Wren Baker has officially settled on Rich Rodriguez as the 36th head coach in West Virginia program history. The Grant Town native returns to Morgantown after 17 years and is fresh off of winning the Conference-USA Championship with Jacksonville State.

Rich Rodriguez left the Mountaineer football program for Michigan back in 2007 after a loss to Pitt that crushed fans across the state.Seventeen years later, i

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.