krambman;470138 wrote:It's not surprising that guys who didn't fit into Rich Rod's system left, what's surprising is that any coach could be a system coach. I still don't understand why he came into Michigan and has tried taking guys who aren't remotely suited for his system and forcing them to run it instead of modifying his system for a few years to fit his players, and gradually introduce his system as he get's the type of players he needs to run it. It seems completely asinine to me for a coach to make an entire team adjust to his system when they clearly aren't suited for it. Also, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. You would think that once RichRod realized his system wasn't working that he would have tried somethings different. Instead, he has continued to do the same thing expecting a different result (I'm not necessarily talking about this year, but the last two). Besides, I would think that any top level coach would be able to adapt and adjust the way they do things to suit their personnel, instead of trying to force a square peg into a round hole. System coaches recruit system players and run a system offense. great coaches recruit the best players available and adapt their offense to suit their strengths.
Well that system looked pretty damn good Saturday, and it looked really good down in WVU.
It's pretty hard to say that Ryan Mallett, Tate Foricer, and Steven Threet are anything like Robinson or Gardner, and that's why those 3 will/are starting elsewhere, and the latter 2 are getting PT for RR.
Not every coach can adapt to it's quarterback. While I'm in agreement that systems are getting more and more "fad"y, you can't argue that with the right people in place, RR is a good coach. Elite? Probably not, but certainly good.
