colleges Arizona hired former West Virginia and Michigan coach Rich Rodriguez to take over a program that has never played in the Rose Bowl, and has been mired in mediocrity for most of the past decade. Athletic director Greg Byrne posted on his Twitter account last night a picture of himself with Rodriguez, wearing an Arizona baseball cap, the coach’s wife, and two children. The tweet said “And the new Arizona football coach and his family is . . .’’ The 48-year-old Rodriguez will be introduced today in Tucson at the McKale Center. Arizona fired coach Mike Stoops last month after he went 41-50 in seven-plus seasons at the Pac-12 school . . . According to a report in The Gainesville Sun, if Ohio State offers Urban Meyer its football coaching job, “I’ll have a decision to make,’’ the ex-Florida coach said. Meyer, currently an analyst at ESPN, said there is no offer at present. The 47-year-old Meyer is an Ohio native, and started his coaching career as a graduate assistant coach for the Buckeyes in 1986 . . . Suspended Missouri football coach Gary Pinkel said he “failed miserably’’ as a role model after his recent drunken-driving arrest and guilty plea. Pinkel publicly discussed his Nov. 16 arrest and subsequent conviction for the first time, meeting with reporters at his attorney’s office in Columbia, Mo. . . . Washington State quarterback Connor Halliday will miss the Apple Cup against rival Washington this weekend because of a lacerated liver suffered in Saturday’s overtime loss to Utah.
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