Michigan football coach Rich Rodriguez expects to meet with athletic director Dave Brandon this afternoon
Posted: Jan  4, 2011 at 10:44 AM [Today]    
 		 			 							 		Michigan athletic director 
Dave Brandon will meet with embattled coach 
Rich Rodriguez  early this afternoon to discuss his future with the Wolverines football  program, according to two people with knowledge of the meetings.
  It?s not the only meeting expected today.
  Members of the football team will attend a 7 p.m. meeting tonight to learn the fate of their head coach.
 		 		 		 		 		  		Rodriguez?s future with the team has been in limbo for nearly six  weeks. Since a loss to Ohio State, Brandon repeatedly said he would not  deliver a decision on Rodriguez until after the Gator Bowl.
  On Saturday, Mississippi State beat Michigan in a 52-14 drubbing. It  was Michigan?s first bowl appearance in Rodriguez?s three-year tenure.
  Today?s meetings come one day after Stanford coach 
Jim Harbaugh beat Virginia Tech in the Orange Bowl. 
  Should the Michigan job open, Harbaugh was initially considered the  overwhelming favorite for the job. But multiple reports this morning  indicated that he 
rejected overtures from Michigan, his alma mater.
  Two people familiar with the discussions said that substantive talks  had not occurred between Brandon and Harbaugh, but they did not discount  the possibility they could occur if Rodriguez is fired.