Welcome Rich RodriquezThe wait is over….University of Michigan hires Rich Rodriguez, from West Virginia as the new Head football coach at University of Michigan.

He will be introduced at a press conference Monday morning. Personally, I’m glad the search is over. It has been a month long search since Lloyd Carr resigned.

You can read the entire saga here.

The blogs and Sports Talk Radio have been going crazy. Geoff Larcom, one of Editors from the Ann Arbor News, called me last week to see if I knew anything about Les Miles wife buying a house in Ann Arbor. The rumors were flying. As Geoff said, this is the first big hiring since the day of the internet, and blogs.

One day I was listening to Talk Radio WTKA, and someone called in and it was hillarious, they said, “Ok, all you bloggers and people listening to talk radio, get off your computers and come on down to Main Street and we will march to Connor O’Neils, have a few beers and figure this thing out.

You can read the story here.

Last year, U of M. hired the head basketball away from W. Virginia, John Beilein.

Sorry, Jeff Belonger, I know you love West Virginia and Sarah Cooper, I know you did too.

Rich Rodriguez is known for his spread offense attack and I am thrilled, Michigan and another Big Ten football school will be getting in the 21st Century for football.

I wonder if he will still coach West Virginia in the Fiesta Bowl? I think I fell for him when he lost the game to Pittsburgh and he cried at the press conference.

Guess we’ll have wait until tomorrow.

Finally…

Go Blue !!!

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