fan! I thought the stadium looked great with the fans in Gold! I thought Skylar was efficient and the offense was productive against a big time defense. I thought the Mizzou offense was just as inept as they were last season. I thought all along that WVU would prevail in a low scoring game...glad to see the under players earn their money!
Random observations from WVU 's win from a Herd
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The stadium did look great.
It was hard to tell if our defense played well, or if Mizzou's offense is just that dreadful. But, they are an SEC team and we stuffed their run game, so we played well in the trenches. Holding them scoreless when we hand them the ball on the 5 was a good stand by the D.
We have the same problems that plagued us last year. Finishing. Drives or games. Drive with relative ease down to the 10 and then stall out and have to settle for field goals. And then we didn't finish the game either. We really should have had a lot more than 26 points, but with Skylar's injured ribs it seems we were content to mostly just run the ball and then Skylar didn't play at all for more than half of the 4th.
Mizzou puts A LOT of players in the NFL on the defensive side and we moved the ball on them relatively easily, so that was good to see. Also, it was his first game but Crawford looks to be a pretty good back.
O-line played well, even with Pankey out for being an idiot and the injury to Cajuste. The front of the D played well too. And that's where football is won and lost, so both of those were promising. Mizzou is average at best though, so I'm cautiously optimistic.
As I left the stadium I was a bit disappointed since it seemed we should have run them out of the building, but after watching all of the other upsets and near upsets (Tenn Appy St) our win started looking better and better.
We had discussed this game all winter and we both agreed it would be exactly the kind of game it turned out to be! I do think Dana "throttled down" after Skylar's rib injury but Mizzou defense keeps them in a lot of games, they are legit on that side of the ball. All in all...a good win!
We ran for 280 yards on them. Oline played well. We just gotta figure out how to punch it into the endzone. We tried fade routes a couple of times and he threw them out of the endzone, gotta give the guys a chance.
Our defense played great, then fell asleep, then played great then fell asleep. Definitely some was Mizzou's ineptitude.
It definitely went about as planned. I talked to some Mizzou fans before the game and one of them had family on the staff and he said that this particular coach said that he just hoped it wouldn't be 41-0 at halftime. It could have/should have been close to that, but we gotta finish drives.
Like I said, with all the other upsets, that win kept looking better and better.
Yeah, surprised to see Houston hand it to Oklahoma like they did ...game wasn't as close as the score!
By the 4th quarter of the Youngstown State game we will see if the search for a new coach should start. WVU should be blowing out YSU at halftime. If Holgs doesn't put in his backup QB and play him after the first series in the 3rd quarter, then he is an idiot and needs to go. Saturday shows that there needs to be a backup ready to hit the field. Crest should of been allowed to play the next series if he truly came into Saturday as the #2 QB. To yank him after one mistake did more damage to Crest's confidence and the other freshman after a poor throw into coverage than anything. Coach them up, not kick them down. Howard will not play the entire season. He's gonna get hurt.
And LSU losing to Wisconsin, Appy St. nearly beating Tennessee, South Alabama beating Misssissippi St., Washington State losing to Eastern Washington, South Dakota St. giving TCU more of a game than they expected, UCLA was supposed to come out fo the Pac12 but lost to TA&M, etc.
Glad to get the W
More parity out there than the casual college football fan realizes...I know the P-5 conferences get all the ink and have exploding scoreboards and 12 different practice fields but none of that blocks or tackles. When toe meets leather, best be ready to play!
Very true....a point that often gets driven home! People are jumping off the buildings around here because S. Miss handled it to UK Saturday night after UK spend $250 million on football improvements in the off season.
Good thing they're a basketball school. Gotta be patient though, writing those checks is like planting seeds. Better facilities can attract better players, which won't show up in results on the field for 2-4 yars.
UK been preaching " patience " since Bear Byrant left for A & M!
I was there too.......maybe you saw me. I was the one in blue jeans and a gold tee shirt.
