The follow-up to the Faculty Senate vote happened today. The Faculty Assembly gathered for a vote of no confidence and demand for Garrison to resign.

First off, this was not the best time to have a Faculty Assembly. The semester ended this week, and summer session doesn’t start until this week, so nine month faculty members may be gone, and if you work full time, this is a good time for a vacation. So getting all the faculty members to attend was not going to happen. So there were not enough members for a quorum, however, they agreed to take an unofficial vote (not that if there was an official vote it would make the slightest bit of difference).

91% of the faculty voted that Garrison should resign in the wake of this scandal.

This comes on top of the news yesterday, from Rich Rod’s deposition. I’ll quote from the Metro News article:

Rodriguez says he was told months before Garrison was hired that he was going to be the new President. Rodriguez said he talked to Board of Governors members Steve Farmer and Drew Payne about Garrison. Rodriguez said of Farmer, “I felt he had great influence, in particular, because he told me months before President Garrison was elected that he was going to be the next President of West Virginia.”

Also:

Rodriguez admitted that when he signed a contract amendment just prior to the 2007 season that he did not ask that the $4 million buyout be reduced or eliminated. He reiterated his contention that he had been told by new WVU president Mike Garrison that the buyout would be reduced or eliminated should he choose to leave.

Why is this important? Because Garrison wasn’t yet President before the 2007 football season.