Friday, September 4, 2009

Should NCAA Coach Rodriguez Keep His Job?

By Miles Redick

And Rich Rodriguez showed us he could be sensitive recently.

The Michigan leader wept sincere tears. He made it clear that he is deeply concerned about his players. It was far from the man like you typically witness him.

Then again, don't let the coach's sensitive minute fool you. From the day he stepped foot in Ann Arbor, he's been about one issue - winning. If it means separating a few athletes, all is fair. If it requires breaking a few of the league's system, ones that are not exactly adhered to stringently by countless BCS programs, so be it.

Rodriguez has in no way been a athletes' leader, has not at all been a leader resolute to graduate his athletes.

And, actually, he may't be held responsible for this. In today's greatest echelon of college football, just one thing provides job security, and it has nil to do with seeing bench athletes happy.

Perhaps Bill Martin and company had been ignorant, however they had to have a respectable idea of what they had been |getting into when they recruited coach Rodriguez, who instantly became mixed up in a takeover dispute with WVU upon leaving the Mountaineers team.

The Michigan administration then watched as the Michigan coach was heading up the Wolverines' most terrible season ever. And they rightly rallied around him, and his coaching staff, through the suffering of the 3 months.

After all, no coach - who is supervising a program correctly and within boundaries - deserves to be let go of after a year. Or even two years. At least 3 years are necessary to adopt a strategy, get new players and reach expectations.

To abridge, if Michigan's inspection proves true what resident and previous athletes said about the Wolverines being required to expend much more than the allotted twenty hours each week in the course of the year and eight hours through the spring and summer months on football, then Rodriguez ought to be fired.

Allowing him to remain following such broken rules might reflect horribly about what college football's best school has become.

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