Interesting give-and-take from last night’s postgame:

The problem is simply this: Stewart has a football team that seems better suited for holding onto the opposition than holding onto the football.

The first is illegal, the second inexcusable.

It is almost unimaginable that the Mountaineers would fumble the ball seven times, losing four of them.

Think about that for a moment. Seven fumbles. Were the officials putting a Teflon ball into play when West Virginia had it?

Of the four lost fumbles, three came in Connecticut territory, the other out at the WVU 44.

It led Stewart into making one of the season’s most unreasonable quotes, saying, “I thought we did well in the red zone … except losing those fumbles.”

That’s like a pitcher saying “I pitched a no-hitter, except for those 13 hits I gave up.”