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2009 TSUN arguments, shenanigans (not football)

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The scuttlebutt is he's sick of all the political BS here, the witchhunt with the Freep, the new AD and ESPECIALLY thinks he's being setup for failure with MRob and Devin not being admitted early.
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Makes you wonder if GBW isn't the entity spinning RR's failures as someone else's fault, but is merely passing along the victim routine of the UM staff.
That's a very literal interpretation of the contract, but it is not a real world analysis. Rodriguez is a season away from being fired, which would mean Michigan would have to pay a significant buyout to Rodriguez. If Tennessee were crazy enough to actually want Rodriguez, I guarantee you Michigan would be willing to bargain him away for less that the contractual buyout. Rodriguez's futility would actually serve as leverage for himself, which is sad.
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One would think that breaking the practice rules would give them a way out of the contract.
 
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Oh8ch;1642244; said:
But in the short term it is a disaster for UM. Who do you hire at this late date to save a recruiting class that is built around an approach that is not a good fit at UM? And this would be a hire that UM needs to take its time on - not rush into.
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It would be all the more hilarious if Gardner followed him to UT.
 
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If the university itself determines RR broke NCAA or Big 10 rules he could be fired for cause under the contract (Sec 2.05 on page 3) after a due process hearing spelled out in that section. Put yourself in the place of the pizza guy - are you going to pull the rug from your recruiting class this late in the game?
 
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I'd love to see RR go to UT, if for no other reason than to watch the delusional UM boards go from "All in for UM," "RR needs to have his own players," and "The cupboard was bare," to "RR was a bum who wasn't ever going to win anything at UM anyway," all in the course of about 5 seconds.
 
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Oh8ch;1642244; said:
This is already one of the most fascinating chain reaction coaching change sequences I can recall. RR moving would put it over the top.

On the one hand I am not ready to let him go - certainly not after already losing CW.

But in the short term it is a disaster for UM. Who do you hire at this late date to save a recruiting class that is built around an approach that is not a good fit at UM? And this would be a hire that UM needs to take its time on - not rush into.

Then there is the topic of buy outs and how much you can get back of the 4 mill already spent on a coach who has delivered two atrocious seasons. The Kiffin disaster at UT wouldn't hold a candle to this fiasco.

And how would the UT recruits feel about a coach who chased away half the players from his new team only two years ago? Is there room for Bryce Brown in the RR read option?

But the most important questions is - would he take Barwis with him?


All that said, it is a logical move for RR and would not surprise me.
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I was amazed when Michigan's alums and faculty quietly accepted the Dick Wad buyout and hiring, there's no way the AD could get away with letting Wad go without collecting all the back taxes and no way -- in my mind-- that the faculty would stand still for the kind of pay package it would take to replace him with a "name coach."

UT, on the other hand, would seem to me to have money to burn. Even with two mediocre-to-poor seasons I believe they managed to lead the nation in attendance.
 
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localyokel;1642323; said:
If RR goes, the next question is: TN having already scraped the barrel bottom for a last-minute, pre-NSD hire, what slug beneath the barrel would tSUN have to dig up as their next HC?
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As long as Bill Martin runs the coaching search and makes the hire I don't really care.
 
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LightningRod;1642233; said:
RR will need outstanding negotiations to make TN happen. Section 4.04(a) of his UM contract (page 9) calls for RR to pay UM $4 million if he terminates his contract with UM in contract year 3 which ends 12/31/2010. RR has a home and mortgage in WV, a home and mortgage in AA, and would have another home and mortgage in TN. He still owes WVU $1.5 million, and would be required to pay UM $4 million. This is not going to happen without divine intervention.
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And he'd be giving up all that free Domino's pizza he has access to.

You can't put a pricetag on that.
 
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