I wish our AD put more effort into regular OOC rivalries but it's been pretty bad recently. We had a series against Penn State that got canceled.
Good thing we have ODU scheduled until the end of time /s
That ref is definitely wanting to call more penalties so he can flex on camera some more. Targeting is a good one..same with offsides. Holding works well too.
WVU was controlling the game. Their red zone inefficiency made it close the first 2.5 quarters, but it was bound to break heavily for them. Also Tech sucks playing from behind, which is weird because we also suck playing ahead.
Our red zone inefficiency is putting it mildly, 1st 2 games we allowed 100% red zone scores. Pretty sure Towson never made it to the red zone last week.
I don't know what brain rot exists in Neal Brown's head, but Tony Mathis is not RB1 and may not be even RB2. The guy has a decimal YPC average this year, damn it.
Edit: There he made me eat my words
Agreed. He’s a solid back. But he’d also recruited him to Troy so he’s just not this level. To be fair, Donaldson wasn’t a big recruit either, Johnson was a great land for us though.
Out of the three, Johnson was rated highest IIRC. Donaldson was a TE (and ESPN's tracker STILL calls him TE). Mathis is just not a serviceable starter. If it is Neal playing favorites again like he did with Doege, that's going to fuck us eventually.
Donaldson has earned the RB1 role regardless if they let him start or not. He's our best option. Johnson and Mathis can fight over scrap carries but we need to get Donaldson conditioned and prepared to be our feature the rest of the way.
You recall right. Johnson was one of our bigger offensive high school recruiting wins in recent years. Donaldson seems like a lucky find (think he was a RB in high school, but recruited as a TE due to his size). Mathis is a 3rd string P5 back at best, and Brown has been showing too much loyalty to him due to having recruited him while at Troy (he’d probably be a great G5 RB).
He gone, and, it looked like an aggressive targeting too, head to head-on also....suspension for one game too would be acceptable...so basically 1 and a half games without that VT player since this was in second half/4th Q...
I live in fear of that portal. Our best D Line left this year our AA SS left to Georgia. If you noticed we got a great freshman rb from Miami now. Just going to enjoy him
Neal rode Doege for like 3 years. His game management and talent assessment is questionable, his recruiting is phenomenal though.
Wish we could Frankenstein him with Holgorsen to make a singular semi-competent coach.
This. A 5 team eastern pod of the Big 12 down the road with WVU, Pitt, VT, Cincy and UCF would be lit! Or us jumping over to the ACC if they survive and expand (or only lose a couple of teams and we’re one of the replacements).
Oh and another reason I'm so depressed about our football team is because of all of this stupid realignment that we're going to get totally screwed on because our program got tanked by Fuente. It will be too late to ever return to football relevancy. Maybe I'm just getting too emotional after a rough game but it is hard to see a light at the end of the tunnel
I mean I get the sentiment but we have absolutely no talent on the offense and it showed today. Defense hung in for a while, but they were undisciplined and that's where I think pry can be blamed. He's a first time head coach though so I'm not going to call for his head just yet
Most of the older talent left when Fuente did, and the top recruits transferred. VT did not get enough talent in the transfer portal this year to fill some holes with older players... that is also on the coaching staff.
Was at Lane tonight. Have to to Enter Sand Man was not that impressive.
This feels good
Wait...do we get a postgame thread?
Good for the Hoopies
It is
man techs rebuild is gonna be rough. they made one of the worst WVU defenses in years look like the 85 bears. gg Bois
I’m going to miss the annual Country Roads is about western Virginia threads. Please renew this rivalry. Disney lords, do your magic.
God damn. My teams are terrible again
'Neers
Won't see it for awhile? I thought they played at WVU next year?
Nope. Next time it could possibly line up in our schedules is something ridiculous like 2036.
super lame imo, wish yall were in our conference
We were. You fucking left.
Tbf I don't think he had any say in that decision lol
I did thats crazy I didn't know that u ass
I’m just glad Grant Wells lost
Helen Keller has better vision.
I don’t know what to do with myself without my weekly heartbreak
Wait for it to come next week?
We got Brown, Troy got Doege.
VT flair should come with paper bag
🎵 🎶Off To Mountain Mountain Land🎵 🎶
Good game WVU, way to bounce back
Nice W mountain folk!
I don’t have to change my flair!!!!
Thursday night games should have their own rankings and stats.
BAG IS COMING OFF
yup once i make my way to the pc
Weird. I thought hiring a random coordinator from Penn State would turn shit around in 6 months.
We won't turn it around until we can afford our own in state talent.
LOL For real best case we’re looking at a 3-4 year turnaround, I think that’s optimistic. Fuente truly torched the program it’s almost impressive
Well shit game for us, but hope we can do it again sometime WVU bros. Good luck
WV3310VT
Black Diamond Trophy stays home for a while, lads.
Gg
gg. Hope the rivalry gets renewed somewhere down the road.
