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I was at the Gator Bowl debacle, and I remember my dad and I walking back to our car after the game talking about RichRod in the past tense. The fact that he could have all the bowl practices to prepare for a middle-tiered SEC team and gave such a pathetic performance combined with the horrible seasons he had earlier spelled doom for me.

Keeping him would have meant accepting monotony and mediocrity. Yeah the offense would have been exciting, but I really think the defense would have struggled no matter who he had as DC. His offense is so quick-strike that the defense has to be out there for a long time no matter what. Takes a lot out of them and it's hard to get up for so many drives. Plus, he picked GERG.

We needed a change (see: the other thread you started )

Yeah, but I would have liked to see Denard run his offense for 2 more years. A lot of people are really down on Denard but when he is gone we are gonna look back in awe of his skills. There has never been a QB like him at Michigan and there may not be another in our life! I was upset with the way Rich was treated and the support he had, or didn't have.

Todd, I was at the game and after watching UM get embarrassed by Miss. State all I wanted was change. It just did not work out with Rich Rodriguez. The word "Defense" did not exist in Ann Arbor during his time there. Since the late 1990's against the SEC, we had beat Bama, UF (twice), Arkansas, Auburn, lost pretty bad to UT.

That game was the nail in his coffin.

Yes

You can't allow a Michigan defense to be that atrocious. As the head coach, you're responsible for every aspect of the team/program.

Made up my mind after Wisconsin. On the fence before but was never sold on the hire in the first place. My impression of wvu was never very good.

I didn't want him fired, I wanted Greg Robinson fired. I thought he had shown enough progress to keep his job, and thought our offense could be really special with him and Denard.

Nope. Carr and his cronies did him dirty.

rich rod, is that you?

I wanted Rich Rod fired the year before after that weepy sobbing presser subsequent to the Ohio loss. Just kidding. But a year later after his 3rd straight loss to Ohio (and 3rd to Sparty) I was pretty much done. I felt if he won the bowl game Brandon should give him another year. But by halftime of that game I realized he would not be our coach the next year. In hindsight, Michmania is right, he should've been fired after the Ohio game.

That being said, I feel bad for Rodriguez not having the full support of the University behind him. I was very dissappointed in some of the ugly revelations in John U. Bacon's book "Three and Out".

I felt bad for him because when he came in there wasn't much for him to work with. He made me mad though when he tried to run his offense without players for it. It would be like putting Robinson under center every play and trying to get him to be the next Navarre, that's just silly. Personally I think a nasty defense is more exciting then a RR offense. 3 and 1 and we stuff him, I freak out! RR was our coach so I supported him till the end but yes, I wanted a change. I was really happy with the Brady hire, I wanted to go back to the old Michigan.

I absolutely hated the fact that he had a job minutes after the OSU game, talk about a lame duck. Richrod made his own bed, didn't lay in it very well. The whole "bare cupboard" thing is a crock IMO. If last year hadn't worked out so well, the same damn excuse would've been thrown at him. His stubbornness is what set this program back to the stone ages. I don't blame anything on Carr. RR was burning bridges from before he was even hired

I wanted him fired after 2008. His performance in the B1G was completely inexcusable, especially after the talent he was left with and the talent he brought in.