U of M thread (in the Lions Forum) :)

[Cody_Russell]

Honestly, Brady Hoke is someone that a football program like my Purdue would hire as Head Coach.
... NOT Michigan :(
But again, there is NO ONE else.

[chemiclord]

If there is "NO ONE else", than the Wolverines fired a perfectly good coach.

That's not the case at all. There are plenty of coaches that could do the job, and do it well. The Wolverines simply need to find one. It doesn't have to be a big name, astonishingly.

[LightninBoy]

Thankfully the Michigan board didn't need 8 years to determine they had a dud.

Now please just hire someone who will bring football back to the UofM.

[froot loops]

If there is "NO ONE else", than the Wolverines fired a perfectly good coach.

Huh, perfectly good?

[chemiclord]

Huh, perfectly good?

I was commenting on Russell's statement.

If there was only ONE GUY who could replace Rodriguez, than Rodriguez himself was more than adequate. That is obviously not the case.

[calijawn]

Best firing since Millen.

[Cody_Russell]

Brady Hoke > Rich Rodriguez.

But this is an unfair comparison because a lot of coaches are a better choice than Rich Rod.
Rich Rod might be a 2/10.
Brady Hoke a 6/10.

... Michigan should be hiring a 9/10 or 10/10 ... but other than Harbaugh, there is not another "Michigan Man" excluding Hoke, Miles.
And again, Miles won't be the next HC because of his expensive buy-out.

[gjdodger]

Someone will have to tell me what Rich did right. Those equating him to Millen are dead accurate.

[Kstat]

He had the offense on its way to becoming elite, given how young that entire unit was, with a top-shelf RB on the way in Dee Hart.

His neglect of both the defense and special teams was criminal, though. Even if he got our offense to the level of Oregon's, We were never going to do better than 9-4 or 10-3, and then we'd go right back to 7-6 the following year.

[calijawn]

Local and regional media now backtracking, saying nothing official from A2 until tomorrow... not sure if it will change anything, though.

[Malto Marko]

Uhg!

2010 will become the year that unacceptable football has changed. The fans of the Lions , Spartans and Wolverines will benefit from it.

Spartans lead the pack with a great regular season but unacceptable post season, which will be addressed.

Lions finally learned how to win, on the road and at home. More W's will follow.

Wolverines got rid of a jackwagon that had his own ideas but accumulated the worst record in the history of the team.

......friggen losing to a DII team? He should have been fired then.

Except the worst AD in Michigan history, ......oh, is this the same Ed Martin that handed out birthday cakes to BB players that took down all of the banners the Fab 5 won? I think not but, there must be a connection......

[chemiclord]

......friggen losing to a DII team? He should have been fired then.

Now why are you bringing Lloyd Carr into this? That makes no sense.

[Tom]

I'm surprised that there are people who back Rich Rod. As explosive as the offense looked against UMass and Bowling Green they struggled against decent teams. And the defensive scheme is just awful.

[Malto Marko]

Now why are you bringing Lloyd Carr into this? That makes no sense.

My old memory may be a bit rusty but, my memory suggests that it was Rich Rods first year on the job.

I did not look it up but, will back off my statement if you are correct and amend it to not beating State or the other team down south once in his career.

[Kstat]

His offense struggled against decent teams mainly because the defense was so bad. You can't tell a group of freshmen and sophs to get cold on the bench for 20+ minutes and watch the defense give up 6 yards and a cloud of dust all the way down the field, and then send them back out knowing if they can't get a TD, they're going to be down 7 more by the time they get the ball again in half an hour. On top of that, they didn't even have the piece of mind that they could ever settle for 3 points. It was TD or nothing, every posession.

Maybe in 1-2 years, that same group of players could have adjusted to that and kept their offensive rhythm. Wasn't going to happen with a group this young.