How Coach Rich Rodriguez Should Be Handled

By Pat Austin

It would seem as if Rich Rodriguez proved he is able to act sensitive yesterday.

The Wolverines coach cried earnest tears. He made it apparent that he cares about his players. It was far from coach Rodriguez as you ordinarily witness him.

In spite of this, don't let his emotional outburst dupe you. Since he set foot in the University, he's always been concerned with one matter - becoming a champion. If it requires separating particular players, he would. If it requires violating a few of the league's system, ones that aren't precisely adhered to strictly by lots of BCS programs, so be it.

Rodriguez has by no means been a athletes' leader, has not at all been a figurehead set to graduate his athletes.

And, in fact, he might't be held responsible for this. In today's supreme level of college football, just one thing guarantees job security, and it has nothing to do with keeping bench players happy.

Perhaps Bill Martin and crew had been naive, but they had to have a respectable idea of what they happened to be |getting into when they hired Rodriguez, who without delay became entangled in a buyout argument with West Virginia upon walking away from the Mountaineers program.

The Michigan administration then watched as Coach rodriguez was leading the Wolverines' most horrible season in history. And they rightly rallied around him, and his coaching workers, through the distress of the three months.

After all, no leader - who is heading up a program suitably and within boundaries - ought to be given up on following a season. Or even two years. At least 3 seasons are considered necessary to approve a plan, get brand new athletes and achieve potential.

To simplify, if Michigan's examination confirms what resident and previous athletes said about the Wolverines being required to use up a lot more than the given 20 hours each week during the year and eight hours through the offseason on college football, then Rodriguez ought to be fired.

Allowing him to continue following such violations would reflect horribly about what college football's top program has turned into.

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