• RR on Minor’s shoulder: “It’s concerning. It’s his shoulder now. Talking to trainers, it’s day-to-day.”
• On Carlos Brown – knee is still bothering him a little bit.
• RR on OSU: “If you coach and play here and, you understand this rivalry every day.” “Legends are made in the Michigan – Ohio State game”
• RR on Pryor: “I think he’s done extremely well.”
• RR on the defense: “We’re still constantly evaluation” “Still searching for the right combination.”
• RR: “Most important for us the next couple Februaries is signing” some defensive help.
• RR on simulating Pryor difficulty: “6-6, runs a 4.3″ “If I had a guy like that, he probably wouldn’t be on the scout team.”
• RR on what a win would mean for him and the team: “More than anything for our seniors, they haven’t beaten Ohio State yet.” “And bowl game possibility.”
• RR on Justin Boren: “I don’t know if it does much good to go back in the past.” Then talked about closeness of his “family”
• RR on all this losing: “It eats at your soul” “I don’t coach football. I live it.”
• RR continues to elaborate on the losing: “I’ve lost before. I’m not used to this. My staff isn’t used to this. It gnaws you to the bone.” “For a lot of reasons, it has been more challenging and more taxing. But you have to stay true to yourself and your family.” “We’re going to be back there where I want us to be and everybody wants us to be.”
• RR: “We can see the light at the end of the tunnel. Sometimes when you’re losing, it’s hard to see that.”
• RR on whether he is happy with the coaching staff: “I feel very good about our staff. We have great people on our staff” “What I have to do is evaluate what we’re doing scheme-wise.”
• RR on certain unique issues: “There are a couple issues that come up that aren’t in coaching 101.”
• RR on his system fitting at Michigan: “What would be the difference between fitting at Michigan and fitting at West Virginia or somewhere else?”
• RR on Tate and Denard: “They’ll be so much better once we get more sessions with them.”
• RR talking more about OSU and saying that his first day on the job, before his introductory press conference, got a beat Ohio State button. Still on his desk.
• RR: “I’m going to give you a newsflash here. I’m going to coach as hard as I can every game.”
• RR on the rivalries: “Isn’t that what’s fun about college football?” – then goes on to say that the 1969 game is what really stood out to him before he came to Michigan.

My apologies for the less than thorough notes on what Rich Rod had to say – I was unable to watch – so your updates are from various twitter sources. Ryan Van Bergen steps up to the podium after Rodriguez.

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