Lawyers representing former West Virginia football coach Rich Rodriguez want the university to turn over a host of documents and make athletic director Ed Pastilong available for an interview.

The requests were contained in documents filed Wednesday by Rodriguez's lawyer Marv Robon in Monongalia County Circuit Court.

Robon told the Morgantown Dominion Post that Pastilong is one of several officials he plans to interview as part of his pretrial information gathering. Robon also wants documents, e-mails and correspondence.

Pastilong says he'll consult the university's lawyers to determine how to best comply with the request.

Robon wants WVU to admit that Pastilong, WVU President Mike Garrison and/or Craig Walker, Garrison's chief of staff, met with Rodriguez on December 15, before Rodriguez resigned.

WVU sued Rodriguez after he left to take the Michigan head coaching job, saying he must pay a $4 million buyout in his old contract.