Football player files missing at WVU
editor1 |Jan 15,2008
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CHARLESTON, West Virginia (Ticker) -- West Virginia officials
are bewildered by the disappearance of player and football
program files, according to a report by the Charleston Gazette
on Tuesday.
According to the report, paperwork detailing every player on
West Virginia's roster, as well as the program's activities over
the past seven years, went missing between Rich Rodriguez's
resignation as coach to take over at Michigan and the team's
return from the Fiesta Bowl.
"It's unbelievable. Everything is gone, like it never
existed," a source within the athletic department told the
newspaper. "Good, bad or indifferent, we don't have a record of
anything that has happened."
The source told the paper the missing files include all of the
players' personal files, which entail contact information,
scholarship money awarded, class attendance records and personal
conduct records.
All the files went missing sometime between when Rodriguez
resigned December 16 and the time the team and staff returned
from the Fiesta Bowl on January 3.
According to the report, multiple sources said several people in
the Puskar Center reported seeing Rodriguez and one of his
assistants, video coordinator Dusty Rutledge, in Rodriguez's
private office shredding paperwork on December 18 - the day he
returned from Ann Arbor after being named Michigan coach.
The school has yet to launch an investigation into the
disappearance of the files, the paper reported.
West Virginia and Rodriguez also are in the midst of a bitter
legal battle over his departure from Morgantown.
The university is trying to recover $4 million from Rodriguez as
a condition of breaking his contract with six years remaining
on his contract. Rodriguez has said West Virginia breached the
contract by not fulfilling all of its terms of the deal.
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