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Well, Now. That Certainly Didn’t Take Long: RichRod Busted.

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By his own players.

Now, which is worse?  That RichRod cheats?  Or that some of his players (up to 10, including starters!!!!) turn on him?  I’m not sure.  But either way 2 things come to mind immediately.

1)  I looooooove RR as the coach at Michigan (sucks!)

2)  If I were Skunkbear fan, I would want him gone.  Now.

The details are all over at ESPN, via the Detroit Free Press.

The long and short is this:

  • RichRod and his staff forced excessive workout hours.  Sometimes 3X the daily limit, and well over the weekly limit
  • The staff lied to the players about this, saying these hours were sanctioned by the NCAA
  • The staff forced the kids to sign NCAA waivers, under threat of ‘repercussions’
  • The staff supervised summer time, ‘voluntary’ workouts.  Only training staff is allowed to be there, but coaches were
  • Michigan (sucks) players hate their coach so much, they called him out – to a newspaper

This seems pretty cut and dry.  Players themselves – 6 went on record with details and another 4 didn’t dispute the accounts – reported these violations in public.  They can easily be confirmed.  These are major violations, and there should be pretty significant NCAA penalties, and RR should be gone, if UM (sucks) has even a shred of the integrity they claim to have.

Worst thing about it?  Even with all this extra training, extra practice, extra workout time that other teams don’t get, Michigan (sucks) sucked so bad last year they went 3-9!

“Double the practice, half the wins!”

RR didn’t like ‘those who stay will be champions’, so I think he’s going with this new slogan instead.  Awesome.

NCAA?  Bury the skunkbears.  It’s obvious, it was planned, and it can be proven.  Do it.

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Biscuit co-founded HerLoyalSons in partnership with his ND roommate (Dillon Hall baby!), MQ, in 2006 and has been ranting about ND Football and everything Notre Dame since. He strongly believes in the mission of ND and its football program. Biscuit expects logic and data in arguments and will absolutely crush you if you come to a debate missing one or the other. He despises everything Michigan, and his favorite pastime is mocking Purdue.

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  2. san diego irish

    How bad do you have to hate your coach to rat him out–not to the administration, but to the press? Diming him to the press is essentially the same as calling the NCAA rules committee directly. They voluntarily screwed the program (and themselves if they have more than 1 yr. of eligibility) just to see RR burn.