The first 3 games WVU did better than the final score indicated (yes, even the Virginia Tech game, without Simms or Long).
Against Kansas, WVU did worse than the final score indicated.
My alma mater got breaks on penalties at crucial times for Kansas or my fingernails would have been chewed down to my first knuckle.
But Will Grier looks like a better QB than Geno Smith to me (you know, the guy who got paid for his professional sports opinion for decades) and I can't think of a higher praise for Grier than to write that.
It also was still another reminder that you cannot take ANY team for granted. Not even the worst team in the Big 12, which lost 2 games to teams in the Mid-American Conference. You know, the conference that WVU, in its long history, has NEVER lost a game to.
So the Mountaineers are 3-1 and get a, as it turns out, a timely week off and rest before TCU and Texas Tech come rumbling down the runway. Let's hope Will Grier's right hand isn't hurt seriously. Without WG, WVU is SOOL.
And you can take that to the bank from an ancient sportswriter who damn near joined his wife in Northlawn Memorial Gardens cemetery while watching this game.
M angy special teams + absence of Simms & Long = loss to Virginia Tech, 31-24
O bliterated East Carolina, 56-20
U nhinged Delaware State, 59-16
N ot pretty but we’ll take it, over Kansas, 56-34
T errorize TCU
A nnihilate Texas Tech
I ncinerate Baylor
N ullify Oklahoma State
E rectile dysfunction Iowa State
E masculate Kansas State
R eam Texas
S hock Oklahoma
Against Kansas, WVU did worse than the final score indicated.
My alma mater got breaks on penalties at crucial times for Kansas or my fingernails would have been chewed down to my first knuckle.
But Will Grier looks like a better QB than Geno Smith to me (you know, the guy who got paid for his professional sports opinion for decades) and I can't think of a higher praise for Grier than to write that.
It also was still another reminder that you cannot take ANY team for granted. Not even the worst team in the Big 12, which lost 2 games to teams in the Mid-American Conference. You know, the conference that WVU, in its long history, has NEVER lost a game to.
So the Mountaineers are 3-1 and get a, as it turns out, a timely week off and rest before TCU and Texas Tech come rumbling down the runway. Let's hope Will Grier's right hand isn't hurt seriously. Without WG, WVU is SOOL.
And you can take that to the bank from an ancient sportswriter who damn near joined his wife in Northlawn Memorial Gardens cemetery while watching this game.
M angy special teams + absence of Simms & Long = loss to Virginia Tech, 31-24
O bliterated East Carolina, 56-20
U nhinged Delaware State, 59-16
N ot pretty but we’ll take it, over Kansas, 56-34
T errorize TCU
A nnihilate Texas Tech
I ncinerate Baylor
N ullify Oklahoma State
E rectile dysfunction Iowa State
E masculate Kansas State
R eam Texas
S hock Oklahoma