Shredgate: The Rich Rodriguez Scandal

Among the many bumps in the road during Michigan's coaching search comes possibly the most controversial. The Charleston Gazette newspaper posted an article on their website that claimed that nearly all documents from West Virginia's football team for the past seven years were missing--including player school records and contacts, transcripts, and information about finances from Rodriguez's recruiting history and booster donations.

The rest of this article was shredded, unfortunately.





Nevermind, we found it. It was in the file marked West Virginia University: Trash.


I may be wrong, but I find this controversy complete hogwash.

1) Its naive to think that RichRod shredded the only copy of these files. Maybe he had personal comments or plays in those files. If those were the only copies of the files, shame on WVU, that stuff should all be backed up electronically.

2) Isn't this stuff a little circumstancial? A few people saw RichRod in his office shredding files. Now the files are missing. I own a gun and a murderer is on the loose. Someone saw me buy some bullets--Am I guilty?

3) Maybe if WVU didn't want their files shredded they should have spent the $250,000 needed to fulfill Rodriguez's requests.