One of the many things Dana Holgorsen found that he and WVU had to work on this week is defense and especially winning big downs. The effort was, for the most part, was fine for the first three quarters, but even then the execution offered some worries.

“We gave up way too many third downs and I think we had 22 critical downs and we were only successful on nine of them,” he said. “They did play hard and fast, but obviously there are some things we’ve got to do better.”

I had to ask, but critical downs are third and fourth downs and Marshall was 9-for-19 on third down and 2-for-3 on fourth down. That’s 11 wins, but only a 50-percent success rate, which isn’t good and which was mostly the product of the secondary.

Holgorsen said Tuesday freshman Nana Kyeremeh had a nice little game in his college debut and that if Brodrick Jenkins and Pat Miller weren’t careful, one of them would lose their starting job to a freshman.

Seems a little early for all of that, but cornerbacks coach Daron Roberts is a man of urgency and understand it was he who whispered all those nice things about Nana in Dana’s ear. Face it, this was a concern entering the season and WVU is going to deal with it forcefully. Roberts has a disciplined eye and his cornerbacks better find two, too.

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