West Virginia Has ‘Productive’ First Fall Scrimmage, But Rodriguez Sees Room for Improvement

MORGANTOWN — West Virginia capped off its first full week of practice with an intersquad scrimmage on Saturday inside Milan Puskar Stadium.

It’d been 126 days since WVU’s last scrimmage, the Gold and Blue Spring Showcase, and Saturday’s scrimmage was similar. Rich Rodriguez said he ran around 100 to 110 plays during the scrimmage, going over multiple different situations. Everyone was live during the scrimmage, meaning everyone could be hit, even the whole quarterback room.

It was a closed practice to the media, and the only spectators in the stands were coaches’ families or other WVU personnel. There was a public address announcer to give it more of a game feel, and Rodriguez tried to gamify it by handing out points for successful players.

Rodriguez’s biggest problem was the penalties.