Give Michigan Another Year

With a 5-5 record in the overrated Big 10, Tate Forcier, Rich Rodriguez, and the struggling Michigan Wolverines have lost 5 straight conference games and are in danger of missing out on Bowl Season. They travel to Wisconsin to take on the Badgers this weekend and head to Ohio State for the last game of the season.

Lloyd Carr ran the Michigan program into the ground a few years ago and it's up to Rodriguez to fix it. Using mostly players recruited by Carr and switching from Carr's traditional run/play action system to his own spread system, Rodriguez was only able to win 3 games in 2008. It is only his second year as the Wolverines' coach, however, and it'll take a year or two more for the players that he recruited to learn the system and succeed.

My father's rule of thumb; when a team enters the rebuilding phase (if done correctly), it takes until Year 3 before you see a finished product. So, if Michigan is patient with Richy, this football team will be scoring 60+ points-per-game like the Mountaineers of years past.