Quote Originally Posted by swiggidy
My un-educated guess. He continues Michigan's traditional history of putting together a good team on paper and under performing in big games (i.e. vs OSU and bowl games).
Michigan leads the series 57-41-6 and yet they traditionally under preform vs OSU? While it's true that they have been this under under performing this decade it hasn't always been that way.


As for Rodriguez, he's a good hire. He's not as good a coach as Tressel but he's defiantly a solid second tier college coach and could become a first tier coach depending on what he does at Michigan. People need to reserve judgment on him for 3 or 4 years until his recruiting classes come in because he'll be playing with a Lloyd Carr built team until that time and it's very probable that he won't have the best personnel to run his spread offense. If he can recruit some Pat White/Steve Slaton type players to run his offense then it could swing the balance of power in the OSU/Michigan rivalry back to Michigan.

And yeah, it is pretty gay that he bitched out on WVU for their BCS game. Carr is still going to coach Michigan in their game, but then again I can see why WVU fans wouldn't want Rodriguez to coach their bowl game.