing. Sure, it's been done that way since forever at Michigan, but that doesn't really make it a "Michigan tradition".....probably 90% of teams in the country do it that way, and Michigan is not known as "the school that selects its captains at the beginning of the year." Doesn't really set us apart.

 

[Buckeneye]

Tradition isn't necessarily something that "sets you apart" from everyone else.

However if something is done a certain way for over a century, a custom that the school has grown to consider a given, then why change it?

 

[BUCKYLE]

I think it's kinda funny how much you guys care about the captain thing. Sure, it's been done that way since forever at Michigan, but that doesn't really make it a "Michigan tradition".....probably 90% of teams in the country do it that way, and Michigan is not known as "the school that selects its captains at the beginning of the year." Doesn't really set us apart.

I think it's fucking hilarious how little you care about the captain thing.

Since when does doing something for A HUNDRED YEARS not make it tradition?

 

[NFBuck]

I think it's kinda funny how much you guys care about the captain thing. Sure, it's been done that way since forever at Michigan, but that doesn't really make it a "Michigan tradition".....probably 90% of teams in the country do it that way, and Michigan is not known as "the school that selects its captains at the beginning of the year." Doesn't really set us apart.

And most of us think it's funny how you shrug off every single thing. Just because most other schools do it too, doesn't make it any less a tradition. Every school has Senior Day. Every school has a fight song. Just about every school has a spring game. First the #1 jersey thing, now this. He's a control freak that wants to put his stamp all over the program. I'm not stupid enough to think he's going to usurp all of the traditions, but most everybody can see the man is an egomaniac and a control freak. What was the crap at West Virginia about websites and sideline passes? Why should a HC give that much of a fuck about that kind of shit?

 

[HailToMichigan]

I think it's fucking hilarious how little you care about the captain thing.

Since when does doing something for A HUNDRED YEARS not make it tradition?

Since when does doing something for a hundred years make it totally untouchable? We've had green grass on the field for over a hundred years. Would I complain about....."TRADITION"....if he changed it to yellow?

(Hint: No. I'd complain because it looks stupid, not because we have some green-grass tradition that must never be touched.)

There's no interesting story behind how we choose (chose) captains. No unique little twist about it that sets us apart. Changing the system does not diminish anything that the previous captains accomplished. Just....that's the way it's always been done. Well, the team always lifted weights on machines before....now they use more free weights. Michigan Tradition? Or just a new way of doing business.

 

[HailToMichigan]

And most of us think it's funny how you shrug off every single thing. Just because most other schools do it too, doesn't make it any less a tradition. Every school has Senior Day. Every school has a fight song. Just about every school has a spring game. First the #1 jersey thing, now this. He's a control freak that wants to put his stamp all over the program. I'm not stupid enough to think he's going to usurp all of the traditions, but most everybody can see the man is an egomaniac and a control freak. What was the crap at West Virginia about websites and sideline passes? Why should a HC give that much of a fuck about that kind of shit?

Of course you'd bring up the #1 jersey thing. Never mind that he accepted his mistake and fixed it. It's really not the sort of thing you'd think to ask about anyway. I'd have been concerned if he'd told Braylon Edwards he didn't care and was not going to be told how to run his program, but that's not what happened.

Show me a head coach that isn't a little bit of a control freak, and I'll show you Bobby Williams.

 

[BUCKYLE]

Since when does doing something for a hundred years make it totally untouchable? We've had green grass on the field for over a hundred years. Would I complain about....."TRADITION"....if he changed it to yellow?

(Hint: No. I'd complain because it looks stupid, not because we have some green-grass tradition that must never be touched.)

There's no interesting story behind how we choose (chose) captains. No unique little twist about it that sets us apart. Changing the system does not diminish anything that the previous captains accomplished. Just....that's the way it's always been done. Well, the team always lifted weights on machines before....now they use more free weights. Michigan Tradition? Or just a new way of doing business.

Don't you get dizzy from all the spinning?

 

[NFBuck]

Since when does doing something for a hundred years make it totally untouchable? We've had green grass on the field for over a hundred years. Would I complain about....."TRADITION"....if he changed it to yellow?

(Hint: No. I'd complain because it looks stupid, not because we have some green-grass tradition that must never be touched.)

There's no interesting story behind how we choose (chose) captains. No unique little twist about it that sets us apart. Changing the system does not diminish anything that the previous captains accomplished. Just....that's the way it's always been done. Well, the team always lifted weights on machines before....now they use more free weights. Michigan Tradition? Or just a new way of doing business.

:atom::crazy:

I'm getting dizzy.

 

[NFBuck]

Of course you'd bring up the #1 jersey thing. Never mind that he accepted his mistake and fixed it. It's really not the sort of thing you'd think to ask about anyway. I'd have been concerned if he'd told Braylon Edwards he didn't care and was not going to be told how to run his program, but that's not what happened.

Yep, because it happened. If he's so intent on becoming a "Michigan Man", shoudn't he familiarize himself with the traditions pretty damn early on? Granted the #1 thing is a fairly new one, but most um fans seem pretty proud of it. Okay, he changed it back, still doesn't change the fact that he did it in the first place.

One of the things that has made JT so successful and popular was how he embraced and brought back many of the traditions Coop ignored. Things seem to be heading the opposite way up there in aa.

I'll take a slight departure from the norm and actually applaud him for one thing he's said recently...his players aren't going to celebrate, they're going to hand the ball to officials. Good on him there. Remember that, because that may be the only kudos he gets from me.

 

[MililaniBuckeye]

Sure, it's been done that way since forever at Michigan, but that doesn't really make it a "Michigan tradition".....

Well, sheeeeeyit Elrod, just what does constitute a "tradition" if not something that has "been done that way since forever"?