West Virginia head coach Rich Rodriguez rehired former Wisconsin tight ends coach and special teams coordinator Chris Haering to an assistant role on Tuesday.
Rodriguez continues to build his coaching staff after joining the program in December. Haering has been an assistant special teams coach with the Mountaineers since 2023. Rodriguez rehired him to the same position.
Haering spent eight years with the Badgers before moving on after the 2022 campaign. That tenure lined up directly with head coach Paul Chryst’s — Haering was his special teams coordinator for seven seasons before coaching tight ends in 2022.
The former Badger assistant was part of an entire staff that was let go after the 2022 season as Luke Fickell took over at the helm.
Haering and Chryst go back further than their time with the Badgers — Haering coached for three seasons under Chryst at Pittsburgh (2012-14). They originally coached together on the West Virginia staff in the early 1990s, both as graduate assistants.
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Haering played linebacker for the Mountaineers from 1986-89. He is currently ranked No. 11 in program history in tackles (340).
The special teams coach is one of two former Wisconsin assistants on Rodriguez’s West Virginia staff — Jack Bicknell Jr. (OL, 2023) signed on as its offensive line coach.
Rodriguez and his staff are working to reestablish a program that has not won 10 games since 2016 and was 37-35 in six seasons under former coach Neal Brown.
As Haering and Bicknell Jr. continue to coach, all eyes remain fixed on Chryst, who has been out of coaching since spending the 2023 season as an offensive analyst at Texas.
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