Posted on 01/04/2011 12:11:57 PM PST by Retired Greyhound
Michigan has fired football coach Rich Rodriguez after his third season ended with a school-record 38-point loss in the Gator Bowl, Fox 2 TV in Detroit is reporting. The report comes after Rodriguez met with athletic director Dave Brandon earlier Tuesday. Members of the football team are scheduled to meet at 7 p.m. ET on Tuesday, according to another report out of Ann Arbor. Michigan's Gator Bowl loss to Mississippi State knocked Rodriguez's overall record to 15-22 with college football's winningest program. Michigan will owe the coach $2.5 million to buy out the final three years of his contract.
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No, it explains Phil Knight’s wallet.
I’m grateful for Rich going to Michigan. His hiring brought Ryan Mallet to Arkansas. GO HOGS!
Rod’s problem was he didn’t get a QB from Texas. Well, he had one and let him get away. hee hee
And the cold didn’t seem to bother Boise and Oregon in getting a Texas QB.
Not having to slug it out in the SEC week after week helps as well.
You are correct.. I have never heard anybody bring this up, but the Big Ten has diminished with mass migration out of the rust belt to the South..
You realize of course that you are talking about a farm team system for the NFL. In which most of the ‘athletes’ are black kids who don,t graduate, and that relatively few college players ever make it to the NFL, and if they do their tenure is not great. Perhaps we should be recruiting ‘Teams’ of physicists and engineers to play against other colleges.. Might be more productive. Multi-million dollar stadiums, multi-million dollar coaching bonuses and salaries,, multi-million dollar travel budgets yada,yada,yada. Very weird what we’ve done with our colleges and athletics.
The problem with the old guard upper Midwest football schools, Michigan and Notre Dame, is that the middle class used to produce a lot of corn-fed kids who used to be able to work, raise a family and retire in the area.
If you live in South Bend, unless you are a professor, you will most likely leave. I hate for this to turn into a political dissertation, but the unions and Progressive policies, coupled with free trade agreements created the Rust Belt where many middle class families prospered until the 1970’s.
The reason good athletes go to USC, Texas or Florida is complicated, but the lure of a warm climate, hot women, easy studies with tutors, TV exposure (Notre Dame has this, but who wants to watch Tulsa or Navy - beat them?) and a high visibility in order to be drafted is a no-brainer.
Ann Arbor is cold, but a quaint college town, but as a 20-year old male, Hollywood as a USC/UCLA athlete seems a lot more fun...
Just saying...
Nor the cold of Palo Alto (Andrew Luck)....
I agree, and I regard the NCAA as a criminal organization. They make bundles of money doing things this way.
YES! Rich Rod got rid of the best QB in the nation to run his Spread. Well we see where THAT went.
spot on.
Isn’t Michigan the school that gave prospective students higher admission points for being black, than for having a perfect score on the SAT?
That’s also a pretty poor standard... ;)
Oregon is not Michigan cold, and Boise has blue turf and is quirky.
“college football’s winningest program.”
LOL
Now who will Tressel slap around every November? Maybe they’ll re-hire Lloyd Carr.
You mean Oregon have those standards, lax academics and rowdy girls?
Why, you ask???..Easy...$$$$$$$$$$ lots of it..
Plus the percentage of gays in Ann Arbor is astronomical compared to other college towns. One of these days the stripes on that winged helmet will be rainbow.
Cold and lots of gays - not a great environment for a high school football stud to want to move to.
Untrue. I have spoken to quite a few Michiganders, and they tell me he just isn’t a Michigan guy. They did the right thing and need to get a decent Coach in there.
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