Not to keep going with this discussion, but this merits a response.jmjclu wrote:Rich Rod accepted the Tulane job on Sat night. His daughter called some friends and said that they were returning to New Orleans.
On Sunday morning an employee of the athletic dept called my younger son and told him that the Ariz AD was telling people that Rich Rod had taken the Tulane job. My son and this employee had been room mates as undergraduates at the Univ of Ariz.
On Sunday night it was announced that he was going to Ariz.
No one I know has any idea of what happened.
Mike Leech was interviewed on ESPN. I saw the clip. He stated that Scott Cowen was taking Tulane in the right direction and he was interested in the job. For whatever reason Scott Cowen had no interest in interviewing Leech.
No one knows what happened??!!
Like they say on ESPN, c'mon man....
Rich Rodriguez obviously wanted and the Arizona people wanted, too, to keep things quiet up until they could make the official announcement. In this day of so much use of Twitter and such that's not easy at all to do. He wasn't the first and won't be the last football coach to go through all manner of gyrations when getting a new position. Look at Nick Saban leaving the Dolphins to coach at Alabama as well as at Rich Rodriguez allegedly almost going to Alabama. He used TU's reported interest as leverage, sure, but he knew that he could land some position in a major program w/o having to drop all the way down from Univ. of Michigan to C-USA. That's not hard to see.