Rich Rodriguez (official thread of last laughs)

[Muck]

John, just extrapolate that out and bear with me a sec. Pitt is to WVU as ___ is to scUM? Who in the B10 could be scUM's biggest rival?

Penn State?

 

[SNIPER26]

Penn State?

No, it's Northwestern.

 

[Jaxbuck]

its The Rapist's

 

[shetuck]

its The Rapist's

suck it trebek!

 

[jwinslow]

Fired him for it, didn't they?

(Rhetorical question. They did. No coach in the last 39 years has ever coached a game at Michigan following a drunken altercation in a restaurant. And we learned our lesson. Never again will we hire an OSU grad to coach the team )

Well, son Andy crashed in Dec with signs of a DUI, but refused a breathalyzer. Never heard how that one turned out. I guess you're in the clear unless he crashed into a restaurant though

 

[sandgk]

Suit between WVU and ex Head Coach headed back to Wheeling - still in Federal Court

 

[sandgk]

In the amended suit against their erstwhile Head Coach WVU will be seeking interest on buy out money owed.

WVU does plan to seek interest on the $1.3 million payment it is already owed by Rodriguez.
That interest totals close to $4,000 per day.
The other update centers around the 1100 club, a fundraising organization which Rodriguez founded to help with recruiting funds.
The Charleston Daily Mail is reporting that at times the athletic department dipped into that fund to pay some bills for other football purposes, not just recruiting. Athletic Director Ed Pastilong is quoted in the article saying, "The definition as to what the fund is intended for is what was followed to its entirety."

WVU will be conducting it's own internal investigation of the claimed Magee black-balling as potential HC candidate - focus on the remarks Brown alleges made part of investigation.

WVU to investigate coach's racism allegations (11:03 am)The Associated Press

MORGANTOWN -- West Virginia University is investigating allegations of racism made by former assistant football coach Calvin Magee.
WVU spokesman Bill Case says WVU President Mike Garrison asked the university's Office of Social Justice to look into the allegations, which Magee made through his agent, Mike Brown, on Sunday.
Brown said Magee, who is black, was told by a WVU administrator that he wouldn't have a chance at the head coaching job vacated by Rich Rodriguez because of his skin color.
The name of the administrator wasn't revealed.
.... The group Black Coaches and Administrators also plans to investigate.

 

[HailToMichigan]

Interesting read here, if you like esoteric details and stuff.

E-mails detail growing rift between Rodriguez, West Virginia

Basically some excerpts of emails between RR's agent-types and WVU officials dating back to August 1. Two things of note - one, Ed Pastilong's quote about being unaware of any conflict is funny and makes me go "whatever dude." (Obviously he must say this however or the lawsuit starts to unravel.) Two, future openings at aTm and FSU are mentioned in one email as essentially thinly veiled threats that RR is ghost if things aren't taken care of. Definitely was thinking of a departure over a month before he left for Michigan.

 

[LightningRod]

Here is the AP release dealing with these so called smoking gun emails:

LINK

SI Link

...

The gradual disintegration of the relationship is documented in a series of e-mails written over a five-month period and released to the AP under the West Virginia Freedom of Information Act. They show Brown fighting for more operational and marketing control over the football program and over money Rodriquez helped raise through a booster organization he founded.

In e-mails to WVU President Mike Garrison and his chief of staff, Craig Walker, Brown also complains of Gov. Joe Manchin interfering with the program.

WVU administration officials declined to discuss the e-mails, citing concerns about a lawsuit to collect a $4 million buyout payment from Rodriguez.

But Athletic Director Ed Pastilong, whose department was not copied in any of the correspondence, said Wednesday he was unaware of plans for a culture change or of conflict between his staff and Rodriguez.

....

Now why wasn't the athletic dept copied on these emails demanding a cultural change in he athletic department? So it appears that Pastilong's response that you are ridiculing isn't that far fetched. While we are at it Brown also accused Pastilong of running Ass't AD Mitt Babcock out of town, but Babcock refuted that notion when he responded that the Missouri position was a promotion for him and that he and Pastilong parted on good terms.

 

[MaxBuck]

WVU does plan to seek interest on the $1.3 million payment it is already owed by Rodriguez.
That interest totals close to $4,000 per day.

More examples of the oxymoron that is "sports journalism." At $4,000 per day, annual interest on $1.3 million would equal $1.46 million, or 112 percent. That would run afoul of usury laws in any state in the union.

What a bunch of mental midgets inhabit the sports desks.

 

[sandgk]

More examples of the oxymoron that is "sports journalism." At $4,000 per day, annual interest on $1.3 million would equal $1.46 million, or 112 percent. That would run afoul of usury laws in any state in the union.

What a bunch of mental midgets inhabit the sports desks.

Didn't you hear, they have some expensive bills for refurbishing the locker rooms to pay?

 

[NastyDogg72]

More examples of the oxymoron that is "sports journalism." At $4,000 per day, annual interest on $1.3 million would equal $1.46 million, or 112 percent. That would run afoul of usury laws in any state in the union.

What a bunch of mental midgets inhabit the sports desks.

Yea, who the hell wrote RR's contract at WVU? These guys?

Shouldn't RR have been the least bit suspicious?

Fuhget About It.

 

[Wingate1217]

More examples of the oxymoron that is "sports journalism." At $4,000 per day, annual interest on $1.3 million would equal $1.46 million, or 112 percent. That would run afoul of usury laws in any state in the union.

What a bunch of mental midgets inhabit the sports desks.

Even if the interest was on the entire 4 mil the rate would be in excess of 35%. What attorney or dumb ass (RR) would sign such usury rates?

 

[Jaxbuck]

Even if the interest was on the entire 4 mil the rate would be in excess of 35%. What attorney or dumb ass (RR) would sign such usury rates?

one that had no intention of paying it?

 

[Wingate1217]

one that had no intention of paying it?