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Carr Wreck
Posted by Fired Fred on September 4, 2007 3:10 PM
With all due respect to Sporting News blogger aajoe7, who's defending Michigan coach Lloyd Carr, I don't see why the coach deserves defending.
Michigan lost both its games last year after Bo Schembechler died, and nobody in Ann Arbor expected to lose a home opener to a I-AA, or whatever the hell the division is called now, team, no matter how good Appalachian State was supposed to be.
Loser Lloyd didn't have his fifth-ranked and maybe overrated team ready to play a beatable team in its opener in the Big House. Michigan could win or lose every game from now to Thanksgiving, and their chances to compete for a national championship are the same. Zero. Nada. Zilch. No way.
There's no way Michigan can bring him back next year. First day of September, and the Michigan season is done. Even Notre Dame can get a shot if they win out because they didn't lose to a I-AA team on Saturday.
This is why the top division in college football is a complete joke. Any other division in college has a playoff. You lose the first one, you've still got a chance at the title.
Loser Lloyd isn't fired yet. Save that for after they get owned by Ohio State again. There's no way you can coach the number 5 team in the country to the most epic loss in college athletics history and come back the following year.
Charlie Weis has to be glad Michigan fell on its face, otherwise everyone would be talking about the Irish getting a big dose of owned themselves.
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