Rich Rodriguez (official thread of last laughs)

[billmac91]

Ive seen the Michigan State boards going nuts over this as well. I think its a pretty big topic on most CFB boards.

No. That's not true. Nobody is talking about it.

 

[NFBuck]

No. That's not true. Nobody is talking about it.

[sarcasm]Yeah, why would anybody talk about the controversy enveloping the douchebag just hired by the winningest program in CFB?[/sarcasm]

 

[Muck]

The hostility of the WVU fans around the boards has reached almost frightening proportions, and I don't quite understand the dismissal of WVU's recent success in the rush to bash RR. That last game was not good, and the departure could have been better handled, but overall RR brought the program success to which they are unaccustomed... or perhaps that's the problem. I don't think you can doubt that RR's family is being harassed looking at the way he's discussed on the boards, and I'm sure it seems even worse viewed from the receiving end. More than a few posts in this thread have been over the top, and we're not nearly as close to the situation (yet) as the WVU fans are. I get the animosity, but actions and reactions do seem to be a bit out of kilter.

Think of it more in terms of Las Cosa Nostra or tribal feuds in the third world.

You can do pretty much anything you want...just don't screw over the family.

 

[Deety]

You can do pretty much anything you want...just don't screw over the family.

I see no potential for jokes in this statement.

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

Now it's getting out of hand. Douche Rod's niece and nephew were run out of town.

 

[Muck]

You guys have really worked yourself up over this and convinced yourself that RR is a scumbag of galactic proportions.

On the day Charlie Weis was hired by Notre Dame I stated that his fall was going to be spectacular.

On the day TSUN hired Richard Rodriguez I said that his was going to be even more so.

His tenure will end in disaster.

Be sure to revel in every moment of it. Your program earned it.

 

[jwinslow]

From Texas, where they are more critical than at USC (unsurprising) but still the comments are not

Are you serious with this suggestion? They aren't critical? Let's take a gander at that page, and see how accurately you represented the situation. Starting from the beginning:

This pisses me off. Very sorry on Rodriguez's part. It shows a lack of caring for his players at WVU, and a complete lack of decorum.

Between this and the way the Ryan Mallett situation seemed to go down, Rodriguez looks to be not-ready-for-primetime.

the records probably showed NCAA violations of some kind that RR knew would be used against him.

While I like to believe guys are innocent until proven guilty, he looks pretty guilty here right now.

this seems like it can only end badly. In what circumstance would his shredding records be acceptable?

When scheduled by existing document retention schedule. Other times... not so good.

My parents are alumni and I have been going to games my whole life. RichRod was the second coming for the longest time, eventhough I kept hearing he was a giant c-sucker. As a marginal WVU fan I loved how well they played, but I cannot understand how bad he continues to screw his alma mater. He left telling UM that he wouldn't have to pay out the $4mm for breach of contract. WVU called him on that and now he deleted all player files? He is obviously hiding indescrestions, be it recruiting or otherwise. I am guessing he doesn't want people knowing he was recruiting players to UM pre-Pitt game. I wouldn't be suprised if he ends up as something UM fans would quickly like to erase and forget.

There will be more to come and more law suits.

txMAIZE defends his new 'michigan man', the response:

or someone at WVU is trying to make him look bad

No, he is doing just fine all by himself.

Then your positive response you quoted

I find it hard to believe that the school has no electronic document of the sort of information identified in the article.

People, we're talking about West Virginia here.

Why do rats desert a ship?

Same applies to Pete if he leaves...

Do I need to go on? Or can we accept your isolated quotations were a pretty lousy representation of the Texas fanbase reaction.

Three pages at LSU. Two at Texas. One at USC.

So what's the magic number for you to recognize clear conversations? Almost all hornfan threads are 2 pages.

So my point remains. Only in Buckeye country do they care this much about Rich Rodriguez, and only in Buckeye country is he so reviled. (And West Virginia, but you get my drift.)

Of course OSU fans are more passionate about their rival than any other. That doesn't change the fact that it is getting play across the nation, on sports radio, message boards, blogs and other outlets.

 

[Gatorubet]

As a 3rd generation Buckeye fan, I'm not delighting in this in the least. A black mark on TSUN is bad for the conference. We need a strong rival. The conference needs a strong team from TSUN.

I'm hoping they cut their losses here and find a less controversial figure to lead their program.

I can't believe the mess this is becoming.