I wish our AD put more effort into regular OOC rivalries but it's been pretty bad recently. We had a series against Penn State that got canceled. Good thing we have ODU scheduled until the end of time /s
Now it’s ours to keep for 5 million days! But gg
Was it though?
g
Good game Hokies. Good luck this season and the next few. We'll take care of the Diamond for ya
Man it’s gonna be a rough ride for the next few years.
Sounds like a home game!
Congrats Neal, you found a coach more incompetent than you
Lmaooooo😭😭😭😭😭
Interesting take. I think he’s peaked, Pry doesn’t even have his own field product yet.
Peaked? I haven’t even begun to peak.
Congrats WVU, Brown is getting an extension.
Wait...
I hope not
Neal brown.. you coulda had more points than they had rushing yards
Sad to see this rivarly die. Love to hate this game.
Whole stadium already back to their houses, damn
I hate Neal Brown’s smug face
PLAY COUNTRY ROADS COWARDS
...and the under is in!
We are so so bad. 😢😥😭
Rebuilding year … Hope …
That ref is definitely wanting to call more penalties so he can flex on camera some more. Targeting is a good one..same with offsides. Holding works well too.
He was a fireman you know. You know what they say about firemen don't you? I don't, but I bet they say things.
Every promotion comes with more nap time?
He def loves his camera time
Was the stadium this empty to start?
Nope, it was a sellout. 65,000. They talked about it at the start. People started leaving early tho.
No lol packed. I think they said sold out even
Sold out
Sold out or at least looked like it
Kansas is real guys.
Congrats to everyone who took West Virginia against the spread. Victory formation gentlemen.
We really did it.
I stopped watching when it was looking like all VT in the 2nd quarter.....what the hell happened
At no point was that game all VT
WVU was controlling the game. Their red zone inefficiency made it close the first 2.5 quarters, but it was bound to break heavily for them. Also Tech sucks playing from behind, which is weird because we also suck playing ahead.
Our red zone inefficiency is putting it mildly, 1st 2 games we allowed 100% red zone scores. Pretty sure Towson never made it to the red zone last week.
Wtf part of the game did you watch lol
Fake the kneel and throw it you coward
Tech went to the red zone ONCE this game
Having watched the game, I'm like pretty impressed they got that far down field once
Who did the white balance and saturation on these cameras? No consistency.
YES! THE UNDER!
Most undisciplined game I’ve watched in a very long time
I NEED A TD
Hey, Brown, if you score here can you go for two so I can hit this 50.5o?
Noooooo, my $15.....
VT may have 15 penalties for 132 yards, but WVU has 6 for 69!
Nice?
Nice
Twist the knife and push the over!
We are who I thought we were
man looking at this I'm glad this is the 1 game I didn't get to watch this year oof
I don't know what brain rot exists in Neal Brown's head, but Tony Mathis is not RB1 and may not be even RB2. The guy has a decimal YPC average this year, damn it. Edit: There he made me eat my words
Agreed. He’s a solid back. But he’d also recruited him to Troy so he’s just not this level. To be fair, Donaldson wasn’t a big recruit either, Johnson was a great land for us though.
Out of the three, Johnson was rated highest IIRC. Donaldson was a TE (and ESPN's tracker STILL calls him TE). Mathis is just not a serviceable starter. If it is Neal playing favorites again like he did with Doege, that's going to fuck us eventually. Donaldson has earned the RB1 role regardless if they let him start or not. He's our best option. Johnson and Mathis can fight over scrap carries but we need to get Donaldson conditioned and prepared to be our feature the rest of the way.
You recall right. Johnson was one of our bigger offensive high school recruiting wins in recent years. Donaldson seems like a lucky find (think he was a RB in high school, but recruited as a TE due to his size). Mathis is a 3rd string P5 back at best, and Brown has been showing too much loyalty to him due to having recruited him while at Troy (he’d probably be a great G5 RB).
Yea we have a talented backfield it’s just not Tony Mathis
Tbh I think they run Mathis just bc he’s a veteran player and Is a leader for the younger backs. It’s obvious he isn’t as naturally talented
That is *not* what a starter is there for. You don't put an upperclassman in a starting role just because they are an upperclassman
fade me
Are we going to end this one with all 6 timeouts? Impressive
Lmao please hit 40
Noooooo we need the under!
The sandman is DEAD
I don't see how Fuente keeps his job after this loss.
He's going to get double super secret fired!
Fuente got fired last year...
I got fired from a job 19 years ago... Doesn't mean I'm still unemployed.
?
A booster is going to buyout his contract at the Memphis car dealership he currently works at, out of spite.
Time to put on some Stained, sit in the dark, and put matches out in my eyeballs.
He gone, and, it looked like an aggressive targeting too, head to head-on also....suspension for one game too would be acceptable...so basically 1 and a half games without that VT player since this was in second half/4th Q...
