This past Saturday, WVU football concluded their tenth day of preseason camp with their first live intra-squad scrimmage since returning to practice at the end of July. It was a session that head coach Rich Rodriguez expected to be an "important day" in terms of talent evaluation, but it didn't necessarily pan out the way he wanted to. On Monday, after having the weekend to watch film and give his thoughts on the action some time to sit, Rodriguez addressed his final thoughts on the first scrimmage.
"Probably the biggest takeaway out of that was that we still have a lot more decisions to be made, like whose going to be the first guys running out there on a lot of positions. So it didn't clarify it as much as maybe we would have thought," he said.
WVU HC Rich Rodriguez says the intrasquad scrimmage on Saturday wasn't as clarifying as the coaches thought it'd be and that there are "a lot more decisions" on who will be taking the field with the first team. #HailWV
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He also took some time to go into a bit of detail about what he thought was good and what he thought was bad from his team's effort on Saturday.
"I think that the effort part wasn't bad. I expected more times that we'd have to yell at guys to go full speed – the effort was pretty good," he added. "The physicality was okay but not what it needed to be up front, you know, with the o-line and d-line, I didn't think we were as physical with that part of it. Tempo was okay, you know, we're still servicing each other.
WVU fans are eager for the start of the season, which is now under three weeks away. Hopefully, Rodriguez will be able to find chances to evaluate his team fully so he gets the right starters on the field when Robert Morris comes to town on August 30.