((HT: Freep.com))Coach Rodriguez ((pictured, thanks Andre J Jackson/Detroit Free Press)) opened his weekly news conference — scheduled for each Monday during the season — by saying he would talk about the Free Press report in which numerous current and former players said U-M consistently far exceeded NCAA limits on practice time and other football-related activities. Rodriguez talked for 15 minutes on topic, stopping several times when he appeared to choke up.
When he finished, he said, “That was longer than I wanted to take.” Then he asked for questions about Saturday’s opener against Western Michigan.
Michigan announced Sunday that it had launched an investigation into the allegations. The Big Ten and the NCAA have been alerted.
“We know the rules,” Rodriguez said. “We go by the rules.”
He appeared to choke up for the first time while making this statement: "The thing that bothered me the most about the things that were recently written or said or maybe some things in the last 18 months was the perception sometimes that was out there that we did not care as much for our players’, students’ welfare. That is disheartening.” Then he paused and appeared to tear up. “To say that is misleading, inaccurate and goes against everything I have ever believed in coaching."
Here's Part 1 of the Presser, thanks to our friends at WXYZ-TV/ABC7 Detroit
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