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

The problem with Michigan is they didn't hire a Michigan man to coach Michigan.

 

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

Once you get past 40 hours," NCAA Myles Brand agreed, "you're really pushing it, I think."

 

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

Chait is a Michigan grad.

 

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

For real? I couldn't tell.

I'm sure The New Republic is thrilled with his venture into fanboi sports writing.

 

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

Sorry, I didn't know who the hell he was until today.

 

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

I didn't know he went to Michigan. I was fairly certain, though, once I had finished his Rivals column that he didn't go to Ohio State.

 

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

Mustang: You and I are friends, at least on Facebook, but take off the maize and blue goggles.

 

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

Oh, yes of course, thanks for fixing that, that explains everything: ONLY Rich Rodriguez wants to win football games. Other coaches stay within the 20 rule because they have no interest in winning. It's not that Rodriguez was trying to cheat by gaining an unfair advantage over other coaches, he simply has a different goal than them. Thanks, Stang, it all makes sense now.

 

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

In fairness, today's presser was the regularly scheduled Monday deal...

 

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

The story here, as others have said, is not that Michigan went over the 20 hours. That's ho-hum; every program does it. The story is the fact that players - starters, reportedly, - have willingly outed the program.

Whatever it is, RichRod has rubbed people the wrong way in such a short time in Ann Arbor. Not sure he could have asked for a worse start.

 

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

With tears, Slap. With. Tears.

 

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

Again that is not a story because it is just more of the same -- the same thing happened when he went to WVU. He had like 28 players leave his first year. He was reprimanded by the college for using bad language. He had a few players whine on their way out about how tough his practices were.

And by the middle of year 2 he had weeded out all of the pussies.

That is the same thing going on here -- Lloyd Carr's problem was he was running soft practices and recruiting soft kids and Michigan was drifting into mediocrity.

This all goes away if Michigan is 9-3 or even a good 8-4 at the end of the year.