(UPDATE AS OF 3 P.M. ON DECEMBER 29: MetroNews has confirmed Trickett will be added to West Virginia’s coaching staff in the near future.)
West Virginia’s football program is set to add a familiar name among Mountaineer faithful to its coaching staff.
Rick Trickett, a well-respected and veteran offensive line coach with two previous stints in Morgantown, will reunite with head coach Rich Rodriguez and join the WVU staff.
CBS Sports’ Matt Zenitz reported Sunday night Trickett was expected to be brought on at West Virginia.
West Virginia is expected to hire veteran offensive line coach Rick Trickett as a member of its staff, sources tell @CBSSports.
Trickett, who worked under Rich Rodriguez at WVU from 2001-06, now in line to reunite with Rodriguez at WVU. Had been working at Jacksonville State. pic.twitter.com/y7uQLibJNT
— Matt Zenitz (@mzenitz) December 29, 2025
Trickett, 77, had been with Jacksonville State since 2022 as offensive line and associate head coach.
Trickett’s coaching career began back in 1976 at WVU where he guided the defensive line for two seasons before becoming offensive line coach for the next two seasons.
Trickett went on to serve as offensive line coach at Southern Illinois, Southern Miss, New Mexico, Memphis, Mississippi State and Auburn before becoming head coach for his first and only season in 1999 at Division II Glenville State.
Trickett spent the 2000 season at LSU and the next six with the Mountaineers working alongside Rodriguez.
He helped orchestrate some of the top offensive lines in program history, particularly the 2005 and 2006 units that featured center Dan Mozes, who won the Rimington Award in ’06 as the nation’s top center.
From 2007-17, Trickett was associate head coach and offensive line coach at Florida State. He later went back to Glenville State for three seasons before joining the Gamecocks.
Trickett, who played at Glenville State, is the father of WVU senior offensive assistant coach Travis Trickett and Clint Trickett, a former Mountaineer quarterback who was previously offensive coordinator at Marshall and Jacksonville State before recently agreeing to join Arkansas as quarterbacks coach.