MORGANTOWN — It was one of those moments that come about strictly from happenstance, a moment that made you do a double take and simply add to the value of the story you had been planning to write out of West Virginia's football interviews on Friday. Offensive line coach Rick Trickett had ...
MORGANTOWN — West Virginia defensive coordinator Zac Alley took the podium after the first day of fall practice, setting up the expectations for the fall. He was asked what unit on the defense had the most to grow, and he mentioned the defensive line first. “I’ve challenged our front four,” Alley said. “I want to be better there consistently. We got some guys that are talented enough, and now it’s putting it together and showing the physicality and doing their job every single day.” The Mountaineers were off to a hot start, creating disruption in the backfield, then they ...
MORGANTOWN – Seven outstanding contributors to Mountaineer Athletics make up the 36th class of honorees in the West Virginia University Sports Hall of Fame, announced today by Vice President and Director of Athletics Wren Baker. The class of 2026 includes John Beilein (men’s basketball), ...
MORGANTOWN — Jaden Bray is the old man on West Virginia’s campus. He’s been a receiver on the football team for the past two years and was at Oklahoma State three years before that. Bray hadn’t played every year, dealing with injuries, but he still has a lot of experience. “I definitely feel like the older guy out there,” Bray said. Bray has taken the role as leader of the receiver room. WVU has a lot of new and young players, so he has a lot of teaching to do. “How I lead the young guys is just trying to show by example how it's done,” Bray said. “Whenever they ...
MORGANTOWN — Rich Rodriguez used this offseason to create a foundation to build the West Virginia program on. Rodriguez didn't have a normal offseason the year before since he was hired in December. There wasn’t time to bring in a freshman recruiting class. The only commits left were the ones who stayed from the Neal Brown class. Rodriguez brought in almost 50 high school and junior college players to hopefully create continuity for the next couple of years at WVU instead of living by the transfer portal like some schools do. Rodriguez landed a couple of highly recruited ...
