Rich Rodriguez is finally agreeing to pay the money that he should have paid months ago.  Rodriguez or DickRod as I like to call him has decided that it is better to live up to what he signed than go through a bitter trial that he would end up losing anyway.  West Virginia wasn’t going to back down at all and was really not holding back on bringing up anything negative on the guy.  They weren’t afraid to possibly discredit the coach and hurt any recruiting efforts that he would be making. 

Here’s what I don’t get.  I don’t get why the guy didn’t step up and pay the buyout right away.  This is a guy that gripes about players not keeping commitments when a kid goes elsewhere as most college coaches do.  This is a guy who preaches ethics and honesty in peoples homes when trying to get a kid to his school.  He’s a guy who signs an agreement and gives his word that he won’t leave the program and if he does he’d pay some money to the university.  He’s a guy who tried every avenue to get that agreement overturned and now is trying to save face by finally agreeing to pay it. 

I’ll go on…he’s a guy who is going to now use this as a recruiting tool.  He’ll say he’s changed and that he learned his lesson and can be honest and do the right thing.  If I’m a parent I hope I would be able to see right through this.  I hope he has a buyout agreement with Michigan and a pro team comes calling for his services and he leaves and tries to do the same thing again because we know he will.  He hasn’t learned his lesson, he’s still the same guy and hopefully we all wouldn’t act the same way but do the right thing from the beginning.  That’s a guy I would want my son playing for.  How can anyone learn accountability from someone forced to learn it from a bad situation?

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