SHOCKER! BadJocks Uncovers Photographic Evidence That May Be Related to the University of West Virginia's "Shredder Gate" & Former Head Football Coach Rich Rodriguez 

In cased you missed it, the University of West Virginia is investigating a large number of missing files related to members of its football team. According to sources at the school, the files disappeared sometime between December 16 (when former coach Rich Rodriguez announced he was leaving for the University of Michigan job) and January 3, when the Mountaineers returned from their bowl game. We're talking about 7 years worth of player's personal information such as contact information, scholarship money awarded, class attendance records and personal conduct records, much of which was stored--for some stupid reason--in Rodriguez' private office! The plot thickens with reports that "several people in the Puskar Center reported seeing Rodriguez and at least one of his assistants . . . in Rodriguez's private office shredding paperwork on Dec. 18 -- the day he returned from Ann Arbor after being named Michigan's new head coach." (ESPN)

If that proves true, Rodriguez could be in a lot of trouble with both the University (which is already suing him for $4 million) and the NCAA . . . especially after we post the photo below (sent to us by an anonymous source inside the WVU athletic office) that was reportedly taken by a photographer for the student newspaper, The Daily Mounter, on December 18, as Coach R was "cleaning up" in his office before heading to Ann Arbor. It's not 100% clear to us what he's doing--or if anything unethical is going on--but if you look closely, this image does raise some suspicions in our minds. Is this the "smoking gun" that school officials are looking for in their investigation of the missing files? Our legal team says we can't speculate any further (and we may be forced to pull this image by threat of lawsuit at any time) but we'll let you decide for yourselves.

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BadJocks Readers Respond to "The Picture." - As expected, the picture above, which appears to be an important clue in the ongoing West Virginia University Shredder-Gate incident prompted an avalanche of emails from readers. Here is just a sampling of what we received:

From: Roger B.
Hey Badjocks,
Yea, that’s coach Rod shreadding up those documents with that Michigan sticker on the shreader. Just you wait. We’re going to get to the bottom of this and you will see this will make Watergate look like a kindergarten party. Ol Rod’s stock is gonna drop faster than polyester dress on prom night.

Roger:
You're not trying to imply that Coach Rodriquez is a cross-dresser, are you? Because we have not heard that before, but we are willing to look into it if you have further information.
Bob Reno, Publisher, BadJocks.com

From: Lara K.
Subject: Photo of WV Coach Rodriguez Shredding Documents?
The photo is clearly a photoshopped picture of Rodruiguez at a press conference and a shredder. How many people have a microphone on their shredder? You can also see the blurred edging which proves a photoshopped image. I hope you don't think this is an actual photo.

Lara:
It's not an actual photo? Well, of course not: it's posted online. You can't hardly put that in a picture frame, now can you? Duh! And, as far as how many people have a microphone on their shredder? We don't know the answer to that, but then again, this is West Virginia, so they may only have the money for a single combination Press Conference/Shredder Room, like my kid's middle school where they combined the gym and cafeteria. It could also be one of those new space-saving electronic devices like a combo DVD/VCR. Who knows? 
We also don't care for your tone, accusing our usually reliable source with sending us a doctored photo. We can tell you for certainty that they have only been accused of altering images seven or eight times so far this year.
Bob Reno, Publisher, BadJocks.com

Correction: Several readers notified us that the name of the WVU student newspaper is NOT the Daily Mounter as we previously reported. It is, in fact, the Weakly Hillbillian. Our apologies.