Apologies for not having the five depositions released after 4:30 p.m. yesterday posted online, but we honestly couldn’t find someone who knew how to do it. Bad timing. It happens. Of the five — President Mike Garrison, Chief of Staff Craig Walker, Deputy Director of Athletics Mike Parsons and Board of Governors members Steve Farmer and Parry Petroplus — Garrison’s was by far the most in-depth and most interesting.

Clearly, the greatest tidbit was learning about the first meeting between Garrison and Rich Rodriguez’s agent, Mike Brown. Seems Brown referred to his client as Product Rodriguez and made it quite clear he had every intention to shop his product around because it was too good to remain on WVU’s shelves.

Product Rodriguez. He’ll never be the same after this. Nor should he.

Feel free to search for and share opinions on this matter. They’re all over the place and mostly the same, though I contend a story with jokes about Mike Brown’s I.P.O. and Rodriuguez’s Dec. 1 dividend would be pretty entertaining.

There was much more, especially with Garrison’s deposition, and a few things that stand out or need to be highlighted — namely Dusty Rutledge.

There was also the fact P-Rod was once interested in being A.D. and that Garrison and Rodriguez did in fact discuss the buyout and alternatives. It was a strange dichotomy of a man who wanted to be at his alma mater and wanted to be in a greater position of authority, but also a man who didn’t want to be tied down by his $4 buyout. If nothing else, it illustrated P-Rod’s strife and frustrations and how he quite quickly went from being convinced WVU was his home to convinced WVU was out to get him.

Above all else, to me, at least, is Dusty Rutledge, who remains a large figure in this for some mysterious reason. He’d popped up here and there in previous depositions and P-Rod’s attorney, Marv Robon, who was amazingly competent with Garrison, detailed the fateful evening of Dec. 15.

It was on that night that Garrison said Rodriguez requested Rutledge accompany him to Garrison’s house for a late-night meeting. Robon repeatedly asked Garrison if he knew the specifics of that meeting. Where was Rutledge? Was a door in the room Garrison and Rodriguez met left open? Could someone have overheard the conversation? Did they raise their voices so that someone could hear through a door? What, exactly, did Rodriguez say?

Here’s my question: Why Dusty?

Rutledge was a friend and, of course, the video coordinator who was presumably adept with recording devices. That’s quite intriguing, yes?

Throughout the entire tug-o-war with WVU, Rodriguez sided and confided with his wife, his financial advisor and his agent, but never Rutledge. He was never a party to any of the meetings or e-mail chains between Team P-Rod and WVU. Yet he’s the guy Rodriguez brings with him for the biggest moment of the conflict? He’s the guy who tags along when Rodriguez head’s to Garrison’s house seemingly certain he’ll be given what he wants, yet leaves convinced he can no longer stay at WVU because he wasn’t given anything?

It seems Dusty must be a witness and after such a big deal has been made about his presence now, would he simply take a seat and put his hand on the bible to give his side of the story or might the former video coordinator have something even more reliable?