Rich Rodriguez joins Josh Pate - Pate Speaker Series
Josh Pate's College Football Show
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🗓️ 30 April 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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West Virginia head coach Rich Rodriguez is the latest guest on the Pate State Speaker Series.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:23.4 | We find ourselves sort of a weird time. |
| 0:25.4 | There are players move a lot. |
| 0:27.1 | Coaches move a lot, players move a lot. |
| 0:28.5 | So you've done that. |
| 0:30.3 | Your resume shows movement. |
| 0:33.8 | And now it's full circle, sort of you're right back at West Virginia. |
| 0:40.0 | I've been talking about the word legacy a lot and what it means and how hard it is to know that you're writing one in the moment, especially as a player. But from your perspective as a |
| 0:44.8 | coach, what has coming back here meant to the word legacy and what it means for you and how |
| 0:52.6 | it'll be defined years down the road? You know, that's a fair question, but the honest answer, I really haven't thought about it much. I thought about it, you know, in my opening press conference, because it made a big deal out of it, and Pat had his show there, and there were a lot of friends, and so it's kind of nostalgic I guess but ever since |
| 1:11.2 | then it's just been work like what we got to do to win and so I'm hoping that |
| 1:15.9 | that we're able to have some success and maybe even do better than we did |
| 1:21.9 | the first time here and there's different challenges with that but the I'm |
| 1:26.9 | smarter I'm smarter. |
| 1:28.3 | I'm older, wiser, and probably a little more appreciative of where I'm at than maybe before. |
| 1:36.2 | But at the same time, it's just, it's a job and it's a work. |
| 1:39.7 | And it's a labor of love. |
| 1:41.3 | So I'm blessed to be back. |
| 1:42.7 | I went and I actually, I was watching live the day that they had the, I would call it a reintroductory press conference here for you. |
| 1:49.8 | And there were a couple of questions that were respectful, but they were almost trying to get across, |
| 1:55.7 | hey, what makes you think you can still win at a high level, iterating that the games fully changed in all this. |
| 2:01.6 | And I loved how you answered it. |
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