Two players, two explanations. We need a consensus.

Is Jabarie Hinds correct when he says WVU costs itself in the end by playing so poorly at the start?

That’s a point to be made because this is a team that has somehow found its way to a double-digit deficit in 16 of 31 games any only won one of those. Most of those deficits have happened in the first half and many in the first half of that first half.

Or is Eron Harris right, and savvy beyond his tenure, to say in specific detail that the start doesn’t matter as much as the finish and that the Mountaineers have truly done the greatest damage by not finishing comebacks?

That’s an interesting point, too, because you’ll find a few close calls in that 1-15 record against two figure deficits. WVU could weather a bad start and get close, or close to close, but couldn’t complete what it started — or what it hadn’t started. Whatever.

The fact remains the Mountaineers haven’t done themselves many favors by starting off on the back foot again and again, but they haven’t stepped all the way through the window at the finish, either.