MORGANTOWN — Travis Trickett just opened a bank account after accepting his first job as the inside receivers coach at Samford in 2012 and was asked a security question. What was your dream job? He answered work at West Virginia University.
Fast forward over a decade later, Trickett’s dream came true, accepting the offensive assistant position under his former coach, Rich Rodriguez, at West Virginia.
“To be able to do that under my head coach that I was under when I was a student here, you can’t put a price on that,” Trickett said. “This is home. This is where I went to school, my wife went to school. It’s done a lot for my family, not only myself and my family, but also Clint, my dad, so this job means a lot more to myself and my family.”
Trickett comes from a history of football coaches and scouts but was never pressured into becoming a coach. However, he wanted to coach, so as a student assistant at WVU, he walked into Rodriguez’s office asking if he could coach something. Rodriguez put him on offense for two years and then on defense for two. Then, he went to Alabama as a graduate assistant, helping out Nick Saban start the rebuild in 2007, and eventually made his way to work with Jimbo Fisher at Florida State.
Through his early years, he found his love for coaching.
“I found out I love to teach,” Trickett said. “I got into coaching to compete, but then I found I love to teach… It’s so much more than just competing, even though competing is what drives all of us.”
Trickett’s found a spot on Rodriguez’s staff. He’s not the offensive coordinator, though.
Rodriguez doesn’t have an offensive coordinator. He’s not going to have one because he is the head coach and the offensive coordinator. He’s had offensive coordinators in the…
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Publish date : 2025-04-05 02:33:00
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