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 -- Before the start of a football season, the word expectations is thrown around a lot. The expectations for a team vary from school to school, but every coach and player will say first, it’s winning the conference and then getting a bid for the College Football Playoff, ...
MORGANTOWN -- The biggest question starting West Virginia’s fall camp was who was going to be the starting quarterback to lead Rich Rodriguez’s offense. Rodriguez had his fair share of notable quarterbacks play for him like Pat White, who now is on staff, but his 2025 quarterback is still ...
MORGANTOWN -- It was in the mid-80s, a little humid and partly cloudy, but a great day for the first day of fall camp for West Virginia. Rich Rodriguez went out for his first practice of the 2025 season as the 36th coach of West Virginia. But it wasn’t his first preseason practice for ...