Growing up a UCLA fan in Southern California, I didn't have a strong preference when it came time for Michigan and Ohio State to tangle in the Midwest, but I tended to root a little bit for the Wolverines during the Woody Hayes' era at OSU. In recent years, it may have been nothing more than Michigan conceit that the Wolverines football program was purer-than-thou, but I still leaned a bit toward Ann Arbor. No more.
Michigan fans who still want to imagine their program as a cut above, ethically, won't like the start of Rich Rogriguez's tenure in Ann Arbor with his selfish and unnecessary feud with West Virginia, and certainly won't like Detroit Free Press columnist Michael Rosenberg's take on things. After detailing RichRod's $4 million settlement with West Virginia — $2.5 of which will be paid by the University of Michigan — Rosenberg concludes with the following:
"Rodriguez might win big at Michigan. But if he does, and he demands a big raise every year, or flirts with other employers, or ignores his contracts, or refuses to put the school’s interests ahead of his own, then Michigan fans should not be surprised. As we have seen in the last few months, this is who he is."
Wave those pom-poms high ...
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080709/SPORTS06/80709105/1048/sports
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