After the 2009 Purdue game – this was the best shot I got
At today’s presser Rich Rod was asked about the postgame incident with Purdue Coach Danny Hope last year. RR dismissed it and served up his go to Lion King line, "It’s in the past."
If you don’t remember, when Rodriguez and Hope met to shake hands after the game, the Boiler coach brought LG Zach Reckman along with him to meet RR. Why? Reckman was suspended by the Big Ten for the Notre Dame game earlier that season. This happened the week after the conference suspended Jonas Mouton and Rich Rod threatened to review film of other games to find questionable plays to submit for conference review. Hope obviously believed that RR submitted something that got Reckman shelved for the Irish game, and wanted to stick it in his face.
Here’s Rich Rod talking about it in the 2009 postgame presser, just after it happened:
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I’m guessing/hoping it’ll come up again later this week.
3 Comments
danny
danny hope is a piece of shit
Yinka Double Dare
Oddly enough, I was at that Purdue/NIU game where the play that got Reckman suspended happened, and he absolutely deserved it. It was a total cheap shot — the game was over and he dove on a guy anyway and punched him in the ribs to boot. As soon as I saw it I said "I bet Delany suspends him for that". The NIU guy was down for at least a minute while his team was celebrating a win on Purdue's home field.
wilson tresdale
Danny Hope is an idiot and an embarrassment to college football. A twit like that, put in charge of leading young men? Purdue should have fired him already. At Notre Dame, Michigan or USC, he'd be gone.