2025 college football coaching carousel grades: Rich Rodriguez’s return to West Virginia earns perfect mark

Rich RodriguezA+You can go home again! One of the grandfathers of the zone read spread returns to his alma mater and a place he coached from 2001-2007. Rodriguez will bring a sense of nostalgia and possibility to a program that is dying for a sniff of the old days. Rodriguez, 61, is literally the embodiment of those old days.

Barry OdomAOdom just came off the best two-year run at UNLV ever, 19 combined wins. If they beat Boise State two months ago, the Rebels are probably in the College Football Playoff. Odom has been trying like heck to get back into the Power Four. He’s there, barely, at Purdue. The program just came off being the first team finish  18th (and last) in a conference. Rival Indiana breaking through down the road can’t be a positive, either. Odom has the chops to turn the Boilers around in a hurry.

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Author : Dennis Dodd

Publish date : 2025-02-12 20:29:00

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