Comments on: The RichRod Saga http://www.sportsagentblog.com/2008/01/23/the-richrod-saga/ Sports Business, Sports Law, Sports Negotiations, NCAA Rules Thu, 01 Dec 2011 15:23:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Rokkit Scientist http://www.sportsagentblog.com/2008/01/23/the-richrod-saga/#comment-64801 Rokkit Scientist Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:31:11 +0000 http://www.sportsagentblog.com/?p=970#comment-64801 The e-mails released validate RR's position vs. WVU? Orly? Please explain how? Brown is the one communicating in the e-mails since RR didn't bother to learn to use a computer and despised e-mail. I guess Brown should have been smart enough to read RR's contract to see that RR was required to report any problem with the promises the university made in writing within 90 days? Or maybe RR should have held a tighter leash on his agent? If Brown and RR are so stupid to not have done this, and neither are smart enough to negotiate that Michigan should have paid RR's buyout, well, they get what they deserve. An astute viewer will also realize that Pryor is milking everyone and will probably go to Penn State. The e-mails released validate RR’s position vs. WVU? Orly? Please explain how? Brown is the one communicating in the e-mails since RR didn’t bother to learn to use a computer and despised e-mail. I guess Brown should have been smart enough to read RR’s contract to see that RR was required to report any problem with the promises the university made in writing within 90 days? Or maybe RR should have held a tighter leash on his agent?

If Brown and RR are so stupid to not have done this, and neither are smart enough to negotiate that Michigan should have paid RR’s buyout, well, they get what they deserve.

An astute viewer will also realize that Pryor is milking everyone and will probably go to Penn State.

]]> By: dan http://www.sportsagentblog.com/2008/01/23/the-richrod-saga/#comment-63741 dan Sun, 03 Feb 2008 02:24:31 +0000 http://www.sportsagentblog.com/?p=970#comment-63741 an astute viewer will notice that #1 HS Football Prospect Terrelle Pryor is seated right behind Rodriguez an astute viewer will notice that #1 HS Football Prospect Terrelle Pryor is seated right behind Rodriguez

]]> By: Jason Wulterkens http://www.sportsagentblog.com/2008/01/23/the-richrod-saga/#comment-62906 Jason Wulterkens Fri, 25 Jan 2008 23:34:48 +0000 http://www.sportsagentblog.com/?p=970#comment-62906 UPDATE: So it seems that recently released emails, written over a five-month period, validate Rodriguez's claim that WVU indeed made promises to him that were broken—a claim which is the foundation of his legal defense in the school’s breach of contract claim. And a second resignation letter, obtained by the AP, confirms Rodriguez’s displeasure with “how slowly WVU was responding to additional demands he made in December 2006,” and also claims that school president Mike Garrison told Rodriguez that “he did not believe in buyouts” and might eliminate it entirely [from Rodriguez’s contract].” ESPN.com reports that said emails also show Brown “fighting to get his client more operational and marketing control over the football program, and over money Rodriguez helped raise through a booster organization he founded. They also show Brown threatening to take his client elsewhere as early as mid-November,” and an allegation by Brown that state Gov. Joe Manchin was interfering with the football program. Remember, the fraudulent inducement claim will require Rodriguez to prove by a preponderance of the evidence that the school never intended to fulfill promises it made to Rodriguez at the time of the signing. The claim about some oral modification that may have been inferred or directly stated by Garrison would seem to be a separate charge on the surface, although parol evidence concerns would seemingly render any talks between Garrison and Rodriguez irrelevant to the contract-in-fact that was actually agreed to (although fraud is an exception to said rule). http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=3213927&campaign=rss&source=ESPNHeadlines UPDATE: So it seems that recently released emails, written over a five-month period, validate Rodriguez’s claim that WVU indeed made promises to him that were broken—a claim which is the foundation of his legal defense in the school’s breach of contract claim. And a second resignation letter, obtained by the AP, confirms Rodriguez’s displeasure with “how slowly WVU was responding to additional demands he made in December 2006,” and also claims that school president Mike Garrison told Rodriguez that “he did not believe in buyouts” and might eliminate it entirely [from Rodriguez’s contract].”

ESPN.com reports that said emails also show Brown “fighting to get his client more operational and marketing control over the football program, and over money Rodriguez helped raise through a booster organization he founded. They also show Brown threatening to take his client elsewhere as early as mid-November,” and an allegation by Brown that state Gov. Joe Manchin was interfering with the football program.

Remember, the fraudulent inducement claim will require Rodriguez to prove by a preponderance of the evidence that the school never intended to fulfill promises it made to Rodriguez at the time of the signing. The claim about some oral modification that may have been inferred or directly stated by Garrison would seem to be a separate charge on the surface, although parol evidence concerns would seemingly render any talks between Garrison and Rodriguez irrelevant to the contract-in-fact that was actually agreed to (although fraud is an exception to said rule).

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=3213927&campaign=rss&source=ESPNHeadlines

]]> By: Joe http://www.sportsagentblog.com/2008/01/23/the-richrod-saga/#comment-62773 Joe Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:21:51 +0000 http://www.sportsagentblog.com/?p=970#comment-62773 Brown should be disbarred and ran out of the industry. he has no personal interests in what is best for rod. Now he's leading a smear campaign against the state of West Virginia. The Calvin Magee story, as sad it sounds has no proof, and is backed up by the fact that he announced he was following Rod to Ann Arbor. Why would the school hire him as the head coach if he was already packed and leaving morgantown? Rod had the groundwork in place to be the hometown hero, to turn this program into a Michigan, Alabama, Florida State powerhouse school. Brown thought he needed to make more money, his job is to get people into higher paying positions so he will benefit with a percentage increase of his salary. And that is drawn from the Raises and offers and scare tactics of Coach Rod is leaving what can the boosters do to keep him? It worked two or three times until this year when The AD said enough is enough Rod, NCAA dictates you share the revenue generated by the Football program. Brown should be disbarred and ran out of the industry. he has no personal interests in what is best for rod. Now he’s leading a smear campaign against the state of West Virginia. The Calvin Magee story, as sad it sounds has no proof, and is backed up by the fact that he announced he was following Rod to Ann Arbor. Why would the school hire him as the head coach if he was already packed and leaving morgantown? Rod had the groundwork in place to be the hometown hero, to turn this program into a Michigan, Alabama, Florida State powerhouse school. Brown thought he needed to make more money, his job is to get people into higher paying positions so he will benefit with a percentage increase of his salary. And that is drawn from the Raises and offers and scare tactics of Coach Rod is leaving what can the boosters do to keep him? It worked two or three times until this year when The AD said enough is enough Rod, NCAA dictates you share the revenue generated by the Football program.

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