Fan POV: What Is A Successful and Unsuccessful Season For Rich Rodriguez At WVU

Beat pitt, make a bowl game. I’ll take that for the first season.

— Brink (@304Guy) August 12, 2025

A winning record for success. Below .500, unsuccessful.

— Heidi (@HeidiMorris68) August 13, 2025

7 or more wins would be successful
5 or less wins would be unsuccessful
6 wins is a push

— Mountaineer Steve (@Mountaineer_Ste) August 12, 2025

Make a bowl game and beat pitt.

— Terrence A. Grasser (@Grasser_TA) August 12, 2025

Success would be a team that doesn’t make you want to beat your head against the wall with the same mistakes every single week. A team that looks likes they know what defense is would be nice as well. Those two changes alone could get us to a bowl game and that would be ideal.

— Ryan (@ryan_waggle) August 12, 2025

Success- beat pitt, make bowl game and win, improvements to roster management, and visible culture change from previous staff.
Unsuccessful- the opposite.

— Sam (@FootballGuy_65) August 12, 2025

I think it’s clear that the pitt game will be how we judge this season. Beating them will make even a bad season tolerable. Realistically, beat pitt and make a bowl game and most of us will be really excited for year two.

— Brad Chaney (@chaneybrad) August 12, 2025

Successful- Bowl game
Unsuccessful- No bowl game

It's a fine line

— WVU Recruiting (@WVU_Recruiting) August 12, 2025

7-5 or 8-4 with a bowl win would be considered successful. As far as unsuccessful, not making a bowl game at the very least wouldn’t make the fans happy.

— mountaineers.headline (@wvufan2023) August 12, 2025