MORGANTOWN — Back on Dec. 29, 2025, West Virginia University football coach Rich Rodriguez hired veteran running back coach Jay Boulware. The next day Rodriguez hired the even more veteran offensive line coach Rick Trickett to serve his third term with the Mountaineers. You didn't need a ...
MORGANTOWN — As if West Virginia coach Rich Rodriguez didn't have enough to worry about as he completely recasts his team from last season's outmoded 4-8 model into a sleek new representative to send off into deep waters of Big 12 football, he finds himself caught up worrying about things ...
MORGANTOWN — In just two weeks, West Virginia football kicks off against Coastal Carolina at noon for the first game of the 2026 season. The second year of Rich Rodriguez starts very soon. Year 1 left a lot to be desired. The Mountaineers finished 4-8, with a lot of surprising wins and losses. You could’ve penciled in a win against Ohio in Week 2, which you would’ve been wrong about, and a loss on the road against ranked Houston. You would’ve been wrong there, too. It was hard to predict the team last year, but what wasn’t hard to predict was that the team wasn’t going to ...
MORGANTOWN — Think Rich Rodriguez football and what do you think of? Offense. Innovative. Pat White. Steve Slaton. Noel Devine. Owen Schmitt. Rasheed Marshall. Chris Henry. But here's a pretty well-guarded secret about Rich Rodriguez football in his first go-round at West Virginia. They played defense, too. Some of the best defenders at WVU played for Rodriguez. Pac-Man Jones. Grant Wiley. Brian King. James "Dirty " Davis. David Upchurch. Jahmile Addae. You don't put together three consecutive 11-win seasons simply by outscoring the opposition. Even in the game that brought an ...
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 Let us begin with the reality of life in college basketball: big men don't grow on trees. If they did, West Virginia probably would stand tall in the production of dominant centers as there is surely no shortage of trees for them to grow on within the state. But while other schools have harvested big men such as Wilt Chamberlain, Bill Russell, Bill Walton, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Patrick Ewing right through Purdue's Zach Edey from the last couple of years, WVU has normally had to make due with smaller or less talented centers who could dominate games. Perhaps what says this ...
