Michigan - The New West Virginia
The search for a Michigan football coach is over.
Rich Rodriguez has accepted
the offer and will be formally introduced
tomorrow morning. He will not coach West
Virginia in their bowl game. This makes the
second coach Michigan has pilfered from the
Morgantown university, the first being
basketball coach John Beilein who left WVU in
April of this year.
Undoubtedly Rodriguez will bring an entirely different brand of football to Ann Arbor. He is one of the leading minds on the spread option (or read option) offense which gives teams (ie: Ohio State) so many problems. And, while this is a good hire for blue, don't fret just yet if you're an Ohio State fan. This offense usually takes time to implement not only in terms of design but also personnel. Seeing Ryan Mallett run the spread option would be a humorously welcome sight. To that end, West Virginia was just 3-8 in Rodriguez's first year in Morgantown.
The impact of this coaching change has already reverberated to the recruiting world. An Illini messageboard post reports that QB John Wienke has decommitted from Michigan and will now attend Iowa. Unfortunately for Buckeye fans, all-world QB Terrelle Pryor has added the Wolverines to his short list. No word on how the coaching change may effect Josh Jenkins who is formally committed to West Virginia but has been wavering for months. Many feel he was already on cusp of switching his commitment to Ohio State before Rodriguez bailed.
Undoubtedly Rodriguez will bring an entirely different brand of football to Ann Arbor. He is one of the leading minds on the spread option (or read option) offense which gives teams (ie: Ohio State) so many problems. And, while this is a good hire for blue, don't fret just yet if you're an Ohio State fan. This offense usually takes time to implement not only in terms of design but also personnel. Seeing Ryan Mallett run the spread option would be a humorously welcome sight. To that end, West Virginia was just 3-8 in Rodriguez's first year in Morgantown.
The impact of this coaching change has already reverberated to the recruiting world. An Illini messageboard post reports that QB John Wienke has decommitted from Michigan and will now attend Iowa. Unfortunately for Buckeye fans, all-world QB Terrelle Pryor has added the Wolverines to his short list. No word on how the coaching change may effect Josh Jenkins who is formally committed to West Virginia but has been wavering for months. Many feel he was already on cusp of switching his commitment to Ohio State before Rodriguez bailed.
