Rico Beard joins Softy and Dick

Detroit Radio Host, Rico Beard joins the show to talk about the Sherrone Moore situation.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
From the R and R Foundation Specialist Broadcast Studio. Now
back to Softie and Dick on your Home for the Huskies,
Kraken and the twelfth Man Sports Radio ninety three point
three kJ r FM.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
All right back here on a busy, busy Tuesday afternoon.
Right here on ninety three three KJRFM, My Gusta no
joining X segment talking about his beloved Indiana Hoosiers Heisman
Trophy winner and number one team in America. My god,
all the odds have been on that statement being true
two years ago.

Speaker 3 (00:32):
As hitting me herero Well, the.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
Host of the Valente and Rico Show on ninety seven
to one the Ticket in Detroit. I got two questions,
when will Michigan hire a coach? And who will it be?
And this guy knows the answer to both. He's going
to share it with us right now, our friend Rico
Beard Rico, how are you man?

Speaker 3 (00:50):
What's going on? Softie? Geez? That's a great question. When
will they hire a coach? I think they have to
do it before Christmas because you got portal season coming up. Now,
who is it going to be? That's the million dollar question?

Speaker 2 (01:05):
Yeah, well listen, because you don't necessarily the answer if
you don't need to answer both those questions right now.
I was just setting up. I was just setting up
the interview as if to say, that's the kind of
thing we want to find out from you. There's no
how are you, what's going on, how's life, how's the family?
Blah blah blah. We haven't even gotten to take from you.
And what the reaction was when Sharon Moore got fired

(01:26):
last week? I mean, what the hell has the last
week been like for you guys covering this story?

Speaker 3 (01:30):
Man? I mean it was, seriously, it was a breaking news.
We were talking hockey and all of a sudden it
was breaking news, and I thought my producer was about
to tell me that Derek Schouoble had been traded to somebody,
Tiger Pitcher, and he's like, shrow More fired now, Dave
a double take, like and he was in my ear.
I'm like what. I'm like, hey, guys, we got breaking news.

(01:53):
He was fired for just cause. And it was like,
oh wow. So as we're trying to scramble to figure
on what he said inappropriate relationships, there had been rumors
that he had been dating one of the staffers. But
you know, I mean guys. You know what it's like
for rumors and Internet rumors are going on all the time. Well,

(02:13):
this one was true and he did, and then it
turned into jeez, ended up being we were like ten
minutes away from this being a white Bronco driving down
I ninety four, because then he goes over to our
house he threatened to kill himself and it's just like,
what the heck is going? Oh, I had never seen

(02:35):
anything like this. Let's just put it like that now.

Speaker 4 (02:38):
Obviously Michigan fans aren't happy about how this all went down,
But are most Michigan fans happy that Sharon Moore is
no longer the coach there?

Speaker 3 (02:48):
I think so. I think it had gotten to the
point where they didn't really care for him anymore. I
think that's what it gotten because he was a space filler,
and I think Out of Wolverine saw him. He wasn't
Jim Harball and he was never going to lead them
to a national title. So they felt like he had

(03:09):
squandered Bryce Underwood, That's the five star quarterback that they
had by just turning around and handing the ball off
all year. He really wasn't allowed to develop as a
quarterback all he did was just hand the ball off.
So a lot of Michigan fans not sad, they're embarrassed
by how this went down because this athletic program has

(03:29):
had so many things happened to it. They're actually being
investigated by a law firm right now. Yeah, to just
go through I think like twelve to fourteen things have
happened over Ward Manual's watch right.

Speaker 2 (03:43):
Well, yeah, and I want to get to the details
of what they're looking for. Who's on the list who
you think they can get in a second, but Dick
and I were talking last segment that somebody Rico tossed
this out there. Rico Beard again from Detroit with us
talking about the Michigan coaching search, which obviously Jed Fisher
has been connected to that for the last few days
or so. But there's a thought that Michigan's not going

(04:05):
to hire anybody until this investigation closes that's ongoing right
now on campus. Do you buy that that that might
be delaying hiring a new coach?

Speaker 3 (04:16):
It might be because here's the thing, Michigan right now
currently does not have a president. I think this investigation,
they're going to relieve Ward Manuel of his job as
athletic director. Right, that means who's going to do the hiring.

