Rich Rodriguez has been a new head coach at six different places, dating back to his first head coaching job at Salem in 1988, and he’s been a coach of sorts almost every year since then. Rodriguez has had a lot of season openers.

However, this time it’s a bit different. Rodriguez had been everywhere since Salem, building his way to someday coach at WVU, which was his home-state team, where he played, and went to school. This season, Rodriguez finally got the opportunity to coach back at WVU after a couple of hiccups.

Saturday, against Robert Morris, will be his first game back as the head coach, and probably his last first game at a new program.

“It’ll be a little surreal, like it was at the opening press conference,” Rodriguez said. “I mentioned earlier on one of our tapings of our TV

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