MORGANTOWN - West Virginia’s second practice wasn’t the best. Rich Rodriguez wasn’t happy because the team didn’t take any steps forward, and more importantly, the team was soft. A position he pointed out was the running backs. Rodriguez said only two of his four running backs made ...
MORGANTOWN -- West Virginia coach Rich Rodriguez said every position was up for grabs, even the running back position, which Jahiem White was thought to have locked up. There was a lot of change from last season, new coach, new staff and a lot of new players. There are some returners, but not ...
MORGANTOWN -- There are three levels to a successful run play in the open field. There’s the initial block from the offensive line on the defensive line to create the hole, then there’s the lineman who goes up to block the linebacker in some cases, and then out on the perimeter, where the ...
MORGANTOWN -- Rich Rodriguez is out on the West Virginia practice field yelling, screaming, running around and all over the place. On the other side of the field with the defense, Zac Alley is yelling, screaming, running around and all over the place, too. The two are similar. Alley left ...
MORGANTOWN -- When Rich Rodriguez was a kid, he went out to his yard to the garden in Grant Town to pick weeds. “I hated pulling weeds,” Rodriguez said. “I’d rather do anything else than pull weeds … It’s miserable. Absolutely miserable.” When Rodriguez was asked to pick ...
MORGANTOWN -- Save for a few framed jerseys leaning up against a wall — one of them a Jerry West from his WVU college days — Ross Hodge goes to work every day sitting in a rather bare office. The WVU men’s basketball coach swears he has a bunch of stuff in the back of his SUV that ...
