I’ll be honest: I never really had much time for Rita Rodriguez when she was with her husband at WVU. She was around a lot and one time we even crossed paths and she was complimentary of something I wrote about someone or something, but I was more concerned with covering the team than the coach’s wife.

Granted, I couldn’t hide from what everyone was saying about seemingly everything. I filtered through rumors and stories I’d hear about one thing or another and found them to be largely … well, not irrelevant, but not exactly pertinent, either. I mean, I knew Rich or she or both wanted this and that for her, but really, who cares?

Then we learned it was a sore spot for Rich and a source of his frustrations. It is said — not here, mind you — that she’ll have a hard time acquiescing at Michigan, that she’s no longer home and can’t expect the same privileges, that if she thought criticism was rough here, she has no idea what’s coming at UM.

Perhaps it’s all true. Perhaps it’s not. As it is, she was front and center at the UM women’s football academy this week and representing herself quite well. As for her geography? Not so much:

There was even a pleasant surprise in the move for Rita: She originally thought Ann Arbor was located in northern Michigan, which would have turned what is a six-hour drive from West Virginia into what she imagined was at least 12.

The story gives you the idea life is tough, though, let’s be clear here, life is largely the result of our own actions and decisions. If things weren’t already bad enough already without the move, the venom and the imaginary harassment, Rita is to be deposed as part of the prelude to a lawsuit. It won’t happen July 1, as was previously planned, because of schedule conflicts on both sides.

“The fact that I would be deposed, I’m quite comfortable with,” she said at the June 14 academy. “I was a witness to many of the things that happened, and I would be proud to say what happened. Because I do know what happened, and I’m quite comfortable with it. No problem at all.” 

Maybe the trial hasn’t started, but the jury is out on that one.