It appears the day after taking the Michigan head job, Rich was a busy guy. According to the Detroit Free Press, Rich went back with his team video editor and SHREDDED and SHREDDED and SHREDDED documents pertaining to the West Virginia football program.......for the last SEVEN YEARS.
The Free Press, via the Charleston Gazette, said Rodriguez “destroyed all or most of the paperwork filed relating to every player on the Mountaineer roster and virtually all of the activities conducted by the programs over the past seven years.”
NICE. What a guy. He knows he owes West Virginia 4 million in a buyout for leaving so is it a cooincidence these documents get shredded? What else was in these documents? Remember, this is the guy who foisted PacMan Jones on the world right out of college.
So, Rich WHY'D ya do it? It doesn't pass any kind of smell test here, you know, the Michigan Way. YCD seriously doubts Bo Schembechler nor Lloyd Carr would have EVER done anything this shady.
Right on cue, Rodriguez and Michigan spokesheads were not available for comment.
UPDATE-According to a West Virginia Athletic Department employee (who asked not to be named) we learn the following:
Via ESPN:
"It's unbelievable. Everything is gone, like it never existed. Good, bad or indifferent, we don't have a record of anything that has happened."
According to the source, the missing files include all of the players' personal files, which encompass contact information, scholarship money awarded, class attendance records and personal conduct records, the Gazette reported.
"If a player spoke to a school or did public service, we don't have a record of it,'' the source said, according to the newspaper. "If he broke a rule or missed class, we don't have a record of that, either. We don't have anything. All the good things these kids have done over the years, there's nothing -- not a picture of somebody speaking to a class, nothing. Why would somebody do that?"
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Rodriguez will claim that he removed or destroyed only his personal records. Perhaps that is the case. However, the shredding has made some folk wonder if there is stuff being hidden – records, perhaps, that will not bear scrutiny by the next coach, the WVU administration, or the NCAA.
Some (perhaps completely uninformed) speculation has suggested that the alleged destruction of the strength and conditioning records for past and current WVU players is particularly fishy. The most cautious of these speculators are carefully not mentioning “steroids.”
Note to Mary Sue: the worst-case scenario – active, purposeful, and extensive destruction by Rodriguez, or at his direction, of records that are the property of WVU – could spill over to make UM look dirty, too.
This means there’s a chance – perhaps tiny, but still a chance – that Rich Rodriguez will end up being mentioned in the same breath as Mike Price (Alabama, strippers) and George O’Leary (Notre Dame, lying).
But perhaps it will turn out to be some sort of trivial screw-up or misunderstanding.
And as if by some DIVINE news intervention, Pac Man gets accused of punching a woman at an Atlanta strip club. Of course they have nothing in common but it was almost eerie.
Look, I'm willing to wait and see what happened BUT it sure doesn't smell crescent fresh and that's a BAD sign. I've also read from a couple other sources if this is so run of the mill why is this the first time it's making traction in college football?
Also, West Virginia is a state school, meaning the documents there (heck nearly everywhere now) belong to said entity and disposing of such is seriously frowned upon by courts. Especially a court that might, mmmm, say hold a grudge or a prosecutor who, ummm, might be running for office this fall.
If he did something wrong though, and it's proven he really can't blame anybody else and Michigan's in a real muck.
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