Ross Hodge had some experience inside the Coliseum prior to being hired to lead the basketball program.
Serving as the associate head coach at North Texas at the time, the Mean Green traveled to Morgantown to square off against West Virginia in early December of the 2021-22 season.
And while the atmosphere wasn’t quite the same given the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic and only a couple hundred in the building at the time, it afforded Hodge a chance to appreciate the program from afar.
“The gunshot was even louder. It reverberated for like 15-seconds after,” he said.