Rich Rodriguez is the head coach of the Arizona football program. He was introduced as the 30th head coach on Nov. 22, 2011.Coach Rodriguez will give an update on Arizona Football.
Biography
Prior to becoming the Head Football Coach at the University of Arizona, Rodriguez served as a football analyst for CBS Sports during the 2011 season. Previously, Rodriguez was head coach at Michigan from 2008 to 2010 and made a Division I statement as head coach at West Virginia from 2001-07 where he compiled a 60-26 record and won four Big East Conference titles.
Rodriguez's West Virginia teams were Big East Champions in 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2007 while appearing in two BCS bowls, the 2005 Sugar Bowl with a victory over Georgia for an 11-1 record and a victory over Oklahoma in the 2007 Fiesta Bowl to finish 10-2 shortly after Rodriguez had left for Michigan. His 2006 club finished 11-2 after a victory over Georgia Tech in the Gator Bowl. He also coached the Mountaineers to the 2002 Continental Tire Bowl and the 2003 and 2004 Gator Bowl.
While at Salem, he was a secondary coach and special teams coordinator in 1986 and assistant head coach and defensive coordinator in 1987. He was the youngest head coach in college football when appointed by Salem in 1988 at age 24. The school disbanded its football program the next year and he served as a volunteer assistant at West Virginia working with outside linebackers in 1989.
Prior to accepting the West Virginia job in late November 2000, Rodriguez served as offensive coordinator and associate head coach for Tommy Bowden at Clemson in 1999 and 2000, with the Tigers recording a 15-9 record in two seasons. He was offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach for Bowden at Tulane for two years prior to that, 1997-98, where he helped lead the Green Wave to a 19-4 mark, including an undefeated 12-0 season with the Conference USA Champs and Liberty Bowl victors in 1998.
At Glenville State, his teams won or shared four-consecutive West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference titles and he was named WVIAC Coach of the Year in 1993 and 1994, as well as the NAIA Coach of the Year after leading his team to a national runner-up finish. He also was recognized by the West Virginia Sports Writers Association as the state College Coach of the Year for all sports in 1993. He led the Pioneers to the national playoffs twice and posted a 43-28-2 record. He also served as Glenville's AD in 1995-96 and was inducted into its Hall of Fame in 2003.
Rodriguez graduated from West Virginia in 1986, where he started as a walk-on in 1981 and became a three-year letter winner as a defensive back from 1982-84. He added a master's degree from Salem in 1987. He is a native of Grant Town, W. Va., and graduated from North Marion High School. Rodriguez and his wife, Rita, have two children, Raquel and Rhett.
With the first-baseman holding, the runner on first takes a lead. Suddenly, the first-baseman tags the runner with a gloved hand that – surprise – has the baseball hidden within. The runner is out, victim of the “hidden ball trick.” Within the rules? Yep. Fair? Some might argue that it is not. Does it pass the 4-Way Test? Well…
Such a competitive trick is, by definition, at least somewhat obscuring of the truth. Otherwise, it is scarcely a “trick.” And the result is certainly not beneficial to all concerned.
When a chess player makes a move that overlooks a fairly obvious bad consequence, should the opponent point out the gaffe and allow a “do-over?” How ill-considered a move is bad enough to qualify?
In fact, during most competitions, “beneficial” is a zero-sum game – what is good for one side in the contest is bad for the other side. That’s the nature of the activity, whether rugby or Jeopardy, fencing or Go.
Not all that dissimilar is a competitive bid situation in business. Are you bound, according to the truth portion of the 4-Way Test, to disclose your competitive advantages to other bidders? Once again, a benefit to you may well be a decided lack of benefit to another supplier.
Rather than declare that these situations invalidate the 4-Way Test, let’s agree that the emphasis is most properly focused on part #2 of the test. As long as the rules are set ahead of time and everyone abides by them, you have a fair competition. That has to be the foundational consideration upon which to apply other 4-Way Test conditions. Remember that, in the view broader than that one competition, there will be goodwill (and even friendship), and there will be a long-term benefit to all, if everyone plays fair.
Next time, the 4-Way Test and interaction with your neighbors.
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