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Rich Rodriguez (official thread of last laughs)

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osugrad21;1528117; said:
JThorp sleeps with the fishes...but still listens to Hanson and has Jonas Brothers posters in his dorm room.
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jthorp24;1527948; said:
Say what you want...I could outscore 90% of the OSU football team in any academic test
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The difference between potentially and actually:

When Jthorp24 was a kid he came home from school and asked his dad what the difference was between potentially and actually. His dad told him to go ask his mom and his older sister if they would sleep with the entire OSU football team for 1 million dollars. Confused (as usual) the boy went and asked the questions.

"Already did but I'd do it again for half that" said his mother. "I'd do it for free" claimed his sister.

Jthorpe24 dutifully reported the answers to his father who then explained; "Potentially your mom and sister are both millionaires. Actually they are just a couple of cheap sluts."

You'd think that lesson would have stuck with the young man a little longer but he was always quite dim.
 
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Statement from U-M president Mary Sue Coleman


Thursday, September 3, 2009
Michigan president Mary Sue Coleman's statement regarding the university's current investigation into allegations of NCAA violations in the football program, released Wednesday:
"At the University of Michigan, we place the highest importance on the welfare of our student-athletes and the integrity of our intercollegiate athletics program. Our university is widely recognized for academic and athletic excellence, and it's something we work to achieve every day. I am proud of our unwavering commitment to that standard.
"As soon as the allegations surfaced about our athletic program, I launched an investigation. Our Board of Regents is fully informed on the matter. With the help of outside counsel, we are working in cooperation with the NCAA to discover and assess the facts of the situation. It is critical that a thorough and objective investigation is completed before any conclusions are drawn. We will determine what -- if any -- actions need to occur to ensure full compliance with NCAA rules and our own rules of conduct."
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NCAA joins in U-M investigation


The NCAA is taking an active role in the investigation into the University of Michigan football program, three people with direct knowledge of the inquiry told the Free Press on Wednesday.

The NCAA, the governing body for college athletics, has had staff on the Ann Arbor campus this week, the people said. They said the organization is participating in the investigation with U-M, not just monitoring.

School officials said Sunday that they would conduct a full investigation. The university has hired outside counsel for assistance.

U-M has not released the name of the counsel, but the Free Press has learned it is Gene Marsh, a former chairman of the NCAA?s Committee on Infractions. The infractions committee reviews enforcement cases and determines punishment if warranted.

Marsh, who joined the Birmingham, Ala., firm of Lightfoot, Franklin and White in its sports law department in February, served nine years on the infractions committee before his tenure ended in the summer of 2008.
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Hmmmm, not the kind of distraction a young team in the middle of a MAJOR rebuild needs...

I really believe that this WILL have a major impact on their season. DickRod has shown time after time that he simply does not handle pressure well. Throw this on top of the expectations following a 3-9 disaster and you have a recipe for another disaster. I think Richie has gotten himself in waaaaaaay over his head up there.
 
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NFBuck;1528315; said:
Hmmmm, not the kind of distraction a young team in the middle of a MAJOR rebuild needs...

I really believe that this WILL have a major impact on their season. DickRod has shown time after time that he simply does not handle pressure well. Throw this on top of the expectations following a 3-9 disaster and you have a recipe for another disaster. I think Richie has gotten himself in waaaaaaay over his head up there.
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Yeah, it's looking more and more like they may have a full blown mutiny in that football program. Can't wait to see it.
 
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OCBucksFan;1528320; said:
Yeah, it's looking more and more like they may have a full blown mutiny in that football program. Can't wait to see it.
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Time will tell, but this season is shaping up to be 10x more important than previously thought. It's clear the man has even more enemies than previously thought and now with the lawsuit and booster things coming out, it's pretty clear he is about to have all of his skeletons exposed. I've never thought he was under any significant pressure to win this year to keep his job, but with all of this, the luke warm support from the AD and school president, it appears he may have to really wow people on the field to hold off the dogs.

We all said they hired their John Cooper, it now appears they may have hired their Bill Callahan...the guy that completely buries the program. Hell, at least Callahan left players that didn't require a major philosophical shift for Pelini. If DickRod is shitcanned, there's gonna be MAJOR rebuilding to be done yet again.

I wonder how much time Bill Martin is spending on his boat these days...
 
