Rich Rodriguez (official thread of last laughs)

[Bleed S & G]

wow so much hate

 

[shetuck]

You know, the "We're above football, we don't take it seriously, we don't get fanatical," crap is one thing that just really gets my fever going. I've been on the OSU team bus being rocked by Michigan fans, I've heard the insults shouted at Coach Hayes, starting with 'mother fucker' and descending from there. I've heard the "our real rivalry is with the Spartans," bull shit. I've endured Desmond Howard doing Heisman poses in the Buckeye end zone. I've checked out the wolverine websites bemoaning the change from the 90s to today in The Game. Through it all I keep hearing this mantra from the Michigan faithful, "we're above football, we don't take it seriosuly, we don't get fanatical," and now, "Wow, so much hate."

You get as good as you give.

The mantra doesn't fly. Why the hell would any of you spend any time on an OSU website if it weren't for the fact that football and The Game matter a great deal to Michigan students, alums and fans?

that needed to be said. thank you cinci for saying it.

 

[OSUBasketballJunkie]

Yahoo!

Michigan's Rodriguez is recruiting for dear life

By Matt Hayes -

Let me tell you a story about a man and his predicament. Only weeks ago, Rich Rodriguez was fresh and free and his future had never looked brighter.
Now everything hinges on the decision of an 18-year-old kid.
I'm not simplifying or dramatizing when I say national signing day will be the most important event in Rodriguez's coaching career. He left his home and alma mater, his comfort zone, for the unknown last month when he agreed to coach the behemoth that is Michigan.
Almost Heaven, this ain't. At Michigan, we're better than you. At Michigan, we hire stand-up men in a sit-down world. And at Michigan -- I can hear Bo yelling this now -- we sure as hell don't hire coaches who embarrass the institution.
Yet here we are: The new coach is in the middle of a messy public divorce with his former school, one that has peeled back layers of questionable ethics, broken promises, multimillion-dollar lawsuits and -- drum roll, please -- the powerful influence of sports agents.

Continued.....

 

[NFBuck]

Ticker on E!spn says DickRod is offering to pay 1.5 mil to buy out the remainder of his WVU contract. Yeah, nothing like trying to negotiate against an already signed contract.

 

[MililaniBuckeye]

wow so much hate

 

[sandgk]

Ticker on E!spn says DickRod is offering to pay 1.5 mil to buy out the remainder of his WVU contract. Yeah, nothing like trying to negotiate against an already signed contract.

ESPN News

Former West Virginia football coach Rich Rodriguez has offered to pay the school $1.5 million to buy out the final six years of his contract, according to a letter of credit filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Clarksburg, W.Va.
...
In the latest court filing, Rodriguez's attorneys wrote: "The amount of the Letter of Credit is equal to the maximum liquidated damages provision [penalty] at the date of termination provided in the first amendment to the original Employment Agreement. In any event, the amount of the letter of credit exceeds the first payment that Plaintiff claims is due."
Former Mountaineers basketball coach John Beilein, who was hired as Michigan's coach last April, paid West Virginia $1.5 million to buy out the final five years of his contract. The amount was $1 million less than the penalty called for in Beilein's contract, which ran through the 2012 season.

 

[NFBuck]

...and from the article sandgk quoted above, nobody should try to say "well Beilein only had to pay 1.5!". Beiliein didn't sneak off to Toledo to negotiate with scUM under the guise of a meeting with a "financial advisor". He went about it the right way. He didn't bail on his alma mater, one year after reaffirming his commitment to his school, in the midst of preperations for their biggest game of the year. Quite simply, Beilein acted professionally, DickRod acted like a scumbag mercenary for hire.

 

[OSUBasketballJunkie]

With all this "stuff" going on around Rodriquez and Michigan.....how can any parent feel comfortable sending thier child into his program right now.....just to many unknowns and what ifs.......

 

[zincfinger]

...and from the article sandgk quoted above, nobody should try to say "well Beilein only had to pay 1.5!". Beiliein didn't sneak off to Toledo to negotiate with scUM under the guise of a meeting with a "financial advisor". He went about it the right way. He didn't bail on his alma mater, one year after reaffirming his commitment to his school, in the midst of preperations for their biggest game of the year. Quite simply, Beilein acted professionally, DickRod acted like a scumbag mercenary for hire.

None of that is relevant, in my view. What is relevant is that, in Beilein's case, WVU freely agreed to an abrogation of the contract. That's always possible, as long as both sides agree to it. What Rodriguez is trying to achieve is abrogation of his contract without agreement from the other side. WVU essentially did Beilein a favor. That doesn't put them under any obligation to extend the same favor to Rodriguez.

