Posted by Don on 1/17/2008, 1:00 pm, in reply to "Rich Rodriguez better lawyer up"
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West Virginia is pissing and moaning like a jilted lover. None of this matters. Of course, if RR payed them the 4 mil (which also happens to be the total of the contract for the new FB head coach) all of this would end.
--Previous Message--
: Thursday, January 17, 2008
: Damning Evidence Against Rodriguez?
: Wizard of Odds
: http://thewizardofodds.blogspot.com/
:
: The problems continue to mount for Rich
: Rodriguez. The Charleston Daily Mail reports
: that shortly after telling his Mountaineer
: players that he was leaving for Michigan on
: Dec. 16, the coach called at least two
: Wolverine recruits using his West
: Virginia-issued cell phone.
:
: Technically, Rodriguez was still employed by
: West Virginia, making this a big no-no. In
: addition, the calls appear to have been
: placed during a recruiting dead period,
: meaning contact with recruits was forbidden,
: according to NCAA rules. This, of course, is
: an even bigger no-no.
:
: The paper obtained the information through a
: Freedom of Information Act request.
:
: Rodriguez was also in frequent contact with
: Central Michigan coach Butch Jones, the only
: candidate who interviewed twice to replace
: Rodriguez at West Virginia. The two talked
: on Nov. 24, the day after the Chippewas beat
: Akron and advanced to the Mid-American
: Conference title game, and again on Dec. 5.
:
: Rodriguez and Jones then had a 24-minute
: conversation late on Dec. 15, the day
: Rodriguez met Michigan officials in Toledo.
: He called Jones again and the two had a
: 17-minute conversation Dec. 17, the day
: Rodriguez was formally named Michigan coach.
:
: It doesn't end there. On Dec. 19, Rodriguez
: accepted a call from Fayetteville at 10:29
: p.m. The called last nine minutes. Arkansas
: hired Bobby Petrino as coach two days later.
: Sleazy business, eh?
:
: A West Virginia Chevrolet dealer sees
: opportunity in all of this, creating a
: commercial that we've posted above.
: "Show me the bread, I'll run the
: spread."
:
: Rodriguez also ended his silence about the
: growing scandal, telling the Toledo Blade:
: "The things they are saying are not
: true. It's a lie. How can you put out lies
: and think it's OK? They don't care what the
: truth is, they just want to smear Rich
: Rodriguez."
:
: Jim Carty of the Ann Arbor News says it's
: time for Rodriguez to apologize and pay the
: $4 million owed to West Virginia, which is
: taking the coach to court. That lawsuit was
: transferred to federal court because
: Rodriguez had moved to Michigan when it was
: originally filed. And the Charlestown
: Gazette's Dave Hickman, who broke the story
: about missing files at West Virginia, gave
: an interview on WXYT. He said: "I don't
: think that there's anything in those files
: that incriminates anyone."
:
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