UPDATE: Uh-oh! CMU, EMU and now WMU in big trouble thanks to Rich Rod!

Re: Uh-oh! Cental Michigan, or some other smaller football program, in trouble

Notice how the university releases this report on the Monday of Ohio State week. Sounds to me like they're setting him up to fire him.

 

Re: Uh-oh! Cental Michigan, or some other smaller football program, in trouble

DickRod will never leave for one cent less than every dollar owed to him on his contract. If he was willing to fuck over his alma mater in court over contract terms, why would he hesitate one second to fuck over Michigan, too?

Pretty much all coaches' contracts have NCAA compliance clauses these days -- it allows the universities to maintain their aura of pristine virginity -- but the clauses are usually so specific and narrow that the university would have to find a notarized and witnessed document saying, "I, Rich Rodriguez, formally and directly order all my staff members to violate the following NCAA recruiting regulations: 1-1a, 1-4b, 1-4e, 2-5d, 3-2b, 3-4c, 4-2d, 5-1d, etc etc etc, immediately and continuously for the duration of my coaching tenure" from the coach in order to get the dismissal to stick.

Even when coaches are running programs more crooked than Bill Clinton's dick, they always manage to weasel out of the dismissal clauses by claiming they weren't "personally" responsible for any violations, then launch into their Sgt. Schultz routine.

 

Re: Uh-oh! Cental Michigan, or some other smaller football program, in trouble

Ha-ha, funny you should mention, because EMU figures, somewhat peripherally, in the U-M clustefuck:

Supposedly there is a contingent of Lloyd Carr loyalists who were outraged that a Carr protege was not given the job. One of the candidates some people felt should have been considered for the job was Ron English, the DC on Carr's final staff.

One of the main movers in this campaign supposedly is James Stapleton, a former U-M football letterwinner who is now on the EMU board of trustees (or regents, I forget the correct nomenclature). English was hired this year to coach EMU.

There have been some rumors that some of the Carr loyalists have been trying to sandbag Rodriguez, carry out an internal coup, and install their own candidate to replace him. If the idea is to install English as coach, he ain't doing much to boost his own prospects -- EMU is 0-10.

 

Re: Uh-oh! Cental Michigan, or some other smaller football program, in trouble

No, they don't.

 

Re: Uh-oh! Cental Michigan, or some other smaller football program, in trouble

And look at the timing of the release of that story on Monday. It was embargoed for a noon release.

DickRod's weekly presser usually ends around 11:45.

How convenient, eh?




Oh and Starman, Eastern does use the Board of Regents terminology. And English likely won't get a win in his first year.
It's actually funny to watch English on the sidelines this year. He's almost always by himself. You can tell he's frustrated at hell at not being competitive.

 

Re: Uh-oh! Cental Michigan, or some other smaller football program, in trouble

Right. It's also pretty questionable how much of a "Carr protege" English really is, since he was only at Michigan five seasons -- it's not like he was with Carr for decades. The drift I get is that the push for English is as much race-related as "Carr protege" related. No matter what the reasons for boosting English, going 0-11 at a MAC school doesn't help the cause.

 

Re: Uh-oh! Cental Michigan, or some other smaller football program, in trouble

Wilbon says DickRod is done.

http://freep.com/article/20091117/SPORTS21/911170305/1054/SPORTS06/Michael-Wilbon-Rich-Rod-done

 

Re: Uh-oh! Cental Michigan, or some other smaller football program, in trouble

That would put his two-year record at 8-16.

8 and 16.

How'd he ever win 8?

 

Re: Uh-oh! Cental Michigan, or some other smaller football program, in trouble

Of course, he would have been an optimum hire back then.

But there was a faction of U-M people that wanted no part of Brian Kelly, partly because he had moved around a lot and they thought it was beneath Michigan to hire someone from a lower school. IIRC, they didn't even make an attempt to interview him.

 

Re: Uh-oh! Cental Michigan, or some other smaller football program, in trouble

Talked to a buddy of mine today -- a volunteer coach for a minor U-M sport.
Prevailing sentiment is A) being pissed off at the Freep for reporting it, but more importantly, B) pissed off at the athletic department and the university for cooperating in this.
"See what happens when you cooperate?," said my buddy. "The people in charge are stupid. If we didn't cooperate, nothing would happen. Nothing happened at Ohio State when Maurice Clarett got money and nothing's going to happen to USC for Reggie Bush or O.J. Mayo. And that's because they've told the NCAA to piss off and haven't cooperated and there's nothing the NCAA can do. Michigan is so stupid."

 

Re: Uh-oh! Cental Michigan, or some other smaller football program, in trouble

I really can't remember if Kelly said something or not.

But at any rate, I'm not saying Kelly would be bad for Michigan. He would be pretty good, I think.

I was just saying, given the past history, I don't know if Kelly would want to go there, especially since he could probably get just as good a job somewhere else, if he leaves Cinci.

 

Re: Uh-oh! Cental Michigan, or some other smaller football program, in trouble

Better? Not really. His honeymoon is long over in Baton Rouge. There are grumblings down there that it might be time for a change.

Saban will own the West. Meyer will own the East.

Les would have a much better chance winning the Big 10 than he would the SEC.