what's why the hag voted to oust him....

I guess that saying about a woman --and i'm using the term loosely here-- scorned is true.

Handling success / winning as the favorite. Yeah, the line flipped against pitt and we ended up -2.5 or such but that's close enough to a pick'em.

We should be solid favorites over Houston and considerable ones over Okie St at home. Need that chip on the shoulder attitude, they picked us 14th attitude. We're clearly pretty good but not win with our B- good. Hoping that focus remains. Concept of bowl eligibility before Halloween is starting to sink in.

A local Pittsburgh prospect has cut his list to a Top 5.

Alier Maluk, a top-100 junior and Pittsburgh native who plays his high school ball at Imani Christian, released a top-five this week that included Pitt alongside Florida State, LSU, Oregon and Ohio State.

Maluk is one of the best prospects in the state of Pennsylvania and the country for the class of 2025. He is unanimously considered a four-star prospect and top-100 player in the class by the four major recruiting services. He is ranked as high as the No. 2 player in the state and No. 7 center (247Sports, ESPN) in his class.

He holds offers from West Virginia, NC State, Seton Hall, Texas A&M, Auburn, Penn State, Vanderbilt, Maryland and Washington.

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Sophomore forward Taylor White’s 80th-minute goal pushed the West Virginia University women’s soccer team to a 1-0 win over Kansas State at Buser Family Park in Manhattan on Thursday night.

The game was scoreless through the first 80 minutes, but White scored her team-leading ninth goal of the season to lift the Mountaineers (6-7-3, 4-3-1 Big 12) over the Wildcats. White scored in the fourth straight game, while her game winner is her third in a row.

Senior forward Chloe Adler set up White’s score, dribbling down the far side with the Cincinnati, Ohio, native waiting in the box. Adler sent the ball in, but White’s first shot was saved by the KSU keeper. However, the save deflected right back to White, and this time she put it into the back of the net for the score.

From there, WVU continued to play defense to keep the Wildcats off the board through the final buzzer. Fifth-year senior goalkeeper Kayza Massey and the Mountaineer defense earned their third shutout in the last four matches, including eighth of the season. Massey collected two saves, as the back line held KSU to just a pair of shots on frame.

West Virginia dominated the final stats, outshooting K-State 20-9, as well as 8-2 in shots on goal. The Mountaineers earned six corner kicks, compared to just two for the Wildcats. White led the offense with the goal, along with six shots and four shots on goal.

With the win, West Virginia remains unbeaten all-time against Kansas State, as the series moves to 6-0-1, including 3-0-1 in games played in Manhattan. Of note, White’s nine goals this season mark the most for a Mountaineer in a single season since 2018 when Sh’Nia Gordon also scored nine.

Up next, West Virginia remains in the Sunflower State to complete its regular-season road slate, traveling to Lawrence to take on the Jayhawks on Sunday, Oct. 15. West Virginia and Kansas are scheduled to kick off at Rock Chalk Park at 2 p.m. ET.

--We can point to the final play of this game as much as we want, but West Virginia lost this football game throughout with an absolute inability to put it away or create any comfortable distance when they had opportunities to do so. In fact, the Mountaineers were trailing 14-10 at half despite for the most part dominating the game in every category outside the scoreboard. But as I often said under Dana Holgorsen, you can't score yards. This team had made it's bones by playing smart, sound and not beating themselves. This was everything but that. The Mountaineers finished with 8 penalties for 84 yards, including yet again getting tagged with one for taking their helmets off on the field after the go-ahead touchdown with 12 seconds remaining. That simply can't happen and the fact it's now happened twice in big moments is unacceptable. West Virginia also lost the turnover battle in crushing fashion on a pass that quite literally bounced off a running back's chest on a wheel route which should have been six points but instead was an interception in the end zone. We can sugar coat this all we want, but this was a game that a good team finds a way to win and West Virginia couldn't do it. Houston was begging to be put away at times early in this game and this team just couldn't make enough plays to do it. Some of it can be attributed to early play calling, some of it just players not making plays when they were there -- but if you continue to play this style you can't afford to do it without discipline.

