Good bye Rich Rod

[GoBoilers]

Michigan turned the hot water off for showers after the game. I understand the same thing happened in 2008 also. Classless!

[silverfox]

Thats pretty low...

[Spence]

Michigan turned the hot water off for showers after the game. I understand the same thing happened in 2008 also. Classless!

You mean they turned off the hot water on Michigan State? Yeah, if they really did that they should be fined. It is one thing to prank and things like that to a rival - usually before the game - after it is over shake hands and try and get better for next year.

Here is the thing about firing Rodriguez - if Brandon and the prez want to fire him for losing this game - well IMO they are the ones who should be fired for not being able to see that this wasn't a good football team. I think that Rodriguez will never be the long term answer at Michigan because he is a system coach. He isn't a guy who tries to get the best talent possible and then designs a team around the talent. Michigan has always had the later before Rodriguez. You can argue that the talent could have been better used under Carr, but not that he didn't recruit the best talent. Rodriguez got some really good players at WVU, most diamonds in the rough. He convinced himself that he could see talent no one else could see in the two star recuits. He didn't even go after most guys Ohio State was recruiting. When eight or ten of the twenty best teams in the country are recruiting a kid, he is probably a pretty good player. RR, got a little arrogant. Not that most coaches aren't a little arrogant, but when you start believing the genius labels the idoits in the media are throwing around, we that isn't smart.

I thought after the second full recruiting season was done that RR didn't have what it took to get it done at Michigan, but firing him because the media was building Michigan up to be something that it was obvious they weren't - is more a testament to Dave Brandon being in over his head then it is to RR all of the sudden "losing it". He really has never had it since he began in Michigan and all I have heard from him since the beginning is excuses. Cupboard is bare. Has to get players in place. Players can't take the kind of conditioning he requires. Time for the coach to look in the mirror.

[Spence]

This isn't to say that Denard Robinsin isn't a good player. Just to many media types making him into something he isn't. He is in an impossible position. Michigan not only counts on him to be the offense, but they also count on him to make up for the defenses shortfalls. That is too much to put on any player, especially a young guy like Robinson.

[Spence]

I think everyone saw it coming. I think they can win two more games. Possibly three.

[Spence]

Michigan can beat Penn State and Purdue. Not sure anyone else. Good defense beats good offense. It is always the case. I had people tell me that no one could stop Michigan's offense. (I do business with several Michigan companies.) I said when they hit a defense, they won't score enough to win. It isn't that their offense can't play, they can, they are just not good enough to overcome the shortcomings of their defense.