Arizona Hires Rich Rodriguez: Good or Bad Move?

The Coaching Carousel is spinning violently and coaches are falling off every day. In addition to coaches becoming unemployed, this is the time of season where coaches are finding new jobs and some are re-gaining employment in the coaching ranks. We briefly touched on New Mexico's hiring of Bob Davie last week but unless you follow us on Twitter we haven't really discussed the Rich Rodriguez hiring. As you should know, Rich Rodriguez was wildly successful at West Virginia. He went 60-26 and won ten or more games in each of his final three years. Then he took the Michigan job. At Michigan he went just 15-22 in three seasons although he did show improvement in each of his years in Ann Arbor. The issue at Michigan wasn't the offense. Yes, he brought a new offense to Michigan which scared the locals but it was the defense that was the problem. In three years, Michigan's offense moved from being ranked 109th in RichRod's first year to #8 in his last year. The def...