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Originally Posted by Mecca
Michigan fans be testy after that downer year.
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When you're a Michican fan, or a Chiefs fan, there's no downer years. You go in expecting nothing and you're never disappointed.
Besides, Lloyd Carr's finally gone. The only thing I could liken to the sheer joy of that fact would be if Carl had followed Marty out the door in 1998, and all the monkey's were off the Chiefs' backs at one time.
The Rodriguez hiring is going to be interesting. I was talking to my dad last night (he's the Michigan grad...). He's been following the goings on at spring practice in the Ann Arbor papers and apparently the veteran players are having a real hard time adjusting to the change, particularly the offensive linemen. They've alread had one starter leave the team this week, badmouthing the program just a week after he was talking about how great it was now. The impression we have is that things were really, really lax and easy under Carr, and that Rodriguez is working their asses off.
I still don't know how well that style of play's going to work in the Big 10 (my guess is real well, but probably not in '08), but it should be interesting to watch.