Plain Dealer OSU writer also expands on why he thinks OSU and Michigan should be in the same division when Big Ten realigns.
Rich Rodriguez, right, needs to start winning some games, says Doug Lesmerises, or he might not be around in 2011 to greet Jim Tressel at the OSU-Michigan game.Welcome to today's edition of Starting Blocks TV, our Web video show about what's going on in Cleveland sports. Today's show is hosted by Branson Wright and Bill Lubinger. Let's go to the highlights:
• Today's Starting Blocks poll asks you to vote on what should be done about the Ohio State-Michigan football rivalry. Debate is afoot about whether to put the teams in different divisions, or keep them in the same division and let them continue to play the last game of the regular Big Ten season. Where do you stand? Cast your vote in the poll posted in the Starting Blocks blog.
• Plain Dealer Ohio State beat writer Doug Lesmerises had a commentary piece on the topic today, and he believes Ohio State and Michigan must be kept in the same division. He says the rivalry is too important to have it be played in October. As his story points out, even if OSU and Michigan are in different divisions, the occasions when they would play in the title game would be few and far between, based on data from when the league added Penn State in 1993 - making an opposite-division alignment not worthwhile.
• Doug also says that Michigan coach Rich Rodriguez needs to take the Wolverines to a good bowl game this season or risk losing his job.
SBTV will return Tuesday morning.