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This ain’t about dancing, OK? Don’t get caught in the minutiae.
This is about how badly you want it, and how much you’ll sacrifice to get it.
“There’s a bigger sense of entitlement with our youth than ever before,” says West Virginia coach Rich Rodriguez.
And if you think he’s done there, clutch your pearls. We’re just getting started.
So I ask how he deals with the entitlement, and that sent Rodriguez – in the news earlier this week because, sin of all sins, he told players he didn’t want them dancing on TikTok – to a rare place only few coaches can go in this age of player empowerment.
The place of I Don’t Care.
“You don’t have to put up with that. We won’t,” Rodriguez said. “That’s just the way it is. It’s not really a conversation. It’s more of a directive. I’m not making a suggestion, I’m giving you a command.”
He pauses momentarily, and chuckles, “Sometimes I’ve got to yell a little louder.”
Welcome, everyone, the return of RichRod in Morgantown. The coach who had West By God one win from playing for the 2007 BCS National Championship, is back in his old stomping ground — and it’s like he never left.
In some ways, anyway.
It’s still finding three-star players and developing them into All-Americans (hello, Pat White and Steve Slaton). It’s still doing more with less, while dealing with blue blood football programs with more money and more advantages.
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It’s also still about Chris Borland.
Years ago, I found Rodriguez at the NCAA annual coaches…
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