MORGANTOWN — If there was an image projected of West Virginia’s new defensive coordinator Zac Alley heading into last Saturday’s Backyard Brawl, it was, perhaps, something of a mad scientist working in a defensive laboratory with bubbling test tubes and electrons emitting lightning flashes shooting across the room, all the while being assisted by a hunchback assistant named Igor.

This was not, head coach Rich Rodriguez assured us, all of his decision in hiring one of the youngest coordinators in the nation away from Oklahoma to try to turn what had been just a horrid defense a season ago, so much a gamble as a necessity and, after the first three games which have produced a 2-1 record and a Backyard Brawl victory the vision, is seemingly quite accurate. kAmp==6J :D 2D 5:776C6?E 2?5 25G6?

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