Our team speed is lacking. Slow on defense. We have no playmakers. Nobody that can take it to the house from 70 yards out. We used to get so many fast players in years past. Hopefully the next coach puts an emphasis on recruiting speed. We look slow. Baylor had some big and fast dudes at the skill positions. Maybe this is on Strength and conditioning.

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Am I correctly remembering that ESPNU games are not available on ESPN+ if one doesn't have ESPNU in your normal TV package? I won't be making the trip this weekend.

My Fiver on WVU's loss to Pitt Friday night...

1. Just a systematic beatdown. Down 18-8 less than 10 minutes into the game, and we never really threatened.
***38.7% FG vs. 48.3% FG.
***20.7% 3FG vs. 37% 3FG.
***53.3% FT vs. 76.9% FT.
***minus-13 rebound margin
Turn the page. Only positives were the true freshmen, Jon Powell and KJ Tenner. They played unafraid and frankly looked the best out of the group.

2. After two games, Sincere Harris was my Dawg. Now, he's in the Dawghouse. He needs to defend, crash glass, and focus on run-outs. When you airball a three-point shot by 3 feet on your first attempt, it doesn't necessitate a heat-check "3" next possession down (also airballed). Play your game.

3. The flagrant foul call on Amani Hansberry to start the game was ridiculous. There was no intent there. It's fine if you want to call it an offensive foul in real time, but that wasn't the call. Then, to watch it on replay, slow it down so it looks worse, and decide to call it flagrant-1, is just killing a fly with a sledgehammer. Hansberry got a tight whistle all night. Fouled out in just 12 minutes. He'll be back and do better.

4. I can take a lot of things....but getting boat-raced by Pitt in basketball in a year where we lost to them in football, in an excruciatingly painful fashion, is not one of them. You gotta go back to John Beilein's first year to find a Pitt beatdown of WVU this bad, an 82-46 lashing we took where Drew Schifino went YOLO & really pissed off JB. Fortunes can change fast in basketball, as just two seasons ago, WVU beat Pitt 81-56 on this same floor with Erik Stevenson taunting their fans. I still have faith that Darian DeVries can turn this around and put a great product on the floor.

5. Recalibrating my expectations after this one. I got lost in the glow of our seemingly great starts vs. Robert Morris and UMass, as we finally had a watchable product on the basketball court again. What you can't ignore is that in both of those games, we really struggled in the 2nd halves. It carried over to Pittsburgh, and Pitt straight up ran us out of the gym. I'll give Pitt credit -- early on we were defending, and Pitt simply hit a few big threes near the end of the shot clock. But, we had no answer on the other end, and our shot selection was not good at all. We are better than what we showed Friday - I have no doubt. But, this team has some serious flaws offensively, on the glass, and is still learning to play together. We should pick up a "W" vs. Iona Wednesday. But, there's a chance that the Battle for Atlantis is going to be a bit painful....

Need me to piss on anything?

...or have any suggestions where to grab a bite?

Pulisic is on fire for Chelsea. He scored Chelsea’s lone goal against powerhouse Real Madrid in the Champions League. Watch his excellent patience and composure in scoring his goal.

Nelly Brown era?

West Virginia has offered Jonah Martinez. A 2025 CB at Long Beach City College, CA. He's fully qualified to move to WVU's level.

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Nice day

After the radio show fiasco. Huggs was very likely drunk. Stimpy needed to focus less on weaseling Huggs out of his pay and more on getting him the real help he needed. Suspend him with pay for a couple of months and get inpatient treatment. Everyone wins.

Huggs gets the help he needs and WVU gets to keep a great coach and a great incoming class.


What did Stimpy do? Not a damn thing. He likely didn’t even meet with Huggs without his daddy Gee holding his damn hand.

WVU looks stupid and I love it. Huggs is willing to let Rome burn and if this finally clears out all the idiots that have run WVU into the grouno, then so f#$king be it.

Who wants popcorn?

Pres: Manchin

AD: Saban

Coach Fisher

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Men with balls voted for Trump, women with balls voted for Harris.

It’s funny that Whoopie thinks her threat of no whoopie is actually going to frighten men.

So is Whoopie really going to ignore her wife?

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He should go Prison for Treason, Sedition, Subversion & Espionage.
It's all just a show until someone actually goes to prison for this corruption

was a lot of hype over how the extra practice time be a long term benefit to the team....

So when do those extra practices start paying off?

SEC, Big Ten moving closer to taking their college football ball home and making billions.

SEC commissioner Greg Sankey was speaking on the Triple Option podcast earlier this week, and the future of college football was laid out for all to see.

If it wasn’t clear already, it will be now after the most powerful man in college sports pulled back the curtain.

The SEC and Big Ten are in the process of taking their ball home — and making billions with it.

“They want to be us, and that’s on them to figure it out,” Sankey said. “Not on me to bring myself back to Earth.”

How about that for the NCAA’s long-held mantra of collegial cooperation of like minds?

Understand this: Sankey says nothing without intent. He’s measured and detailed, and there’s purpose to everything.


Sankey's comments also came shortly after something called the College Student Football League was officially unveiled as an option to “grow FBS college football and adapt to a legal and political landscape.”

Get a bye and a 13th seed and wvu is unseeded and has to play on Thursday?

Didn’t we finish the season ranked ahead of them and just win the sunbelt conference over them

I've been sidelined with surgery and need some good reading material
authors I like are Vince Flynn, Lee Child, and CJ Box. I even read
trashy romance from Sandra Browne.