Admission to Rich Rodriguez’s introductory press conference Friday was free, but had it been a paid event, the attendees would have gotten their money’s worth. West Virginia University director of athletics Wren Baker formally introduced Rodriguez as the Mountaineers’ 36th head football coach at the WVU Coliseum on Friday afternoon.

West Virginia University celebrated as Rich Rodriguez was named the football team's head coach for his second stint with the program. Seventeen years since his departure to become the head coach of Michigan,

Moments ago on The Pat McAfee Show, former Alabama head coach and West Virginia native Nick Saban said that he helped with the coaching search for the next head coach of the Mountaineers. “I was a part of this coaching search alongside Wren Baker.