Well, let’s begin with the 112 phone calls and the apparent resolution to that intrigue — voicemail. The confirmation came from the University of Michigan. In records I was provided, WVU redacted all phone numbers, meaning the number dialed was blacked out and not visible. Had it been visible, I would have called it, just like I did with numbers that belonged to UM recruits. People should understand that. Should.
Voicemail was the hunch from the start, just because the volume of the calls, and I looked into this right away. However, I couldn’t have received less help from people you think would be able to help and even had one person tell me voicemail wasn’t possible because Morgantown is so far from Peterstown. In all honesty, that, too, was also my hunch.Â
But let’s also look how and where this started: 13 words from the 24th paragraph of a story about a larger issue, one Rodriguez does not deny.
On Dec. 15, Rodriguez made seven calls to Peterstown, Monroe County, a place he called 112 times during November and December, often in succession, and also made calls to Boston, Toledo and Phoenix, where his agent works. On Dec. 16, he repeated the cycle with calls to each location. This time, the call to Phoenix lasted 29 minutes.
Somewhere out there, the story is quoted as labeling the calls “suspicious” — that word never came from my story or the blog, where I used words innuendo, puzzling and intrigue, all of which I think are accurate. For some reason, the thing ballooned into something much bigger, no doubt because people would like to think the worst of Rodriguez, and I think it deserved some discussion, hence the posting yesterday.Â
Let’s jump into the Friday Feedback and begin with a quote apropos of everything this week…
glibglub said:
Is it me or have we stepped through the proverbial looking glass?
So true…
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