The Free Safety. He is a man of whom much is asked.
He must be the hawk that swoops across large distances to kill a rodent for dinner break up a pass:
He must be the missile that disrupts an enemy air force:
He must be The Wolf that corrects others’ mistakes:
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Dear Asshats (aka people who think RichRod should be fired now):
Hello. You don’t know me, but I’m the guy that’s going to tell it like it is. If you’re upset with the direction Rich Rodriguez is taking the Michigan football program and would like to see him fired now, there are some unavoidable realities you need to face.
1. Firing Rich Rodriguez After Two Seasons is an Extremely Bad Idea
I don’t know what your next step would be, so help me walk through the timeline here. First, do you want RichRod to be fired right fucking now, before he’s even allowed to finish his second season? If so, then wow- conceivably, the team could win one of these last two games (unlikely, I know) and go to a bowl game…and you’d still think it wasn’t good enough to stop the termination of the head coach before his second season was finished. Wow.
But suppose we take the more likely finish of 5-7, and you believe he should be fired but only after that’s occurred. Ok, that puts Michigan (back) in a national coaching search in early December, when all the “good” coaches are preparing for bowl games and while several other programs are trying to land those very same “good” coaches, and you know what? We went through this already and it sucked donkey balls. How much confidence do you have that a retiring Bill Martin is going to do a better, more aggressive hiring job now than he did then (back when he barely lumbered up and offered Greg freaking Schiano)? Best case scenario is that Martin finds somebody, anybody by the end of the month. Worst case scenario is, well, worse- we don’t have a coach until mid-January, mere weeks before National Signing Day. Awesome.
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Dear Asshats (aka people who think RichRod should be fired now):
Hello. You don’t know me, but I’m the guy that’s going to tell it like it is. If you’re upset with the direction Rich Rodriguez is taking the Michigan football program and would like to see him fired now, there are some unavoidable realities you need to face.
1. Firing Rich Rodriguez After Two Seasons is an Extremely Bad Idea
I don’t know what your next step would be, so help me walk through the timeline here. First, do you want RichRod to be fired right fucking now, before he’s even allowed to finish his second season? If so, then wow- conceivably, the team could win one of these last two games (unlikely, I know) and go to a bowl game…and you’d still think it wasn’t good enough to stop the termination of the head coach before his second season was finished. Wow.
But suppose we take the more likely finish of 5-7, and you believe he should be fired but only after that’s occurred. Ok, that puts Michigan (back) in a national coaching search in early December, when all the “good” coaches are preparing for bowl games and while several other programs are trying to land those very same “good” coaches, and you know what? We went through this already and it sucked donkey balls. How much confidence do you have that a retiring Bill Martin is going to do a better, more aggressive hiring job now than he did then (back when he barely lumbered up and offered Greg freaking Schiano)? Best case scenario is that Martin finds somebody, anybody by the end of the month. Worst case scenario is, well, worse- we don’t have a coach until mid-January, mere weeks before National Signing Day. Awesome.
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I really like Boubacar Cissoko. Prior to this season I had no opinion on him, but now I really like him. I like him and am rooting hard for him the rest of the season because his name has the word “boob” in it because he has already demonstrated one of the most-treasured of attributes in football and in life- the ability to deal with and overcome adversity.
Adversity comes in many forms, and he is certainly not the only player on the Michigan team that has faced it (see: Mealer, Elliott). However, when adversity arrives on a player’s doorstep as FIRST HALF FAILURE and that failure becomes visible to many, many people as an unfair and premature judgment of “I don’t think Cissoko is any good, injured shoulder or not”….well, I can’t help but root for the guy, if only to make the people who make those judgments EAT IT.
We’ve all had rough days and we’ve all been put in impossible situations. Our beloved Michigan players are no different, and I love to see these kids grow up in front of our eyes and become MEN. That is something I can and will root for every damn Saturday in the fall. So with that in mind, let’s look at what Boubacar Cissoko dealt with this past weekend, how he responded to it, and then offer a hearty “FUCK YOU” to the haters among our fanbase.
PART 1: FACING ADVERSITY
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