Football coaches seem to have hit a new low. Rich Rodriguez was the coach at West Virginia (his alma matter!) for about 7 years. Last year, Alabama tried to hire him away. West Virginia gave him a big raise in pay and lengthened the term of his contract to keep him around. The contract also had a clause that required Rodriguez to pay the school $ 4 million if he broke the contract.
This year, Rodriguez left West Virginia for the University of Michigan. Instead of manning it up and paying the penalty, Rodriguez sued to have it struck down and threatened to report recruiting irregularities he had made at West Virginia to the NCAA. He also revoked the scholarship offers to many students who had already committed to Michigan one month before the signing date for recruits.
Mike Sherman also started at Texas A&M recently. He honored every scholarship offer that the previous coaching staff had sent out before he got the job.
If one of my sons were a stud football player, I wonder where I would advise him to go?
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