Quick Hits: Transfers Making the Jump, QBs Spinning it Well, Film Evaluation + More

West Virginia head coach Rich Rodriguez just finished talking with the media following the 11th practice of fall camp.

He discussed the progress of the quarterbacks, transfers moving up a level, and a lot more.

Today we were in shells.

Was originally going to go full pads, but I switched it out of it.

Tuesday, Thursday, were going to go (pads) and a scrimmage on Saturday, and then shorts the other two days.

Got some more situational work in place.

Got a lot of evaluations and install, and I told the coaching staff after this week weve got to pare down the install to get ready for the first game and also to try to get somewhat of a tentative two-deep.

I mean, its a little bit, but not as much as you would think.

Most of those guys had games against Power Four teams, and if youre a good player, youre a good player.

I think the hardest thing is like the Power Four transfer guys were more expensive.

Some of its justified and some of it, maybe not.

And not all of them were looking for a payday.

When youre moving up from Group of Five or 1-AA to Power Four, its probably a combination.

You might get more money because Group of Five dont pay much, if anything, but its also you want to move up in competition and level of play.

I think the effort part wasnt bad.

I expected more times that wed have to yell at guys.

The effort was pretty good.

The physicality was okay, but not what it needed to be up front.

Tempo was okay, were still servicing each other.

And probably the biggest takeaway out of that is that we still have a lot more decisions to be made on whos going to be the first guys running out there on a lot of positions.

It didnt clarify it maybe as much as we thought.

Its still a little early, but I see signs of it.

I mean, I think weve progressed since the spring, and of course, theres a lot of new guys.

And I think weve progressed since the first practice, but its still not to the point where I never have to blow my whistle.

Were not there yet.

All of our quarterbacks can really throw the ball.

Were repping five guys all five can really throw it.

Ive never had that many that could throw it that well, as far as arm strength goes and all that.

Theres not really a pass play or route package that is out there that were like, well, we cant do that because we dont have the arm strength to make that throw.

Thats kind of a neat deal.

Every quarterback for every route package can make every throw.

So now we just need to see which ones we can be the most accurate with.

Probably.

I think if were looking at our strengths, what we have personnel-wise and not just because were younger or new up front, were putting a lot more pass plays in than run plays.

When we pare this thing down, Im not worried about 50% pass plays, 50% run plays.

Im worried about these are the plays we can execute.

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