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Morgantown – When West Virginia came into the second week of the spring football training and in the second week of Rich Rodriguez 'striving for redemption, the football coach gave us a look at himself to see what makes him complete the mission, which was neglected in his first term as a coach.

Rodriguez, who built the mountaineers into national competitors in the mid-1990s to remove the big one when his power house team around the quarterback Pat White and Steve Slaton was upset, was out of 28.5 points.

He spoke of being tough and being a winner when he reported his feelings for how the attitude of the fabric is made from the championship.

“Have you ever heard an athlete or coach say: 'Well, I don't have to prove myself. I've already proven myself, '” He started.

“Well, I'm exactly the opposite. If you hold points, you have something to prove. If you get to the point where you feel that you no longer have anything to prove, you will probably never get better. Every time we play, I have the feeling of proving something and I want my team and my employees to feel the same way. “

He may be 61 years old, but he tries to feel aware of how the 21-year-old football player who wanted to prove that a child from Grant Town could be a big player, and shortly afterwards he had to tempt himself from his football skills and his attitude to train the game as if he had to prove himself every day.

This was the key to shaping him what he has become, and it is not to create a subtle football brand, in which toughness and commitment are the main knowledge and where it comes from the sun, from which the vibes he expects in his players shines.

He is, he emphasizes and asks as much and probably more of himself.

When the topic of culture, the culture of his football team, turns to, he understands what he is looking for and how he has to develop it in this new team that he is presenting Rich Rodriguez Football 101.

It comes slowly, but has already started and he is convinced that he can pull it out of the players standing by the players and those who are added.

“I don't want to say [the culture] Everything is bad because we have some good children and good players, but we have to have everything. It is not when half of them play as they should play or seven or eight of them are okay. “ he said. “No, everyone has to be all the time.

“I am convinced that each of them has it in them” he said. “I don't just speak here in West Virginia. I speak everywhere. I am convinced that every player has this competitiveness, especially at this level. If you have made it to this level, I don't do my job if I can't get the best out of you. “

They are young and eager, but they don't really know what is necessary. This is not about Rodriguez. It's about him.

“If that happens, I failed”, “ he said.

A trainer builds what he wants and shapes his team to play with the picture and the aura that he wants to create.

“I'll tell you a story” he said. “When I was here before – and everyone talks about the past – have you ever said someone who bites a puppy when he is a puppy, but he will bite when he's a dog? I believed that too. “

It was like it was a natural step forward that just happens.

But is it?

“I had a young recipient – I will not tell you his name – and he would not bite as a puppy at all.” Rodriguez continued. “It was soft, soft. Then we had an exercise and he had to do six repetitions in a row, and we challenged him and he became the best blocking recipient from the softest recipient I ever had.

“He was a three -year -old starter and we won many games with him at Wideout. They change. He grew up and matured. This puppy would not bite when he was a puppy, but he would bite when he was a dog. “

And it was coaching and challenged him that brought out the dog in it.

For Rodriguez it comes from the lead. You hear from leadership, but Rodriguez has his own views.

“I am a little different if you say that you have to have leadership in practice. This is my job. If you need it, it is when I'm not nearby. Everyone says they have to have leadership on the field. Well, it's better, I am me. “ he said. “The quarterback must obviously be a leader because he calls the plays and has to be a linebacker in defense because he calls the defense. But who is the leader in advance? To hell, it is coach Bickell and I. “

And that's what this spring is about. He teaches programs, teaches basics, evaluated, but it seems that he honestly think he teaches how to be a football player, not how to play football.

He brought her to the edge beforehand and then failed. Obviously, he did not forget that in the 17 years since his departure he kept in his head and created a style in his own head that he believes that he believes that