MORGANTOWN — The first year of the second coming of Rich Rodriguez at West Virginia ended with almost as much embarrassment as did the last year of his first coming but that loss he suffered to Pitt may have at least let him know that he wasn't looking at the end of the world after being bullied from one end of Mountaineer Field to the other in an embarrassing 49-0 defeat to Texas Tech.

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