I’m willing to be proven wrong on this, but in my experience class will tell, and RR will be playing a much tougher schedule than he did at WV.

As for UM, Martin should have ponied up the dollars and given Miles whatever he wanted. I mean, I think the group here is correct in noting it’s the most prestigious football head coaching job in the country. I have the feeling Miles will be the next head coach anyway in a couple of years after RR goes 7-5 a couple of times.

I’m also a little disapointed in our media for not defending the guy, but I mean that is to be expected. We’re finally joining “modern” college football and I was half expecting a bit of negativity no matter WHO we hired because the usual Michigan way is blind nepotism…I’m mildy suprised we survived a coaching search at ALL without major scandal/embarassment simply because the Wolverines have ZERO experience doing this sort of thing (and to be fair the search was neither stress free nor short and could DEFINATELY had lead to a potential embarassment for the Athletic Department if they hadn’t pulled down a name as palpable as RR’s).

As for the pro offence talk, whichever, PRO TEAMS aren’t drafting those types of players anymore. Drew Bledsoe’s day is over, it happened right infront of us. Michigan has consistantly looked slow on both sides of the ball for YEARS now. I’m ready for a change, and if that means we beat OSU 44-38 in a wild game where the lead changes hands 15 times, FINE…. WINNING is better than LOSING 10-3.

“great Duke product” = not actual quote. Nice try, though.

The sarcasm/quotation marks aren’t for you. They’re for Duke.

Do you people WATCH college basketball? Hating Duke is a RELIGION guy… wait wait wait, I get it… you ARE a Dukie… okay fine, take my last 7-8 posts on this subject and WHEREVER you see the words “Duke, Duke product, Duke Graduate or Dukie” substitute “F&*king Tar Heel”…

makes way more sense to you now doesn’t it?

(From a logic perspective there’s no discussion anyways. Maggette is highly over-rated because despite being paid LIKE a player you can feature in an offence (1st/2nd option) he well, can’t be featured in an offence… just like the blogger said, several days after I did in a drunken Mike Dunleavy Jr rant… just sayin yo)

18 and 6 is usually indicative of a “solid NBA player,” as I described him. I’d take him over Dunleavy 6 out of 7 days of the week.

I’m not screaming that these guys are the franchise. Dunleavy and Maggette may very well be cases of the “Loy Vaught Syndrome,” where playing big minutes on poor teams bloats the statlines of those unfortunate souls filling the rosters. B-Teamers who look All-Star quality compared to those surrounding them. Or, what Jarvis Hayes would probably be if he were starting on some bottom-feeder. Note how Maggette’s averaging 20 a game, three points per game better than last year, with three more shot attempts per game than last year. Brand is out, and the offensive burden is distributed among the rest. Kaman looks like a freak this year because the only guys he’ll fight for rebounds with is Al Thornton and the 6′6″ Maggette. Kaman’s a good player, but I’d like to see what happens to his production whenever Brand returns.

LVS came to be known as Abdur-Rahim Syndrome (ARS), and is currently known as Mo Williams Syndrome (MWS), until Dunleavy makes the title his own going into 2008.

I wouldn’t have such a problem with Mike DeBord’s offense if I could remember a time in the last decade that he ever called a slant pass. I’d be willing to bet that the last time UM threw a slant was when Tai Streets broke one against OSU. For the last ten years, it’s been all deep crossing patterns and bombs. It’s like an Al Davis offense.

I was more sad to see Ron English leave UM than I was happy to see Rodriguez come in. I’m not a fan of the spread offense, I think it takes away from guys with true NFL ability. A guy like Ryan Mallet comes along once in a great while, and to see him possibly transfer out because he’s not like Pat White is simply wrong.

Is it just me being a homer or is the West Virginia vitriol being directed at Rich Rodriguez way excessive.

Yes, it was a bad situation. But, the blame for me goes to the whole system that puts so much of a premium on recruiting that a coach has to start doing it in December.

Also, they wouldn’t even be in that BCS game with all those great athletes if it wasn’t for him.

And it was the staff he brought in that was making all the play calls (boy did that game get me excited about our new coordinators!).

I find it funny that they hired Bill Stewart even though his whole staff is gone. I didn’t hear the guy’s press conference but if he didn’t thank Rich Rodriguez for all he did for the University and paving the way for him, then he’s classless.

So your point was you should NEVER coach basketball?

We agree on SOMETHING.

thanks for proving my point for me

http://clipperblog.com/index.php?itemid=471

Don’t make me pull out the one’s about Mike Dunleavy.

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