The week in news- Tears, Real Games and a Billboard
by whiskey OFD on Sep 4, 2009 3:01 AM EDT
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Michigan started the week with a huge distraction when a handful of players tattled on Rich Rod for making them work too hard. When your own players turn you in that says something, and it isn’t something good. I’ll never understand why Rodriguez left West Virginia and right about now he’s probably wishing he had stayed. At the end of the day he’s just too much of a cultural shift for Michigan. When you come in and change everything at a proud program you are telling them that they have been doing it wrong for the last 100+ years. People take stuff like that personally. In many ways Rodriguez at Michigan reminds me a lot of Callahan at Nebraska. The way things are going it will likely end the same way too. To put icing on it he did shed some tears about the whole deal on TV the next day. He then followed that up by getting sued for $3.9 million over a failed condo project in Blacksburg Virginia of all places. Dude had a rough week. With those minor distractions Michigan might be primed for an upset on Saturday. That just might finish him off if it happens.
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Apparently, the "haymaker" occurred after you posted. The only thing exciting about the two games last night was that I watched on my new TV. Ok, at least football is here so I shouldn't complain. Got a couple of briskets smoking for tomorrow.
by Longhorn Mike on Sep 4, 2009 12:03 PM EDT reply actions
Yeah it was early in the 3rd quarter when I finished up the post. Then I turned off the TV and went to bed right as time expired so I didn't see "the punch" until this morning. That whole scene was pretty insane. The punch itself was a pretty crazy but the part I thought was totally over the top was when he went completely berserk and went after the fans and had to be restrained by like 10 people. That scene of him getting dragged up the tunnel by that mini mob was wild. He's now suspended for the season. Nice work!
by Whiskey on Sep 4, 2009 1:20 PM EDT reply actions
You hit the nail on the head about Rich Rod being like Callahan at Nebraska. Changing the culture of a storied program is the last thing you can do in a sport that's tradition-driven as much as college football.
And yeah, watch out for the BYU/Oklahoma game tomorrow. OU's O-line is something not enough people are talking about.
Heard Cox from Georgia is sick with the flu. If that's the case, then I'm all over the unders there.
by Sammy Vegas on Sep 4, 2009 6:15 PM EDT reply actions
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