Welcome to the Friday Feedback, which has healed a bruise, self-scouted schemes and gotten its swagger back during this open week. Just wait until I hit the ground running Monday!
Can’t tell you a whole lot about what’s gone on at WVU this week, except that I’ve heard the coaches looked at everything good and bad from the past two games and investigated how the team arrived at either outcome.
They then made plans to repeat the good outcomes and avoid the bad ones, which means reinforcing and removing things and not really adding things.
The Mountaineers went good on good for a few hours Tuesday and Wednesday, just put the ball in the turf and let the offense and defense figure a few things out with some direction from the coaches, and then backed off a little to let all the young kids go yesterday. Now the coaches are out recruiting.
That’s your week in a nutshell and it’s pretty much followed the script Dana Holgorsen unveiled Tuesday, though it sounds as though they went at one another a little more than had been advertised.
To those who (are programmed to) say “They’ll be better after the week of practice!” let me tell you that after the Texas Tech and Kansas State games, WVU said it had great practices leading up to the blowouts — Kansas State, in particular. Next week is the one that matters, but at least the Mountaineers are stringing together good weeks and maybe that builds a bridge to the one that follows.
Onto the Feedback. As always, comments appear as posted. In other words, swing your sword … or not.
Down South said:
Listening to Holgorsen’s press conference, his frustrated tone sounded exactly like some of Huggins’ press conferences during the hard times last year. I remember Huggs saying that he just couldn’t get the freshman to understand how hard they had to play all the time to be successful at this level. We are playing a whole bunch of 18- and 19-year-olds on that side of the ball. And it is hard to watch. What was that line about not being able to guard the door with a shotgun again?
Good point, good comparison, good chance I steal this and write a story.
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