Listen, there are a lot of things that need to be fixed for WVU football after a 2-5 start in Rich Rodriguez's first season back in Morgantown. But Rodriguez already has a clear idea of a few things that can be corrected – and he has a vision for how to get it worked out.
Looking back at the UCF game in particular during his radio show on Monday, Rodriguez identified one problem that he noticed early in the game that any person who has watched the Mountaineers play this season has likely noticed – the team is getting off to an awfully slow start. The intensity is so low, in fact, it does not measure up to the veteran coach's standard.
“The way we started this last game was not with the intensity our program should have,” Rodriguez said. “That’s what was most disappointing.”
Rodriguez also said that the intensity issue was something he planned to get fixed this week. Then, when the show was opened to questions from fans via text message, Rodriguez addressed another issue that a fan mentioned in what he called a "good question" about whether or not the team had yet to develop an identity.
“We have not established an identity on offense, and that’s part of the problem," Rodriguez said.
Of course, Rodriguez doesn't seem to be the type of guy who sits idle without developing solutions to his problems, and he said that he has a solution to the identity crisis, though it's hard to imagine he has the current talent in the trenches and the depth in the backfield to find an answer this year. But anyone familiar with Rodriguez's first stint at WVU will be familiar with the type of identity he said he wants to establish.
“Our identity is going to be that we can run the ball against anybody," he said.