Look, I have nothing against anyone in the State of Michigan as a matter of fact I have been there. It is a fun place to go and generally I have met nice people there.
This is why I write this warning to you all. Watch your children, Rich Rodriguez will suck them in, slick talk you all, and stab you in a back like he did the people here in the great State of West Virginia. Do you all understand that he is a liar and a traitor?
Protect your family, do not let him use you he is no good.
For a man to do the things which he did (sneaking around behaving like a thief up to no good) does that not teach you that you are dealing with a con man?
He is a slick talking man who already pulled the wool over the eyes of the Michigan administrators who hired him and the entire West Virginia fan base. I am warning you to watch your back because he can not be trusted.
Yes, he is in a state that has many resources and he is like a child in a candy land. He is probably loving it in Michigan and his mind is most likely moving a million miles a minute to see just how much he can push his weight around your University. Rodriguez is likely doing all he can to get control of venues in which he has no business dealing with just to get his hands in the money pot deeper.
He tried that here in WVU but that did not work. Talk to each other and share what you see. That way you can catch him before any damage is done worse than it is now that he is there.
Good luck!
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3 months ago
Good luck with the libel suit which is coming and please do the world a favor when you use the terms liar and traitor. Look them up first.
3 months ago
Rodriguez had a good long run at West Virginia, and he left the program in better shape than it was when he started. As far as I know, he did not harm any children in West Virginia. He simply moved on to a new (and more prestigious) job.
3 months ago
Oh my. Why can't you just move on?? The man changed jobs. How did he stab an entire state in the back?
3 months ago
By lying to those that supported his personal growth and by not honoring his contract. In shameless self serving disrespect. Next question.
3 months ago
Oh, come off it. It's not "stabbing a state in the back" when a football coach moves on.
3 months ago
I think RR and the U of M should enter into a "verbal agreement". They will pay him "X" amount of dollars for as long as he wants to be there. Obviously, contracts aren't worth the paper they're written on anyway. If the buyout doesn't hold up in court there's no real protection for the U of M in any contract it offers.
The court's decision will be precedent setting. 1) It will insure that employees of an institution are bound by the terms of a written, signed agreement, OR 2) It will create a revolving door for coaches to come and go as they please.
So, Michigan folks, hold onto your rear ends. You're about to be taken for a ride. And, oh by the way, you still have Mike Brown to deal with!
3 months ago
I didn't hear any complaints coming from WVU when Rodriguez was winning football games in Morgantown.
And when you say, "...venues in which he has no business dealing with," which ones were you referring to? The Big House? The UM practice fields? The football weightlifting facility? I'm not sure, but he MIGHT have some business dealing with those joints.... and I might be mistaken, but the only one he had any direct impact over was the outdated weightlifting facility. Updates to the Big House & practice fields have been in motion for over three years -- long before Rodriguez was even a thought in Bill Martin's mind.
I don't understand why you view RichRod's attempts to better the program at WVU in this way negatively. It's like you want to be mediocre. Rodriguez had a good thing going in Morgantown, but it sounds like administrators didn't share his vision for the future of the program, something I think they'll come to regret when he's winning titles in Ann Arbor. Rodriguez simply wanted to be at an institution with the resources to make his team the best it could be.
RichRod's a winner, and that's why his regime shift was such a big deal. That's why WVU fans are so pissed that he left, and that's why UM fans will be patient if his first season ends up feeling a little lackluster. He's proven. Now it's just wait n' see time.
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