--This isn't a season crushing loss by any means, but it definitely is a gut punch to the 4-1 start this team put together. Losing to the former coach that most people were ready to run out of town doesn't help matters either especially when you lose the game in a fashion similar to so many of his losses during his tenure with good offensive football but essentially breakdowns in every area and with discipline. West Virginia was starring down the possibility of being 5-1 and 3-0 in the Big 12 against a team that has unquestionably been the worst in the league through the early stages of this year. Instead, they let this one get away and while you can point to a lot of things ultimately it needs to be in the mirror. But even with that being said, West Virginia deserves credit for battling back. Trailing 35-24, this team scored not one but two touchdowns to take the lead before the Hail Mary and showed a lot of grit when the game looked grim. This was again quite literally a toss up at the end, but this time the coin didn't land heads up.

--Brown is now 26-27 as the head coach at West Virginia at the halfway point of year five. Winning this game would have put him over .500 and now the four game win streak is over. This team has certainly been a surprise through six games, but I don't think anybody can realistically tell you that they thought Brown would be one game under .500 when he was hired back in 2019. There's a lot of season left, but the concerns and questions over expectations overall (not just this season) are certainly fair.

--The Hail Mary. That's about as gut wrenching of a way to lose as I can imagine. It was well executed by Houston, but the Mountaineers misplayed the ball and weren't able to bat it down which led to the catch. Again, you can't help but think about the penalty to set them up there but that's a swing from the highest of highs to the lowest of lows in as short of a span as I can remember since I've been doing this. The question now becomes how does this team rebound?

--West Virginia had 39 points, 546 yards of total offense, 26 first downs, was +29 in plays and 14-20 on third and fourth downs, 4-4 in the red zone, had almost a 14-minute advantage in time of possession and still somehow lost this football game. That is the second time that West Virginia has gone for at least 540 yards under Brown against FBS opponents since he arrived in 2019 and are 0-2 with the last one the 38-17 loss to Texas Tech in his first season. You can't score yards.

--On the flip side, the Mountaineers held Houston to 7 offensive points and 109 total yards in the first half but gave up 27 and 284 yards in the second. The Cougars got something going on the final drive of the half and carried that over into the second as the defense just simply got caught in bad positions over and over. It's no surprise that Dana Holgorsen can coach offense and he got his team turned around but the Mountaineers simply needed to make some plays. That just didn't happen for most of the second half.

--Redshirt junior quarterback Garrett Greene missed a few throws tonight, notably the 3rd and 6 to CJ Donaldson and a few others but he played very well for the most part and gave the Mountaineers a chance to win this game despite their deficiencies in so many other areas. Greene was 20-38 for 391 yards and 2 touchdowns, while rushing for 47 yards and 2 more scores. He looked completely healthy and while he needs to continue to fine tune his accuracy, there is a lot of potential here with what he is able to do with his arm and legs. That throw that he made to Hudson Clement on fourth down was very impressive as he stood in the pocket and delivered a strike. I understand Houston simply isn't good on the defensive side, but this is by far the best that the offense has looked against an FBS opponent all season and it was without two starters on the offensive line. I'm intrigued.

--It was encouraging to see West Virginia take deep shots in this game and connect. The Mountaineers had only 2 pass plays over 30+ yards against FBS teams and in this game had five players have at least one catch that traveled that distance. It was good to see those pass catchers shaking free and making plays.

--I thought West Virginia held up in pass protection all night long and didn't allow a single sack. But the run blocking simply wasn't good enough as the Mountaineers averaged just 3.5 yards per carry and if you take out Greene's yardage that total gets worse. Yes, again two starting linemen were out but you have to win there in this matchup. CJ Donaldson had 17 carries for 66 yards and a score, but the Mountaineers simply just aren't making people miss to get chunk plays.

--Devin Carter showed up in this one with 116 yards receiving on five catches. It's the first time a West Virginia player has eclipsed the 100-yard mark this season against an FBS team and while he did have the one jarred free late, it was good to see him make an impact.

