My two cents: UA football coaches helping out W.Va. cause
UA football coach Rich Rodriguez returned to his home turf, Morgantown, West Virginia, last week, and was accompanied by defensive coordinator Jeff Casteel and defensive line coach Bill Kirelawich.
It was a journey that said a lot about those three men.
They paid their own way to West Virginia to be part of the annual Taylor Jones Scholarship Fund celebration.
When RichRod, Casteel and Kirelawich coached at West Virginia, Jones was a writer for the (WVU) BlueGold News. Tragically, she died of cancer in May 2014. She was only 27.
The UA coaches are trying to help raise $500,000 for endowed scholarships for the Mountaineers football program, in the name of Taylor Jones.
Her father helped RichRod start a recruiting fund when he began as WVU’s head coach in the 2001 season.
The UA coaches could’ve simply mailed a contribution to their old school. But by insisting on being there, and being a big part of the week’s festivities, it suggests there is much more to them than the X’s and O’s of a football game.
