The news broke earlier this month that the West Virginia Mountaineers would be losing running backs coach Larry Porter, as he will be leaving the program to join Alex Golesh's staff at Auburn. But the Mountaineers have wasted no time in filling the opening on their staff.
According to Football Scoop, WVU football is set to hire former Kentucky Wildcats running backs coach and special teams coordinator Jay Boulware to replace Porter. He will be the third running backs coach since Rodriguez took over the job last December. He initially rehired interim head coach Chad Scott for the job after he served in the role for the Mountaineers during Neal Brown's tenure, but Scott left for the same role at Texas last spring and was replaced by Porter.
NEWS: West Virginia is poised to add a veteran @SEC assistant with stops at Auburn, Kentucky & Texas to the Mountaineers' offensive staff, sources tell @FootballScoop: https://t.co/ghHE47FAW6
— John Brice (@JohnDBrice1) December 18, 2025
Boulware spent the past three season on the staff of former Kentucky head coach Mark Stoops, and also served as the running backs coach for the Texas Longhorns earlier this decade. Boulware starred as an offensive lineman for Texas and has served on the program's staff multiple times, and has also spent time as an assistant at Arizona, Auburn, Iowa State, Northern Illinois, Oklahoma, Stanford, and Utah over his 32-year coaching career.
Boulware will have his work cut out for him as he takes over a room with three high school and one JUCO signee in the Class of 2026, but just two of the team's eight running backs slated to return next season. Just before the news broke that Boulware would be hired, the Mountaineers learned that two more backs in Clay Ash and Kannon Katzer plan to enter the portal.