Merrill Lynch recently provided us with a perfect example of poor succession planning. As more and more baby boomers go into retirement in the next decade -- with some staying on board but taking a back seat -- organizations will need to learn from failures like this. After leaders put their plans...
The University of Arkansas yesterday said it would ask the NCAA to allow quarterback Ryan Mallett to play immediately for the Razorbacks without sitting out a year. Mallett transferred from Michigan after Rich Rodriguez replaced retiring coach Lloyd Carr . Arkansas athletic director Jeff Long said the appeal was based...
Marcus Witherspoon, a standout senior defensive end/linebacker at Holy Spirit, returned from a recruiting trip to Rutgers yesterday and decided he would attend Michigan on a football scholarship. Before the season, Witherspoon made an oral commitment to Michigan, but he started to have second thoughts after Wolverines coach Lloyd Carr...
Along the South Jersey sports trail, there are always questions, questions, questions. What's new in the recruiting war for South Jersey's best football prospect, Holy Spirit High linebacker/defensive end Marcus Witherspoon? Witherspoon said early last night that he would attend Michigan, Tennessee or Rutgers. Yes, Rutgers is a late entry...
South Carolina men's basketball coach Dave Odom is expected to announce his retirement today, ESPN.com reported last night. The Web site said Odom's retirement would take effect at the end of the season. Odom, 65, has coached at East Carolina, Wake Forest and South Carolina. He is 122-91 in seven...
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Lloyd Carr went out a winner. Chad Henne threw for 373 yards and three touchdowns, Mike Hart ran for 129 yards and two scores and the Wolverines upset No. 9 Florida 41-35 Tuesday in the Capital One Bowl to win their first bowl game...
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Lloyd Carr went out a winner. Chad Henne threw for 373 yards and three touchdowns, Mike Hart ran for 129 yards and two scores and Michigan upset No.9 Florida 41- 35 Tuesday in the Capital One Bowl to win their first bowl game...
He was born and raised -- and played and coached -- two state lines away. Rich Rodriguez is no Michigan man, and he wasn't about to try to pass himself off as one Monday. "Do you have to be a Michigan man to be the Michigan coach?" he...
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Michigan has hired West Virginia's Rich Rodriguez as its next football coach following a search that featured two other top prospects deciding to stay put. The Wolverines plan to introduce Rodriguez, 44, at a news conference today, an athletic department spokesman said....
Michigan ended its month-long search for a football coach Sunday when the Wolverines landed West Virginia's Rich Rodriguez to replace retiring Lloyd Carr. Rodriguez compiled a 60-26 record in seven years at his alma mater, including a 10-2 mark this year and a berth in the Tostitos Fiesta...
Michigan hired Rich Rodriguez away from his alma mater after failing to bring back one of its own. A man with ties to both the Wolverines and West Virginia might've helped. College football's winningest program ended its coaching search Sunday, nearly a month after...
LSU football coach Les Miles signed a contract extension that will keep him with the Tigers through 2012. The deal was approved yesterday by the LSU board's athletic committee, apparently ending any chance of Miles leaving for Michigan to replace Lloyd Carr, who retired last month. The approval of the...
Lloyd Carr retired Monday after 13 years as Michigan's coach, following a season defined by a startling loss to Appalachian State and yet another defeat by Ohio State. Carr, groomed for the position by Michigan coaching great Bo Schembechler, led the Wolverines to 121 wins, five...
BASEBALL American League CHICAGO WHITE SOX--Traded RHP Jon Garland to the Los Angeles Angels for SS Orlando Cabrera and cash. National League ATLANTA BRAVES--Agreed to terms with LHP Tom Glavine on a one- year contract....
BATON ROUGE -- LSU football coach Les Miles broke down while discussing his alma mater of Michigan and his LSU players Monday, but it remains unclear if the tears were for leaving or staying. "They've not called," Miles said at his weekly media luncheon in reference to the...
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Michigan coach Lloyd Carr will retire today after 13 seasons, ending an era marked by highs of winning a national championship and five Big Ten titles and lows of losing to Ohio State and Appalachian State. Carr told The Associated Press of his...
Football: Michigan coach Carrto announce retirement today Michigan coach Lloyd Carr will retire today after 13 seasons, ending an era marked by highs of winning a national championship and five Big Ten titles and lows of losing to Ohio State and Appalachian State. Carr...
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Jim Tressel and Lloyd Carr tried their best to take themselves out of the story. In the Ohio State-Michigan rivalry, which has been as much about Woody and Bo as blocking and tackling, the coaches are always center stage. Tressel...
If Saturday is Michigan coach Lloyd Carr's final game against Ohio State, as speculation about his retirement suggests, Carr will leave behind a considerable legacy. Carr, 62, has coached at Michigan for 28 years, as an assistant under Bo Schembechler and then Gary Moeller before becoming head coach...
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- After dropping from No. 5 to unranked in the college football polls after season-opening losses to Appalachian State and Oregon, the Michigan Wolverines became victims of what, in hindsight, was excessive piling on. In early September, Detroit-area talk shows were debating whether the setbacks...
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