bo shemmy3337;543576 wrote:Also to those who think his offense has to be run option first are wrong IMO. When he was at Tulsa, they were actually pass first. He can work with other QB's. I am not the least bit worried on offense as they are very young on both sides of the ball. But defense is getting worse every year IMO.
If he was willing to run a pass-first offense then why didn't he do that with Threet or Forcier? With both of those QB's he tried fitting a square peg into a round hole. He was absolutely unwilling to adapt, change, or abandon his system to fit his players strengths. I absolutely hate system coaches. They can have some excellent year, but when you run a system it limits the players you can recruit and you will have more down years than other programs because you won't always have the right kind of talent. Guys like Tressel and Saban recruit the best talent available and then develop an offense that suits their strength. Even Urban Meyer (a system coach) is having a down year because he doesn't have the right QB to run his system.
WebFire;543753 wrote:Defense just got worse, lost JT Floyd for the year.
With as weak as they already were in the secondary this loss makes the Purdue game even less of a sure than that it was.
se-alum;543871 wrote:Serious question here. What has Rich Rod ever done that makes people think he can get UM back to a big time program?? He had some success at WVU, but annually lost the game he had to win. He's never faced the constant grind of a big conference schedule. I'm not convinced he can ever get UM back to being a powerhouse program. I do think he can have good years, but there will be plenty of bad years sprinkled in. I want to see UM back to winning 10 games a year. It's good for the Big 10, and it's good for the Big Game. I just don't see it happening with Rich Rod, EVER!!
He rebuilt the West Virginia program, won four conference titles there, won a BCS bowl game, won at least ten games and finished ranked in the top ten his final three season there (which had more to do with Pat White than him, becuase as I already said, system coaches are only as good as their key players). Also, everyone and their mom was beginning to copy his offense at the time. Even though no one else really runs the zone read spread as their base offense like he does, a ton of teams run a modified version of. And at the time everyone said it was the wave of the future and he was the inventer (even though it's really just a modified version of the veer). There were lots of reasons to think that he could come in an contend and succeed. However, often times guys are over hyped and don't succeed. This is one of those instances.
The defense is bad, win or lose.