Former Michigan QB rips Lloyd Carr
Former Michigan quarterback Rick Leach lambasted ex-Wolverine coach Lloyd Carr recently on an Ann Arbor radio show, claiming that Carr “flipped a huge middle finger right in our current coach’s face.”
Here are the details, courtesy of the Detroit Free Press:
“I saw an article that said Lloyd Carr was at the game in Iowa,” Leach told WTKA-AM (1050). “… No. 1, whose ticket did he go on? Whose private box was he sitting in, and whose university staff was in the box with him?
“As far as I’m concerned, as a former player that loves this program, I love our head coach, I love what they’re trying to do — our ex-coach flipped a huge middle finger right in our current coach’s face.”
Carr couldn’t be reached, and Michigan spokesman David Ablauf declined to comment on Leach’s comments.
If you read between the lines, Leach must be accusing Carr of getting a ticket to the game thanks to someone at Iowa. Seeing as how he and Iowa head coach Kirk Ferentz are friends, it’s a possibility that Carr got the ticket through him.
That said, who gives a flying crap? Considering Bobby Petrino has negotiated multiple times with other programs (and one NFL team) behind his school’s back, I don’t think Carr attending the Michigan-Iowa game on Ferentz’s ticket is that big of a deal. And Petrino is just one example of a coach that has left his team high and dry: Nick Saban, Brian Kelly and Leach’s homeboy Rich Rodriguez have all done the same.
I think Leach is being a little too sensitive here. If he wants to preach loyalty, he shouldn’t be backing Rodriguez.
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Petrino is the worst
but yeah how much you love a
guy who cuts and runs to be in the Big Ten?
Some loyality his WV guys must have
I agree – Leach is overreacting here. Carr has done nothing to undermine Rich-Rod, who is looking like a fool all on his own.
As an alum of The Thundering Herd and a former resident of “Almost Heaven”, I had mixed feelings when Dick Rod took off for Michigan. I was thankful he would no longer be around to run up the score against Marshall, but it hurt to see him bail on the state’s flagship university. Particularly hurtful was the awful timing which proved disastrous to the Mountaineer’s BCS hopes. Dirtbag move and unforgiveable.
Now, if Lloyd Carr were a closet WVU fan and could no longer suppress those sharp pangs of betrayal, then the long fingered salute he allegedly tossed in Dick-Rod’s face was wholely justified. In sum, Leach backed the mule in a horse race.
Rich Rod bailing on WVU and joining the greatest football tradition of all time in no way is all blame on Rich Rod. He isnt the one who came to Mich AD and said, “hey please hire me, I really want bail here at West Viginia…” How can you be pissed at anyone that leaves their second rate program and join the best football program in all of college? I mean West Virginia or Michigan??? you guys are freaks… With all the negativity he gets from his own “fans” I am suprised he is even still around… Yea Leach is really over reacting here… Llyod is retired and can do what he wants with who he wants but you guys are the real cancer to the team… and who really cares what a Marshall fan has to say about Michigan anyway??? Marshall is the mule in a horse race…
Do we really give a horse’s arse what Rick Leach thinks?