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'It's still old West Virginia to me': Rich Rodriguez discusses his return to a program eager for past glory

MORGANTOWN, W. Va. – Rich Rodriguez leans back into a leather couch next to a wall of coal bricks in his office at the Milan Puskar Center. He pairs a white hat and blue polo – both emblazoned with the gold "WV" logo. He is comfortable. Home again.

Rodriguez knows the question is coming. He led West Virginia to a 60-26 record from 2001-07 before leaving for Michigan. The Grant Town, W. Va., native still hears that question, and it took nearly two decades and a journey Rodriguez describes by invoking Forrest Gump to find an answer.

"I went to the Bayou, I've been in the South in Mississippi, out in the desert at Arizona, and have all these experiences," Rodr

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