Full Allegations Emerge on Rich Rodriguez's firing
EDITED (12:58PM)
By suggestion of other posters I have removed a college of excerpts which others felt trivialized the magnitude of the allegations.
I encourage all to read the full details before coming to their opinions. Appreciation goes to the others who have suggested ways to improve my post on this sensitive topic.
January 4th, 2018 at 12:32 PM ^
FIRE RICH ROD
January 4th, 2018 at 12:38 PM ^
FIRE DAVE BRANDON
January 4th, 2018 at 12:45 PM ^
January 4th, 2018 at 2:11 PM ^
January 4th, 2018 at 2:05 PM ^
They did...
January 4th, 2018 at 12:32 PM ^
January 4th, 2018 at 4:27 PM ^
and it's a horrible, sad situation, but wow, he sounds like Ron Burgundy walking around the office, and I have to admit a laughed at some of things he was supposedly doing. Purposely timing his workouts so he'd walk part her shirtless through the office? Not only is that ridiculously inappropriate, how can that be your "move"?
January 4th, 2018 at 12:32 PM ^
January 4th, 2018 at 12:36 PM ^
Rita needs to steer clear.
January 4th, 2018 at 12:33 PM ^
crazy thing is that he's going to get his entire contract. Good thing because his wife is going to take half..
January 4th, 2018 at 12:49 PM ^
This was predictable. It's a slippery slope from excessive stretching.
January 4th, 2018 at 2:12 PM ^
It's not like this is the first time Rich Rod has cheated on his wife with her knowldedge(she's a good West Virginia girl). She isn't going anywhere.
January 4th, 2018 at 12:33 PM ^
January 4th, 2018 at 1:56 PM ^
In going through my copy of "Hail to Old Blue" I re-read the article about the RichRod hiring saga. In that article there is a comment that Bo and Lloyd talked about Rich Rod and that Bo took the step to ask around and check him out. At some point in the process (presumably back in 2006 when Lloyd was contemplating retirement since Bo passed away 11/2006) Bo came back to Lloyd and said RR wasn't the right kind of guy for the program. Not sure what he uncovered in his research but since it's all hindsight I'm going to say Bo must have uncovered all sorts of things and that he wanted to avoid Michigan football taking a hit/nose dive that would have implications for 5+ years.
January 4th, 2018 at 2:22 PM ^
January 4th, 2018 at 3:58 PM ^
I always thought that Bo had suggested RR as a replacement to Lloyd.
Another reason to celebrate Beilein and Harbaugh. Win with integrity, win with cruelty.
January 4th, 2018 at 7:13 PM ^
January 4th, 2018 at 7:20 PM ^
...don't you?
January 4th, 2018 at 12:34 PM ^
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January 4th, 2018 at 2:11 PM ^
January 4th, 2018 at 2:25 PM ^
Rich Rodriguez fired from Arizona. lol. I wonder who will be the next program he turns to shit.
— Troy Woolfolk (@TWoolf29) January 3, 2018
January 4th, 2018 at 2:43 PM ^
January 4th, 2018 at 4:55 PM ^
January 4th, 2018 at 2:04 PM ^
Well, if even half of what that woman said in the complaint is true, the answer will be none, he'll be too radioactive to hire for anything more than mopping floors.
January 4th, 2018 at 3:30 PM ^
January 4th, 2018 at 4:33 PM ^
The Baylor administration might not care about the harassment stuff but they do take a dim view of married men sleeping around.
They're messed up, but RR's not quite their style.
January 4th, 2018 at 5:27 PM ^
Now I have to wash the coffee spurt off my screen.
January 4th, 2018 at 2:49 PM ^
Rich Rod's career as a coach is like Luca Brasi, it sleeps with the fishes. And apparently Rich Rod sleeps with everybody.
January 4th, 2018 at 12:35 PM ^
Never greet a female after a game of shirts vs skins basketball unless I was on the shirts team.
Seriously though, a little creepy.
January 4th, 2018 at 12:35 PM ^
On top of that, he’s a royal POS
January 4th, 2018 at 12:37 PM ^
when we need a professional take?
January 4th, 2018 at 12:48 PM ^
You can take a boy out of West Virginia...
January 4th, 2018 at 12:38 PM ^
fail.
January 4th, 2018 at 12:38 PM ^
January 4th, 2018 at 12:48 PM ^
I'm sure he was wearing one red wristband and one green wristband.
January 4th, 2018 at 12:40 PM ^
January 4th, 2018 at 12:41 PM ^
I can see him bench pressing and screaming out "935.......936"
January 4th, 2018 at 12:47 PM ^
January 4th, 2018 at 1:01 PM ^
Did Melissa look like Veronica Corningstone?
January 4th, 2018 at 12:42 PM ^
and found to be without merit, or at least could not be substantiated, or is that another one?
Anyway, the ask of $7.5 million is a lot of cheddar. Bear Down! Lawyer Up!
January 4th, 2018 at 1:27 PM ^
The university's press release didn't sound so much like it was without merit as that there was some smoke but they couldn't completely prove it - because the woman chose not to take part.
January 4th, 2018 at 2:21 PM ^
She wasn't the only witness who had left the University by the time they investigated. Charlie Ragel had made an oddly-timed horizontal move to Cal. Dudek was in Ann Arbor. Everyone mentioned in the letter who seemed the least bit sympathetic to her had quit their jobs by this past fall.
January 4th, 2018 at 3:44 PM ^
What she probably did was follow the advice of her lawyer. You want your client's testimony (at deposition, to be used at trial) to be the first time these questions are asked and answered.
January 4th, 2018 at 12:45 PM ^
I don't know. I feel like the culture / attitude of many head ball coaches is tyrannical in nature and always has been that way. Don't get me wrong, there is some shitty stuff in that letter, but most of it is more along the lines of "egotistical douche" than "sexual harraser / predator"
January 4th, 2018 at 12:49 PM ^
Forcing yourself on someone, kissing them without consent, and putting your hands on their private areas is very clearly sexual harassment NOT "egotistical douche".
January 4th, 2018 at 3:05 PM ^
I am old and you would think I would be on the "boys will be boys" side. But RR was far off the deep end here. Some of #MeToo seem really tame in comparison. This was mutiple times over months/years - not a one-time thing.
January 4th, 2018 at 1:18 PM ^
Read all the way through. This is actionable and there are multiple witnesses. There will be a settlement, something less than the first number.
Edit: The incident where he tried to force intimate contact is only one of many examples cited and every one of them is trouble for the University and for Rodriguez.