West Virginia Writer Thinks Rich Rod is Gone After '09 Season
I'm not the biggest fan of Rich Rod, but, even I think this is a ridiculous article:
http://newsandsentinel.com/page/content.detail/id/519218.html
columns I have read in a long time. That was Rob Parker-esque, the only difference being that this writer didn't ask for a black coach to be hired.
They have writers in West Virginia? Who will be able to read it???
No dental records and all the DNA is the same.
is horrendous. The commenters had it right, not a single coherent thought. This comment in particular
'The players don't seem to like his style. The alumni hasn't warmed up to him. The administrators who hired him -and who could fire him -were unhappy they were going to have to be deposed in his legal dispute with West Virginia University.'
shows that the author is basing this entirely off of his own wishful thinking. I feel like the alumni are definitely warming up to RR and I'm pretty sure it was the admin who wanted to fight the buyout. Let's hope we get a few wins so we can stop reading garbage like this.
...right. They hate the Big House BBQ's, they hate the camps, and the 30 guys who voluntarily signed scholarships to attend Michigan since Rich Rod showed up sure don't like his style. Not to mention the walk-ons.
What a horrendous article. He deserves to be flamed WLA style.
What a horrendous article. He deserves to be flamed WLA style.
The article is bad, but he doesn't deserve capital punishment.
Well, there are definitely some alumni and administrators who haven't warmed up to Rich Rod (I don't think that this is debatable), but, the suggestion that a coach would be fired after only his second season is just insane. I am of the belief that ANY head coach deserves three years before any serious discussion about his job security can take place, especially one with a track record of success at other programs such as Rodriguez. This isn't the NFL.
I agree with the 3 year rule, but I really do not put much stock in the number of alumni who approve/disapprove of a coach, except it it trends to one extreme or the other. Lloyd, Bo, hell Yost had detractors, and you can always take issue with something a coach does. I think RR will start feeling the heat in 2010 if he does not show some improvement, but at the same time UM has shown a patience that many other schools (such as teams from a certain conference that, let's say, would form the word jumble "CES") clearly no longer employ.
...and coming back to in the future.
This asswipe should also read the Scout postings about Michael Schofield's recruitment (Schofield's dad posted about the recruitment process) and how the Michigan staff is far and away the most considerate, thoughtful, and researched recruiting team in the country. Also, Schofield mentioned Rich Rod and co. had great "family values." (Mr. Schofield knows his audience).
"The alumni hasn't warmed up to him."
"Alumni" is plural, people.
That one can go either way with collective nouns, so this usage isn't necessarily incorrect.
When members of the group in a collective noun are acting in unison, as is the case in the column, the noun becomes singular and requires singular verbs. The original writer was right.
The determining factor for the use of a singular or plural verb depends on the nature of the collective noun itself as a singular or plural noun. The word "alumni" is the plural form of "alumnus" or "alumna" just as "children" is the plural form of "child."
The original writer is completely incorrect.
If he had said "The alumni association hasn't warmed up to him," he would have been correct, as "association" is singular.
Would this qualify as proper usage?
"I got a fuck lion now come fuck wit me."
you da realest bitch
Word
I guess I need to brush up on my Latin.
No, it's incorrect. This is something that a lot of people get wrong. Here are the proper forms:
Alumnus - singular, masculine/neutral
Alumna - singular, feminine
Alumni - plural, masculine/neutral
Alumnae - plural, feminine
It is never grammatically correct to use alumni as a singular noun. His sentence has to be changed to make it correct, either to "The alumnus hasn't warmed up to him," or "The alumni haven't warmed up to him." Since he is presumably talking about more than a single Michigan graduate, he should have used the latter.
This guy is Douche with a capital BAG.
-Roger the alien
1. His first six paragraphs were one sentence apiece.
2. "The alumni hasn't warmed up to him."
3. His last nine paragraphs were one sentence apiece.
Grade:
F-
In fairness to the author, he isn't responsible for proofreading or structuring his "work" on that website.
So...in other words...not only is he incompetent, but so are his co-workers.
It would seem so.
1. His first six paragraphs were one sentence apiece. ... 3. His last nine paragraphs were one sentence apiece.I didn't even count the sentence fragments that made up most of those one-sentence paragraphs. I feel dirty for having even clicked on that link and helping their stats. Is this how he wrote BEFORE West Virginia became a post-apocalyptic den of insanity, or did RR put him over the edge?
comedic
joined that paper and bombed him in the comment section. Enjoy it.
"West Virginia writer" lolz
That was bad, where are the facts.
I love how he was sure to mention that Rodriguez was looking even when he had a "good job." Oh, Mr. Objective West Virginia Writer, what job could you possibly be speaking of? It couldn't be the one at, ohhh, West Virginia, could it??? No, because West Virginians didn't want him, anyway
I guess that he missed that whole thing where RR was offered the job at Bama for more money and turned it down. It seems to me if he was looking for a job while he already had one he proably would have taken that one, but maybe you have to be a toothless West Virginian to understand what he was talking about.
that was the worst thing written in the history of man
I've read a few of your comments...
hey now
Don't worry Shockmeister is jealous cause your writing has all the intangibles that the Intangible Police despise.
all sounded like vintage MGoBlue commentators. It was actually very funny to see our humor in attack mode. Like "I am dumber for having read this." lol
I don't know guys.
I thought it was good.
He is obviously a good writer.
Nice job.
Dave.
Poe.
"That would put Marshall in the position of looking for a head football coach and it would take whoever is running Marshall's athletic department about two seconds to figure out the best available coach is Rich Rodriguez.I thought RichRod was a terrible coach? Good work Mr writer dude.
I chuckled to myself as I read that too. Thank you for bringing it up.
The MGoBlog community has indeed "chewed on this one"......
and spat it out.
"When you are batting 1.000 on negative comments, Mr. Poe, you might think to yourself that you sould remove this post from the Internet... this should tell you something..."
Lol, his co-workers are probably popping him upside the head, "You makin' us all look bad, Poe!"
I watched Deliverance a few years back and wondered what ever became of that banjo playing kid from Georgia. I think my question has been answered.
Wow. That was just plain terrible. Did this guy go to college?
Define "college"
Is West Virginia a college now?
This is my first double post. I have now sinned.
All the people in West Vagina seem to feel that Rodriguez owes them something, and they also seem to think that, much like Jesus, he'll be back someday, they just don't know when.
In the great words of Marshall Mathers:
Let me slow it down for you so you can understand if I say it slower...
Let it go dawg, it's over.
for actually wanting to go back a second and third time to read the comments that will just increase his traffic but hey mabye thats good work over their in Jerry West's Vagina
What you've just written is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever read. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having read it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
Well-written.
Objective.
Thoroughly researched.
This article was none of these.
Sour grapes much, Dave Poe?
that reminds me....I think Haiku guy needs to check in on this one.