I have to think that if you'd had some kind of Big-10 Conference Cheer to yell at bowl games, this whole thing might have been avoidable.

 

[OCBucksFan]

Well, I won't say the program has earned this potential destruction, but after spending a few hours seeing Michigan fans mock and laugh at WVU, I am at the point where I will say if this all blows up in your face I will laugh at you til the end of time. I am sorry, H2M, your post today made me go and peek around, and you guys are just fucking out of control with your blind faith. No thoughts of "what if any of this is true" no desire to see him pay for leaving, you guys really don't care where your coach comes from or what he's done to get there, all you want is one thing, that's to win.

This saddens me, I had always thought your program had a certain degree of integrity, it's a shame to see you guys so willing to throw it away for something that might beat tOSU, are you really that desperate? I thought you were an "Institution of higher learning" not what this may very well be. I saw quotes on so many forums that were to the effect of "I don't care if he brings in prison convicts, if he beats Tressel it's worth it" Is that really how you feel up there? Is that "Harvard of the north" idea gone? Is it down to just bringing in a mercenary who runs a system that the big10 has problems with to win?

Once again, I have learned tonight, everything Michigan held over our heads will vanish when they are on the losing end. I seriously hope JT owns you guys for the next 10 years, and not by a small margin, I hope you get run off the field and humiliated because that's what you have asked for. You want it, you got it, I am done trying to sit back and thinking you guys deserve better, because you don't. You deserve this, you deserve a guy who will do anything to win but can't win the big game, you deserve a guy who may destroy your football program, you deserve to get all the crap you gave us during the whole MoC saga.

I appreciate our tsun fans that visit here, but if this all blows up, I will be laughing and mocking you non-stop, except for maybe Sniper, for some reason I think he's the coolest scUMmer ever.

 

[ScriptOhio]

Car dealership mocks Michigan football coach in spotMichigan coach Rich Rodriguez, the former West Virginia coach who remains embroiled in controversy since leaving his alma mater last month, is the inspiration for a television advertisement for West Virginia-based Cole Chevrolet. An actor playing Rodriguez, wearing a Michigan hat and jacket, is interrogated by the dealership's mascot, the "Price Police." The Rodriguez character tells the officer that he thought the cars might be cheaper in Michigan, because the cars are made there. At the end of the commercial, the Rodriguez character gets the last word, telling the "Price Police": "Show me the bread, I'll run the spread." -- Detroit News

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YouTube - Coach Rich Rodriguez Interrogation

 

[BengalsAndBucks]

Assuming even the absolute worst, that RR purposely took, shredded, or otherwise stole very important (and confidential - not public) documents that belonged to the school (as the school claims), then WVU is guilty of more than galactic stupidity, they're guilty of criminal negligence in not protecting their own private documents. (I would expect, for example, that things like academic transcripts and contact info are not retreivable under FOIA.) Will WVU really want to pull that string any farther than they already have?

Completely irrelevant.

Whether or not the school did anything wrong by not protecting their documents has no bearing on whether or not RichRod destroyed government property. Michigan fans everywhere are completely absolving RR of this by blaming the university for not having extra copies, or not protecting their documents, its ridiculous. Regardless of what West Virginia did or did not do, if RR shredded those documents then he is guilty of destruction of goverment property and should be prosecuted as such.

 

[Mike80]

I doubt much will come of this. Assuming even the absolute worst, that RR purposely took, shredded, or otherwise stole very important (and confidential - not public) documents that belonged to the school (as the school claims), then WVU is guilty of more than galactic stupidity, they're guilty of criminal negligence in not protecting their own private documents. (I would expect, for example, that things like academic transcripts and contact info are not retreivable under FOIA.) Will WVU really want to pull that string any farther than they already have?

As a state employee at a state institution, I am almost 100% certain everything he shredded could be released upon a FOIA request....

 

[Muck]

The best part is the claim that WVU is at fault if RR committed a crime.

I mean they must have just been asking for it, did you see how they were dressed?

 

[methomps]

As a state employee at a state institution, I am almost 100% certain everything he shredded could be released upon a FOIA request....

Doubtful. FOIA doesn't cover student records.

 

[Mike80]

Doubtful. FOIA doesn't cover student records.

Wouldn't it cover money the state has paid for scholarships and like that?? After all, that would be an allocation of the state budget. Maybe they wouldn't get names of the players (nor should they honestly), but wouldn't the amounts be able to be requested?