This is stuff is just hilarious. Every single one of you that is crying to excuse Rick's loss to Virginia because Meyer lost to Purdue, are the same people who keep harping on our need for better players-- OL and QB, mainly.
What you guys don't get is that in the competitive landscape that is college recruiting, there are serious questions about our guy's ability to win a championship and consistently beat his top competition.
As much as we all enjoyed watching Urban Meyer's $8,000,000 Suck-tator *** sitting on that little golf cart eating a ****** pizza before his press conference, he has won three national championships and consistently makes his top rivals his *****. Michigan literally spent millions of dollars a year to host camps around the world trying to beat that guy.
When we are going head-to-head for top talent people will bring up that, "CMR hasn't won a championship, and lost two out of three games he played against Florida. At Miami, he was embarrassed by Wisconsin, Clemson and LSU"
What are they going to say about a guy like Meyer? "Oh, well, he did lose to Purdue, right?" Huge difference. Huge.
So, yes, it hurts us more when we lose to Pitt and UVA. Your body of work as a head coach matters when you've been at it as long as CMRick.