So I’m not doing Good/Bad for tomorrow. I’ve watched most of part of the game that matters, which is to say I reached the latter part of the second quarter, and it’s actually worse the second time. WVU got whipped. Kansas State hit harder, blocked better, shed blocks with greater ease, tackled with a superior skill, played a disciplined zone, made the most of just about every opening and generally conducted itself with the class and confidence that you’d apply to a top-five team.

The Mountaineers got hit harder, were blocked without much trouble, couldn’t get off blocks very often, did not tackle, lacked discipline in practically any coverage they were in and made very little of anything and facilitated other things for Kansas State. It was not near the class or confidence of a top-25 team, but probably the most amazing thing to come of the weekend is that WVU is still ranked … No. 22 by the coaches and No. 25 by the media.

Also, it’s worth mentioning that I was quickly out of Goods for WVU. I had the Josh Francis tackle on Kansas State’s first drive and Tavon’s kickoff return touchdown and … honestly nothing else. I feel like it’s silly to give out Goods for punts or kickoffs or accepting blame after the game. And of the many Worsts, many are reruns on all three sides of the ball.

It’s a bad time in the empire and that offense is in a slump. It’s either caught whatever has ailed the defense or has been figured out and ably handled by the better defenses in the league. Or a little of each.

Actually, add a fourth possibility: It might not be all that special.

Whatever you pick, it’s not looking good right now, I don’t have to tell you.

And defensively? WVU again tried just about everyone and everything Saturday night and again the kitchen sink sunk. It was the kitchen stink. Joe DeForest played a lot of players and went from a very basic game plan to admittedly trying things to see if he could get someone or something to click. He’s running out of answers over there and the questions keep accumulating.

Lots to discuss, and we will, and Dana has a press conference I imagine many will want to review. I wasn’t going to do a chat this week because there isn’t a game, but that feels like the wrong move. Too much going on for me to rationalize a break.

The Mountaineers get a break in that they don’t play, won’t lose and can’t get embarrassed this week, but things do not get easier now. TCU seems to have found some pep for its step. Oklahoma State is really good at home and can ball on offense — though it officially has quarterback problems now. Oklahoma might be one of the three or four best teams in the country come Sunday morning. Iowa State has Paul Rhoads and defense. Kansas is going to get someone this season.

There are winnable games in there, sure, and WVU is not the clown of the class, though you do hear faint calliope music off in the distance that, I swear, I didn’t hear two weeks ago.

Throw dirt on me and grow a wildflower. But it’s text the world, get a child out of her. My edits are in [brackets].

1:39
If Dwight Wallace says WVU has had a good week of practice, he’s just talking out of his ass, right?

5:44
Justin just toasted Joan Rivers.

6:10
Luck walking amongst the little people … Alone and unnoticed.

6:56
Erin Andrews in leather pants and somewhere you have to think Gale Catlett was behind it.

7:04
Bill Snyder is so old … his last trip to WV, it wasn’t a state

7:04
Blimp shots on Fox looked awesome.

7:10
Already looking disasterous! Where are my pain meds?

7:12
Someone should give DeForrest a Gatorade shower for forcing a field goal.

7:18
No clue how this will turn out, but at least it looks like we’re going to make K State earn it.

7:23
Bill Snyder is so old … he asked Dana before the game if Rat Rodgers was healthy enough to go tonight.

7:27
Is it even worth mentioning that Pat Miller gets burnt like the movie Backdraft? Eh…old news!

7:28
Dana’s hair is an extra hot mess!

7:31
Turn around and [dilligently] look at the ball

7:34
I think I saw this game last week…

7:36
This is the worst defense since the French in WW2

7:39
After the game, can you ask Holgorsen to finish the following sentence, “You hired Joe DeForest because…”

7:42
Doin whatever the [heck] they want

7:43
Well I look forward to December when 5-6 WVU needs to beat Charlie Weis to make some bankrupt minor bowl. Nice work, DeFeat.

7:47
I know I sound like a typical fan, but it seems this is the worst team to play man to man against . . .

