Rich Rodriguez (official thread)

[SonOfWoody]

Does Dick Rod always have to dress like a 17 yr old making fashion decisions after one too many energy drinks?

[NFBuck]

Originally Posted by SonOfWoody

Does Dick Rod always have to dress like a 17 yr old making fashion decisions after one too many energy drinks?

Might be time to go in for that next round of hair implants as well.

[Tonyank]

We all know Dick Rod is full of Michigan.

[Steve19]

I just read the last four pages of this thread. I have a few thoughts...

HTM, the last time I saw anyone defend a coach in such a losing cause was the hopeless challenge NDChief set himself for Charlie Weis.

Regardless of how much we may dislike TSUN, I don't remember anyone ever saying that a TSUN coach was a scumbag, until now. That is why, by the way, I don't use the term scUM to refer to your university.

Whether you care to see it or not, your new coach has shown you his values. He puts himself first. Before his employer. Before his team. Going on home visits to team members, when he knows the spotlight is on him, doesn't change what his recent behavior tells us about him.

NDChief and I once had a similar exchange to the one you just had with Sand. It was shortly after Weis had been appointed at Notre Dame.

I thought Weis was an egotistical bastard that would destroy the Notre Dame program, instead of build it. I thought he was anything but an offensive genius. NDChief vehemently disagreed. At the time, I told NDChief that time would tell us which of us was right but that Charlie Weis had shown us all exactly what his values were.

Perhaps NDChief might still be right one day but I think I called it pretty well, don't you?

Now, you think we're against RR because he's the new TSUN coach and that we are eager to magnify his faults because he's about to steal our #1 recruit. Already, in your mind, you are convinced that RR has got Pryor in his pocket. I think you may be getting well ahead of yourself. This young man is going to make his visits. He is going to take a knowledgeable family member along to be sure that he has some maturity influencing his decision making.

You think we're afraid of RR and that he is really going to turn your program around. NDChief thought we were commenting for similar reasons at the time. We agree that he is going to turn your program around, it's the direction where he will take it that provides the source of our disagreement.

So, here is a post that you can come back and show me in a few years if I am wrong. Don't even bother answering this post because I am not trying to start a conversation and your opinions have been clearly stated. I am not calling you out and it doesn't matter if you agree with me.

RR's lack of ethics are going to come back to haunt the TSUN football program and eventually cause big problems. His selfishness also will impact on the program and create internal friction between him and the university.

Personally, I am far from convinced that Pryor will go to TSUN. If he goes to play for this guy, he will be far less than he might have been under Tressel and he will have the same memories that Mike Hart has of Ohio State. If he chooses RR over Tressel, he will be as sorry for the day he made that decision as you will be eventually that RR was named your team's head coach.

One thing TSUN fans could do was respect their coach and his values. When this guy was hired, that ended.

If I am wrong about this, please feel free to recall this post anytime after 2011.

[BrutusBobcat]

Here is something to consider:

When Tressel was hired by tOSU, what did Y-town fans tell us?

When RR was hired by TSUN, what did WVU fans tell them?

That's not the final word on things, but it's worth consideration. Rarely do coaches who leave a previous program with acrimony turn out well in their new digs.

[SNIPER26]

Originally Posted by Steve19

Personally, I am far from convinced that Pryor will go to TSUN.

Sadly, I agree with you. I think he's a Buckeye

[SonOfWoody]

Originally Posted by Steve19

Whether you care to see it or not, your new coach has shown you his values. He puts himself first. Before his employer. Before his team. Going on home visits to team members, when he knows the spotlight is on him, doesn't change what his recent behavior tells us about him.

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One thing TSUN fans could do was respect their coach and his values. When this guy was hired, that ended.

If I am wrong about this, please feel free to recall this post anytime after 2011.

I have to agree with this. Where Carr was concerned, I could make fun of his coaching, but certainly not his integrity. In fact, I would even go this far (while really gritting my teeth HARD): I sure wouldn't be overjoyed to see my kid play for Carr, but I wouldn't hide my head in shame either. Compared to a lot of other places he could play and learn, there are certainly worse places and worse people.

Dick Rod IS one of those worse people. The kind of "lessons" my son might learn under Dick Rod are the kind I would NOT want him to learn. There are few if any other coaches I'd want my kid to play for even less.

That for me is the acid test. Leaving the OSU vs. everybody else equation out of the mix, would you want YOUR kid playing for the guy?

[Tlangs]

Originally Posted by sandgk

Free Press Article on DickWad Riguez learning about Hockey.

Also notes the need for him to get Pryor in AA or else!

There is also another piece concerning WVU's suit against their former coach - seeking affirmation of the contract.

Specifically the article cites the prior communication with P