OT: RichRod interviewing for Ole Miss O.C. job
"Sources" say that RichRod is in Oxford, MS:
Hopefully this OT post will be a pleasant break from the land of unpleasant snowflake posts.
December 29th, 2018 at 10:26 PM ^
Imagine what he could do with Shea/McCaffrey/Milton, Evans/Charbonnet/Turner, Tarik/Nico/DPJ, and a guy like Eubanks.
December 29th, 2018 at 10:28 PM ^
Shit the bed against Pitt with a shot to play for a national championship?
December 29th, 2018 at 10:30 PM ^
This might be the greatest post in this board’s history. Dollar Bill Martin basically hires him the next day. Good grief. Rich Fraud - what an idiot
December 30th, 2018 at 2:47 AM ^
The first time I read your comment I passed over it; I thought that it was parody/sarcasm.
But you’re being serious, in your own idiotic way, aren’t you?
Bill Martin did hire St. John of Beilein, in case you had forgotten that.
December 30th, 2018 at 9:52 AM ^
Dollar Bill was an awful AD. Unfortunately his right hand man is the current AD. Not good
December 30th, 2018 at 6:47 PM ^
Bill Martin:
1. Hired John Beilein, as I already mentioned.
2. Brought the massive renovation of Michigan Stadium project to completion on time and on budget.
3. Donated more of his own money to that one project, and then others, than your net worth, I am guessing.
4. Oversaw the largest and most ambitious renovation of the general athletic campus than any Michigan AD short of Fielding Yost.
December 29th, 2018 at 11:30 PM ^
That should have been the sign to stay away, but the Bill Martin boat experience made it a reality.
I wanted Les in 2007, but realized he'd frustrate us often but would find a way to beat OSU once or twice a decade.
December 29th, 2018 at 11:36 PM ^
Sure, but he won a conference championship
December 30th, 2018 at 12:04 AM ^
....and then his WV team just dismantled Oklahoma in their bowl game, what a loser!
December 30th, 2018 at 12:15 AM ^
You’re referring to the bowl game that Bill Stewart won as interim coach?
December 30th, 2018 at 12:43 AM ^
like Harbaugh shits the bed against osu before missing out on the playoffs...please grow up
December 29th, 2018 at 10:30 PM ^
I am going to be brutally honest here - I stopped imagining what Rich Rodriguez could do for Michigan football in any capacity sometime in 2009. My liver simply could not take it anymore.
December 29th, 2018 at 11:12 PM ^
Is that why my skin is yellow?
December 29th, 2018 at 10:43 PM ^
I will never understand the small group of MI fans who still try to defend RR. His offenses did shit against the good teams. It's a gimmick...there is a reason the guy is looking for a job.
December 29th, 2018 at 11:01 PM ^
Not that I'm a fan of his, but he's looking for job because he couldn't keep his dick in his pants in Tucson. Obviously not a deal breaker in Mississippi.
December 29th, 2018 at 11:04 PM ^
Hell, that's basically a prerequisite in Oxford.
December 30th, 2018 at 12:05 AM ^
....and in columbus.
December 29th, 2018 at 11:05 PM ^
That was just a pretext for firing him. His teams were getting worse and worse at Arizona. He had one good year and three or four very bad ones.
December 29th, 2018 at 11:28 PM ^
Good teams knew they could play keep-away from his offense by running it down his throat. I also realized he wasn't the genius when his team couldn't light up a lousy Illinois D and lost 38-13 to the Zooker in 2009. That was the end for me.
December 30th, 2018 at 12:41 AM ^
I realized he was done then, too. The team looked like they quit on him in the 2nd half.
December 29th, 2018 at 11:39 PM ^
I know, right? My dad and his buddy were praising RR today once Florida was starting to work us, saying he was given a raw deal here. I thought the beers were affecting my hearing, but they kept going on and on. I really don’t get it.
December 30th, 2018 at 5:13 PM ^
Rich Rod had problems, but there WERE people here undermining him, let that be clear.
December 30th, 2018 at 12:44 AM ^
you could say the same thing about Harbaugh
December 30th, 2018 at 5:12 PM ^
Well, while I did not defend Rich Rod carte blanche, I did stand up for the guy for a few reasons:
1.) In some ways, he was shot down before he even coached his first game. A lot of people were mad that he wasn't going to play "manball" and razzed on him prior to September, meaning he was behind the 8 ball in the eyes of many before facts were laid out. (Interesting that Hoke basically copied Rich Rod's zone read scheme in 2011 and actually went 11-2 with it. Plus Meyer's scheme at OSU was essentially Rich Rod's scheme with a power option added, and Meyer has basically said as much. So those who say the zone read "doesn't work" are full of it up to their eyebrows).
2.) The unwillingness to make allowance for Jeff Casteel also hurt him. Now, this doesn't completely let Rich Rod off the hook for the poor defensive performances he had while here. He kept wanting to run a 3-3-5, but was using 4-3 coaches to run it (Shafer and Greg Robinson). That's like bringing in a monster truck driver to the Monaco GP, giving him the keys to a formula one, and expecting him to handle it just like the other expert drivers. The 3-3-5 is not a bad scheme, contrary to what some naysayers believe. But you need somebody with a base expertise in a 3-3-5 to run it. Neither Shafer nor Robinson knew how, but Casteel did. But (and this was my biggest gripe against Rich Rod) when a 3-3-5 coach was not available, Rich Rod refused to let his scheme go. I'm convinced that had he allowed Shafer and Greg Robinson to actually run a true 4-3 base more often, he probably wouldn't have had so many woes on defense, and probably would have won more games.
