What now for West Virginia?
It’s true what they say: bad thing come in threes.
They ended the 2007 regular season with a stunning 13-9 home loss to Pittsburgh in the Backyard Brawl. They lost their chance to play in the BCS Championship game. Now, they’ve lost their head football coach. It certainly hasn’t been all sunshine and chocolate clouds for WVU in the month of December.
On Monday, former head coach Rich Rodriguez officially signed on to become the next head coach at Michigan, leaving the Mountaineers to begin searching for his successor.
Terry Bowden, former head coach at Auburn, has stated that coaching at West Virginia would be a dream job. Bowden grew up in Morgantown, while his father, Bobby Bowden, was the head coach at West Virginia. Bowden has been out of the coaching loop since 1998.
West Virginia athletic director Ed Pastilong will have 15 days to name an interim head coach to lead the Mountaineers into their Fiesta Bowl contest with the Oklahoma Sooners on Jan.2.
Two names that will be off of the potential list are offensive coordinator Calvin Magee or secondary coach Tony Gibson. Both will be accompanying Rodriguez to Ann Arbor.
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