It’s been 273 days since West Virginia concluded its 2024 regular season. It’s been a crazy 273 days for the program. Since then, Neal Brown was fired, WVU lost to Memphis in the Frisco Bowl, Rich Rodriguez was named head coach, 70-plus players transferred in, and almost as many transferred out. You might as well forget everything you knew from the 2024 season.

However, it has shades of the past. Rodriguez’s return is one of the most anticipated in college football, and according to ESPN’s Kirk Herbstreit, the best hire in college football this offseason, even better than North Carolina hiring eight-time Super Bowl Champion Bill Belichick.

There’s a billboard outside of the Coliseum with Rodriguez on it, he’s in commercials, if you sit at Kegler’s for five minutes, someone mentions Rodri

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