3.) The "practicegate" thing was a complete joke, and the player who ratted Rich Rod out should be ashamed of himself for doing so. Everybody knew full well that Michigan was not the only team actually doing things like that (Jim Tressell admitted as much in an interview), and this was sour grapes on the part of a player. The NCAA investigation in 2009 actually disrupted a LOT of practice time, and John Bacon noted that the week of practice against Sparty was interrupted so badly that he believes that had a lot more to do with the loss than people may know.
4.) Dave Brandon did nothing to help Rich Rod in 2010, and also undermined Rich Rod through things said and done with players behind Rich Rod's back. I don't know how many of you know this, but Brandon basically told the players that Rich Rod was fired just before the Mississippi State bowl game, and that had a lot to do with the lack of effort seen from the second quarter on. And keep in mind that the wins were going UP with Rich Rod each year (they didn't under Hoke, in case anybody forgot).
So while I'm glad Rich Rod is no longer our coach in lieu of his perverse conduct at Arizona, and while I fully acknowledge that his bullheadednesss on the defensive front of the ball did much to seal his own fate, the opposition to his being here was not entirely innocent in their approach. Read John Bacon's book Three and Out, which deals with the matter in a pretty fair manner.
December 29th, 2018 at 11:36 PM ^
He would have no idea what to do with a wide receiver taller than 5’9.
And OP...a RichRod thread is probably the worst thread you could post on top of the crap we saw today...not a welcome relief.
December 29th, 2018 at 11:42 PM ^
Agree cali.
Went surfing after the game to wash off the stink.
Worked well, ready for MBB tomorrow.
December 30th, 2018 at 12:42 AM ^
And a 6'4" qb with arm talent? What's Rich Rod doing with that? He'd force D-Caff and Milton to transfer.
December 29th, 2018 at 10:29 PM ^
If they're calling on RR I'm betting Peps phone will not be ringing.
December 29th, 2018 at 10:32 PM ^
No one is hiring Pep. He will have to be fired
December 29th, 2018 at 11:36 PM ^
The article says Jedd Fisch is another of the guys being considered.
December 30th, 2018 at 10:45 AM ^
This is a no brainer...but not sure Jedd would come back.
December 29th, 2018 at 10:33 PM ^
Funny how no matter how many God-awful, terrible things you have done in your life, you can still coach at one of two places:
1. Any SEC school
2. Ohio State
December 29th, 2018 at 11:38 PM ^
Apparently Liberty University is in that select group as well.
December 30th, 2018 at 12:07 AM ^
.....Louisville says hi.
December 29th, 2018 at 10:35 PM ^
Wish he was still our HC after tonight, at least he had good offensive production even
December 29th, 2018 at 10:35 PM ^
Not against good teams he didn’t.
RR won 15 games in three years. Harbaugh 38 in 4. Yet you prefer RR because of offensive production against bad teams. Genius.
December 29th, 2018 at 11:11 PM ^
Still...RR versus whomever is calling our offensive plays? RR couldn’t do any worse. I don’t think “run up middle again for 2 yards, then bang head on wall” was in his play book at least. Well.....we know he wouldn’t be banging the wall.
December 29th, 2018 at 11:39 PM ^
Speaking as a former defender of RR, he would unquestionably be worse.
December 30th, 2018 at 5:17 PM ^
Ahhh... while I put Harbaugh above Rich Rod, at least you could say Rich Rod made offense exciting.
And while I love Harbaugh overall, I do get sick of the Lloyd Carr-esque schemes which doesn't know how to play uptempo and move the ball with methods other than the slow and lumbering "manball pro-style".
Remember, Urban Meyer's zone read scheme is essentially the same as Rich Rod's with some minor tweaks. How many times did we beat Meyer since he's been at C-bus?
I'll wait for the answer...
December 30th, 2018 at 12:20 AM ^
This. I believe his mighty offensive juggernaut averaged 8 points per game against TUOS.
December 29th, 2018 at 10:39 PM ^
Anyone know what Bump Elliot is up to these days?
Gary Moeller?
December 30th, 2018 at 12:08 AM ^
Stan Parrish???
December 29th, 2018 at 11:24 PM ^
Hope he gets it. They deserve each other
December 30th, 2018 at 12:18 AM ^
I assume if he flops it will be because Freeze didn't give him a big hug when he got to Oxford?
Or will it be because the upperclassmen didn't "buy in"?
December 30th, 2018 at 5:20 PM ^
Actually, Rich Rod as an OC is probably the best place for him to be. He knows offense. He just needs to be kept away from running defenses.
December 30th, 2018 at 6:05 PM ^
Needs to be kept away from running any program, in general. He's a finger pointer, and never took the blame for the train wreck that was Michigan football on his watch.
But he did average 8 ppg against TUOS! Woooo!