Rodriguez introduced at UM

By Staff     Dec 18, 2007

? Rich Rodriguez, who flirted with the Alabama job a year ago, said it took a job of Michigan’s stature for him to leave West Virginia, his home state and alma mater.

“It was a very difficult decision to leave a place where I grew up,” Rodriguez said during his introductory news conference Monday morning. “It was going to take a very special opportunity and a very special place, and I think that’s what this is.”

The 44-year-old Rodriguez represents the first head coach to come outside the “Michigan family” as athletic director Bill Martin put it, since Bo Schembechler in 1969.

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