7:47
They have a QB that throws wounded ducks and he runs the ball . . .

7:48
Playing man, our DBs are looking away from the ball, so he can loft them up. And, there’s no one spying the QB.

7:48
This is the kind of game that is hard to watch but makes it easy to drink.

7:50
Tshirt idea ” I AM 4 DeForestation”.   I will make hundreds.

7:51
Is K State playing with 1 more person than us?? Someone is always wide open.

7:52
If we lose by more than 20 and Geno doesn’t throw an interception, then he’s lost the killer instinct.

7:53
Is it bad that I’m sitting here wondering what I could do with the money I’ve wasted on season tickets?

7:55
Disciplined teams kill us.

7:58
What exactly did defenses figure out to neutralize the offense??? This is 2 weeks in a row…

8:00
We got 99 problems and football is one

8:00
Well that was a horrible punt

8:02
Must be the wind again.

8:04
Defense is embarrassing.

8:08
And Paris falls

8:08
#TeamBoo

8:09
I want a personal apology from every fan who told me Jeff Casteel’s defense was no good.

8:09
Someone behind me said Holgorsen needs to retire.

8:09
Someone should tell the fox guys that c. Klein can’t trow the ball.  WVU just can’t cover anyone.  He is chucking knuckle balls!!!

8:10
Old WVU players are on Facebook mocking this D, calling for Elmassian’s return. That’s how bad it is.

8:11
I gotta think Holgorsen’s embarrassed so it will be interesting to see what happens over the next year.

8:11
Booing, the likes of which haven’t been heard since brad Lewis, will soon be descending

8:11
Bowl eligibility is not a given now.

8:11
#TeamGoPlayIntramuralsBrother. #ThisIsTheBigTwelllllve

8:12
Season = over. No bowl. Defense terrible? Fine. Offense totally inept? Very very very alarming.

8:12
AUSTIN 3:16 SAYS I JUST TORCHED YOUR COVERAGE!

8:13
… And that’s what can happen when you have zero respect for Tavon and kick it right to him.

8:14
“All right stop what you’re doin cause I’m about to ruin the image & the style that you’re used to.” The Gumpty Gump.

8:17
At least you get to spend December in either San Antonio, Dallas or San Diego

8:18
Honest question: was DeForrest happy or pissed to see Tavon take that one back for a TD?

8:18
SO tired of being disgusted by the defense.

8:19
Slow, sloppy, soft and, apparently, very very stupid.

8:19
Can’t wait until Mike exposes that the Harvard that Roberts attended was actually Harvard CC in Harvard, Iowa

8:20
Time to brush up that law CV, Daron

8:20
Lol defense

8:21
If DeForrest called K State’s offensive plays, do you think we could stop them?

8:22
The Rumph Shaker is truly a wreck in efx

8:23
WVU has now given up a TD in final minute of 1st half in every Big 12 game it’s ever played

8:23
Nothing comes between the endzone and its Colin klein.

8:24
I truly wonder how we have beat anyone with this D

8:24
Best defender for WVU in the first half? The end zone. It stopped all but one k-state drive

8:26
Can’t wait for the fireworks.  So much to celebrate ….

8:29
Our fans just booed our team off the field. We are being embarrassed on all levels tonite.

8:29
Are you sure I can’t drink with my meds???? I really need it tonight!

8:30
All the sudden I know what it must’ve been like to root for the Temple Owls.

8:30
… And then the band decided to tell Luck to be a lady. Oh lord.

8:34
So do we HAVE to wait until the end of the year to fire eForest (not a typo…)??

8:35
Is ACC still available? Big east?

8:35
#FireHolgsDotCom

8:37
Bright side: our defense being this bad is hiding the fact that our offense also sucks now.

8:38
Holgorsen in next week’s press conference: “Ok, NOW our offense does, in fact, need a savior.”

8:39
Just like Holgorsen said it takes a great game in all three phases to win by 35 points, it takes a horrible game in all three phases to lose like WVU is losing.

8:43
I mean really, at what point does Holgy own this situation and put eForrests head on a pike outside the Puskar Center?

