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Rich Rods recruiting in hindsight.

  • hardware_sushi said...

    Nick Sheridan and Steven Threet as your only options in a run-based spread. That is all I have to say about 3-9. Most of that 3-9 is on a combination of Bill Martin and Lloyd Carr.

    Even if RR got Pryor, we weren't going to beat .500 that year. The team was bad in general and on top of it, our QBs were awful. I don't hold it against Sheridan or Threet because they were trying, but I am closer to Sheridan in talent than Sheridan is to a typical Michigan QB.

    If RR got Pryor , I think we definitely would have been over .500. Remember we still had a pretty good defense that year. It's just our offense was utterly awful to watch and constantly turned the ball over. I definitely think with Pryor and that defense , we would have gone 7-6 or 8-5 at least.

    With a .500 season under his belt , then maybe the detractors aren't as loud , maybe we get a better 2009 recruiting class , and maybe , just maybe Rich Rod is still the coach . . . Who knows ?? But it is crazy how one recruit could have potentially changed everything . . . For better or worse . . .

    RenaissanceMan

  • RenaissanceMan said...

    If RR got Pryor , I think we definitely would have been over .500. Remember we still had a pretty good defense that year. It's just our offense was utterly awful to watch and constantly turned the ball over. I definitely think with Pryor and that defense , we would have gone 7-6 or 8-5 at least.

    With a .500 season under his belt , then maybe the detractors aren't as loud , maybe we get a better 2009 recruiting class , and maybe , just maybe Rich Rod is still the coach . . . Who knows ?? But it is crazy how one recruit could have potentially changed everything . . . For better or worse . . .

    I think the D would have killed him eventually in all honesty. Scott Shafer is now Syracuse head coach and wouldn't be if he hadn't done a solid job at Syracuse (and he has, their D looks very solid for a Big East outfit). But as we all know Shafer butted heads with some of RR's boys so he's gone. Next coordinator hire is vital and he goes with Gerg, the bust of all busts as far as coaching hires go. That issue - cronyism, driving Shafer out, getting Gerg - sank him. Even if he does much better at offense, results would probably not have been at the level we expected by year 4 because of the D.

    Going with Casteel at Zona saved him from himself. Casteel's Ds won't be awesome but they will be good enough to be better in the Pac than his teams were in the Big Ten.

    This post was edited by UMSkeletor on 1/16/2013 at 12:09 AM

    UMSkeletor

  • HotSauce said...

    I didn't realize it was that bad. How can that guy win at AZ and WVU and not at Michigan? It is mind boggling. Would you give up that era if it meant you never got Denard? You lost some games, but he was pretty fun to watch.

    I absolutely would trade Denard for that era. As much fun as Denard was to watch, the truly amazing this about Bo -> Moeller -> Carr is that the program NEVER fell off. It never had a losing season. That is unbelievable in this era. For that alone, I would give up the excitement of Denard for that.

    BMirz3

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