Morgantown’s had that “new sheriff in town” energy since December, and his name is Rich Rodriguez . The man who once had the Mountaineers humming like a muscle car in the mid-2000s is back in gold and blue, months into his second run at West Virginia. Hired after the program stumbled to a 6–7 finish, Rodriguez wasted no time flipping the switch—firing up a massive roster reset, cleaning out the depth chart, and basically signing an entire new team out of the transfer portal. And just like that, the redemption tour has been rolling since winter.

Rodriguez didn’t waste time putting his stamp on the roster. WVU pulled in 29 transfer players in the first January wave alone, with another couple of dozen added before the summer heat even hit. By August, more than 50 new faces had checked into

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