MORGANTOWN – Zac Alley is the perfect defensive coordinator. Let me rephrase that. If a college football team ever finds itself in a position where it needs to let the opponent score quickly in order to give the offense enough time to have an opportunity to go for a score of its own … ...
MORGANTOWN — On my way back from Charlotte, after covering West Virginia’s big win over Virginia, my dad and I stopped at a gas station. I was busy working on some post-game stories, so my dad went in to get a few things. He came back out with a pack of “Bubble Yum” gum. “I used to ...
MORGANTOWN – With the game at its absolute peak moment Saturday night, the innovator of offense got his hat handed to him. Rich Rodriguez, there is no doubt you can draw up Xs and Os with the best of them, but with 39 seconds remaining in the third quarter, you made the wrong call. Oklahoma State rolled from there, as OSU quarterback Drew Mestemaker torched a WVU secondary that obviously wasn’t prepared for the moment. He threw for 389 yards and three scores. Oklahoma State piled on 609 yards of offense in a 41-24 victory inside Milan Puskar Stadium, the Cowboys’ sixth ...
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - College football players, you may have heard once or twice over the past couple of years now, are allowed to be paid. They get revenue sharing and NIL money, which is a whole lot more than books, meals and a laundry allowance. Virginia, which possesses the nation’s No. ...
MORGANTOWN - The frizzed-out hairstyle, the black-rimmed glasses and the goatee sported by WVU quarterback Michael Hawkins Jr. makes him an almost identical twin of the late great Shock G, a 1990s rapper with Digital Underground, who was better known as Humpty Hump. Maybe that’s somewhat ...
MORGANTOWN — We could throw some smoke and mirrors at you today, enough to make you believe this West Virginia defense is prepared to shut down No. 25 Virginia next week in Charlotte. We could throw the old bend-but-don’t-break line out there. In a nutshell, that’s exactly what WVU defenders put on film Saturday during WVU’s 52-7 victory against U.T. Martin inside Milan Puskar Stadium. They bent like silly puddy, no doubt about it. They also didn’t break or panic or let the situation become frustrating. We’ll get to all of the reasons why in a second, but first we have ...
