Thomas Wolfe’s posthumously published 1940 novel “You Can’t Go Home Again” is a cautionary tale. A New York Times review of the book at the time summarized the story this way: “In the last analysis, it means, of course, that one must go forward in life, that there is no return to the things that were, however dear to us they may have been.”

But are there exceptions? The answer to that question begins to unfold on Saturday when the West Virginia University Mountaineer football team begins the 2025 season with Rich Rodriguez as its head coach.

WVU fans do not forget or forgive easily. Rodriguez’ inelegant departure for Michigan in 2007 left fans fuming. The one-time favorite son was cast out into a Mountaineer Nation netherworld. He spent the next 17 years traveling the coaching world, wit

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