Pac-12 Media Days: Arizona Coach Rich Rodriguez extremely entertaining
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If you haven’t been able to enjoy a relaxed conversation or a Pac-12 intimate press conference with Arizona Head Coach Rich Rodriguez, you have missed a lot. This guy is a barrel of laughs! We asked Nate Phillips and Sani Fuimaono at lunch if he is this funny in the locker room and on the field, and they started to laugh and shook their head ‘yes.’ We can only imagine. But we will give you a glimpse into the Rich Rod experience.
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We asked Coach Rod about the Code of Conduct rule which now extends to Coaches, “In my younger days, I used to yell a lot, but I guess, one, they can’t hear you, and two, they don’t care what you say anyway. I really don’t yell that much,” he explained, “I get upset if I think it’s a bad call, but most of the time they’re right. The only thing that bothers me is that I don’t think a replay should ever be wrong because they’ve got the benefit of rewinding it. But sometimes they make mistakes, too. But overall they’re usually pretty good.”
Good Answer Coach! Way to stay on the referee’s good side!
On Anu Solomon watching film on Saturday mornings, “Now, we’re still going to call the plays just because I’ve always said we watch more film as coaches than the players do. They might be watching Sponge Bob Square Pants or something, I don’t know…”
A young reporter from SBNation asked Coach Rod if he was playing Pokemon Go, “I had no idea what the hell Pokemon Go was until the other day, and I think my son was telling me, he’s an 18-year-old. But I know there’s a lot of people that are walking around like this [mimics looking down at his phone] and bumping into each other, so it’s kind of dangerous”
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As far as what his wife will be doing all alone in the box next year when her son is dressed in an Arizona football uniform playing, or her daughter is on the sideline cheering for the team, Rich Rod’s response was classic, “I guess she’ll be making more dip.”
ZonaZealots asked Rodriguez if was happy about having a bye week in the middle of the season, “Well, we have an open date this year. How about that? So the next time we will not have an open date is in 12 years, so that will be the next poor coach’s problem, not mine. Toes in the water, butt in the sand is where I’ll be, or somewhere like that.”
Think he’s planning on retiring in the next 12 years? One thing we do know, if he tweets out an announcement he’s leaving it won’t include any emoji’s.
You don’t see emoji’s in Rich Rod’s tweets and he explained it was because he just found out why you would use them. He didn’t realize you could convey a message with emoji’s and not until Nate and Sani showed him did he understand. “I’m not an emoji sender type of guy. If I send a recruit a happy face, they’ll think, ‘this guy is kind of weird!”
Keep it coming coach, keep it coming.
Next: Rich Rod and his Quarterback situation