--Special teams just simply wasn't good in this game. The Mountaineers mishit the kickoff that was returned for a touchdown but Matt Golden didn't even have to make anybody miss because it was essentially a free run to the end zone. Overall Houston averaged 37 yards per kick return, and almost had a punt return for a touchdown but there was a holding penalty on the play. Still even that kick didn't have hangtime and allowed that possibility. On the flipside, the kick return team continues to just be unable to break big ones and at times the punt return team didn't do their job either. Special teams has been a real weapon this season, it wasn't tonight.

--Onto Oklahoma State, because that's all we really can do at this stage. West Virginia is now 4-2, 2-1 in the league and any dream's of riding into Norman at 8-1 are over. Now there's still a whole lot left in the final six games and the schedule didn't suddenly become more difficult just because the Mountaineers fell flat in this game. The Cowboys have been up and down this season and it's certainly a winnable game in Morgantown. But you won't be able to help but think about what could have been if this team was able to get out of its own way at times and find a way to put teams away. It's been a problem for five seasons and when you fail to do that you allow teams to hang around and believe they can win. And sometimes, they actually do as the Mountaineers found out the hard way tonight.

28-3 leads being blown worse than Bill Clinton.

With 12 seconds left. I expected to lose. I wasn’t going crazy and pissed. I just sat there with a single tear running down my cheek like I was the victim of a prison rape. Saying “this may as well happen”.

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Extremely hot.

All because a midget couldn't keep his hat on and none of our DB's watched the volleyball scene in "Top Gun".

Any feeling if Burks, or either of the OL are able to return to action next week?

Anyone else?

Not sure any of them are over 5-foot-6.

What a gut punching L

Kole Taylor and Andrew Wilson-Lamp should have been on the field there

If you’ve never been here, and you’re interested in that time in American History, particularly the Native Americans and their counterparts, you won’t be disappointed in what you see here.

You can see for miles in every direction here at Last Stand Hill.

If I get a couple decent pics, I’ll post them here.

Started at Volleyball where I learned my daughter was going to be playing Varsity as well as JV. Ok, exciting and great for her, but was expecting to be home shortly after the start of the wvu game, so now I know I'm probably going to be watching the first half on my phone concurrently with the Volleyball game. Still no big deal. Here's where it starts going south.
I prepped the wings for the fryer before we left for Volleyball so I could have them done quickly when we got home.
We lose the JV game in 2 hard fought sets, and of course the Varsity game goes the full 5 sets. Back and forth. They win, we win, they win, we win. It's 2 sets to 2 and We go up big in the 5th set 13-6 only 2 points from the win and proceed to give up 9 points in a row to lose it 15-13.
Paused the WVU game at the start of the 3rd Quarter and drove home.
Starving, cooked the wings when I got home, and got caught up with the game fast forwarding through commercials, while smashing my hot wings, to live tv with about 5 minutes left.

Of course everyone knows what happened then.

Afterwards, I sit on the couch for about 10 minutes digesting my wings and mentally processing what all has occurred in the last 5 hours.
I go to bed and immediately upon getting into bed I have to fart, and wouldn't you just F#CKING know it, it wasn't a fart. I mean, SURE, WHY NOT! At least I was wearing boxers and didn't have to change the sheets. SMH. All I can do is laugh.
God bless gents! This too shall pass.
Let's go Mountaineers!

Fortes Fortuna Juvat

Looks like he has some tools. Hope we can keep him happy.

My Fiver on WVU's loss to the Houston Cougars last night in Texas...

1. The interception on WVU's 2nd drive of the 2nd half is being downplayed. WVU leads 17-14, held Houston to a 3-and-out on UH's first series, and have the ball deep in UH territory. Going in for a 10-point lead. Ball is thrown perfectly to Jaylen Anderson, who evidently turned into a WVU linebacker because the ball bounced off of his hands and miraculously into the hands of a Houston DB for an INT. Huge, huge swing of momentum. Houston takes over, their RB Sneed tears off a 58-yard run, and then Houston's offense began shredding our "D", scoring on that drive and their next two drives afterwards. There's so many "IFs" with this team anymore. But, "IF" Anderson squeezes that ball in for a WVU touchdown to go up 24-14, I have a feeling this game turns out differently.

