Whether he wanted it to be public or not, Nick Saban played a small part in helping West Virginia land on Rich Rodriguez as the head football coach. WVU great Pat McAfee let the cat out of the bag a week or so ago during one of his shows on ESPN and had the G.

In an alternate universe, Rich Rodriguez accepted the Alabama football head coach job in 2006 and Nick Saban never won six national championships in Tuscaloosa. Instead, Rodriguez turned down the Crimson Tide and after several coaching stops, ended up right back at West Virginia, leaving Jacksonville State to accept his old job this week.