More fun with numbers in WVU’s fun or folly offense.

Through three games this year, West Virginia looks to have stayed in line with its recent past and run the football on 53 percent of its snaps.

In truth, virtually all of quarterback Jarrett Brown’s 38 rushing attempts this season have come on pass plays when he decided to ditch the plan and leave the pocket, meaning the Mountaineers are closer to a 60-40 pass-run ratio.

“We are throwing deep, we are throwing the ball down the middle and we are going to make them defend the field,” WVU Coach Bill Stewart said. “We are not backing off in our play-calling.”

 Again, the hunch is the interceptions will not persist and the offense will continue to be pretty effective. Why? Interesting you should ask.

The traditional wisdom suggests three things can happen when you pass the ball and two of them are bad. The Mountaineers are modernizing that, fully aware you can have incompletions and interceptions, but hoping to prove you can also have completions and touchdowns and results that enable success for different plays later in the game.

It goes beyond double moves and even double passes. If WVU’s throwing over top teams, the offense hopes the defense backs off. If WVU is throwing from sideline to sideline, the offense hopes the defense spreads out. In either case — and this is where things get a little crazy — the pass can actually facilitate the run.

So long as the run is called.