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WVU Great Shares Memories of Treasonous Law School Hill

No WVU player can truly say they’re a Mountaineer until they run up the hill at the law school. Training on that treacherous hill is something active players dread, but alumni look back on fondly.

WVU star player Anthony Becht couldn’t resist sharing some memories of the law school’s hill after seeing the program post a photo of current Mountaineers running across it.

“This hill paid me💰…and a little bit of this too—>🤮,” Becht said on X (formerly Twitter).

And Becht is right. His time as a Mountaineer led to his NFL career.

Becht played at WVU from 1996 to 1999 before embarking on a 12-year professional career in the NFL. He was drafted in the first round by the New York Jets with the 27th overall pick.

After five years with the Jets, Becht played three years for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and then a season with the then St. Louis Rams, Arizona Cardinals and Kansas City Chiefs.

In his NFL career, Becht started 132 games and caught 188 passes for 1,537 yards and 21 touchdowns. At WVU, he recorded 1,178 receiving yards with 11 touchdowns on 88 catches in four seasons.

Anthony Becht has coached the St. Louis Battlehawks for the past two seasons, first in the XFL and then in the newly formed UFL in 2024.