The Truth About Michigan: Why Rich Rodriguez Is A Liar

I just got through reading an article Ivan Maisel from ESPN wrote, and I want to clear up a few things about Rich Rodriguez taking the job at Michigan.

Maisel writes: "Rodriguez's decision to leave is justifiable because there's a difference between saying, 'I will never leave,' and 'I will not be the next coach at _____."

Yes, there is a difference—but that doesn't make it justifiable.

Rodriguez is a liar, and that's all there is to it. He said he would never leave WVU, and he did.

Earlier this year, his freshman tailback, Noel Divine missed practice because of a birth in his family. Coach Rod understood, but still sat him a game because that was the team rule—and we must abide by the rules.

Well the rules of society say that if you tell a lie, you are a liar. Rodriguez looked at the Old Gold and Blue Nation and lied.

Rod told a lie that big, wrong, and unable to be justified.

Maisel also writes: "We are all engorged with the parity college football served up every week this fall. But no matter how many Missouri's and West Virginia's threaten to stage a coup d'etat in this sport, there will always be royalty. Think of the schools whose tradition is immediately recognizable across the nation: USC, Texas, Oklahoma, Ohio State, Michigan, Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, et al."

That might be true for those of you who blabber from your ivory towers—but for the rest of us, royalty is in the eye of the beholder.

For the the boy who was born a stone's throw from the stadium where the Mountaineers call home, WVU was Rodriguez's kingdom, and he rose to be it's ruler.

Michigan will always be the Big House where Bo reigned. I have never been to Ann Arbor, but I would guess there are monuments and streets and the like dedicated to the late Bo Schembechler. The legend of the great coach will always overshadow anything Rodriguez does at Michigan.

Rich Rodriguez was well on his way to that kind of status in Morgantown. A hometown boy, Rod would have been rewarded. Just like last year, when Rodriguez threw what amounted to a tantrum, and the Governor called the boosters to make sure he received the pacifiers he craved.

West Virginia was growing to love their Mountaineer leader. I hope Coach Rod remembers that every time he drives down Schembechler

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