Rich Rodriguez is returning to West Virginia for a second stint as head coach at his alma mater. Athletic director Wren Baker announced the hiring of Rodriguez on Thursday, 17 years after Rodriguez made a hasty exit for what became a disastrous three-year experiment at Michigan.

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.

Before returning to West Virginia, Rodriguez led Jacksonville State to three-straight nine-win seasons, earned the 2024 C-USA regular season and conference championships, won the 2023 New Orleans Bowl and had a first-place finish in the Atlantic Sun Conference in 2022.

Pacman posted a video on X saying that Rich Rodriguez is coming back to West Virginia. “It’s official! WVU is back! Rich Rodriguez back in Morgantown. To everyb

There is a large portion of the West Virginai fanbase that vividly remembers the early 2000s; they can still feel what it felt like watching the Mountaineers punching up and beating teams that they really had no business beating;