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Rich Rodriguez (official thread of last laughs)

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HTM is doing a great job of laying the groundwork for a pre-emptive apologia, to be delivered once RR takes his first student athlete who is also a candidate for the witness protection program - not for good reasons either. :)
 
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NFBuck;1092388; said:
I don't know...how does one defend hypocracy?
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Easy, by claiming it's not hypocrisy at all. RR says he doesn't like it when a coach leaves a school and takes a verbally committed recruit with him. Did you see any WVU verbals switch to U-M?

I'm not usually much good at chess, but I can see this one playing out three or four moves ahead already.
 
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HailToMichigan;1092404; said:
Easy, by claiming it's not hypocrisy at all. RR says he doesn't like it when a coach leaves a school and takes a verbally committed recruit with him. Did you see any WVU verbals switch to U-M?
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So what does this mean?

"I could go on about it in not so G-rated terms. The hard part about it is when a young man is committed to you and you're committed to him, that's a spot on the roster that's taken. So maybe there are some guys who are out there that you quit recruiting because you're locked into him. Then three or four days before signing day, he switches on you, and you're like, 'Golly, I wish I would have known that three or four months ago so I could have signed someone else,"

"That's the type of behavior that creates bad feelings in our profession. But I'm a big boy and I can handle it. We're going to win with you or without you, and everything works out in the end."
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Golly? :lol:

How is switching schools and poaching players you recruited differnt from switching schools and poaching another coaches? Don't trot out loyalty, because DickRod has shown none.

If he truly feels this way, then why do it? Right, because everybody else does. Whatever, everybody else does do it, just don't cry about it in an article and then a year later try to defend yourself.

As far as the WVU recruits, who would he have wanted? WVU's class, aside from Jenkins who committed to Stewart, was pretty mediocre. UM's class was already pretty well formed. If there were some stud recruits committed to him at WVU, you're fooling yourself if you think this guy wouldn't have tried to get them to come along with him to aa.
 
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HailToMichigan;1092404; said:
I'm not usually much good at chess, but I can see this one playing out three or four moves ahead already.
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I think your king just fell over - isn't that called a resignation?
 
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HailToMichigan said:
Easy, by claiming it's not hypocrisy at all. RR says he doesn't like it when a coach leaves a school and takes a verbally committed recruit with him. Did you see any WVU verbals switch to U-M?

I'm not usually much good at chess, but I can see this one playing out three or four moves ahead already.
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Dick said:
When a coach decides to leave, and that player is committed to one school, that coach shouldn't recruit that guy.
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DJ Woods? Josh Jenkins?

Just because you didn't get them, doesn't mean he didn't try.
 
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One, Woods and Jenkins decommitted on their own after the coaching change, as happens all the damn time. Two, that sounds like the same Josh Jenkins that OSU was trying like hell to bring over, so you'll pardon me if I raise an eyebrow when you raise that name. He stated that, "OSU, FSU, and WVU remain my top three choices." If Jenkins committed to Rodriguez and not the program so much (which tends to be the case when guys decommit in the wake of a change) then I somehow think he'd have considered Michigan and not put PSU and Pitt next on the list.
 
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Jenkins was a long time soft verbal - there is no problem, within the rules, with any coach anywhere going after him.
(Though perhaps calling him on behalf of TSUN while still legitimately an employee of WVU ... ).

That still doesn't make the sight of Dick Wad hypocritically speaking out of both sides of his mouth about such issues any less amusing.
 
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HailToMichigan;1092441; said:
Exxxxxxxxxactly. It's kind of like a fencing match. These spreadsheets don't argue back, which is lame.
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You aren't drinking enough. A little bourbon in my morning coffee gets the spreadsheets all wound up. Little bastards bite like a bitch.
 
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