With all of the issues that West Virginia University has had over the past couple months (blowing the Pitt game and costing themselves a shot at the national championship, losing their head coach, promoting an assistant with a shaky past, etc.), you'd think it couldn't get any worse.  Well even their bright spot - a Fiesta Bowl victory over Oklahoma - ended badly.  When they got home, they found out that all of their player and program files went missing.

Yep, everything from strength and conditioning, recruiting, attendance records, and personal information files all seem to have just magically disappeared.  Sometime between former head coach Rich Rodriguez's resignation and their return from Arizona, they all just up and walked out the door.

Quite the coincidence, eh?  Well, it gets even murkier when you read that "...several people in the Puskar Center reported seeing Rodriguez...in [his] private office shredding paperwork on Dec. 18."  That would be two days after he resigned to take the head coaching job at Michigan.

So let's recap some of Rodriguez's (or as the WVU fans cleverly nicknamed him, Rich-Rod) hijinx over the past 12+ months:

• Told the media in December 2006 that he planned to be at WVU for the rest of his career
• Met with the University of Alabama three days later to discuss their coaching vacancy
• Signed a new deal with WVU in return for getting commitments from the university for multiple upgrades to the facilities, as well as hefty pay raises for him and his staff
• Leaving WVU 11 months later for the Michigan job
• Filed suit against WVU in an effort to get out of paying the $4 million buyout in his contract
• Allegedly called recruits before he told him team he was leaving the school
• All but shoved expected starting QB Ryan Mallett out the door
• And now the paper shredding

Michigan sure did get themselves a gem.  I wonder if WVU feels it was worth it to keep Rodriguez around for an additional year for all of this crap.  A bit of advice to the U-M athletic department: keep a succession list handy, you never know how soon you're going to need it.