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Bacon didn't fact check Maybe bacon did get quotes from RichRod, but the facts aren't true. This could be a case of Rod embellishing, but anyone with knowledge of WV knows the story has a lot of fiction to it. Here are a few places to reference for the info in my post.... Birth place: Grant Town - (Freep and Wikipedia) http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071216/SPORTS06/31216… or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Rodriguez Distance from Grant Town to Morgantown (approx 20 miles) from MapQuest: http://www.mapquest.com/maps?1c=Grant+Town&1s=WV&1y=US&1l=39.558102&1g=… Glenville State lost to East Central 49-35 in the championship game on December 11, 1993 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAIA_National_Football_Championship or http://www.mgoblue.com/football/coachbio.aspx?id=42166 I haven't found the exact football or basketball schedules for North Marion (or Farmington) for the years that Rich went there. But here is the link the current WVSSA where you look at North Marion's current athletic schedules. I will grant you that some of the scheduling may have changed in the last 20 years, but as you can see the do currently play both of those schools. If I find the actual schedules I will post a better link later. http://www.wvssac.org/new_site/wvssac_website/html/sportsschedules.asp Also, just another "fact" that he missed, it's West Virginia University not the University of West Virginia. Kind of trivial fact, but still something I would assume you would want to get right.
Needs to Fact Check While this is a feel good story, its not all true. First of all Rich Rodriguez was born in Grant Town, WV (I'm pretty sure he never lived in Chicago). So it would be really odd if he'd never heard of WV. Secondly, Grant Town is 15 miles from Morgantown. His high school, North Marion, played Morgantown HS and University (Morgantown) HS in both football and basketball, so odds are pretty good that he had been to Morgantown before he became a student there. Also, Glenville State is an NAIA football team and they didn't win a national championship (although they did play once in the championship game). Some of the story may be true, just knowing those facts are wrong makes me question the rest of the story.