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MORGANTOWN — West Virginia football is under a week away from the Blue-Gold spring showcase, marking the end of spring ball, and Rich Rodriguez hasn’t picked one of his six quarterbacks as the starter.
Rodriguez might not name a starter until the summer because they are all still competing to be the next signal caller for the blue and gold.
Rodriguez did say one thing about his future starter. He doesn’t need them to win any beauty pageants for personality.
“I don’t know if I’ve ever worried about personality,” Rodriguez said. “It’s kind of like a beauty pageant. They pick somebody and ‘the winner: Miss America’… Run the offense and make good plays and you can be a loner.”
He cares more about on the field than off the field.
The Mountaineers have a variety of different quarterbacks from different backgrounds, though.
Two quarterbacks joined through the transfer portal. Redshirt senior Jaylen Henderson from Texas A&M and redshirt junior Max Brown from Charlotte. Then, there are the four familiar faces: redshirt juniors Nicco Marchiol and Scott Kean, redshirt freshman Khalil Wilkins and freshman Scotty Fox Jr. Only one can be the starter on Aug. 30 against Robert Morris.
Rodriguez doesn’t need the starter to be the leader of the whole team, like other coaches want.
“Everybody always worries about leadership during practice,” Rodriguez said. “That’s what coaches are there for. We’re supposed to be leading practice.”
However, he still wants his quarterbacks to be leaders behind the scenes when the coaches aren’t around, during the summertime when coaches are out recruiting and in the locker rooms. Rodriguez isn’t a fan of the “rah, rah” guys or guys who chew someone out for messing up.
“I feel the best leadership is…
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Publish date : 2025-03-31 02:32:00
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