Coach who knows Rich Rod says Arizona promised him they'd schedule Michigan
http://www.mlive.com/wolverines/index.ssf/2011/11/did_arizona_promise_r…
(with video)
High School Football coach told people at the New Orleans QB Club that Rich told him...
His expression to me was he felt he had a better chance to win the national championship at Arizona if he recruited properly and they promised him they would put Michigan on the schedule within three years.
I will probably hate myself in the morning for posting this, as it will deteriorate, and will never happen, because the chance Michigan says yes is zero...but it's news, and I thought it was interesting how people may view things.
November 29th, 2011 at 5:59 PM ^
over the age of 16 use that reference? Who (talking of M fans. State and OSU fans of course used it) could be so utterly immature and lame as to ever say that??
November 29th, 2011 at 6:15 PM ^
unless you guys are going to provide everyone with your real life identity, you should probably lay off the kid now. i'm sure he gets the point.
November 29th, 2011 at 6:28 PM ^
Is a real identity? We don't even know if he is the REAL Facepalm Guy.
December 2nd, 2011 at 1:04 AM ^
When you have Pitt and Marshall fans in your family, it wasn't a nickname. it was just normal to call him that.
December 5th, 2011 at 5:49 PM ^
November 29th, 2011 at 5:48 PM ^
I guess we'll always have apolitical Lloyd Brady.
November 29th, 2011 at 5:50 PM ^
He might not really be facepalm guy.
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<br>Just saying, there might be a chance...
November 29th, 2011 at 5:55 PM ^
God I hope he is. What must your real life be like if you impersonate an online meme on a sports blog?
November 29th, 2011 at 5:58 PM ^
Who uses "Dick Rod" non-sarcastically?
November 29th, 2011 at 7:30 PM ^
Actually quite a few people
November 29th, 2011 at 5:39 PM ^
in the Rose Bowl if they win the Pac-12 next year. It's up to you, RR, if you want the matchup.
November 29th, 2011 at 5:48 PM ^
Someday. Though it hasn't happened yet.
November 29th, 2011 at 5:53 PM ^
Dude, if they win the rose bowl next year I'll shave my eye brawls off. I
November 29th, 2011 at 5:57 PM ^
You'd have to explain what eye brawls are first.
November 29th, 2011 at 5:54 PM ^
Give RR and Hoke two years of recruit, maybe we will meet in the NC.
November 29th, 2011 at 6:32 PM ^
RR better take advantage of USC having scholarship reductions the next few years.
November 29th, 2011 at 9:05 PM ^
That is all.
November 29th, 2011 at 6:43 PM ^
We'll meet him in the Rose Bowl if they win the Pac-12 next year. It's up to you, RR, if you want the matchup.
Times a thousand.
November 29th, 2011 at 5:39 PM ^
As much as I find that intriguing, I would rather we didn't do this. There is not a compelling reason to schedule Arizona other than the RR tie, but of course, we play a month of non-conference games - I would credit DB with the sense to turn that down.
November 29th, 2011 at 9:01 PM ^
You'd "credit" the guy that made Michigan a punchline by re-sheduling App State?
Thats unfortunate.
November 29th, 2011 at 5:40 PM ^
He also has a chance if he teaches defense properly.
November 29th, 2011 at 5:41 PM ^
November 30th, 2011 at 1:35 AM ^
True. And, secretly, I'd love the drama of the whole thing. It would be entertaining. Then again, I am also for big-time games like the Alabama game. Although I do agree a home-and-home would've been preferrable, that game is still going to be a sweet, national event in a faraway place. It has to help recruiting (assuming we don't get blown out; then, maybe a push, but perhaps appealing to kids who like the limelight).
November 29th, 2011 at 5:41 PM ^
I will predict that we would have no problem scoring.
November 29th, 2011 at 5:44 PM ^
at Arizona than Michigan?
Seriously?
Oh yeah...Rich doesn't forget to blame the players. To win a national championship, he has to "recruit properly." I guess he wasn't too thrilled with the recruits he brought in at Michigan. He apparently doesn't think his own recruiting at Michigan was very good. Or maybe he thinks recruits find Arizona a better place to play than Michigan.
Boy, talk about sour grapes and petty egos.
November 29th, 2011 at 6:07 PM ^
November 29th, 2011 at 5:45 PM ^
What's so bad about the team we play? It probably ends up a one game series at Michigan like Colorado and OSU this year because that's the only way Michigan will schedule a struggling BCS team after the Uconn fiasco.
November 29th, 2011 at 5:50 PM ^
UConn fiasco? What was the problem there?
November 29th, 2011 at 5:51 PM ^
I think he's talking about the return trip to take on UConn in their 45k seat stadium.
November 29th, 2011 at 6:22 PM ^
Does the size of the stadium matter to us when we're playing a road game? Do we get a cut of the revenue? Or is it just the fact that we gave up a home game that was the problem?
