Steve19;1244132; said:Rich Rod has a long way to go before he can be compared to John Cooper. There is no indication yet that he is really that good, in my opinion. True, Cooper couldn't beat TSUN but he put together a winning percentage against a quality slate of opponents that most coaches would give body parts, if it would let them achieve the same success.
I am not sure that TSUN fans should give up hope yet. With experience the team will play his offensive system better and the TSUN team that suits up against the Buckeyes will be a much better team than we saw today.
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Here is where I will continue to draw the parallel between RR and John F. Yes, once Coop got things rolling in recruiting he didn't lose to the Utah's of the world, in fact he would put 72-0 beat downs on those kinds of teams and have coaches refusing to ever bring their team to Columbus again.
HOWEVER, where I think they mirror each other is in the fact both took over programs that were severely depleted of talent(by their programs standards). It took John F a while, he had a losing season his first year ('88) and didn't have a B10 champ untill 1993. In between were a bunch of 4 loss seasons I would just as soon forget. Based on what we saw in game 1 and what the recruiting/depth chart situations look like I think RR would do well to match how quickly Coop got his team back to 8-9 wins and Bowl appearance levels.
The interesting dynamic to me is if the UM administration will be as tied to RR as ours at the time was to Cooper. We had to keep him, even after it was obvious what a mistake he was, because of the shitty way Earl was fired if we ever wanted a decent coach to take the job again. BTW, when I say he was an obvious mistake, it wasn't just due to all the losses. Coop was an outsider who never embraced the traditions at OSU, never got The Game, alienated the Ohio high school coaches, started doing commercials, didn't know the name of the stadium etc.
Fast forward to 2008 and Martin has to justify his fiasco of a coaching search, the buyout, going outside the family and all the fur he rubbed the wrong way shoving his outsider down the throats of all those Mi**igan men.
Then finally here is the real kick in the nuts, when they finally pulled the plug on Coop he left a stocked roster because he ran a traditional pro style offense. RR runs a gimmick offense that will eventually have the roster full of players that can only play well in that offense. The next guy will be facing a multi year rebuild job instead of being able to find a good coach that can do what JT did in year 2.
I said it then and I stand by it now, Bill Martin fucked scUM's program for a good solid decade when he hired RR.
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