Rich Rodriguez (official thread)

[Deety]

Originally Posted by NFBuck

Might be time for this guy again...

Now see what you did.

[Steve19]

Originally Posted by LightningRod

You have to love a guy like RR. Here is a LINK that contains a copy of his first amended employment agreement with WVU. The WVU attorney established in the deposition that all of the handwritten changes in the 1st amended agreement were made by RR in his handwriting. These were items that RR had trouble with that he insisted on changing before he signed the amended agreement. RR's 2nd amended agreement (the agreement that is the subject of this current lawsuit) is also posted at the web site linked above. Notice that the 2nd amended agreement has no hand written changes although RR is now claiming that the $4 million liquidated damages clause really bothered him. During this line of questioning it was revealed that RR stopped using his lawyer for contract legal advice and started using Mike Brown for counsel even though Mike Brown is not a lawyer and had little experience with these matters. Nice move RR. Maybe he'll go to his auto mechanic if he ever needs heart surgery.

As for what RR has to hide, BB73 nailed it. Rita was in the room when the discussion of strategy to screw WVU out of $4 million took place with RR's present lawyers. That is the testimony that will ultimately come out of this after the judge orders Rita to testify.

I'm not a lawyer, except in certain other personalities, in which case I am but cannot remember in this personality.

So, my question is this.

If RR and his wife and attorneys are in a room and they have a discussion about avoiding the $4 million payment. If he denies it, she denies it, and the attorneys claim privilege, who is going to reveal it. So, if that discussion did take place, how would WVU prove it?

[LightningRod]

Originally Posted by Steve19

I'm not a lawyer, except in certain other personalities, in which case I am but cannot remember in this personality.

So, my question is this.

If RR and his wife and attorneys are in a room and they have a discussion about avoiding the $4 million payment. If he denies it, she denies it, and the attorneys claim privilege, who is going to reveal it. So, if that discussion did take place, how would WVU prove it?

The questioning about UM agreeing to pay RR's $4 million WVU buy out centered around a redacted portion of the term sheet that RR signed with the UM. RR's attorney would not permit RR to answer any questions concerning the redacted portion of the UM term sheet. The attorney also prevented RR from testifying on anything that was said while Rita was in the room on the grounds that Rita was working as his agent on the case. The judge will decide a motion to compel testimony, and in that motion will be a request to compel disclosure of the redacted portion of the term sheet. If either RR or Rita claim no knowledge about UM's agreement to pay the WVU buy out amount, both will look at best like two fools and at worst will border on perjury.

[sandgk]

The high irony about these released deposition transcripts is that this is only part of what robon wanted let loose to the media - from LightningRod's linked site:

With the deposition of West Virginia University athletic director Ed Pastilong scheduled for Friday at the Waterfront Place Hotel in Morgantown, a key question pertaining to WVU’s lawsuit against Rich Rodriguez remains: to what extent will the videotaped depositions of Rodriguez and Pastilong enter public record?

At a motions hearing on April 3, WVU attorneys expressed concern that videotaped testimony of the concerned parties might show up on YouTube. Wakefield then asked Monongalia County Circuit Court Judge Robert Stone to order that the depositions be conducted in private and that all copies and transcripts of the videotaped depositions be kept private.

In opposing the request, Marv Robon, co-counsel for Rodriguez, argued to Stone, “This is a case involving a public institution. We don’t think the court should impose a gag order on the media, which is what the other side is suggesting…We have nothing to hide.”

So if Robon had his way (he didn't - release of the videos was ruled against) we would not only read how he made a fool of himself, (see Pastilong deposition) we would see it by way of the video on the Inter-Tubes. What a brilliant legal mind Robon does possess.

[BUCKYLE]

Originally Posted by sandgk

The high irony about these released deposition transcripts is that this is only part of what robon wanted let loose to the media - from LightningRod's linked site:

So if Robon had his way (he didn't - release of the videos was ruled against) we would not only read how he made a fool of himself, (see Pastilong deposition) we would see it by way of the video on the Inter-Tubes. What a brilliant legal mind Robon does possess.

Sounds to me like he knew that request would be denied. It just gave him another chance to say "We have nothing to hide"!

[ochre]

Originally Posted by ochre

played around with it a bit. The original porkins pic was a bit rough, but here's chorkins: