39 Facts About Rich Rodriguez

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Richard Alan Rodriguez, known as Rich Rod, is an American college football coach and former player.

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Rich Rodriguez is the head football coach at Jacksonville State University, a position he has held since the 2022 season.

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In 2011, Rich Rodriguez worked as an analyst for CBS Sports.

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Glenville State's four championships under Rich Rodriguez were their first since 1959 while his players' set five national career records for Division II.

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Rich Rodriguez left Glenville State at the end of the 1996 season to be assistant coach, offensive coordinator, and quarterback coach for Tulane University from 1997 to 1998, under head coach Tommy Bowden.

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Rich Rodriguez knew Bowden's father, Bobby Bowden, because he had worked at his camps during summers.

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Rich Rodriguez was the offensive coordinator and associate head coach until the end of the 2000 season.

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Rich Rodriguez was considered to be the frontrunner for the Tulane coaching job following Bowden's departure and was led to believe that he was going to be the next coach for Tulane.

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In 1999, Rich Rodriguez interviewed for the head coaching job at Texas Tech but lost to Mike Leach.

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Rich Rodriguez received the 2003 Frank Loria Award from the West Virginia chapter of the National Football Foundation, and earned Big East Coach of the Year that season.

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On December 7,2006, Rich Rodriguez received an offer to be the next Alabama Crimson Tide head coach.

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On December 16,2007, Rich Rodriguez informed players at West Virginia that he was leaving to succeed Lloyd Carr as the University of Michigan head football coach.

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On December 18,2007, Rich Rodriguez informed the university that his resignation would instead be effective at midnight that night and was replaced by his former assistant coach Bill Stewart, who was selected as head coach after the Mountaineers won the Fiesta Bowl.

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The announcement of his departure came just four months after Rich Rodriguez last renegotiated his contract with West Virginia and was made despite his stated long-term commitment to the Mountaineers.

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Subsequently, on January 18,2008, WVU added a count of breach of contract after Rich Rodriguez allegedly failed to pay the first installment of the $4 million liquidated damages clause when due.

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Rich Rodriguez was required to pay WVU the remaining $1.5 million in three installments of $500,000 each, spread over three years starting in January 2010.

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Rich Rodriguez was introduced by Michigan as its new coach at a news conference held on December 17,2007 at the Junge Family Champions Center on the University of Michigan campus.

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Rich Rodriguez brought several members of his West Virginia staff with him, including Tony Gibson and offensive coordinator Calvin Magee.

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Rich Rodriguez changed the strength and conditioning facilities, completed a top ten incoming recruiting class in 2008, and installed his own recruiting to serve his spread offense.

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Rich Rodriguez led Michigan to its first New Year's Day bowl since the 2007 season when Michigan accepted a bid to play in the Gator Bowl.

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Rumors about Rich Rodriguez's ousting heated up after the season, when Stanford Cardinal head coach and former Michigan quarterback Jim Harbaugh did not attend an anniversary dinner recognizing the 1985 Michigan team.

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At Michigan, Rich Rodriguez suffered a 20-point home loss to a Big Ten opponent in all three seasons he coached.

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Rich Rodriguez was rumored to be let go as Michigan coach on January 4,2011.

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School officials initially denied this, but the following day, athletic director Dave Brandon announced that Rich Rodriguez had been dismissed.

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Rich Rodriguez oversaw the end of the longest active bowl streak in the NCAA.

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26.

Rich Rodriguez worked as an analyst for CBS Sports for most of the 2011 season before being hired to coach at Arizona.

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Rich Rodriguez had previously participated in CBS's 2011 Signing Day Coverage.

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In June 2011, Rich Rodriguez put the family home in York Township, Michigan up for sale for an asking price of $1.9 million.

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Rich Rodriguez's hiring was first announced by University of Arizona athletic director Greg Byrne on Twitter while a press conference officially announcing him as the head coach was held a day later at McKale Center in Tucson.

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Rich Rodriguez's hiring ended a 41-day search for a head coach which started after Mike Stoops was dismissed after eight seasons as Wildcat head coach.

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Rich Rodriguez then lost his first game to Southern California and subsequently lost to UCLA.

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Rich Rodriguez was fired on January 2,2018 after a three-month internal investigation by the Arizona Wildcats.

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On December 31,2018, it was announced that Rich Rodriguez accepted the offensive coordinator position at the University of Mississippi, joining newly hired defensive coordinator Mike MacIntyre on the staff of head coach Matt Luke.

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On January 12,2021, it was announced that Rich Rodriguez had accepted the offensive coordinator position at the University of Louisiana at Monroe.

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On November 30,2021, Rich Rodriguez was introduced as the new head coach of the Jacksonville State Gamecocks.

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Rich Rodriguez is considered a pioneer of a no huddle, run-oriented version of the spread offense, although a pass-first version was already being implemented by others.

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Rich Rodriguez first developed this offensive approach at Glenville State and refined it during his stops at Tulane with Shaun King, at Clemson with Woodrow Dantzler, and at West Virginia most notably with dual-threat quarterback Pat White.

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Rich Rodriguez is credited for popularizing the zone read play run out of the shotgun formation.

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When Rich Rodriguez asked why the quarterback changed the play, he responded that he read the defender and choose to run a different play than scripted.