Rich Rodriguez is heading back to West Virginia. According to ESPNThe Mountaineers announced Thursday that they had re-hired Rodriguez 17 years after he left for Michigan. The Jacksonville State coach will succeed Neal Brown after Brown was fired at the end of the season.

Rodriguez launched his head coaching career at a pair of West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference schools. He led Salem in 1988 and Glenville State from 1990-96. Stints as the offensive coordinator at Tulane and Clemson preceded Rodriguez’s first appointment as WVU head coach.

There are only two Power Four head coaching jobs that remain open - West Virginia and North Carolina. Following the news late last night of Tulane's Jon Sumrall telling school officials that he is staying with the Green Wave,