Source: Current Colorado Assistant Interested in WVU Head Coach Position

WVU director of athletics Wren Baker said he’s casting a wide net while searching for West Virginia’s next head coach, and now there are coaches looking to be part of that group who most fans may not even be thinking of.

According to multiple sources, including one close to the coach, WV Sports Now can confirm current Colorado senior defensive assistant George Helow is very seriously interested in the WVU job.

A source close to Colorado Senior Defensive Assistant George Helow says he is very interested in the WVU head coach job.

He would obviously be a long-shot type option, but is a young up and coming coach with experience working under Jim Harbaugh, Nick Saban and now Deion…

— Mike J. Asti (@MikeAsti11) December 5, 2024

Helow joined Deion Sanders’ staff at Colorado this season and helped drastically improve a defense that held the Buffaloes back in 2023. Prior to 2024, Helow served on the Alabama staff and Michigan before that. He spent time at Maryland before Michigan and Colorado State from 2016-19. Helow has also been on a staff at both Georgia and Florida State in his career.

Helow would obviously be a long-shot type option, but is a young up and coming coach with experience working under Jim Harbaugh, Nick Saban and now Sanders. He’s on track to eventually be a head coach somewhere at some point, but would likely need to be a coordinator first before a program like WVU would seriously consider him.

For a related story, WV Sports Now broke down the pros and cons of some of the top candidates to be the next WVU football head coach.