I think we're all in agreement that RR would be a fantastic hire. (So long as Patterson is still mad at us. :shakesfitz:)
He really could of won at UofM but we kind of sabotaged him right from the jump.. All of our former players and 'Bo' guys wanted Miles but Lloyd did NOT (because he got 5* Jai Eugene to decommit and commit to LSU by telling him Lloyd had Parkinsons disease
) so Bill Martin settled on Rich Rod.. Well right away everyone hated him because he wasn't Miles and Lloyd hated him too (some compromise).. So as soon as it's announced our whole team (with pressure from Lloyd and the rest of the current staff) pretty much transfers or declares early for the NFL (Ryan Mallett, Justin Boren, Mario Manningham, Adrian Arrington, Alex Mitchell, and a slew of guys you've probably never heard of).. That compounded by the fact that Lloyd really stopped recruiting after the 05 season, left us pretty much with a roster full of crap, and then we were switching from super pro style never used shotgun in a decade type offense to the freaking spread option..
So right off the bat RR has to go out and recruit a bunch of guys to fit that offensive system, so he pretty much has to spend the first 2 classes on offensive players.. We have a rough ridin' walk on starting at QB for us in 08 at Michigan !! There is literally nobody left from the Carr regime players or coaches they all bailed.. So we got walk ons and Freshman/Sophs for the first 2 years and we suck.. Understandable, but it's Michigan and you can't suck no matter what the circumstances were surrounding it, so the people who hated RR from the jump really hate him now and the internal struggle just intensifies, so much so that our own people turn him into the NCAA for not properly filling out his CARA forms which log practice hours..
Year 3 rolls around and Denard becomes the starter and we finally get to see his offense and it's awesome, were pretty much unstoppable on O.. However, our defense is awful because we can't hire a decent defensive coordinator because nobody wants to attach themselves to RR when he is getting ZERO support, and we had to spend our first two classes recruiting offensive guys to run that offense.. Not to mention we sabotaged his recruiting from the jump, RR likes Juco's, well you can't get JUCO's into UofM, so that's understandable at least, but after his first class we started turning away a bunch of guys who
actually qualified but were turned away by admissions because they deemed they weren't 'academically successful enough".. It just so happened that these were all 4* defensive recruits who all (except for Demar Dorsey) went onto play at other D1 schools with no issues..
Clearly, he made some mistakes and wasn't a good 'fit' but we basically sabotaged his Michigan career from the jump because he wasn't a Bo disciple.. It sucks because I really thought he could of won big here and we were starting to see that last year when he finally got his offense in place, but I was ready for him to go because it was obvious at that point it was never going to happen for him here..
I think he'd be great at KSU where there isn't nearly as much media scrutiny, and he can get JUCO's and guys from the south who aren't exactly scholars into school with no issue..
