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Until Saturday: A show about college football

Rich Rodriguez dishes on Alabama, Michigan, Pat McAfee, Playoffs & Return to West Virginia

Until Saturday: A show about college football

The Athletic

News, Football, Sports, Sports News

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Rich Rodriguez, former and now new, head coach at West Virginia joins David and Chris on Until Saturday! Rich Rod talks about the Pat White and Pat McAfee WVU teams, playoff bids, flirting with the Alabama job, his time as Michigan's coach (and donating hundreds of dollars worth of Michigan gear to Salvation Army), his reunion in Morgantown, and much more!


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Hosts: David Ubben (@davidubben), Chris Vanninin (@ChrisVannini)

Audio editor: John Ross

Executive producer: Cam Molina (@commentatorcam)


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Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:02.7

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0:04.6

With over 170 beautiful country pubs across the UK,

0:08.8

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0:13.2

Join us on your sunny adventures for a quick pit stop in our pub gardens,

0:17.5

or settle in together on the weekend for a hearty Sunday roast whatever the weather.

0:22.2

For any occasion or time of day, you and your family are always welcome.

0:26.5

Head to our website or social channels to find your nearest vintage in.

0:40.6

Hello and welcome to Until Saturday.

0:42.2

We got a special show for you.

0:49.9

I am here with my colleague Chris Finini and new slash old West Virginia head coach, Rich Rodriguez,

0:53.9

joined the show to talk about a lot of stuff.

0:59.9

And Chris, he presided over one of the most fun teams, I wouldn't call it a dynasty,

1:06.1

but one of the most fun eras of college football in West Virginia, that 05 to 07 run that they had was a team that I think still persists in the minds of people who love college football.

1:12.6

And we wanted to talk to him a lot about that.

1:14.6

Yeah, like as we got into the off-season, we wanted to do some of these interviews.

1:18.6

And I was like, I want to get Rich Rodriguez on the show.

1:20.6

And I want to talk about some of those teams back from the mid-2000s.

1:24.6

Because both of us, the mid-2000s were kind of probably the formative decade for us

1:29.9

as college football fans, which I still think was the best decade for college football for a number

1:34.1

of reasons. But those West Virginia teams were so much fun. They're legendary in the video game

1:39.7

because of that. Pat White, we had him on the show back, back last year. And in preparing for this,

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