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WVU basketball: Allowing ourselves to look ahead to next season

March 13, 2019 by Tom Bragg

Hi gang. Checking in courtside from the Sprint Center in Kansas City. If you’re paying attention, and I know you are, you know Oklahoma State and TCU are playing tonight’s first game before WVU tangles with Oklahoma later this evening in the first round of the Big 12 tournament.

The Mountaineers did their session with the media here yesterday while I was en route to Kansas City, and it was mostly the basic, day before a tournament stuff — the Mountaineers are going to play hard and aren’t scared of anybody and think nobody wants to play them right now etc. etc.

What was a little bit odd, at least this season, was the sight of Sagaba Konate participating in WVU’s shootaround. It got people talking, that’s for sure.

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VIDEO: WVU football coach Neal Brown wraps up winter workouts, looks ahead to spring

March 7, 2019 by Tom Bragg

This is not a knock or criticism in any way, just a statement of fact: Neal Brown press conferences go way longer than the ones I was around for during Dana Holgorsen’s tenure at WVU.

Brown met with the media today in Morgantown to put a bow on the Mountaineers’ winter workouts and to kind of set the table for spring practice — which is right around the corner.

Here is my video of today’s press conference, clocking in at just a bit more than 30 minutes. Brown touched on a lot of things, so get comfortable.

VIDEO: Jordan McCabe on WVU’s loss at Oklahoma

March 2, 2019 by Tom Bragg

VIDEO: WVU’s Bob Huggins on loss at Oklahoma

by Tom Bragg

Gang,

These things are just going to have audio problems all season. The sooner (no pun intended) we accept that, the better off we’ll be. This edition of Bob Huggins speaking to the media after a game features the Oklahoma band practicing in the hall outside the media room. Gotta stay sharp for the women’s game against TCU that’s the second part of a doubleheader at OU today -____-

 

WVU football: More Mountaineers get to work at NFL Combine

by Tom Bragg
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Just a quick update here as we get ready for WVU’s basketball game at Oklahoma.

After Yodny Cajuste’s strong start to this weekend’s NFL Combine in Indianapolis, more WVU players have had the chance to show what they can do to the pro teams.

Friday saw quarterbacks, receivers and tight ends get started with the bench press and the Mountaineers in attendance did not disappoint — Trevon Wesco, a Martinsburg native and former multi-sport standout at Musselman High, did 24 reps of 225 pounds on to lead all tight ends in the event.

Receivers Gary Jennings (20) and David Sills (14) also did the bench press on Friday while quarterback Will Grier skipped it.

Grier did, however, run the 40-yard dash on Saturday mornimg. The Charlotte, North Carolina native ran a 4.92 and 4.84 — placing him among the top 10 for quarterbacks in the category at the Combine.

As of right now, Wesco is the only one of the group do participate in other drills — he ran a 4.89 in the 40, posted a 31-inch vertical leap and went 117.0 inches in the broad jump.

Check back here this evening and I’ll get y’all some updated information from what the former West Virginia players are doing at the NFL Combine.

 

WVU football: Yodny Cajuste off to strong start at NFL Combine

February 28, 2019 by Tom Bragg

Former WVU offensive lineman Yodny Cajuste was among the standouts in the offensive linemen group Thursday at the NFL Combine in Indianapolis.

Cajuste’s official measurements fall in line with what NFL teams have been looking for from linemen in recent years. He checked in at 6-foot-4 and 7/8ths and 312 pounds. Cajuste has a wingspan of 82 1/4 inches, his arms are 34 inches long and his hands measured 10 inches.

Lineman were among the first players to get a crack at the bench press this week, and Cajuste put on a show.

The always busy folks from WVU’s video production department were there with cameras, duh.

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Cajuste’s 32 reps — more than any WVU player has ever done at the Combine — placed him fourth among this year’s group of offensive linemen. Weber State’s Iosua Opeta led the group with 39 reps, followed by North Carolina State’s Garrett Bradbudy (34) and Wake Forest’s Phil Haynes (33).

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The rest of WVU’s contingent in Indy gets rolling in the coming days. Quarterbacks, receivers and tight ends — which includes Will Grier, David Sills, Gary Jennings and Trevon Wesco from the Mountaineers — are scheduled to do the bench press Friday with an on-field workout on Saturday. Linebackers — which include WVU’s David Long — are on the bench Saturday then workout on the field Sunday.