 

[Jimmy Carter]

ESPN - Mountaineers fans get to rip and shred Rodriguez at ECHL game - College Football

 

[Oh8ch]

Michigan's Rodriguez is recruiting for dear life

By Matt Hayes -

Let me tell you a story about a man and his predicament. Only weeks ago, Rich Rodriguez was fresh and free and his future had never looked brighter.
Now everything hinges on the decision of an 18-year-old kid.
I'm not simplifying or dramatizing when I say national signing day will be the most important event in Rodriguez's coaching career. He left his home and alma mater, his comfort zone, for the unknown last month when he agreed to coach the behemoth that is Michigan.
Almost Heaven, this ain't. At Michigan, we're better than you. At Michigan, we hire stand-up men in a sit-down world. And at Michigan -- I can hear Bo yelling this now -- we sure as hell don't hire coaches who embarrass the institution.
Yet here we are: The new coach is in the middle of a messy public divorce with his former school, one that has peeled back layers of questionable ethics, broken promises, multimillion-dollar lawsuits and -- drum roll, please -- the powerful influence of sports agents.

Continued.....

I disagree only in that next year he will see as much pressure or more. This is where I would be nervous were I a Michigan fan.

We all know that some recruits have their hands out.

There are two questions a coach might ask himself in this situation. The first is "How can I land this kid without cheating." The second is "How can I land this kid without getting caught."

Pretty much everybody has integrity until they are tested - and this is a test - a test of the guy who got Devine into school.

I will leave it at that.

 

[Steve19]

wow so much hate

Is this how you might feel about RR three years from now?


image source

 

[shetuck]

addition for the "Nobody's Talking About This" file...

coachwyatt.com: Michigan Can't Like What's Coming With Rodriguez!

Jan. 29, 2008

Somehow, I can't think that the people at Michigan are altogether pleased about the conduct of their new head coach, who appears to be playing the weasel in trying to dodge paying the buyout called for in a contract that he entered into freely, being of sound mind and having the benefit of counsel. The whole thing appears headed for a very nasty trial.

Very un-Michiganly.

[Gary Moeller stuff ...]

Gary Moeller's record at the time, after five years as head coach, was 44-13-3. That ain't bad, folks.

[...]

Nevertheless, they cut him loose. Because of an impropriety.

This is the standard that Michigan has set, and I can't believe that everyone there is happy with a coach who has made such an ugly issue of leaving his last employer.

 

[Zippercat]

Keep in mind that the basic issue regarding the jurisdiction of the federal court will not be resolved for another few weeks. Absent a settlement, this case can easily drag on beyond this calendar year.

Unless the Federal Judge assigned to this case is very interested in it (ie, a publicity hound on the bench), I think it is likely that the issue of whether this case stays in Federal court will not have a ruling for several months, and then the loser can file a Federal appeal, which will easily take into late 2008 or longer.

It would not be surprising at all that DickRod's answer to the original complaint is not filed until after he's done watching all the 2009 BCS bowl games! Discovery might not even start until after that, so this case could certainly continue to be a distraction for Spring 2009 practice!!!

 

[NFBuck]

Interesting...

SI.com - NCAA Football - Lawyer: Rodriguez will pay what court orders - Tuesday January 29, 2008 5:25PM

In a move his legal team calls a gesture of good faith, not an offer to settle, the former WVU football coach filed a $1.5 million letter of credit with the U.S. District Court in Clarksburg.
Rodriguez and his attorneys claim that's the maximum he could owe under his interpretation of the contract -- an amount spelled out in a "maximum liquidated damages provision" that Rodriguez says was in effect when he resigned Dec. 18.
WVU attorney Jeff Wakefield, however, says the contract is clear: "The amount owed by Mr. Rodriguez under the terms of the contract in effect at the time of his resignation is $4 million."

Please show your work in the margins Dick.

"We decided we want to show the court, more than anybody else, that we are acting responsibly, that we are acting in good faith," Robon said. "We're not saying we owe it. We're trying to say that Rich is a very honorable man, and he and (wife) Rita will pay any obligations that anyone finds they're due."

Been doing a bang-up job since jumpstreet.

The gradual disintegration of the relationship between Rodriguez and the WVU athletic department was 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 to get his client more operational and marketing control over the football program. They also show Brown threatening to take his client elsewhere as early as mid-November.

So, not only is he a sleazebag (allegedly), he's also apparently a control freak.

I'd have to say, in my admittedly biased eyes, that this article doesn't paint a rosy picture of old DickRod.