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Sources: West Virginia QB Garrett Greene, LT Milum doubtful

West Virginia starting quarterback Garrett Greene and left tackle Wyatt Milum are considered doubtful for Saturday's game at Arizona, sources told ESPN.

Greene left last week's loss to Kansas State with an upper-body injury. He has thrown for 4,422 yards in his career with 30 touchdown passes and 15 interceptions.

Nicco Marchiol is expected to get his second career start at quarterback in Greene's absence. He has played in 16 career games and has 388 career passing yards and 228 rushing yards.
Milum is a four-year starter and one of the top offensive tackles in the sport. He has been one of the highest-graded tackles by Pro Football Focus, which named him a midseason All-American. He was second-team All-Big 12 last year, as voted by the conference's coaches.

West Virginia is 3-4 with all four losses to teams that are in College Football Playoff race: Penn State, Pittsburgh, Iowa State and Kansas State.
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Backup QB, on the road...it's that time of year...

Is there any doubt we win this game?

Backup QB, on the road, very little expectation of actually winning. It's that time of year where NB will win a game on the road with a backup QB, get on a mini roll, win 4 out of 5 down the stretch to finish 7-5, lose a bowl game in typical WTF fashion, and repeat the whole thing next year. That's the typical M.O. right?

Brian Newberry VS Drew Chronic

My initial thoughts between hiring the BN, Drew C package deal VS just Drew C and his own staff.

The package deal sets up for a major issue a few years later IMO

MY biggest FEAR on the package deal:

Lets assume they both come and WVU immediately starts winning by year two. At year 3 or 4 it is very possible if not guaranteed that Drew now gets hired by another P4 or a big G5 school and its safe to say that BN has never really shown any promise as a HC before Chronic. Not his fault but he as only been a HC for 2 years including this season which isn't over. We could be faced with another dud and another buyout and we are right back where we are today nursing along until the school is forced to make a change with more money we probably don’t have.
  • Pretty obvious to me from what has been publicly released that there are some major expenses the university will be faced to deal with beyond a coaching change and adding a buyout from another school just doesn't seem like that is palatable regardless of what the AD knows he needs to do.
    • Realistically we have to find a OC or HC that has been a HC with real promise and accept the risk.
  • I don't see how going after a previous P5 coach makes things easier as that salary would probably need to be around 5M with a steep buyout to come with for someone that shouldn't be out of a job if they were good at their job.

If head coaching experience matters – which it should IMO

BN has only 2 years of experience (counting this year) as a HC at Navy before that he was the defensive coordinator
  • Do we really want a DC as a HC?? I am not a fan of that personally feel free to disagree

DC has been a HC since 2015 before taking the OC job at Navy
  • he has 8 years as the CEO
  • i think he took the OC job at Navy because he knew he needed to prove himself outside the FCS before he would be considered for a P4/G5 position
    • Nothing has changed he is still making it happen - you cannot deny the Win Loss column



Head Coaching win loss records

BN is 11-7 as a HC and 6 of this wins is with drew calling the plays and developing the players

Drew C was 75 and 23 as a HC and now 6-0 as an OC
  • Drew Chronic has been the HC at 3 different schools and done extremely well at all of them when they were not all that great if not down right bad when he got there.
    • those schools fall off dramatically around year 2 after he leaves - Links below
      • Moral of the story is they were usually bad before he got there and bad not long after he left
      • he is the difference maker
  • I ADMIT none of this has happened at P4 school but it’s a great resume that I sincerely hope is at the very least being discussed internally at the Athletic Department.

It is important to remember

Navy was 5-7 last year - life before Drew. Only one thing changed in 2024 and that was a new OC
  • We need a HC that can identify our players strengths and mold the offense to them rather than be married to a scheme and blame everyone but themselves for not being able to execute it.



