Real life Rudy
Which fan is the real Rudy at the end in the stands? Can't seem to spot him.
shareThe guy behind Ned Beatty. Ned actually turns and grabs him to say "That's my Son".
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If this is a true story, then Coach Dan Devine was unable to lead a hungry fly to a pile of warm dog-doo.
Actually he led Notre Dame to a National Championship after the Rudy era.
Although some of Rudy was true, according to Coach Devine's biography, the shirt trade-in scene never really happened. Coach Devine did admit that had it really happened, he would have suspended all those players for that game.
Near the end of the game, Coach Devine told the other coaches to play all of the seniors because it was their last game at home. Then he initially refused to insert Rudy, who was a senior, into the game. I don't know if this actually happened or not.
As much as I like Rudy, the portrayal of Devine was borderline slanderous.
He said as much; when asked if the jersey scene really happened, he said that if his players had done that in real life he would've kicked them all off the team.
And he intended to play Rudy all along anyway.
If that's the case - then Rudy sounds like an ungrateful little bitch. You don't stab your friends in the back like that - I don't care how much Hollywood encourages you.
shareThis might shed some light on it for you:
http://www.nytimes.com/1993/09/17/sports/college-football-the-notre-dame-mutiny-that-wasn-t.html
ive heard devine said that he was ok with letting him play that last game but he understands why they made him out to be a bad guy and he was ok with it
"As much as I like Rudy, the portrayal of Devine was borderline slanderous. "
Devine was fine with being the antagonist; he was not fine with being that much of an antagonist.
shareThe real life Rudy is a crook. He made a settlement with the SEC about fraud charges. And I mean the Securities and Exchange Commission, not the Southeast Conference.
December 17, 2011
SEC Tackles 'Rudy' in Fraud Case
By Andrew Ackerman
WASHINGTON — The inspirational 1993 movie "Rudy" celebrates Daniel Ruettiger as a plucky underdog who overcomes long odds and his diminutive stature to earn a walk-on role on Notre Dame's legendary college-football team.
But in a settlement announced on Friday, the Securities and Exchange Commission casts Mr. Ruettiger in a far less heroic light—as a key participant in a so-called pump-and-dump stock scheme that generated more than $11 million in allegedly illicit profits for a now-defunct beverage company, Rudy Nutrition.
"Investors were lured into the scheme by Mr. Ruettiger's well-known, feel-good story but found themselves in a situation that did not have a happy ending," said Scott Friestad, associate director of the SEC's division of enforcement.
The company made and sold a sports drink called "Rudy" with the tagline "Dream Big! Never Quit!" But the SEC charged that Mr. Ruettiger and 12 others made false and misleading statements about their company in news releases, SEC filings and promotional materials during 2008 in a scheme to lure investors, inflate the stock price and then sell their shares at a profit.
For instance, a letter to potential investors falsely claimed that in "a major southwest test, Rudy outsold Gatorade 2 to 1!" the SEC said in its complaint.
"The tall tales in this elaborate scheme included phony taste tests and other false information that was used to convince investors they were investing in something special," Mr. Friestad said.
The pitch worked. In less than a month, the stock went from trading 720 shares a day to more than three million shares, and within two weeks its price climbed from 25 cents to $1.05 a share.
Mr. Ruettiger, who lives in Las Vegas, agreed to pay $382,866 to settle the SEC's charges without admitting or denying them—giving up his profits of $185,750 and paying a fine of $185,750 and interest. Ten other individuals also agreed to pay penalties to settle the SEC charges.
Neither Mr. Ruettiger nor his attorney could be reached for comment.
Mr. Ruettiger and a college friend founded the original company, called Rudy Beverage Inc., in South Bend, Ind. In Oct. 2007, the company moved to Las Vegas, where it struggled financially with a small number of customers, few assets and no profits, the complaint said.
In late 2007, Mr. Ruettiger and the company's president hired an experienced penny-stock promoter to orchestrate a public distribution of company stock. With the help of a disbarred California attorney, they orchestrated a so-called reverse merger with a dormant public company and turned Rudy Beverage into the publicly traded Rudy Nutrition by Feb. 2008, the complaint said.
In addition to false and misleading promotions, the SEC said the scheme's participants manipulated the trading of the company's stock using brokerage accounts in the name of offshore entities to make investor interest appear stronger than it actually was. The SEC says the group used the accounts of a series of Panamanian entities to manipulate the stock.
The agency is still pursuing litigation against stock promoters Pawel Dynkowski of Poland and Chad Smanjak of South Africa, who allegedly made about $4.2 million off the scheme that they deposited into Panamanian accounts the SEC couldn't trace. The two promoters couldn't immediately be reached for comment and the SEC said there are no known attorneys for them. Agency officials believe they aren't in the U.S.
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