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08-01-2008, 11:55 AM
http://blogs.wsj.com/dailyfix/category/rich-rodriguez/
Wall Street Journal article.......from The Freep
Now that new Michigan coach Rich Rodriguez has settled his lawsuit with his former employer, West Virginia, agreeing to pay $4 million for leaving his contract early, Detroit Free Press columnist Michael Rosenberg says there are two winners: “One is West Virginia, which will get the $4 million it is rightfully owed. The other is those of us who just wanted the truth. We now know Rodriguez to be a serial job-shopper. His agent, Mike Brown, had pitched Rodriguez’s services to Alabama, Arkansas and Louisiana State in recent years before pursuing Michigan. We now know Rodriguez doesn’t believe in contracts. He signed an amended contract with West Virginia just four months before he left. He then claimed that the signed contract was not as important as a verbal agreement that preceded it — a laughable legal argument.”
Mr. Rodriguez is also unusually harsh with his players, according to Mr. Rosenberg: “I find it sad that the University of Michigan is paying a man millions of dollars a year to humiliate some of its students.”
Wall Street Journal article.......from The Freep
Now that new Michigan coach Rich Rodriguez has settled his lawsuit with his former employer, West Virginia, agreeing to pay $4 million for leaving his contract early, Detroit Free Press columnist Michael Rosenberg says there are two winners: “One is West Virginia, which will get the $4 million it is rightfully owed. The other is those of us who just wanted the truth. We now know Rodriguez to be a serial job-shopper. His agent, Mike Brown, had pitched Rodriguez’s services to Alabama, Arkansas and Louisiana State in recent years before pursuing Michigan. We now know Rodriguez doesn’t believe in contracts. He signed an amended contract with West Virginia just four months before he left. He then claimed that the signed contract was not as important as a verbal agreement that preceded it — a laughable legal argument.”
Mr. Rodriguez is also unusually harsh with his players, according to Mr. Rosenberg: “I find it sad that the University of Michigan is paying a man millions of dollars a year to humiliate some of its students.”