MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Doug Belk landed a job as West Virginia’s cornerbacks coach Friday based on a gamble he made during the spring of 2014.
Back then he was wrapping up his second year working with the defensive backs at Valdosta State, a mid-20s coach with a Division II national championship on his resume in the hometown where he quarterbacked Lowndes County High to two Georgia state titles.
When Belk learned of an opportunity to join Nick Saban’s staff at Alabama, he hesitated because the graduate assistant position in Tuscaloosa was a step down in pay from his full-time job at Valdosta State.