MORGANTOWN — West Virginia nickels and Sams coach Henry Weinreich went to Rhodes College in Memphis to play Division III football. At the DIII level, there are no scholarships, so the goal realistically isn’t to play football, but to pursue a career in a certain field. Weinreich’s mom, who moved from Thailand at 28. wanted to be a doctor, and he did, eventually pursuing a degree in chemistry.
Weinreich fell in love with football, though, and wanted to keep competing, so he decided to go into coaching.
“My mom was so mad, though,” Weinreich said. “I was a substitute teacher, right? I just had this chemistry degree. She was like ‘What are you doing with your life?’ I was like ‘Mom I got to chase the dream’ because right now you don’t have any kids or anything, right? That’s the best time to do it. I didn’t want to look back 30 years from now and say, ‘Oh, I should have tried to coach football.’ So start off small, show up in a suit, volunteer, and then just work your way up.”
He started as a volunteer assistant at Washington University in Missouri coaching the defensive line. He then coached the same position at Rhodes, then to West Georgia as a defensive graduate assistant coaching linebackers, eventually landing at Jacksonville State under Zac Alley, who’s the current West Virginia defensive coordinator. Weinreich coached linebackers as a graduate assistant, while he finished his masters in sports management.
Alley landed the co-defensive coordinator job at Oklahoma, and he took Weinreich along with him to be a defensive analyst. Alley, again, brought along Weinreich when he took the DC job at West Virginia.
Weinreich’s learned a lot from Alley over the years.
“Zach’s incredibly detail oriented,” Weinreich said. “He’s one of…
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