8:45
Let’s settle this at Ali’s grave. Bring DeForest’s playbook. – A 

8:48
Credit where credit is due: DeForest is America’s best offensive coordinator.

8:49
To quote Dunlap on Twitter; Heather Bresch earned her MBA as much as Joe DeForest earned the right to coach another week.

8:52
Um. Of course that had to happen tonight. I want to go home.

8:52
Make sure you don’t ask any stupid questions.

8:53
And it goes from bad to worse.

8:54
This is hilarious. “Don’t throw it to him, he’s quadruple covered… Ahh, screw it, lets see what happens.” Touchdown.

8:54
In a season of defensive embarrassment, that TD despite tight double coverage with PI was the nadir

8:54
Look at everyone leaving. I bet they would at least turn around and look if a ball was being thrown toward them.

8:54
Heisman trophy winner will be Kansas’s QB bc he plays us right before the voting.

8:55
Aaaaaand I just flipped to Texas/Baylor. [That’s] it. Done.

8:56
First question to DeForrest, “Say something positive.” If he does, then he should be fired.

8:57
I didn’t drink enough pre game for this

8:57
Couch: Winning “not my responsibility”

8:57
They can tell the National Guard they can leave.

9:00
Zero chance we are ranked next week (or the rest of the season) right?

9:00
Meshack! Shadrack and Abindigo’s bro!

9:01
Jeff Braun couldn’t block two Xs in Tic Tac Toe

9:01       
We are a total mess

9:01
Baylor and Texas is 21-14 after 1… I wish we were playing either of them again.

9:01
This team is weak

9:02
We suck, I hope we qualify for the car care bowl

9:04
Fire the entire coaching staff and find somebody remotely competent. Like the coaching staff at Suncrest Middle School. They’re probably available.

9:05
Duh da duh-duh-duh … hey, Eu sucks!

9:13
Bill Snyder is so hardcore … Ron Jeremy has a collection of Bill’s videos.

9:13
Very proactive way to deal with the stadium cell reception situation

9:14
Are we still worried about Dana leaving

9:15
Win or lose, Optimus Klein sounds like a Tel Aviv diamond importer

9:16
I will have to stop texting now.  Everything I type is so hateful

9:18
This isn’t what “bowing up” means, right?

9:19
If k-state scores again there will be more wildcat fans than WVU fans in the stadium

9:21
For your post-game story, you should just lead with Pat White’s “It’s a sad day to be a mountaineer wherever you may be” tweet – says it all….

9:22
The knuckle ball strikes again

9:24
Im out of words to yell at the tv. Screw you, deforest.

9:31
#TeamGoHomeEarly

9:32
Does WVU draw 50,000 to next game?

9:33
I have never seen the stadium so empty.  EVER

9:34
Does WVU draw 40,000 against Kansas?

9:38
If someone sends a TFGD, but there wasn’t really anything you could call a game that day, is it still a TFGD?

9:50
Good to see that Tavon and Stedman are able to block out the score and still celebrate that touchdown.

9:51
I blame Kevin noreens injury

9:52
WVU is at the point where people are researching how badly Dudley DeGroot & Doggy Trenchard lost games

9:57
I thought you said Bailey was healthy. EXPLAIN IT!!!

10:00
Jeremy Coach has some questions to answer!  Why have we showed up flat?  Please don’t cut him any slack.

10:06
Dude, if kstate fans rush the field I’m mailing the remainder of my tickets to Oliver Luck.

10:07
And Spain just forgot his helmet. Was that a decoy tactic of some sort.

10:08
Is this what we want football to be?!

10:09
I feel the same way I did after watching 2 Girls 1 Cup

10:10
[Amazing] wow.

10:17
All of the fans who stayed and are now walking to lots look like the extras on the walking dead. We’re looking for brains and we are starving.

10:18
Walking back alone and reciting my own  mike valenti soliloquy. Ppl must think I’m nuts.

10:42
People are hilarious. They’re like “This team is awful. It looks like we will be stuck going 9-3!” How the hell do they think we can win 2 more games let alone 4?