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Former West Virginia football coach Rich Rodriguez says Gov. Joe Manchin and three members of the university's board of governors pressured him into signing a new contract before the start of the 2007 season, even though it had a $4 million buyout clause he didn't want. [link]

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Rich Rodriguez Claims He Was Coerced Into Signing Contract. Yeah, Right.
Published 5/14/2008 by Pete Holiday at FanHouse
Filed under: Michigan Football, West Virginia Football, Big 10, Big East, NCAA FB Coaching, Featured StoriesMichigan Coach Rich Rodriguez, in his tireless effort to weasel his way out of paying his buy-out, has reached the point which even casual observers will recognize as the beginning of the end: he's just making stuff up now. A Fox Sports column today asserts that, in a deposition, Rodriguez claimed that he was "coerced" into signing his contract. Coerced. Into signing a multi-million dollar contract. Somehow, it seems, that Rodriguez wants us to believe that the powers that be at West Virginia are powerful enough to intimidate him into ...

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