Teddy Greenstein | ON SPORTS MEDIA AND COLLEGES He will stroll into a ballroom at the Hyatt Regency on Thursday morning, this mountain man and mountain of a man, and every camera and tape recorder will follow. Rich Rodriguez has yet to coach a Big Ten game, and yet Michigan's new hire is the conference's most high-profile coach after newly enshrined Hall of Famer Joe Paterno. Rodriguez has made news every month since his Dec. 16 hiring—and mostly for the wrong reasons. Wolverines quarterback Ryan Mallett transferred because he figured he was a bad fit for Rodriguez's run-heavy spread attack. Starting lineman Justin Boren left—for Ohio State!—because Rodriguez's coaches cursed and demeaned him at practice. "Family values have eroded," Boren said on his way out. Rodriguez whiffed on the nation's top recruit, quarterback...
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