For those who were hoping that Michigan would name who their starting quarterback is going to be sometime this week, or may next week which leads up to their season opener, they are going to be quite disappointed.

Right now the starting job competition appears to be between Tate Forcier and Denard Robinson, with Robinson having a slight edge if some of the media’s gut feelings are to be believed.

Of course Rich Rodriguez, Michigan’s head coach, isn’t leaning publicly towards either one of them, choosing instead to keep everybody guessing.  Rodriguez this afternoon indicated he is keeping that same tactic up with all that are involved, including his players.

Detroit News reporter Angelique Chengalis tweeted that Rodriguez said he won’t be informing the quarterbacks who will be starting until the Friday prior to Michigan’s season opener versus University of Connecticut.

According to Rodriguez everyone else, including the other players, will learn who the starting quarterback is at game time.

In these times, of course, it will be almost impossible for word not to leak out about who has been selected as the starter at some point before kickoff.  It is somewhat intriguing still that Rodriguez has decided to shroud the decision in secrecy.

Maybe it’s a sign that incumbent Forcier still is in line for retaining the starting job that he held in 2009 as a freshman.  Rodriguez, after seeing the public beating Forcier has taken during the last few weeks, the coach may be trying to shield his sophomore quarterback for another week of public scrutiny.  Or maybe Rodriguez is just playing mind games and trying to get UConn and Randy Edsall to spend an equal amount of time in their game plans on Robinson, Forcier and even Devin Gardner.  Today Rodriguez said the freshman still is in the mix.  Maybe Rodriguez knows already he will go with Robinson?

It will definitely make things intriguing either way in the media during the days that lead up to the make or break RichRod season as the head coach of the Wolverines.

In the months and days leading up to coach Rich Rodriguez’ third summer camp with Michigan, he’s been telling all that will listen that Denard Robinson and Tate Forcier are in a head to head battle for becoming the starting quarterback for the Wolverines.

According to words from one of the seniors on the team, however, that isn’t the case anymore.

Cornerback Troy Woolfolk, speaking on Tuesday afternoon at the Big Ten media day, blasted Forcier for not participating this summer in voluntary workouts.  He said that he and other seniors have begun to question last year’s starting quarterback’s work ethic.

Due to what is perceived to be his bad work ethic, Forcier may be seen as “diseased” by some of his teammates.

Woolfolk, referring to players who weren’t part of the voluntary workouts said, I don’t have any respect for them.  The outlook for them is sort of diseased.  You don’t want to hang out with them because of their bad work ethic.  I also try to encourage them in my role to do more.

The reason why he hasn’t been labeled diseased yet is because of how last season he carried the team before we started to lose.  So he is still trusted somewhat, but he is starting to lose trust.

In addition Woolfolk said that despite the claims from Rodriguez that the starting quarterback job was up for grabs, that in many of his teammates minds Robinson has moved ahead of Forcier due to Robinson regularly attending the workouts, while Forcier has been a no show several times.

Woolfolk said, Denard has been there through both the thick as well as thin.  Regardless of whether he’s hurting he’s been out there.  Tate does try to come out, however he doesn’t have the same consistency as Denard.  That has enable Denard to jump ahead a bit in front of Tate.  I think Tate will need to do quite a bit of work in camp to catch up with Denard this season.

Just what Rodriguez needs as he heads into the season that may very decide how long he will be in Ann Arbor.