2. Our DL looked sluggish and lacked the intensity we've seen from them this season, for the most part. We did have 2 nice sacks by Bradley and Bartlett. But, otherwise, it looked to me like Houston's OL was having their way with our DL - and the UH running game averaging 5.4 ypc bears that out. I couldn't tell if we were slowing the DL's aggression by design to try to keep Donovan Smith contained, but it was a completely different look than the TCU, Texas Tech or Pitt games, when our DL was mauling the opposing OL for the majority of the game. In particular, Mike Lockhart was surprisingly uninvolved, ditto Fatomah Mulbah and Tomiwa Durojaye.

3. Garrett Greene will take a lot away from last night, some good, some bad. He made an epic bonehead move on our last touchdown, which directly led to Houston having great field position. He's a fiery kid, and you can't take that away from him. He'll learn from what he did - he needs to act like he's been there before like Major did, like Bulger did, like Pat used to do. The good he'll take away is that he was able to connect deep down the field, and made some great connections with Devin Carter. We're going to need to be able to move the sticks through the air, and not just the ground. Yes, Houston has a bad defense, but it's still a shot in the arm for Garrett to put up 393 and hit such a huge touchdown pass on a fourth-and-10 conversion. I believe he'll come back vs. Oklahoma State ready to make up for his mistake last night. Incidentally, I loved the wheel route pass to CJ Donaldson in the first quarter. I've been wondering when we would see that play call. It's going to be there.

4. Boy do we miss Aubrey Burks and Trey Lathan. Ben Cutter was not effective from his Mike position, and actually often overran contain. I would not mind seeing Lee Kpogba go back to Mike, and slide Cutter back to backup at that position, while going with a quicker Jairo Faverus at Will. There is no replacing Burks at free. When he is off the field, our coverage and run support seem to fall off of a cliff. Dana knew enough to throw at our exposed DBs and Marcis Floyd last night. Even their incompletions turned into 15-yard gains.

5. Last night was a fork in the road. If WVU is for real, you go down to Houston, win the game, come home 5-1 and undefeated in the Big 12. You get to soak in more praise over the next week, with tales being spun of WVU being the darkhorse candidate in '23 that the prognosticators thought Texas Tech was going to be. If WVU is a pretender, then we go down to Houston and lose.

Well, there's your answer. It's funny how you can get so ingrained in WVU's football and basketball programs that you can just feel something coming. And, I was dreading this game all week long. Shouldn't have been...but i was. Saw this "L" coming from a mile away. - felt a premonition of gloom surrounding this game similar to the one I had surrounding WVU's first round game vs. Maryland in the Dance this past Spring. Never dreamed that we would score on a 50-yard pass on 4th-and-10 with 20 seconds left to go up by 4, and then lose on a Hail Mary. Didn't see that particular sequence coming, but I will say that when we scored, got flagged for unsportsmanlike conduct, and I saw 20 seconds left...I said "Too much time left". I've endured too much to ever be comfortable until the scoreboard hits zeroes.

So, we're a pretender. Where do we go from here? Your guess is better than mine. Oklahoma State is getting better - just knocking off K-State last week. So, we'll have our hands full. But, a play like the last play in last night's game can knock an entire season off the rails. We're about to find out what sort of leadership we have from the top down, to the lockerrom and everywhere in that facility.

20 minutes ago was thinking we can get 8 wins, now I have a feeling our ceiling is 6.

Fire these clowns. Time to earn your $$$ Wren.

07 Pitt
96 Miami
99 Vick
03 Miami
23 Houston


seems right….

You probably don’t lose two Hail Mary games in a lifetime as a fan, so I’m glad it happened to Bean and a team that prob stinks anyway.

First game as a Bull...

8 pts 2 rbs 2 assts in 16 minutes.

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Last night gutted me. Since I am a Basketball first guy, it would dull the pain a little.