Great links for anyone who cares & who wants to dig into the details. If you decide to go down the rabbit hole look at the teams Drew coached and the records before he got there and how they are doing now.
  • It is eye opening and I think it clearly shows that he knows how to coach and win.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Newberry_(American_football)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drew_...the head football,, James Madison, and Furman.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinhardt_Eagles_football

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenoir–Rhyne_Bears_football

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mercer_Bears_football_seasons

WVU Release West Virginia Rifle Rolls Past Mount Aloysius

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (Oct. 26, 2024) The No. 4-ranked West Virginia University rifle team collected its fifth straight win of the season with a 4744-4530 result over Mount Aloysius on Saturday inside the WVU Shell Building.



The win extends the Mountaineers' regular season win streak to 18 straight matches. West Virginia claimed smallbore and air rifle with marks of 2361 and 2383, respectively. The score in smallbore is the best in the nation this season. The aggregate total matches the best mark this season for WVU and is the third-highest in the nation.

For smallbore and air rifle, senior Gavin Barnick, sophomores Griffin Lake and Lauri Syrja and freshmen Ashlyn Blake and Camryn Camp served as counters for the match.



Barnick finished his afternoon at the top of the leaderboard with a score of 1188. He also finished first in air rifle with a 598 and tied second in smallbore with a 590. All three marks set a new season high.



Blake and Syrja finished in a tie for second place with matching 1185 aggregate scores.



Blake posted the best smallbore score in the field with a 592 while adding a 593 in air rifle. Syrja scored the second-highest total in air rifle, hitting a 596 and scored a 589 in smallbore.



Lake finished in fourth place at 1184, with scores of 590 in smallbore and 594 in air rifle. Camp finished just behind with an 1174, following scores of 579 in smallbore and 595 in air rifle.



Maximus Duncan posted a score of 1169 (582 SB – 587 AR) to finish in sixth place.


The Mountaineers take a week off before returning to action on Nov. 9-10 against Army and John Jay at the Tronsrue Marksmanship Center in West Point, New York. WVU takes on Army on Saturday and John Jay Sunday with both matches set to start at 9 a.m. ET.

For more information on the Mountaineers, visit WVUsports.com and follow WVURifle on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.

WVU Release West Virginia Rifle Rolls Past Mount Aloysius

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (Oct. 26, 2024) The No. 4-ranked West Virginia University rifle team collected its fifth straight win of the season with a 4744-4530 result over Mount Aloysius on Saturday inside the WVU Shell Building.



The win extends the Mountaineers' regular season win streak to 18 straight matches. West Virginia claimed smallbore and air rifle with marks of 2361 and 2383, respectively. The score in smallbore is the best in the nation this season. The aggregate total matches the best mark this season for WVU and is the third-highest in the nation.

For smallbore and air rifle, senior Gavin Barnick, sophomores Griffin Lake and Lauri Syrja and freshmen Ashlyn Blake and Camryn Camp served as counters for the match.



Barnick finished his afternoon at the top of the leaderboard with a score of 1188. He also finished first in air rifle with a 598 and tied second in smallbore with a 590. All three marks set a new season high.



Blake and Syrja finished in a tie for second place with matching 1185 aggregate scores.



Blake posted the best smallbore score in the field with a 592 while adding a 593 in air rifle. Syrja scored the second-highest total in air rifle, hitting a 596 and scored a 589 in smallbore.



Lake finished in fourth place at 1184, with scores of 590 in smallbore and 594 in air rifle. Camp finished just behind with an 1174, following scores of 579 in smallbore and 595 in air rifle.



Maximus Duncan posted a score of 1169 (582 SB – 587 AR) to finish in sixth place.


The Mountaineers take a week off before returning to action on Nov. 9-10 against Army and John Jay at the Tronsrue Marksmanship Center in West Point, New York. WVU takes on Army on Saturday and John Jay Sunday with both matches set to start at 9 a.m. ET.

For more information on the Mountaineers, visit WVUsports.com and follow WVURifle on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.
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