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Rich Rodriguez (official thread of last laughs)

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The contract is written, however, so that TSUN must give him a written notice 30 days in advance of that termination. So they could notify him this Friday, December 3rd, to be effective on January 2nd, 2011.
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We may need Gatorubet to weigh in on the contractual issues as to what constitutes termination. If the notice equates to the firing does the notice have to take place after 1 Jan to get the reduced rate?

In either case I find it amusing that UM stands to pay a buy-out for this guy on both ends of his contract in a mere 3 years. Add it all up and it will be the highest cost/victory of any College coach in history.
 
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Oh8ch;1823602; said:
We may need Gatorubet to weigh in on the contractual issues as to what constitutes termination. If the notice equates to the firing does the notice have to take place after 1 Jan to get the reduced rate?

In either case I find it amusing that UM stands to pay a buy-out for this guy on both ends of his contract in a mere 3 years. Add it all up and it will be the highest cost/victory of any College coach in history.
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I wonder if there is any chance UM can get around having to spend so much to buy him out due to NCAA infractions?
 
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Steve19;1823613; said:
Let's say that they went for it right now and fired him. Where would that leave RichRod, what with all the buy-outs of his WVa contract and the like?
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TSUN paid $2.5 million of the $4 million for WVU. That was money well spent, huh?

RichRod had 3 annual late-summer payments of 500K negotiated - he presumably made the first one earlier this year. So he still owes $1 million.

If he's terminated in 2011 (which I believe they can do with a 30-day notice of termination letter at the end of this week, but allow him to coach in their bowl game), TSUN will only owe him $1.5 million. I don't think they'll try to contest that amount by trying to fire him 'for cause' due to the violations, since that would end up costing them a ton of money in legal fees and make them look bad in the eyes of potential future coaches.

So he'd come out with $1.5 million in January, but he still owes WVU $1 million over the next 20 months or so.
 
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I find it unbelievable that you still can find so much support for RR on UM blogs. We're talking about a guy that, three years in, goes 3-5 in the Big Ten and gets trounced by everything even remotely resembling a decent football team on UM's schedule. UM's 3 Big Ten wins came against teams that went a collective 7-17 in conference.
 
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BB73;1823660; said:
TSUN paid $2.5 million of the $4 million for WVU. That was money well spent, huh?

RichRod had 3 annual late-summer payments of 500K negoatiated - he presumably made the first one earlier this year. So he still owes $1 million.

If he's terminated in 2011 (which I believe they can do with a 3-day notice of termination letter at the end of this week, but allow him to coach in their bowl game), TSUN will only owe him $1.5 million. I don't think they'll try to contest that amount by trying to fire him 'for cause' due to the violations, since that would end up costing them a ton of money in legal fees and make them look bad in the eyes of potential future coaches.

So he'd come out with $1.5 million in January, but he still owes WVU $1 million over the next 20 months or so.
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Thanks.

Wow. Some comedown.
 
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buckeyesin07;1823465; said:
Could UM get the Big Ten's 4th bowl slot, though? They finished behind OSU, MSU, Wisconsin, Illinois, Penn St. and Iowa in conference. Don't bowl committees go by in-conference record? Even if they don't, you'd think they'd be smart enough not to put a team like UM against a decent opponent, given that UM has lost by several TDs to each good team it has played.
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The bowls are probably more interested in Dennard Robinson -- a name and some incredible highlights they can throw on the screen to get folks interested. IMO he is the Most Improved Player in the Big 10 this year by a huge margin. Have Roundtree catch at least two of those drops and this years game remains interesting into the 2nd half, maybe into the 4th Qtr.
 
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Oh8ch;1823472; said:
Your punter cost you field position? You had 12 drives none of which started inside your own 20 and 5 of which started at the 30 or better. We kicked off from the 15 twice just for making an O with out gloves - and you scored fewer points than Minnesota and Eastern Michigan.
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To have one punter, one rugby/aussie rules punter and no place kicker on a Big 10 team is yet another example of RR leaving gaps in his recruiting.

IMO it was JTs concentration on the kicking game that separates his teams from Coopers -- and how odd that when Coop finally lined up some kickers it was JT who managed to take advantage of them.
 
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