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Coach blue

Rich Rodriguez's colorful vocabulary

by Dale Leslie

posted 12/2/2008

The U-M’s miserable football season tested the patience of first-year coach Rich Rodriguez. Fans who attended practices reported hearing a lot of cussing at the young team members by the head coach and his staff. “Bo was a yeller and a swearer on occasion too,” says one U-M grad, “but these guys use four-letter words that would make Bo blanch.” But in midseason,

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