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Rich Rodriguez (official thread of last laughs)

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So you're probably pretty sick of this by now, but here you go anyway, just 'cause I love you guys. One of the most in-depth articles (read: longest) on RR since the hire.

www.kansascity.com | 08/23/2008 | Outsider may be just what Michigan needs to regain swagger

Some passages:
Before Rodriguez, there had been three people with no Michigan connections hired to run the program. They just happened to be the three best-known coaches in school history: Fielding Yost (1901), Fritz Crisler (?38) and Schembechler (?69). There was a pattern, too. Every 30 or so years, it seemed, Michigan got stale.
You guys see the Cooper connection, but this is why we do not.

"I'm going to treat you all the same. Like dogs!"
Not an RR quote. Not even a Barwis quote.

Within three years, Glenville State was playing for the Division II national title, throwing 60 or 70 times a game.
Just a little something to show that RR isn't automatically run run run run all the time, even when he's already put in the system. If Tate Forcier comes to U-M, it doesn't mean he'll be forced to run the Pat White offense.

Rodriguez forces his players to memorize the names of every worker in the program, from the secretaries to the janitorial staff. He wants them all to feel important.

Fred Jackson has been the Michigan running backs coach for 17 years. He is the lone re-hire from Carr?s staff.

"This man is a big-time family man," Jackson says. "He wants everyone to be treated the same. He really tries to stress it more than anybody I've ever been around."
That isn't one of RR's own coaches speaking, that followed him from WVU. Jackson's been at Michigan since the early Moeller days.

Don't get me wrong. I know things aren't going to be all roses (or even Roses) once the Utah game kicks off. But I think the next eight years of Michigan football are going to be better than the last eight.
 
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HailToMichigan;1238350; said:
Don't get me wrong. I know things aren't going to be all roses (or even Roses) once the Utah game kicks off. But I think the next eight years of Michigan football are going to be better than the last eight.
Eh, there may not be the losses to teams like Appy State, blowout losses to Oregon, unmotivated bowl appearances like the Alamo Bowl a couple years back, but I think, like I said, a lot of 10-3 and the occasional 11-2 type seasons. Not much of a change IMO, but we can obviously agree to disagree.


Oh, still an ass.
 
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BuckeyeNation27;1238357; said:
why am I seeing the "family man" line repeated so often lately? this is the guy that got a WVU cheerleader pregnant. or is that what they mean?
I think that's "allegedly" unless I missed something. :biggrin:

It's a pathetic, desperate attempt to rebuild this sack of shit's badly damaged public image. You don't hear that kind of crap about Jim Tressel, Bob Stoops, Mack Brown or Pete Carroll because they don't feel the need to overcompensate.
 
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NFBuck;1238361; said:
I think that's "allegedly" unless I missed something. :biggrin:

It's a pathetic, desperate attempt to rebuild this sack of [censored]'s badly damaged public image.
By a reporter in Kansas City?

I likely wouldn't have bothered if this was the Ann Arbor News again. But it's not like a reporter in Missouri has any vested interest in rebuilding his public image. It's like I said long ago - mostly it's in West Virginia and Ohio that RR has a bad public image.
 
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HailToMichigan;1238391; said:
By a reporter in Kansas City?

I likely wouldn't have bothered if this was the Ann Arbor News again. But it's not like a reporter in Missouri has any vested interest in rebuilding his public image. It's like I said long ago - mostly it's in West Virginia and Ohio that RR has a bad public image.
Please. Why is it brought up in every interview about the man? It reeks of desperation. Check around a little more, not many people or fanbases have a very high opinion of DickRod as a man.
 
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HailToMichigan;1238391; said:
By a reporter in Kansas City?

I likely wouldn't have bothered if this was the Ann Arbor News again. But it's not like a reporter in Missouri has any vested interest in rebuilding his public image. It's like I said long ago - mostly it's in West Virginia and Ohio that RR has a bad public image.

The author of the article you linked is J. Brady McCollough. My question is this the same J. Brady McCollough that I found here.

If so, please read his bio, especially this part:

In May 2004, I graduated from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor with a Sociology concentration and a Statistics minor. Believe it or not, the U of M did not offer a journalism major. So, I did my best to create my own, doing everything a writer can do at the Michigan Daily, the largest collegiate sports section in the country.

Kinda questions your, "But it's not like a reporter in Missouri has any vested interest in rebuilding his (RR) bad public image" a bit doesn't it?
 
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buckiprof;1238409; said:
The author of the article you linked is J. Brady McCollough. My question is this the same J. Brady McCollough that I found here.

If so, please read his bio, especially this part:



Kinda questions your, "But it's not like a reporter in Missouri has any vested interest in rebuilding his (RR) bad public image" a bit doesn't it?
Whoops...
 
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