I'll bet WV is loving this scandal is now focused in Michigan. 
Rich Rodriguez's agent linked to gambling
WVU football coach Rich Rodriguez Agent Linked to Gambling Ring
Mike Brown, the agent for former WVU football coach Rich Rodriguez, admitted in his deposition that he promoted a college and professional sports betting service in 2001.
“I never ran a sports betting operation,” Brown said in the deposition. “I just did voice-overs."
He was referring to his appearances on a Cleveland radio station where he would read sports betting scripts for a friend.
The gambling allegation centers on a script obtained by WVU attorneys that Brown admits he read on the air promoting a gambling service. In the script, Brown is identified by the nickname “waterboy.”
The script reads, in part, “Hello you have reached the chicken shack, home of the finest phillies (sic) and football handicapping picks in the south, waterboy proprietor. So far this year the waterboy is 6-3 on college games and 3-0 on the pros.”
But Brown maintains he wasn’t actually making the predictions. “I did not make the picks,” Brown testified. “All I did was just do the voice-overs.”
Brown does admit, however, that his involvement with sports betting occurred while he worked at a company called Prestige. That company represented NFL players and recruited college players.
Brown’s gambling connection occurred before he began to represent Rodriguez, and Brown says he never told Rodriguez about it.
The disintegration of the relationship between West Virginia University and football coach Rich Rodriguez began months before Michigan offered him a job, according to e-mails obtained by The Associated Press. At the center was Mike Brown.
"These e-mails, the AP acquired, show a continued pattern of aggressive, questionable behavior of RR agent Mike Brown against WVU," writes one contributor to the WestByGodVirgina.com website. "The Athletic Dept. (of WVU) might be a Mickey Mouse operation, but Mike Brown is definitely Pinocchio."
WVU football coach Rich Rodriguez Agent Linked to Gambling Ring
Mike Brown, the agent for former WVU football coach Rich Rodriguez, admitted in his deposition that he promoted a college and professional sports betting service in 2001.
“I never ran a sports betting operation,” Brown said in the deposition. “I just did voice-overs."
He was referring to his appearances on a Cleveland radio station where he would read sports betting scripts for a friend.
The gambling allegation centers on a script obtained by WVU attorneys that Brown admits he read on the air promoting a gambling service. In the script, Brown is identified by the nickname “waterboy.”
The script reads, in part, “Hello you have reached the chicken shack, home of the finest phillies (sic) and football handicapping picks in the south, waterboy proprietor. So far this year the waterboy is 6-3 on college games and 3-0 on the pros.”
But Brown maintains he wasn’t actually making the predictions. “I did not make the picks,” Brown testified. “All I did was just do the voice-overs.”
Brown does admit, however, that his involvement with sports betting occurred while he worked at a company called Prestige. That company represented NFL players and recruited college players.
Brown’s gambling connection occurred before he began to represent Rodriguez, and Brown says he never told Rodriguez about it.
The disintegration of the relationship between West Virginia University and football coach Rich Rodriguez began months before Michigan offered him a job, according to e-mails obtained by The Associated Press. At the center was Mike Brown.
"These e-mails, the AP acquired, show a continued pattern of aggressive, questionable behavior of RR agent Mike Brown against WVU," writes one contributor to the WestByGodVirgina.com website. "The Athletic Dept. (of WVU) might be a Mickey Mouse operation, but Mike Brown is definitely Pinocchio."