Travis Trickett Details What Makes West Virginia’s Offense Unique
Travis Trickett is back at WVU, largely due to his familiarity with Rich Rodriguez’s offense. Trickett is now explaining what being back in West Virginia means to him and what he believes makes Rodriguez’s offense successful.
“It’s an opportunity to give back to a university that’s done a lot for me and my family,” Trickett said in a video released by the program.
But in addition to the homecoming aspect of the job, Trickett fully believes in Rodriguez’s offense.
“We’re going to work on instilling Coach Rod’s mentality into our offense, so when West Virginia takes the field, we’re going to be different than everyone else we play,” said Trickett. He also said fans will notice the relentless intensity and hard edge the team will be play with.
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“We’re going to work on instilling Coach Rod’s mentality into our offense, so when West Virginia takes the field, we’re going to be different than everyone else we play.”@PanhandleCR pic.twitter.com/yNE1FQmEvQ
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A 2007 WVU graduate, Trickett is working under Rodriguez as a senior offensive assistant. Bringing things full circle for Trickett, his first-ever coaching position was as a student assistant under Rodriguez from 2003-06.
Trickett made several coaching stops after that before returning to WVU as a member of Neal Brown’s staff in 2019. He served as inside receivers and tight ends coach until 2021. He left West Virginia to become the offensive coordinator at South Florida.
After one season at USF, Trickett was hired to the same position at Coastal Carolina, where he spent the last two seasons. He was fired from that position last October.
In his lone season at USF, Trickett oversaw improvement in the Bulls’ offensive production despite guiding an offense that had a first-year primary ball carrier, three different starting quarterbacks and 14 members of the two-deep miss all or parts of the season.
Trickett orchestrated major improvements at USF in total offense, rushing offense, scoring offense, third-down conversions, red-zone conversions, pass efficiency and passing touchdowns.
Travis Trickett’s younger brother, Clint Trickett, played quarterback at WVU in 2013 and 2014. Clint Trickett was hired as the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Jacksonville State earlier this offseason.
Their father, Rick Trickett, coached at WVU for 10 years across two tenures. He has spent much of his career coaching with Rodriguez, although he elected to remain as the offensive line coach at Jacksonville State rather than follow Rodriguez to WVU this offseason.
For a related story, Rich Rodriguez offered his early thoughts on WVU’s quarterback competition during his first spring presser conference.
