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Posted by Willy on 2/24/2008, 6:39 am
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West Virginia wide receiver Darius Reynaud said he and some of his teammates started to get the feeling coach Rich Rodriguez might leave the Mountaineers soon after their stunning loss to Pittsburgh on Dec. 1 which knocked WVU out of title contention.
"We kind of figured he was going to leave because toward the end, things started changing around with him," Reynaud said. "We kind of figured something was up and we thought he was going to take the job at Michigan.
"Practice started becoming shorter. We weren’t conditioning a lot. So we knew something was up."
News broke Dec. 17 that Rodriguez was taking the Michigan job. West Virginia defeated Oklahoma, 48-28, in the Fiesta Bowl Jan. 2 with Bill Stewart as the interim coach. Stewart has since been hired as the head coach.
"I talked to coach Stewart before I left," Reynaud said. "He said he was behind me 100 percent. He said he’d talk to some guys for me. I really commend coach Stewart."
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