Rich Rodriguez suggests new game day tradition
If you attended the West Virginia home opener against Robert Morris you might have noticed the song “The Stroke,” by Billy Squier on kickoff attempts.
That was by design and it’s something that head coach Rich Rodriguez would like to spill over to the fan base to help potentially kick start a new in-stadium tradition. With fans joining in clapping in unison with the players and coaches on the sideline.
He was asked that question if he would like that to be a tradition on his weekly radio show and didn’t hesitate.
“One-hundred percent,” he said.
Typically in practice if you’re not involved with special teams you’re doing individual work with your position coach, but that isn’t the case with kickoffs.
“When we do kickoff everything stops,” Rodriguez said.
The veteran head coach said that’s because outside of a safety typically when you’re kicking off it’s after something good such as the start of a game, half or of course scoring a touchdown.
“So in practice everybody in the program, not just the players, get on the home side and they start clapping over their head and everybody gets into it,” he said. “That whole thing with getting everybody fired up before kickoffs our whole team does it.”
And Rodriguez said that it would be great to have 60,000 Mountaineer fans doing the same.
“It would be a great addition for us to do every time after we kick off,” he said.
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