Football player files missing: Fingers point to Rodriguez

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Breaking news: WVU football player files missing
Published 1/15/2008 by Frank Ahrens at Bleacher Report
... Hickman reports that all records of current players -- their strength and conditioning files, their public service, their classroom attendance, their discipline -- are gone. ...

The Morning Shotgun/Throwdown (1/15/08)
Published 1/15/2008 by 5thyearsenior at West BY GOD Virginia
Welcome to the Tuesday edition of The Morning Shotgun/Throwdown, sponsored by Pabst Blue Ribbon. What you (may have) missed: Rodriguez Is A Filthy, Filthy Thief: Seriously, the man is going to burn in hell. I can’t stress that enough. Besides the burning in hell part, ...

WVU Football: Rich Rodriguez Responsible for Missing Player Files?
Published 1/15/2008 by Frank Ahrens at Bleacher Report
... Hickman reports that all records of current players—their strength and conditioning files, their public service, their classroom attendance, their discipline—are gone. ...

More Allegiations Against Rodriguez Surface
Published 1/15/2008 by Brian Sakowski at In The Bleachers College Football Blog
... Well now news out of The Charleston Gazette suggests that not only is the University upset about the money, now they have come to realize that Rodriguez has either destroyed or took with him to Michigan all the files he has on the players for West Virginia. ...

Rodriguez Steals/Destroys Files
Published 1/15/2008 by Charley West at West BY GOD Virginia
Note: File in picture no longer exists. In the latest, greatest, and possibly most twisted turn of events in the Rich Rodriguez saga, the former Mountaineer coach is accused of either stealing or destroying (or both) all files in existence related to both current roster players and the last seven ...

He would have been a perfect fit at Alabama
Published 1/15/2008 by AngryEer at Loser with Socks
Now I understand why Alabama wanted to hire Rich Rodriguez……This guy has a dark sinister side (he reminds me of the cyborg in Gainesville) that would have been a perfect match for the SEC. According to multiple sources, several people in the Puskar Center reported seeing Rodriguez and at least one member of his inner circle, video coordinator Dusty Rutledge, in Rodriguez’s private office shredding paperwork on Dec. 18. That’s the day he returned to clean out his office after being introduced as the Michigan coach at a press conference in Ann Arbor the day before. At the time, those who say they witnessed it either did not know what was being ...

Did Rodriguez destroy player files at WVU?
Published 1/15/2008 at Fanblogs.com
... West Virginia University has a small problem... every file on every current player is gone. In fact, every file relating to the football program over the last seven years -- including financial records, summer camps, boosters, and recruiting -- is missing. ...

Profiles in Integrity
Published 1/15/2008 by Ryan Maloney at WNYO Sports
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. ...

West Virginia concerned about missing files
Published 1/15/2008 by Jeff Zillgitt at Sports Scope
Michigan football coach Rich Rodriguez's departure from West Virginia just keeps getting stranger. According to a story in today's Charleston Gazette , files and paperwork related to West Virginia players and other football-related topics are missing. The files were previously stored in Rodriguez's office and the weight room office. The paper reported: "According to the source, the files in Rodriguez's office that are now missing included everything from records regarding summer camps — financial and otherwise — to data on boosters, recruiting and most everything ...

Oklahoma's Defense Or Paper?
Published 1/15/2008 by Brian at mgoblog
... West Virginia's ongoing quest to become the most jilted wife in all of jilted wifedom has hit upon a jackpot. Rich Rodriguez only operates at one speed, be it against defenses or documents, and that speed is shred: ...

Filegate!
Published 1/15/2008 by Big Al at The Wayne Fontes Experience
... do such a thing? Why cover your tracks? Why do something so ethically questionable? Why, why, why? Let's say Rodriguez did what the unnamed WVU sources are saying. I have to wonder, if he didn't have anything to hide, why did Rodriguez bother to shred everything and anything that had to do with his 7 year tenure? Why wipe out player files? Why shred strength and conditioning information? Again, why, why, why? To me, the following is most the most damning part of the the Charleston Gazette article... According to the source, the files in ...

Rich Rodriguez Shreds WVU... Literally
Published 1/15/2008 by Ryan Ferguson at FanHouse
Filed under: Michigan Football, West Virginia Football, Big 10, Big East, NCAA FB Coaching, NCAA FB ScandalWe've all been through them: those breakups which finally reached the point of no return. Sure, maybe there were stages leading up to the finale, but there came a moment when you knew with crystalline clarity that you'd never get back together again. It's safe to say that West Virginia and Rich Rodriguez have reached that point in their relationship. We say this with confidence not because of the nasty public dispute and pending lawsuits between "Coach Rod" and his alma mater, ...

