Boy I would be proud to have this guy for my coach. The Big Ten has to suspend his player not him and then (read 2nd paragraph) the douche has the audacity to, well read the paragraph and draw your own conclusions..
Bo just rolled over in his grave......(again)
Rich Rodriguez watching for double standard on league discipline | detnews.com | The Detroit News
Ann Arbor -- Michigan coach
Rich Rodriguez said he understood the Big Ten's one-game suspension of starting linebacker Jonas Mouton for "striking" Notre Dame center Eric Olsen late in the game last Saturday, but he insisted Mouton was not acting maliciously.
Mouton had to sit out Saturday's victory against Eastern Michigan. Rodriguez was informed Thursday of the
Big Ten's decision, which was publicly revealed by the conference on Friday.
Notre Dame coach Charlie Weis sent a tape of the incident to the
Big Ten for review. Mouton was not called for a penalty at the time, and Rodriguez twice last week during media availability said he did not see a punch thrown.
"I will tell you, my conversation with the commissioner (Jim Delany) is that
we will watch every Big Ten game very closely, and any non-football act, whether it's a six-inch jab or anything not called for in the game of football, we're going to ask that that person gets the same type of punishment that Jonas Mouton got," Rodriguez said. "And I'm sure the league will do that.
"There's no room for throwing punches in the game. That's not a football act, that's not what we're about. It hurts the team when you do that, and Jonas understood that. He understood it hurt the team, could have been penalized. Was it a malicious act? Was it something that warranted a suspension? They said it did. Whatever the rules are, if that's the rules, we go by the rules. That's fine. OK, that's the precedent, (and) that's what we set. That's why I said we'll look at every act."