Much of the controversy concerning Rich Rodriguez and his departure for Michigan remains.

It’s been years since Rodriguez left for Michigan (where his three teams had a combined record of 15-22). However, the rancid taste left in so many mouths remains.

Nowadays, optimists may outnumber the pessimists, realists and those just waiting to see what concerns WVU football.

Rodriguez may be back on the sideline, but it will be the players who decide whether the Mountaineers can fool the many pundits who don’t see an explosion of Mountaineer wins this season.

West Virginia was 6-7 a year ago when it fired Neal Brown and lost in the Scooter’s Coffee Frisco Bowl to Memphis.

In his previous run of seven seasons at WVU, Rodriguez went 60-26, but the ever-lasting stigma of losing to Pitt in his f

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