Speaker 2 (04:32):
They don't want him hiring the next guy if he's
getting fired, right Yeah.

Speaker 3 (04:35):
Why would any coach take a job and you don't
know who your boss is or who your boss's boss is.
So yeah, that means you're not the next athletic director,
you're not the next president's guy. So you're on a
short leach. So if things go sideways, I didn't really
like you anyway, you're fired. So yeah, I think that
it could. There's a remote chance that Biff Pogy, the

(04:58):
acting coach, could by default be the head coach next year.
It'll be a lot like what happened with Ohio State
when Luke Fickle was the coach for one year. They
did a real search and they went out and got
Urban Meyer and then kind of turned things around. But
Fickle led the team to like a five and seven
or six and seven record that year wasn't great, but

(05:22):
he was kind of told keep this thing afloat until
we can get a real coach.

Speaker 4 (05:26):
When did campus leadership know what was going on with more.

Speaker 3 (05:32):
That's what the investigation is for, because they said, hey,
we did an investigation and both parties said, nah, nothing's
going on, nothing's inappropriate. We are just work colleagues, because
they was just personal Mores personal assistant. Then it came
out that I guess Moore fired her and she got

(05:54):
upset and had receipts and said, no, what we were
more than just colleagues. Here's everything. And as soon as
they got that word on Wednesday, they fired him that day.

Speaker 2 (06:05):
Yeah, well, who do Michigan fans want? Who would be
number one on the list? And in reality, who do
you think is number one on Michigan's list? And how
deep does it go before they get to Jetfish?

Speaker 3 (06:20):
Number one on their list is for probably Caitlin de Boor.
But I think he's finally put that to an end
for now. Now. Alabama loves Oklahoma. Alabama's a crazy fan base.
Alabama will turn around and run him out of town,
and he'd run right into the arms of Michigan and
at Arbor. They're also looking at Kenny Dillingham from Arizona State,

(06:43):
who has done everything but just deny the fact that
he's not going to Michigan, and they've asked him the question.
It's like, Kenny, it's a real easy question. Are you
going to Michigan and he gives this long drawn out
answer instead of saying no, I'm coaching Arizona State. So
I think that they're probably doing some negotiation with his
agents to see what's happening. I think Jetfish is the

(07:06):
easy layup. Fish is the one that if those two
don't work out, we know we could ask Jetfish and
he's immediately going to hop on a flight and be
the next head coach of Michigan. That's how they feel.
I don't know if that's how it is there, but
that's how they feel. That Fish, I think, is the
third choice. He's the safety school, He's the backup prom date.

(07:28):
You know he's gonna say yet.

Speaker 4 (07:31):
Well, I think every Husky fan listening right now is
nodding their head when you say that, because there's just
not a lot of trust from the Husky fan base.
The Jetfish wants to be here a long term.

Speaker 5 (07:39):
But are these candidates ahead of Fish waiting to see
what shakes out Rico or are do you think they're
just saying no and regardless if nothing comes up in
the next couple of weeks and everything's clean from a
Michigan standpoint, they'd still say no.

Speaker 3 (07:55):
I think a lot of it. They're waiting to see
what happens. They're waiting to see if they can somehow.
I think I think the boor is going to end
up turning this into more money at Alabama, more money
for his collective to get players in their pledge to
the nil package. I think we're saying with Dillingham, he's
played at Arizona State, he lives there, like, he's got

(08:17):
a wife who's pregnant right now. He lives three doors
down from his parents, so it would be a big
thing for him to up and move. So I think
he may be trying to milk this as well, to
try to get as much money as possible. But I
think the biggest thing is you don't know what this
investigation is going to be, and this investigation is not

(08:38):
on any timeline. They don't have to hurry up and
be done before portal season, and there's a great chance
that by the time they finish, you know, it's gonna
you know, the portal's good window is going to be open.
So that's why I think for Michigan, their best bet
is just to kind of right next year off and
do it the right way. The following season.

Speaker 2 (08:58):
Yeah, that's good call, Rico Beard, great stuff. Keep us
abreast of the situation, all right, and we'll talk down
the road, buddy.

Speaker 3 (09:05):
Appreciate it, man, all right, See you guys.