Lloyd Carr interview about similarities between this year's team and '97 team
This is a 3 minute interview Coach Carr about the similarities of his '97 team and this year's team on the 25th anniversary our last national championship. The end of the interview is very poignant and touching as Carr reflects back on his legacy, doing so with a great degree of humility and gratitude.
https://www.fox2detroit.com/video/1150150
December 2nd, 2022 at 10:48 PM ^
Thanks for always supporting the program Lloyd.
December 2nd, 2022 at 10:50 PM ^
He is certainly under appreciated. There is still much debate on how he left the program’s “cupboard’s bare”.
December 2nd, 2022 at 11:04 PM ^
Yeah, someone wrote half a story all about it. Too bad Lloyd's version never intruded on the narrative.
December 3rd, 2022 at 10:14 AM ^
Why is this downvoted? Serious question as I’ve only followed the behind the scenes stuff the last 10 years. Is this referring to not supporting Rich Rod?
December 3rd, 2022 at 11:09 AM ^
Not sure of the intent but it does seem as if it’s sarcastic about the aftermath of his retirement.
December 2nd, 2022 at 10:50 PM ^
Here is the link.
December 2nd, 2022 at 10:54 PM ^
Thanks. For some reason whenever I try to embed links the embed feature always gets stuck in a loop.
December 3rd, 2022 at 5:06 AM ^
patience grasshopper...patience.
December 2nd, 2022 at 10:55 PM ^
A measured soul that put his heart into this program and valued loyalty. Finally opened it up on Florida in his final game. Poignant.
December 3rd, 2022 at 12:46 AM ^
He was apparently going to unleash that on OSU that season, but both Henne and Hart got hurt. It had to wait for the bowl.
December 2nd, 2022 at 11:05 PM ^
Carr reflects back on his legacy, doing so with a great degree of humility and gratitude.
Too bad he shelved all of those qualities and threw a fit when he wasn’t allowed to hand pick his successor and torpedoed the program on his way out.
Fuck LLLLoyd Carr.
December 2nd, 2022 at 11:22 PM ^
Isn’t his grandson going to Notre Dame?
December 2nd, 2022 at 11:51 PM ^
Good for him. It's not like we're scheduled to play them anytime soon.
December 2nd, 2022 at 11:26 PM ^
Let it go
December 2nd, 2022 at 11:36 PM ^
You do know that you are on a UM football message board and that said team just named the tunnel for him and aided in his inclusion in the CFB HOF? Given your narrative why would the powers that be ignore the modern lynching and do this? I guess your unassailable view is based on more intimate knowledge then the entire organization you come here to support.
Wonder why RR told the Detroit Press that Lloyd called him to tell him about the opening and to look into it when RR said at the time he didn't even know him. Puzzling?
December 2nd, 2022 at 11:39 PM ^
Maybe Rodriguez just sucks, as a football coach and human being.
I know, Brian promised it would work. He was wrong.
December 3rd, 2022 at 10:59 AM ^
It might have all been fine if Rick pronounced his name like johnny fever and used his putter like a cutlass. Alas even the knowledge and chunks the hobo were wrong sometimes.
December 2nd, 2022 at 11:57 PM ^
Um wow
December 3rd, 2022 at 12:26 AM ^
Stop talking shit about the tunnel.
December 3rd, 2022 at 12:48 AM ^
Lloyd Carr loves Michigan football and did more for it than all but a small handful of people will ever contribute to the program in its long history. He wasn't perfect, but he was damn good.
December 3rd, 2022 at 12:51 AM ^
he wasn’t allowed to hand pick his successor
Except that Lloyd called up RichRod and invited him to interview here.
Lloyd was in favor of him getting the job. It was later on that he changed his mind. Why? Maybe the fact that RichRod turned out to be a sexual predator.
December 3rd, 2022 at 10:05 AM ^
RR fired most all the longtime staff to protect his "circle of trust" which finally imploded when the mistress scandal broke.
Urban gives that "two fingers in" (as opposed to two thumbs up) to this approach by the way.
December 3rd, 2022 at 6:19 AM ^
Fuck off asshole.
December 3rd, 2022 at 10:34 AM ^
Oh my.....
December 3rd, 2022 at 12:22 AM ^
Lloyds arrogance handicapped this football program. I appreciate what he did for this program. The National Championship was epic. But 8-4 every other year loaded with NFL All Pros?
If you did not bend the knee to him you did not matter and you were out. The Man building this program from those ashes now did not bend the knee. He took it and made it his own.
Lloyd is a consummate gentleman and good man. But that’s it.
Let’s be real. Lloyds grandson is going to Notre Dame. Not Michigan where he had an offer…Notre Dame.
December 3rd, 2022 at 1:05 AM ^
Did some of Lloyd's teams underachieve? Yeah. But he also won a national title, the only one at this school in the last 70 years.
As for his grandson, who knows if Lloyd had much influence or not on the decision, but I honestly can't blame a kid who grew up in the shadow of our campus for wanting to stake out his own legacy.
December 3rd, 2022 at 10:36 AM ^
This is the correct attitude. That young man is and should be free to make his OWN path in life, even if we don't like it.
December 3rd, 2022 at 12:31 AM ^
Kind of sad that we must re-litigate the Lloyd Carr era here instead of just enjoying the comparison of two all-time great Michigan teams.
December 3rd, 2022 at 7:45 AM ^
I just felt my cupboards empty
December 3rd, 2022 at 10:41 AM ^
Lloyd's sagacious words are always welcome in my mind. Glad he still pipes up once in a while.
On a side note, I kind of accidentally learned my high school won it's state championship this year. I think my love of being a football fan goes back to being a kid in 1975 in valpo when the team won it's first championship running a single wing offense. The coach Mr Stokes was my driver's ed guy and an unlikely football mastermind. Valpo won IN 5A this year with a 9 and 3 record and that's about all I know about the team. The 75 team went undefeated and won a 3A? title which was the top tier then on valpo's home field on a cold night. We had a pair of QBs run the O. Oliver was a better thrower but could run well. Allen was an african american who was a better runner with a bigger arm and I think he returned a kick for a TD against the powerhouse Indy team (carmel or penn central?) that was supposed to maul us. Valpo's white bread history was broken up at that time by a VU program that transplanted a few families from the projects in Chicago to valpo and hence Allen was on the team. Happily I can report that at the same time I was MI fan at 9 years of age for no other reason than I liked the uni's, helmet, bo, and idea of the team up north. If I remember right those were the rick leach years.
I grew up playing football with my mates at recess and that is probably why I love the game. As a valpo kid also can say I always thought Undue Perversity sucked and IU was a fine party and hoop school.
Not too dissappointed at usc last night. Utah just outplayed them. The debate is down to OSU and BAMA. Either way, bring it on.
While I am typing... As a long time world cup fan partial to the dutch in general, I will be happy if the US can take a big step today. Ole.