November 29th, 2011 at 6:31 PM ^
No payout can possibly equal a home game*, and what a school with a small Stadium can pay in return must be less than one raking in revenue.
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<br>(*unless Jerry Jones is involved)
November 29th, 2011 at 6:50 PM ^
We wanted a team from an AQ conference for the dedication game. A return game is now the price of getting a game against one of those teams. Because of the money the BCS has introduced to those schools, they almost all refuse to play one-off away games (other than the Jerrydome/Chik-fil-A type games). The only recent exception I can think of is OSU's game against Colorado this year, for which they paid $1.4 million, to an AD that's substantially in the red.
If we wanted a one-off, we could have scheduled Boise, but that might not have turned out well last year.
November 29th, 2011 at 5:46 PM ^
there is no way in hell Brandon would schedule this game. Nothing good could come of it for us.
November 29th, 2011 at 7:36 PM ^
I'd prefer a home game against Arizona next year in place of Alabama in Texas. Arizona will likely be a so-so team during RR's first few games with a brand new offense.
November 29th, 2011 at 7:56 PM ^
He will probably need at least 4 years, but maybe 5 or however many "next season"s he would get.
November 29th, 2011 at 5:46 PM ^
there is no way in hell Brandon would schedule this game. Nothing good could come of it for us.
November 29th, 2011 at 5:47 PM ^
Too soon. Let's wait a few years until Michigan and Arizona become powers in their respective conferences, maybe even meeting in the Rose Bowl a few times. By then, everything should be healed.
November 29th, 2011 at 5:52 PM ^
Call me a hater, but Arizona will never become a power in the Pac Insert#. This is independent of RR being their coach.
November 29th, 2011 at 5:50 PM ^
This should happen immediately. Rich Rod's first game. If he's going to be an asshole about this, so should we.
November 29th, 2011 at 5:51 PM ^
will be against Toledo. Seriously.
November 29th, 2011 at 5:57 PM ^
But I was thinking if we replaced an OOC game next year if he'd still be game, and we'd be more likely to do it.
November 29th, 2011 at 5:50 PM ^
We are MICHIGAN! We will have the best talent and the best Coaches in the Nation. We welcome the Bucks and MSU yet fear RichRod? Bring it RR we will mop the floor with you!
November 29th, 2011 at 5:52 PM ^
For those interested, here are the schedules for the next three years. The only dates without an opponent are September 13th and 20th of 2014:
http://www.mgoblue.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/081809aab.html
November 29th, 2011 at 5:55 PM ^
Man, that would be really funny if we played App State, Rich Rod, and then Tressel at Akron for our out of conference schedule. Every game would be about something bad that happened to Michigan.
November 29th, 2011 at 6:23 PM ^
Or if in the future, Rich Rod gets fired from Arizona, gets hired by App State and in turn hires Tressel to be a coordinator because Tressel can't get it done at Akron!
Psh! Why have three games of Michigan mishaps when you can have them all in one game!
November 30th, 2011 at 1:41 AM ^
You don't have to always use ! to end your sentences. Other punctuation marks are allowed to end sentences as well, are generally well-accepted by the populace, and won't make you seem any less cool. Or you can split up concepts and thoughts with punctuation. There exist a plethora of options; hell, I just used a comma, semicolon, exclamation point, hyphen, and apostrophe. It's totally doable.
November 29th, 2011 at 6:39 PM ^
The part about scheduling "within three years" makes no sense if one is to take that literally.
The timing aside, Arizona could make it a rather simple proposition if they agreed to come to Ann Arbor without demanding a home and home. That is any B1G team's dream; to get a Pac-12 team to visit without having to give away a return. I'd presume that there is not a single Pac-12 team that we wouldn't jump to get onto our schedule under those circumstances.
There is another, quite logical way to look at J.T. Curtis' statement (quoting, or perhaps misquoting Rodriguez) -- that is, within three years, Arizona will make a deal to play Michigan. (A much more sensible and realistic goal.) That means scheduling in something like 2014-17, or beyond. Rodriguez might be thinking that if he's given the resources at Arizona, he could build it into another Oregon in six or seven years.
How did Oregon do the last time they were in Ann Arbor?
November 29th, 2011 at 9:12 PM ^
I'm still incredibley frustrated with that game. I can't believe they brought out a hammer in front of the student section. Would love redemption. Would love to beat them in a Rose Bowl. Crossing the fingers for next year.
November 30th, 2011 at 1:47 AM ^
JT Curtis and, uhh, the high school he coaches, which is named after him, is kind of a big deal H.S. coach in Lousiana. John Curtis is a perennial powerhouse, also. That's right: the guy started a high school for (among other reasons) the purpose of leading its football program and it is named after him and he coaches D-1 talent constantly and has 500-plus wins in his career. I mean, it is somewhat admirable from a "holy shit, that high school coach has made himself quite an absurd fiefdom" perspective.