Travis Trickett Making Return to West Virginia on WVU Football Staff

The WVU football program kicks off another week with news of another reunion. On Monday, West Virginia is welcoming Travis Trickett back to WVU as a senior offensive analyst.

Trickett was first reported as returning to work under Rich Rodriguez by Matt Zenitz of 247 Sports on Jan. 6.

A 2007 WVU graduate, Trickett is reuniting with Rodriguez to help with the offensive strategy. Bringing things full circle for Trickett, his first-ever coaching position was as a student assistant under Rodriguez from 2003-06.

Welcome home, @CoachTTrickett!

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— West Virginia Football (@WVUfootball) January 13, 2025

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.

More background information on Trickett, including his prior sting with the Mountaineers, can be found below from the WVU press release: 

During his three years at West Virginia, the Mountaineer offense improved each year, and he mentored Winston Wright at receiver and Mike O’Laughlin at tight end. In 2020, the Mountaineers had one of the most improved offenses in the nation in terms of total yards, showing gains of more than 60 yards rushing per game, 30 yards passing, more than 90 yards of total offense and seven more points per game in a 6-4 season that finished with a win in the Liberty Bowl.

Prior to West Virginia, Trickett was the offensive coordinator at Georgia State (2017-18), where he helped the Panthers finish with a school-record seven wins and their first winning season at the FBS level. In 2016 as Florida Atlantic’s offensive coordinator, his unit set FAU season records for rushing yards, yards per carry and rushing touchdowns. He worked at Samford from 2011-15 and coached three different positions, became the offensive coordinator and helped the Bulldogs to five straight winning seasons, a Southern Conference championship and NCAA FCS playoff berth in 2013.

Trickett started his coaching career as a student assistant at West Virginia from 2003-06 before spending a year as a graduate assistant at Alabama and two years as graduate assistant at Florida State, working on the coaching staffs of Bobby Bowden, Jimbo Fisher, Nick Saban and Rich Rodriquez in his young career.

A native of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Trickett earned his bachelor’s degree in business administration and marketing from West Virginia in 2007 and his master’s degree from Florida State in sports administration in 2009.

Trickett, and his wife, Tiffany, also a WVU graduate with a bachelor’s degree in nursing, have three children, Maverick, Camilla and Holden.

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