When new West Virginia football head coach Neal Brown was introduced formally on Thursday morning, he dropped the first coaching staff news of his tenure: He will hire Vic Koenning as defensive coordinator, who served with him at Troy. This meant that Tony Gibson would be pushed out of that position, and it has now been confirmed that he will leave the program.
Though many former and current players expressed publicly that they wanted Gibson to stay, the new boss has his own hiring decisions to make, and Gibson is not a part of the path forward.