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01-12-2008, 04:11 PM
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Originally Posted by HoltWVU75
Called Pryor before telling his players....verry classy guy....
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Ugh, I've gone over this.
What's he supposed to do? Call all the players individually I suppose - and then be trashed for not telling them face to face. Visit all their houses and rooms one by one? Stick a note in the mailbox, maybe?
Rodriguez called a meeting. You don't just gather 90 football players on a Sunday morning and say "meeting in 5 minutes, be there."
Whatever. Nothing on you personally, but I can't expect much objectivity from a WVU fan on this subject.
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01-12-2008, 04:22 PM
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Originally Posted by HailToMichigan
Ugh, I've gone over this.
What's he supposed to do? Call all the players individually I suppose - and then be trashed for not telling them face to face. Visit all their houses and rooms one by one? Stick a note in the mailbox, maybe?
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No. You tell you fucking players first...you know them, the ones who committed to you years earlier and have busted their ass for you. You don't disrespect them by "getting around to telling them" after you perform phone-fellatio on your top recruit. The players ARE you team...recruits MAY become your team. He treated his players like week-old garbage. Why? Because they aren't his any more and he doesn't give a shit...if he did care for his players, he would've told them first and would've stuck around to coach the bowl game. Instead, he kicked their collective asses to the curb and left them high and dry.
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01-12-2008, 04:24 PM
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Originally Posted by HailToMichigan
Ugh, I've gone over this.
What's he supposed to do? Call all the players individually I suppose - and then be trashed for not telling them face to face. Visit all their houses and rooms one by one? Stick a note in the mailbox, maybe?
Rodriguez called a meeting. You don't just gather 90 football players on a Sunday morning and say "meeting in 5 minutes, be there."
Whatever. Nothing on you personally, but I can't expect much objectivity from a WVU fan on this subject.
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Here's the point he's trying to make: From the moment RR knew he was taking the Michigan job, there was one player he cared about more than anyone else, and he didn't wear a WVU jersey or even a Michigan jersey. He stopped caring about those WVU players the moment he took the job. And since he's taken the job, he hasn't started caring about the players already at Michigan. It's not as if he's got an empty cupboard there.
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01-12-2008, 04:42 PM
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Whatever. Nothing on you personally, but I can't expect much objectivity from a Michigan man on this subject.
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Fixed it for ya.
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01-12-2008, 06:17 PM
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No. You tell you fucking players first.
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How? How would you do it?
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01-12-2008, 06:23 PM
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How? How would you do it?
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Uh, call a meeting the first available school day. If I were to accept the job on a weekend, I'd tell the AD and university president--in person--first, even on a Sunday. I'd then delay public announcement until I had the chance to gather the players and staff on Monday and tell them. After that, I'd schedule a presser for the next day to make the public announcement and call kids I've been recruiting--including commits--to tell them I'm moving.
It's clear as glass that Dick Wadriguez didn't give a shit about his (now former) school or players in the way he handled things...
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01-12-2008, 06:27 PM
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Originally Posted by HailToMichigan
How? How would you do it?
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HailtoMichigan ... let me demystify this story - removing (hopefully once and for all on this board) the myth of logistical difficulty in Rodriguez getting all his players together in one spot.
There was a regularly scheduled practice called for that day - something which Rodriguez knew, for he had made the damned schedule. The practice was called for early afternoon. All players on roster were required to attend.
Simple point being that Rodriguez knew where and when to find all the WVU squad together in one place on that Sunday.
So how would Rodriguez do this?
Walk into practice - call all the already available players into the nearest adjacent room (locker, film, study area or other).
Announce to players what he should already have told to his employer when handing in his letter of resignation - and then get on the telephone on his own time to talk with recruits as an employer of TSUN.
This nonsense about gathering players from points hither and yon might play on Stadium & Main but please don't use that particular myth (for such is what that certainly is) in support of RR's actions on BP.
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