Comments on: CURIOUS INDEX, 7/9/08

By: TrinityEer

TrinityEer — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 01:22:48 +0000

What hurt WVU in the Beilein affair was WVU boosters approaching Bob Huggins before Beilein officially resigned. Beilein had a decent arguement about WVU breaching the contract as well.

I don’t think it should be underestimated that UMich hiring/interfering with WVU’s season by hiring Beilein with several games left in WVU’s season impacted how much vigor WVU pursued El Producto and Mich this time.

By: citiesaregreat

citiesaregreat — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 22:58:44 +0000

Last season, Kentucky BEAT LSU, LSU beat tUOS, I’ll let the purists among you take it from here.

By: NewAZTiger

NewAZTiger — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:22:54 +0000

#66 – I ran the conference record script on Stassen instead of the all game script by accident. Regardless, you’re talking about a couple of games and the Big 10 is a weaker conference. 03, 06,07 – the SEC all had BCS MNC titles, and the SEC should’ve had 04 as well.

The Big 2 – meh.

By: ACEer

ACEer — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:55:55 +0000

Beilein’s (sp? who cares) contractual buyout was reduced because it was obvious that WVU gained a great coach upon his departure. Hence, it wasn’t a great loss.

RR first threatened to go to Kentucky, then Alabama. He got a bigger contract in part because of these threats. We now know for a fact that his lawyer also threatened the WVU administration that he was shopping “product rodriguez” to other schools last year, including UM.

Paying the full amount of the buyout is good for every D-1 school. Too bad he doesn’t have to sit out a year.

By: Crabapple Buck

Crabapple Buck — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 22:44:31 +0000

#65 New AZ

Stop the pulling stats out my ass shit. In the last 5 years is convenient, since you avoid our undefeated season, but include yours. Here are the records. Last five years tOSU 52-11, Auburn 50-14. Last six years is tOSU 66-11, Auburn 59-19. You see what I did there? I used real numbers. Try that sometime, it helps your case.

By: NewAZTiger

NewAZTiger — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:17:39 +0000

#64: Auburn is 32-9 over the last 5 years. tOSU is 32-8. I wouldn’t call that a much better record, especially considering AU’s record vs top 10 and top 5 vs tOSU’s record. AU also beat UF by 10 points the year they asspounded tOSU, followed by UF players reporting that there were about 6 SEC teams tougher that tOSU.

By: oc phil

oc phil — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:23:55 +0000

Tiger @40: Nope you are 100% wrong. Trash talk from Auburn fans towards tOSU has exactly the same validity as it does coming from fans of Vandy or Kentucky. If your team has not played the team in question (tOSU in this case) and has a worse recent record then you are just a fucktard for trying to glom onto the glory of conference rivals with legitimate achievements (Florida and LSU).

Crabapple Buck said it well at #37,

By: hobeg8r

hobeg8r — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:50:31 +0000

UM Athletics Dept. is coughing up $2.5M so……..
Assuming RR lasts 3 years, @ 12 games/yr. – UM will pay an additional $69,444.44 per game to have RR run out on the field. Hope he’s worth it.

By: cybrtyde

cybrtyde — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:11:06 +0000

What a Diva! Sheesh! Good luck Michigan! You’ll need it! Kudos to W.V.U. for not backing down even with espn doing a hack job or two on em.

By: maskedavenger

maskedavenger — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:10:41 +0000

As has become apparent to SEC fans, Les is a colorful personality. He was at Michigan for quite a while and he rubbed some, including Brandon, wrong during his stay.

By: hobeg8r

hobeg8r — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:05:22 +0000

What’s his beef with Les Miles?

By: maskedavenger

maskedavenger — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:01:45 +0000

BTW – to the extent that anyone cares – here is UM AD Bill Martin’s statement on the buyout:

http://mgoblue.com/football/article.aspx?id=141160

By: maskedavenger

maskedavenger — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:57:52 +0000

Best guess on alumnus putting up the money is David Brandon, CEO of Dominoes Pizza, former UM football player, and person who did not want Les Miles to be head coach (he allegedly favored former OC Mike Debord).

By: hobeg8r

hobeg8r — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:52:21 +0000

#35 – Masked Avenger:
The reason why RR got a Mich. driver’s license was to show that he was no longer a WV resident. As such, his argument was that the case should be tried in federal court in WV – not in a WV circuit court due to federal diversity provisions. He would not have been able to move the case to Michigan. Apparently his attorneys thought he would be viewed more sympathetically by a jury pool not composed entirely of WVU couch burners.

Either way, it now appears to be a moot point.

It will be interesting to see which Michigan alumni pony up part of the $4M.

By: gerry dorsey

gerry dorsey — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:49:54 +0000

burt @ 54 = comment of the week…and its not even lunch on wednesday