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29 May 2010
MORGANTOWN — There’s an old joke that goes something like this:
A guy is wandering around Times Square in New York City, obviously lost. He stops a guy who looks like he knows his way around Manhattan.
“Hey, buddy, how do I get to Carnegie Hall?” he asks.
The New Yorker looks at him incredulously, and answers:
“Practice, practice, practice.”
Well, there’s a joke going around Ann Arbor, Mich., these days and it goes like this:
A guy is wandering around the University of Michigan athletic department, obviously lost.
He comes across Rich Rodriguez and stops him.
“Hey, buddy,” he says, “how do you get to the NCAA Championship game?”
Rodriguez looks at him incredulously, and answers:
“Practice, practice, practice ... practice, practice, practice ... practice, practice, practice.”
Wrong answer, Rich.
The NCAA has rules about practice, rules on how much you can practice, rules on who can attend practice.
It says you broke them and you have so admitted.
Oh, Michigan and your people are now saying you were ignorant of the rule that covered these matters.
That is partly right. It would have been correct if they put the period after the word ignorant.
It is impossible to believe that a man whose very existence is based on coaching football and whose entire life is centered around reaching the championship game doesn’t know the rules under which he must operate.
Rich Rodriguez had to know that rule, had to have people around him who knew these rules and who could have cautioned him.
But no.
