sports.espn.go.com - 1/15/2008
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West Virginia University said Tuesday it will investigate the disappearance of player and football program files found to be missing from the former office of ex-Mountaineers coach Rich Rodriguez.
Paperwork detailing every player on West Virginia's roster, as well as the program's activities over the past seven years, went missing between Rodriguez's resignation as coach to take over at ...
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Cheap Shots #91: An Experiment.
Signal to Noise —
... The First Person To Call It “Filegate” Gets An Internet Bitch-Slapping: West Virginia University is looking into the disappearance of player files after Rich Rodriguez took off for Ann Arbor. In a break-up that has seemed more like a contentious and particularly acrimonious divorce (with the requisite rebound hire), we’ll see if this has any traction to be part of the psychodrama. ...
Did Rodriguez Pull an Enron?
College Football Forum —
WVU said yesterday it is investigating the disappearance of player and football program files said to be missing from Rich Rodriguez's old office. Oh boy. Naturally, there is a difference of opinion as to just what R2 was shredding in his office the day after he was announced as the new Michigan head coach. Mountaineer officials are in an uproar, claiming the documents are nothing short of an original copy of the Magna Carta and an autographed lyrics sheet of John Denver's Take Me Home Country Roads; Coach Rod's agent said the papers were simply personal files belonging to ...
Help Wanted: Morgantown
Sportsfrog.com —
... Seems the Mountaineers can use your help building a database to track player information. On the heels of charges that former coach Rich Rodriguez has something to do with dozens of missing player files: ...
It’s Great…to Be…a Michigan Wolverine, but Gird Your Loins
The Big Lead —
... disappointment. The spectacular eluded us, but, with a Michigan man at the helm, there was assurance of decency.
Rich Rod has upset this static pot, and not necessarily productively. Once confident fans now question. Who is playing quarterback? What is this newfangled spread offense? Why is a freshman DB wearing #1? Will our defense be as porous as West Virginia? Why does Rodriguez seem so unctous? And, what exactly was in those famed West Virginia files he needed to destroy asap?
The Wolverines are ...
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WVU Player Files Missing; Ruined By Rodriguez?
sportsbybrooks.com 1/15/2008 — When Rich Rodriguez bolted West Virginia for Michigan, he apparently practiced a little scorched-earth policy of his own. Dan Cash of WKZO-AM tips us to a report from the CHARLESTON GAZETTE that Rodriguez reportedly “ destroyed all or most of the paperwork files relating to every player on the current Mountaineer roster, and virtually all of the activities conducted by the
Profiles in Integrity —
The VOTL.com
Apparently Rich Rodriguez is a tad upset that his former employer is suing him for $4 million. West Virginia officials believe Rodriguez may be responsible for missing player files. The Charlestown Gazette has the full story . Ryan Maloney
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WVU Football: Rich Rodriguez Responsible for Missing Player Files? —
Bleacher Report
The Charleston (W.Va) Gazette 's Dave Hickman has a major scoop in today's paper: Citing a knowledgeable source in the WVU athletic department, Hickman reports that all of the paperwork files on all WVU players and recruits are missing. Hickman reports that all records of current players—their strength and conditioning files, their public service, their classroom attendance, their ...
Breaking news: WVU football player files missing —
Bleacher Report
The Charleston (W.Va) Gazette's Dave Hickman has a major scoop in today's paper: Citing a source in the WVU athletic department with detailed knowledge, Hickman reports that all of the paperwork files on all WVU players and recruits are missing. Hickman reports that all records of current players -- their strength and conditioning files, their public service, their classroom attendance, their ...