WVU Player Files Missing; Ruined By Rodriguez?
Published 1/15/2008 by jason at SPORTSbyBROOKS
... When Rich Rodriguez bolted West Virginia for Michigan, he apparently practiced a little scorched-earth policy of his own. ...

Does Rich Rodriguez have something to hide?
Published 1/15/2008 by Skip Hooligan at Friends of Crazy Joe Davola
And it's probably not millions of dollars either. Trip found this in the Charleston (WV) Gazette, and Rich Rod is up to something . Rodriguez destroyed, player files, and player activities all at West Virginia. Rodriguez, which bolted before the Fiesta Bowl game was said to be in WV Puskar Center with another member of his staff that moved on, and found this out. "the staff at the Puskar Center found that most of the files — including all of the player files — that had been stored in Rodriguez’s private office were missing. In addition, all of the players’ strength and conditioning files in the weight room were gone . " It continues ...

Nobody Cleans Out An Office Quite Like Rich Rodriguez
Published 1/16/2008 by GC at Can't Stop The Bleeding
... Hopefully Bobby Petrino is paying attention —- burning bridges is one thing, but setting the entire athletic department on fire is another, entirely. From the Charleston Gazette’s Dave Hickman. ...

Link Dump!
Published 1/16/2008 by McD at Rumors and Rants
... What kills me about this story isn't the continuing hatred of Rich Rodriguez coming from WVU, it's that the athletic department and the school didn't think to make copies of records of class attendance or anything else related to the football program. Maybe it's S.O.P. for big programs to not do that, but seriously, people. - The Charleston Gazette ...

You Can't Spell 'Myopic' Without 'Michigan Wolverine Football...Yup.'
Published 1/16/2008 by Hawkeye State <info@blackheartgoldpants.com> at Black Heart Gold Pants: Front Page Posts
... Those moves really just make you a dick.  But we aren't done; apparently, on his way out of Morgantown, RichRod did his best Arthur Andersen impersonation: ...

Rich Rodriguez Might Be King of the College Football Scum
Published 1/16/2008 by Larry Brown at Larry Brown Sports
... . I may have to amend that post. If Arkansas and Michigan were to meet, I think that would be the worst game ever. As JS emailed in with the tip, West Virginia is suspicious of former coach, Rich Rodriguez, who may or may not have destroyed some old football documents. The files contained information — good or bad — on every single player in the West Virginia program. They reportedly disappeared between the time that Rodriguez resigned and the team returned from the Fiesta Bowl. Important documents? I wonder, where could they have gone? ...

EnRod: College Football's Latest Scandal
Published 1/16/2008 by dawizofodds at The Wizard of Odds
The feud between West Virginia and former coach Rich Rodriguez is taking on the appearance of a Hatfield-McCoy dispute, with shots being fired and the plot building by the day. West Virginia officials are now — at least unofficially — blaming Rodriguez for missing documents from the Mountaineer football office. Dave Hickman of the Charleston Gazette broke the story, reporting that Rodriguez might have "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 program over the past seven ...

The Roundup: Mascot Rankings, American Gladiators and Al Horford Talks to a Blogger
Published 1/16/2008 by TheBigLead at The Big Lead
Rachel Bilson is one of our favorites, and we eagerly await this GQ to hit newsstands … fun interview with an NBA writer coming later today … RIP Brad Renfro … we can’t say it enough - wear your seat belts, people … 10 years later - the most talked about stain in the history of stains … never heard of trucknuts, but there’s a move to ban them, and it seems terribly wrong … David Spade is lucky to have scored Jillian Grace (further linking is too dangerous, but if you google, you will be pleased), but as Howard Stern talked about for ...

You'll See What You Want
Published 1/16/2008 by Brian at mgoblog
... But we aren't done; apparently, on his way out of Morgantown, RichRod did his best Arthur Andersen impersonation: [long excerpt from the WVU article highlighted yesterday excised] ...

Thursday Happy Hour is Absolutely Slammed Right Now
Published 1/17/2008 by Maize n Brew Dave at Maize n Brew: Front Page Posts
Sorry for the lack of content the last few days. Real life has a tendency to intrude at random times, and the last week or so has involved a lot of work and family obligations. My head's still under water right now, so regular posting won't resume until Monday. However, there's too much interesting stuff going on not to share some of the highlights. ...