OT: RichRod interviewing for Ole Miss O.C. job

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

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. 

Sure, but he won a conference championship 

....and then his WV team just dismantled Oklahoma in their bowl game, what a loser!

Is that why my skin is yellow?

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.

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.

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.

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.

Agree cali.

Went surfing after the game to wash off the stink.

Worked well,  ready for MBB tomorrow.

And a 6'4" qb with arm talent? What's Rich Rod doing with that? He'd force D-Caff and Milton to transfer.

This is a no brainer...but not sure Jedd would come back.

.....Louisville says hi.

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.