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Why Michigan went with Dick Wad seems to be the question. The answer, as I'm reading this, comes down to Carr knowing the cupboard was bare, but unable to step down after Henne, Long and Hart committed to a final season. That meant announcing at the end of the regular season -- which meant a scramble to find a coach without the ethical sense to stay with his own team through the end of the bowl season -- a scramble to name a coach who can firm up your commits in time for LOI day -- a scramble to find a name coach first and a Michigan Man second --

I look at the situation and I see a 100K stadium, tradition out the wazoo, great income stream, a uniform with perhaps the highest visual recognition in all of football, one of maybe 15 schools with a realistic chance at multiple NCs and I wonder who wouldn't jump at that --

Myles? Maybe, but as has been indicated in this thread he may have been glad to get out of Ann Arbor... and he was already in a situation where academics wouldn't be the problem it would be in AA, where the conference was on the rise as the Big 10 was slipping, possibly making more money than Michigan would/could offer.

Harbaugh? The kid has eliminated himself forever from the Michigan job with his show and tell revelations regarding the, "at Michigan academics are always first," myth.

Ron English? The guy hadn't been there long enough and the defense was still to blame in losses to Ohio State and USC.

So now you have to look for someone with a national rep, someone who can be convinced that leaving his program in a lurch before a bowl game is the smart thing to do. Forget Urban Myer, he's set for life. Nick Saban is a known ethically challenged person, but you can't match Alabama's money and laissez faire academic standards.

Unless they were willing to sit out the end of the Bowl Season, and Michigan wasn't, unless they were willing to convince the kids coming in and the kids already there that they would find an excellent coach, and they weren't, and if they could conduct the search out of the media spotlight, and they couldn't or wouldn't, then they had to take what was available -- "Lipstick on pigs," as Sarah Palin would so delicately put it.

In that sense Dick Wad was dealt an almost impossible hand. He had to compromise himself, turn his back on a program that had rewarded him handsomely, turn his back on a legit Heisman Trophy candidate, walk out on one set of verbal commits, one coaching staff ... and walk into a place with Ivy League pretensions, kids who are losing a popular coach, a bare cupboard, the need to try and keep Lloyd's commits and an alum base filled with disappointment and anger and looking for someone to blame and it ain't going to be "dear Old Lloyd Carr."

Poor guy, it's the reverse Midas Touch, everything he's touched has turned to shit, but hey, that's what you get when you walk out on a program and kids in the middle of a season.
 
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LightningRod;1528307; said:
Statement from U-M president Mary Sue Coleman
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I was wondering when she'd make a comment on the situation. Martin's AD position is obviously on the line, but Mary Sue Coleman was closely involved in hiring RichRod as well.

Let's not forget that she attended the surreptitious December, 2007 meeting with RichRod in Toledo. And that she and AD Martin later claimed that they weren't in the same room as RichRod and his lawyer when the terms of his WVU contract buyout were discussed; in order to not be forced to testify in any WVU-Rodriguez legal disputes.

Although I can understand a woman wanting 'separate rooms' in any relations with RichRod, I never believed that version of the story.
 
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cincibuck;1528346; said:
Myles? Maybe, but as has been indicated in this thread he may have been glad to get out of Ann Arbor... and he was already in a situation where academics wouldn't be the problem it would be in AA...

Harbaugh? The kid has eliminated himself forever from the Michigan job with his show and tell revelations regarding the, "at Michigan academics are always first," myth.
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I think your comment relating to Harbaugh is correct. The notion that academics are a significant factor when it comes to recruiting football players at UM is completely false, and there are multiple recent indicators of this (although it's been the case for quite some time). For that reason, I don't think that differential academic requirements for football players would be a reason for Miles to prefer LSU over UM - there really isn't much difference between the two in that regard.
 
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zincfinger;1528480; said:
The notion that academics are a significant factor when it comes to recruiting football players at UM is completely false, and there are multiple recent indicators of this (although it's been the case for quite some time). For that reason, I don't think that differential academic requirements for football players would be a reason for Miles to prefer LSU over UM - there really isn't much difference between the two in that regard.
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Yes and no. With the exception of Florida and Vandy, SEC schools have nowhere near the academic standards that are in place throughout the Big 10, ACC, Pac 10 and much of the Big 12. There's only so much hiding you can do from the books and then the fish has to be able to swim in the pond with the other fish. One major difference is that the Big 10 conference is still headed by the Presidents of each university. The SEC is headed by the Athletic Directors.
 
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