This morning it was reported the long drama between West Virginia University and new Michigan Coach Rich Rodriguez was finally over. (Thank God !!!!)
According to news reports, Rodriguez will pay $1.5 million in three annual payments beginning January 2010. The Wolverines athletic department, his new employer, will pay $2.5 million by the end of July and cover Rodriguez's legal fees.
"To help Rich focus on the challenges ahead, we have worked with him to resolve the dispute between him and West Virginia University over the terms of his buyout," Michigan athletic director Bill Martin said. "Although he continues to disagree with the validity of the terms, Rich and the rest of us at Michigan felt that it would be best to get this distracting issue behind us."
The WVU Board of Governors held a special meeting Wednesday and approved the agreement, settling a case that attorneys Tom Flaherty and Jeff Wakefield were set to try this fall.
The settlement got me thinking -- what could a state like West Virginia do with a cash infusion of $4,000,000 ?
According to the US Census Bureau There are roughly 1.818 million people that live in West Virginia. Divided equally, they could receive $2.20 each. With a coupon, you could buy a six pack of good beer.
The average per capita income for a resident of the Mountaineer state is $16,667 per year. A shocking 16.2% of the population lives below the poverty line. That is almost 300,000 people that really can't afford a nice vacation. One idea I have : the state could build some publicly accessible vacation homes. You know... nice mountain views, fresh air, indoor plumbing, the works. The good people of West Virginia deserve a nice vacation after what DickRod has put them through.
In West Virginia there are 40,000 licensed motorcycle drivers. Sadly motorcycle fatalities represented 7 percent of all motor vehicle fatalities compared to only 3 percent of registered motor vehicles. You could purchase 20,000 nice (the special $200 kind) safety helmets for West Virginians and save countless lives -- all in the name of Rich Rodriguez.
We all know that West Virginia is a game hunting heaven. At about $180 per weapon (via Wal*Mart) -- the state government of West Virginia could purchase 22,222 rifles for the local population.
A man could feed his family for years with the proper weapon.
Please submit your ideas for West Virginia. We will gather them and ensure they get into the correct hands.
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8 comments:
well, $4 million could buy about 4 million condoms.
but, half for sure would be used as party decorations (love dem balloons)
another million might go unused cuz theyze too hard to open
of the final one million, unsure how many would actually be utilized as originally intended since I hear you can pack a lot o' moonshine inter dem con-doms for transportin' purposes......
Geez not weapons. Tre$$el will have em as running backs by weeks end.... after the licquer store heist.
How can you tell when someone in wva wins the Power ball? New bass boat parked in front of the double wide!
I'd suggest new dishes for everyone but most every trailer in the state already has one hooked up before they connect the water (you can go awhile w/out a bshower but you won't live long w/out "Speed" network).
Keep in mind that you really only need to split this amongst about 2/3's of the state. The western third is Herd country & wouldn't take a dime from the wvu crowd.
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It has been a while since I have purchased condoms (snip, snip) -- but I don't ever remember spending a buck a shot...
...never mind. you get the picture.
What to do with the money?
Build a border fence between WV and Ohio so the Mountaineers don't have to see the sewer hole of America.
(is that being too harsh?)
I don't know what they should do but what they probably will do is take that money down to Mountanieer and "let it ride." F-in hillbillies. More and more nothing turns out good for ole Rich and MI. What the hell was the point of the lawsuit if 6 months later you're just going to settle for the exact terms of the suit? I just don't understand.
Good for Michigan to step in and help him pay. I realize they likely did it because of the distraction to the organization the lawsuit was causing, but still they could have told RR not to air his dirty laundry at work and he was on his own in this modern version of Hatfields v. McCoys. They didn't though. Better hope you don't face WVU in a bowl game... it will get ugly. Maybe not so much the score, but the pre-game hype and the post-game couch burning.
I'd love to see MI play WVU in one of the upcoming seasons. It won't happen unless it's in a bowl game but we'll see. Hell actually now that I think of it if MI and WVU are both bowl eligible this year but had mediocre seasons (says 8-4, 9-3 or something) I'd almost be damned surprised if the bowl selection committee didn't out them against each other. It would be the most talked about non BCS bowl guaranteed.
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