With so much being said about performance and how it relates to approach, preparation, expectations and mindset and so many wondering how WVU will respond to Saturday’s loss, this seems like a good time to visit the women’s soccer team and see how that team pulled its act together to win nine in a row at the end of the regular season.

After the team’s Sept. 26 tie to Big East foe South Florida, WVU head coach Nikki Izzo-Brown held a team meeting to re-evaluate the team’s season goals.

Since then, the Mountaineers have won nine games in a row, all against Big East competition.

“It was a great decision on Nikki’s part to bring us all together and reevaluate our goals for the season,” said senior goalkeeper Kerri Butler. “It definitely helped us turn it around.”

Izzo-Brown said it was necessary for the team to decide what it was going to take to win the Big East and play to its full potential.

“As a team, you meet preseason and talk about your goals and what you want to accomplish,” Izzo-Brown said. “Sometimes you need to bring it back and re-evaluate. The girls responded. They executed.”

Hmmm. USF. Bad game. Vow to change. Seems familiar. Remember October!