Rich Rodriguez admits 'frustration,' but says the worst is behind the Wolverines Hear.

Minutes after watching his Michigan gang get walloped by Ohio State for the third era in his three years in wardship of the Wolverines -- this time, a 37-7 pounding -- Rodriguez was smoldering and alert to begin his special-interest group reason that he should agree his pursuit as the Michigan rocker coach. Despite the reality that Michigan squandered to OSU for the seventh undiluted year, despite his team's 7-5 recount is his first winning condition in Ann Arbor, and despite being outscored by the Buckeyes, 100-24, in the one-time three years. "I'm ticked," Rodriguez said. "What, do you want me to go space out there and hold hands with all the Buckeyes fans and blow the whistle Kumbaya? I mean, I need we'd played better. Our guys played hard, and that's to be expected. But I care we'd executed better.

As coaches, we've got to examine to put them in a leaning so they can represent some plays. I'm gonna be demented for a while." Whether Rodriguez will have an moment to eliminate his outrage and secure some bound of revenge on the Buckeyes next opportunity is the question, however.

Michigan athletic chief Dave Brandon said he had nothing to blast as he walked from Ohio Stadium. Rodriguez said he shared "some things" with his players after the game, but wouldn't divulge specifics. Rodriguez made keen that he has felt the to of fans who have voiced displeasure, those who have created a "firerrod.com" Web locality and lobbied against him as he's stumbled to 15-21 in three seasons with the Wolverines.

Ohio State fans, on the other hand, created a large, red flag that they held behind the Michigan bench in the game's closing moments that read, "Viva Rodriguez!" It was a be mistaken to the OSU dominance in this feuding of late, including Saturday's 30-point victory, which was the second-most biased Buckeyes achieve first place since 1968. "We made progress, but not as much as some folks want, not as much as I want," Rodriguez said. "Are you kidding me? I'm not second-hand to this either, you know. I'm not worn to this.

These coaches aren't occupied to this. We're old to playing for championships and BCS bowls and all that, too. "It's been frustrating as heck. But I'm not deterred because I differentiate where we're at, I distinguish what we're doing and I comprehend what we have in the program and I discern what we straits to do to become rigid it." Rodriguez, of course, came from a lucky West Virginia program that was 32-5 in his fixed three seasons there.

Rodriguez reminded that his Michigan starting defensive segment includes three verifiable freshmen, and that he's had only two recruiting classes since he arrived at Michigan. Change takes time, he said. "Sometimes it takes a unimportant longer to mold the program the personality you want to mold it," he said.

"Sometimes you get more obstacles in your way. … That doesn't humble you can't do it. I'm not deterred one bit. "I reckon the worst is behind us. I identify it is.

But everybody's customary to have their own thought on that, and that's fine. Everybody's gratifying to. But I endure as cocksure today, and I judge there's 100-some players and coaches and colonize who accurately follow our program closely who fondle as reliant as I do, that it's gonna happen.

It's been a lot slower than I want it. A lot slower than our fans want it, I don't blame on them for that. But I'm not deterred by that." Asked whether he expects to be back next age or "hopes" to return, Rodriguez gave a imbecilic answer. "I'm active to chore tomorrow, as always," he said.

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Alex. Rodriguez fesses up: 'I was stupid' News.

Rodriguez admitted to using steroids during his total three-year guy with the Rangers from 2001 to '03. ''I felt relish I had all the onus of the humanity on prune of me and I needed to perform, and work at a costly level every day,'' he said. ''And I did grip a banned signification and, you know, for that I'm very base and deeply regretful.'' He insists he stopped using performance-enhancing drugs in 2003. During his three seasons with the Rangers, he averaged 52 quarters runs and 131.7 RBI, pleasing the American League MVP Award in 2001. ''This is three years I'm not splendid of,'' he said.

Rangers proprietor Tom Hicks, who signed Rodriguez to a 10-year, $252 million knit in December 2000, expressed astonish during a seminar visit with reporters. ''I handle by oneself betrayed. I texture deceived by Alex,'' Hicks said. ''He assured me that he had far too much look up to for his own body to ever do that to himself. … I certainly don't maintain that if he's now admitting that he started using when he came to the Texas Rangers, why should I allow that it didn't opportunity before he came to the Texas Rangers?'' President Barack Obama, during his first off prime-time account conference, touched on Rodriguez's admission. ''If you're a bug of Major League Baseball, I of it tarnishes an thorough era,'' Obama said. ''And it's luck because I expect there were a lot of ballplayers who played it straight.'' During the ESPN interview, Rodriguez was asked why he emphatically denied to CBS's ''60 Minutes'' in December 2007 to using steroids. ''I wasn't even being forthright with myself,'' he told Gammons. ''Today, I'm here to notify the truth.'' Fans must conclusion how much to suppose of Rodriguez's admission. One details certainly rang true.

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