Fans won’t see any West Virginia football players hitting the renegade dance on TikTok this year. New coach Rich Rodriguez said he’s limiting what players can do on the popular social media app.
It’s impossible to keep the young men off the app entirely, Rodriguez confessed to reporters this week, but the coach won’t let players post any dancing videos.
“I’m just banning them from dancing on it,” he added. “It’s like, look, we try to have a hard edge or whatever, and you’re in there in your tights dancing on TikTok, ain’t quite the image of our program that I want.”
Rodriguez, who coached the Mountaineers from 2001 through 2007, is taking over again for the 2025 season. The West Virginia native went 27-10 the past three seasons at Jacksonville State.
“I hope our focus can be on winning football games,” he said. “How about let’s win the football game and not worry about winning the TikTok?”