With the transfer portal already open, Hodge also spent considerable time since his March 26 hiring getting familiar with the Mountaineers while working the phones to contact pote

West Virginia is working toward a deal to hire North Texas' Ross Hodge as its next head coach, and it's expected to be completed in the near-future, sources told me and Jeff Borzello. WVU AD Wren Baker knows Hodge from his time as North Texas AD.

A little over a week after Darian DeVries made the surprising decision to leave West Virginia after one year, the Mountaineers have found their next head men's