most fans knew that it would be a rebuilding year for the wolverines, but with 5 of the first 6 games at home, you figure maybe they be sitting at 4-2 or 3-3 at worst. instead its 2-4.

defense aint playing all that bad, actually won them the game vs Wisconsin and Miami Oh as well as kept them in games vs Utah and Toledo.

they may head into the finale at the end of the year vs the Buckeyes, needing a win to just reach the .500 mark at 6-6.

i remember briefly turning on the game yesterday at the beginning and saw alot of empty seats in the top bowl, especially both end-zones.

what Michigan has going against them in recruiting is that they must content with Michigan State as well and i think Dantonio will be coaching there for awhile.

this year actually reminds me of john coopers 1st year with the Buckeyes when the suffered at 4-6-1 mark.

It's a shame, isn't it? LOL!!

Where is the tissue when you need one

Hope this makes recruiting that much more difficult on them not being able to win home games. Struggling against smaller schools etc.

Michigan State may become the area favorite over Michigan.

If they do not improve with time...how long till they look for another new coach and another rebuild? How many more players will transfer out.

they are playing terrible. I think its because they lost alot of players last year. and they dont yet have players to fit thier "system".

Rich Rodriguez has failed so far at U-M

BY MICHAEL ROSENBERG
FREE PRESS COLUMNIST

Rich Rodriguez may yet restore Michigan to Big Ten supremacy. He might win a national title and justify athletic director Bill Martin’s decision to hire him.

In the meantime, this needs to be said:

Rodriguez has done an awful coaching job this season. Michigan is 2-4 and just lost to Toledo, which should never happen.

Toledo isn’t just a Mid-American Conference team; it’s a bad MAC team, a much worse outfit than Appalachian State last year.

Appalachian State, despite being in the FCS (formerly Division I-AA), was one of the 60 best teams in the country. Toledo was 123rd in the Jeff Sagarin’s ratings, behind 18 I-AA teams.

Rodriguez talks about “building” the program. But literally no college football program in history was built as solidly as the one he inherited. U-M has been to 33 consecutive bowls, and that number would be 40 if the Big Ten could have sent more than one team to a bowl before 1975. Since 1968, Michigan had lost more than four games in a season only twice: in injury-ravaged campaigns in 1984 and 2005.

He has said his players played “soft” and routinely says they aren’t “executing” well. But when he was asked Monday if he personally would have done anything differently, he said this:

“No, no. It’s fair for everybody to question it. I think they’ve questioned everything I’ve done since I’ve been here, for the last eight or nine months. There’s nothing wrong with that. That’s fair game.…”

He added that his only regret was that “I wish I had had more time to spend with the players,” but he didn’t because of NCAA rules. It was an odd comment, considering that the Wolverines spend as much time in their football building as any players in the country.

On the first day of 2008, before Michigan beat Florida in the Capital One Bowl, Rodriguez said this:

“We’ll adapt. I like winning too much not to adapt a little bit to our personnel.”

Has there been any sign that he will adapt?

Rodriguez says that every spread offense is different, but his scheme looks exactly like the one he ran at West Virginia, even though his players don’t fit the scheme.

Rodriguez also said Monday that “I couldn’t have foreseen this situation. To be honest with you, I didn’t look into it before I took the job.”

But this wasn’t the situation he inherited. Rodriguez was left with better talent than this. He could have had Ryan Mallett, one of the most gifted passers in school history. Mallett had a lot of flaws — he was cocky, immature and irritated a lot of his teammates and his coaches with his attitude. But the same could be said of Chris Perry, Braylon Edwards and David Terrell as freshmen. Mallett still had a chance to be a great player.

Rodriguez said he wanted Mallett to stay. I’m still not convinced that he did. The guy Rodriguez really wanted was high schooler Terrelle Pryor, who burned Rodriguez in two ways — by choosing Ohio State, of course, but also by making his announcement so late. If Pryor had chosen the Buckeyes in, say, late December, I suspect Rodriguez would have recruited Mallett to stay a lot harder than he did. But Pryor waited until the spring.

Mallett’s departure created a domino effect. Receiver Adrian Arrington, who was probably coming back, left for the NFL. He could have been the best receiver in the Big Ten.

Rodriguez also made minimal attempts to keep Justin Boren and Alex Mitchell. Neither Boren nor Mitchell was perfect, but both would have started on the offensive line this season.

Despite the carping of a certain segment of fans, the Michigan football program was not a horrible underachiever. The Wolverines made BCS bowls in three of the last five years. Their final Associated Press rankings at the end of those seasons: 6, 14, unranked, 8, 18.

People harped on Lloyd Carr’s 1-6 record against Jim Tressel, and understandably so. Michigan-Ohio State is the biggest rivalry in college football, not to mention the basis of a wonderful new book. But Carr also won nine straight against Penn State and 10 of his last 12 against Michigan State.

Rodriguez, who faces Penn State and Michigan State in the next two weeks, is about to find out how impressive that is.

Once again: Rodriguez might win big. He is six games into his Michigan tenure, and it would be foolish to give up on him after six games. He might win championships when he gets “his guys” into “his system.” But the guys who are already here should have a much better record, and that falls on the head coach.

Contact MICHAEL ROSENBERG at 313-222-6052 or mrosenberg@freepress.com. For more information on his new book, “War As They Knew It: Woody Hayes, Bo Schembechler and America in a Time of Unrest,” go to www.michael-rosenberg.com or www.amazon.com. He will be reading and signing the book at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Ann Arbor District Library, 343 S. Fifth Ave.

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Thanks Rich for taking the "FUN" out of Funtimes beating a decent Michigan team.

Go Buckeyes!!

BTW Trevilli Thanks for the invite via PSN, I finally got around and checked my messages, It was funny (in a good way) to see you there!

Let me know what you plan on playing in the future, Im takin a break. Cant wait for Resistance 2!

So far, RR hasn't looked good. I'm starting to think that beating Wisconsin will be the highlight of their year.


No problem Rhoe! I've been addicted to CoD4. I'm soooo far behind everybody! You can catch me playing that most evenings. I play lots of Team Deathmatch. I can totally understand if you're tired of it though, the game has been out a long time, unfortunately, I just got it midway through the summer. Did you sign up to beta test Resistance2?

Yeah COD4 is getting pretty redundant for me as of late...NO! I did not sign up for beta testing! U? I need to look into that!
VIVENT LA RESISTANCE!

Oh, I forgot to mention that Im pickin up Saints Row 2 this weekend.

All apoligies for getting off the topic guys
Go Browns!

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GO ROCKETS!

def give us the update on saints row 2, when you get a chance

For those of you who go to the other board.........please send nas my condolences. LMAO