Will RichRod lead UM to National Championship?
RichRod is a great coach in my mind and he can lead teams from being the scum of the conference (referring to West Virginia of the Big East b4 RichRod) to National Title contenders (WVU 2007). As many of you may have seen Rich had a chance to play for the National Championship but slipped up against Pitt.
Do you think Rich Rod will lead the University of Michigan to a National Championship? What do you think?
I think Rich Rod will definitaley win the Championship with Michigan in the next ten years.
Also. How will he do against Ohio State during his career?
Yes. It'll take 3-4 years for the first (and then he goes pro, crashes and burns and ends up at Tenn or VA Tech.)
He'll end up with a winning all but this year's game against tOSU.
I just don't see RR ever becoming an NFL head coach. He has run a very unique style of offense his entire coaching career, and that style is just not one that would work in the NFL. He knows that, and so do the NFL GM's. I also don't think he'll take off to another college program unless he's not performing well. If he has success at Michigan, we will pay him as much as any other program will. Assuming everything goes smoothly (i.e. he wins games) I foresee RichRod coaching at UM for far longer than 8 years.
Wolvin,
I just have a hard time seeing someone who left his alma mater staying anywhere too long. If he was willing to leave home, why would he stay in AA? Someone in the SEC would certainly be willing to pay more for a HC than Michigan. I doubt that we would have matched Miles LSU contract.
I hope that RR and UofM have a long and successful partnership, but I'm somewhat pessimistic on the likelihood.
The odds of winning a national championship are slim. Look at Bo, he was at the top of college football world for 21 years, but never won the NC. I think that we will go back to winning half of the big ten championships, with OSU winning the other half. I suspect that RR will only be our HC for 8 years at most. That leaves only four possible years where we would win the NC. Maybe at best we have one year where we have an undefeated regular season. Give us a 50/50 shot at the title game. I just doesn't bode well for winning the NC. I do believe that we will be a top 10 team for almost all of RR regime, but getting over the hump is a low percentage outcome.
I'm not criticizing, but what makes you think he's only to coach here for 8 years? Do you think he'll head to the NFL, is he going to retire from coaching, or is he going to leave for a 'step up' in the coaching ranks?
I'm just curious as to your thought process.
In addition, I'll put in my .02. I can honestly see us winning it all. I think he'll take us to where we're right on the edge of it, at the very least. It will of course, take some luck to get over the proverbial hump. There always has to be one or two fortuitous bounces for a team to win the National Championship. I believe he'll prepare the team to the best of his ability.
I put the over under at 8 years for his tenure given that he has no real ties to UofM. If he is very successful, I'm not sure that we will be willing to keep his salary at a level he desires. And 8 years is a rather long time for a coach to stay at one place.
I think that we will be much closer to winning a NC under RR than the second half of the Carr dynasty (post 2001 parkinson's diagnosis), but the odds are tough. Look at FSU they were in the top 4 for 14 straight years and only won 2 NCs. (And if I'm not mistaken, both were questionable given the late season losses -- ND and Miami). We will be far more competitive, and at least on par with OSU, but so was Bo.
OK. Now listen up. RichRod is not leaving Michigan until he retires. Although it may not have seemed it this year, Michigan is the crown jewel of Head Coaching jobs. I do not think he will leave Michigan unless he is very unsuccesful. There is so much tradition here and this is such a great program that he won't leave until he walks away from the game.
Obviously i'm optimistic.
black shoes diary is looking to flame up some michigan commenters on the subject already. MNC's isnt what we should be looking for immediately. Perhaps he gives us a better chance than Lloyd did, perhaps not. That's something time will tell. What is beneficial is that we are left in a better position to achieve regardless of whether or not RR stays long term or short.
I will point out I liked that firefox used to tell me I misspelled things on Haloscan. Right now I bet i have at least 2-3 spelling errors per post.
John Cooper was not that good of a coach, plain and simple. He also sucked in bowl games - are you going to argue that he "didn't understand the Citrus Bowl"? Cooper recruited well, and upgraded OSU's talent level to its present levels. But when he faced a team with comparable talent, he frequently lost. Sometimes that didn't happen in the season until week 11 (although he lost several times to PSU as well, which is often overlooked). Cooper's '95 and '96 teams had the benefit of not playing Northwestern (which won or shared the B10 title and went 2-0 against us) either season.
I'm not going to recant calling you Big Blue. I won't do it ever again, because I'm not a troll, but just to make sure this doesn't turn into a Buckeye-Wolverine love-in, I'm going to be a dick and not apologize for doing it the first time. ;)
Oh, and as far as the Rod-to-the-NFL thing, that's simply cartoonish. He'll be at the pinnacle of his career, and he won't have to change his entire offensive philosophy to do it. Anywhere else would be a major step down except possibly in terms of pay.
If RichRod is successful enough that other schools are trying to get him (lots of top 10s, and MNC or two), no one will out pay us. Look at revenue numbers for athletic programs. If UM wants to outpay someone for a football coach, they can. The revenue from the new luxury boxes and PSLs alone is staggering.
Petrino is the Arkansas coach.
Also you need a new avatar. I find it very difficult to be a meta-critical asshole while replying to someone with a 1 year old's picture, and a kid that looks like my godson to boot.
I meant 2006 Sugar Bowl. The Sugar Bowl for the 05 season. Whatever. Keep in mind that this game was played in Atlanta and not New Orleans. This was basically home turf for the Bulldogs.
btw, I read an interview of Mark Richt, and he seems like a pretty decent guy. He talked about how he wants to help his players reach their dreams and prepare them for life after college, whether or not they make it to the NFL.
Anyone remember when Florida hired Urban? Other SEC schools were railing on Florida fans, saying Urban's "gimmick" offense wouldn't work in the SEC. Utah in 2004 beat a crappy A&M team, blew through the Mountain West Conference (non-BCS conference), and beat a weak Pittsburgh team in Fiesta Bowl. Many people thought his offense wouldn't translate to the SEC, once he faced the big boys. Well in Urban's 2nd year at Florida, he won a MNC.
Rodriguez, on the other hand, has been in the Big East,a BCS conference, since 2001. He's won 4 conference titles and had three straight 10 win seasons. He beat Georgia and his team dismantled Oklahoma. Everyone is saying the same stuff about Coach Rod as they did for Meyer. Both came from smaller schools with less prestige, resources, and recruiting abilities, and then they upgraded. Coach Rod will do for Michigan what Meyer has done for Florida. Meyer also modeled alot of his offense around Rich Rod. Coach Rod will win big and lead us to a national championship.
I am from the future.
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October 18th, 2018 at 3:59 AM ^
It’s never too late, we can re hire him
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