It’s impossible not to like Mitch Rodrigue. If you asked a cartoonist to dream up what an offensive line coach would look and sound like, you’d get pretty damn close to Rodrigue. The barrel of a man speaks in a Louisiana drawl that immediately makes you like him, even as he’s tearing you a new one for not keeping technique.
Rodrigue came out of nowhere (well actually, he came out of an AD position at a Texas high school) to put together a pretty good unit for the Buffs. Through some pretty terrible injury luck, Rodrigue made sure his guys were more physical and more technical than anyone else’s.