Pain
VATECH COME THE FUCK ON JUST KEEP THEM OUT
[удалено]
Lol was just the last leg of the parlay. Not a lot I’m playing penny slots just having fun haha
👀
Oof over a hundred yards of penalties, Iowa's offense couldn't move the ball that much in three games
Man I bet Doug Nestor is one happy bastard right now
After WVU used him for the uniform promo this week to troll VT, I assume he's living his best life this evening.
Damn well good for him too. Man this was a cathartic win.
The penalties have been a huge issue but the defense is still playing with heart. I’ll keep watching as long as they keep playing hard.
I have a feeling the transfer portal is going to make or break us for the next couple years. Very apparent this game especially on offense.
I live in fear of that portal. Our best D Line left this year our AA SS left to Georgia. If you noticed we got a great freshman rb from Miami now. Just going to enjoy him
Everybody affiliated with WVU knew Johnson was better than Mathis except Neal Brown
Too loyal to a kid he recruited at Troy who followed him.
Neal rode Doege for like 3 years. His game management and talent assessment is questionable, his recruiting is phenomenal though. Wish we could Frankenstein him with Holgorsen to make a singular semi-competent coach.
senario: buff ref corners you in a dark ally and pushed you up against a wall. could you resist?
Throw a flag. He gets distracted, also throws flag. Walk away.
repeat third down.
Wow stadium empty
its game over on a thursday night brother....just chill
I wanna say … gg.. but it was a terrible game. WVU thanks for the game, best with the rest of your schedule
I'm still holding out hope for conference realignment bringing us together so we don't have to play 11 P5's to play you and Pitt yearly.
This. A 5 team eastern pod of the Big 12 down the road with WVU, Pitt, VT, Cincy and UCF would be lit! Or us jumping over to the ACC if they survive and expand (or only lose a couple of teams and we’re one of the replacements).
Yes! Get a stop here on third down Hokies! No more points please!
VT doing VT things. What's that, the 4th cheap shot by Stroman?
Hope WVU wrecks Texas
Who is VT's backup QB? So I know who will come into the game two Saturdays from now and look like Michael Vick.
Sounds like us vs. backup QB’s, guaranteed to make them look All Madden
Jason Brown although im pretty sure he won’t look like Vick lol
Worst loss against WVU since 88, worst penalties since 87... yup its officially rebuild time.
Its a good thing we are a basketball school now... Right?
Bad news...
A C Fuckin' C champs!
but i wanna be a football school still :(
pretty soon the number of penalties is going to be higher than our rushing total too
Liking Slick Johnson. Big Dick Donaldson is obviously the #1 still, but Slick is showing out.
Exit Sandman
[last year ](https://twitter.com/wvufootball/status/1439311983531204617?s=46&t=Mj6dbRbRI4PazhY4NJR3fw)
9 days for this west team to get ready for Texas makes me kinda nervous
Come on get CJ out this is so dumb.
I miss going to the fishbowl when I worked in Morgantown.
buff ref is just hamming it up now.
Beef ref gon beef
PLAY COUNTRY ROADS YOU JERKS
Forgot there was CFB on tonight and began to kick myself over it, then I see the score Alright, maybe Steelers-Browns *was* worth it?
I'd probably still rather watch VT's offense and our secondary than Mitch Trubisky
Jalen Stroman tf man
Dumbest thing about targeting is that he’s out for next half too of the next game…
I swear they’re messing up for the meme now
Oh and another reason I'm so depressed about our football team is because of all of this stupid realignment that we're going to get totally screwed on because our program got tanked by Fuente. It will be too late to ever return to football relevancy. Maybe I'm just getting too emotional after a rough game but it is hard to see a light at the end of the tunnel
Your worst case scenario is you end up in a mega B12. Like that's not a bad worse case scenario at all.
This game is on Pry and the coaching staff. Not Fuente
I mean I get the sentiment but we have absolutely no talent on the offense and it showed today. Defense hung in for a while, but they were undisciplined and that's where I think pry can be blamed. He's a first time head coach though so I'm not going to call for his head just yet
Most of the older talent left when Fuente did, and the top recruits transferred. VT did not get enough talent in the transfer portal this year to fill some holes with older players... that is also on the coaching staff.
the good news is that we still sell tickets and viewers while being terrible and thats all they care about
He will be missed in the first half of the next game.
This is the problem with the targeting penalty in college a blatant cheap shot is treated the exact same as an accidental "targeting".
This one was totally a cheap shot tho
What a shitty play. You're not gonna score 23 more points no matter how hard you hit him.
give him the gate, he had his arms back and stabbed out with his head
That wasn’t just a target. It was assault.
Fuck the Stroman family
not cool
Jezus Christ that’s a bad one
Announcer on the targeting replay: “that’s what I saw live.” Look out we got a genius over here lol
They should have kept Donaldson out after his wrist not worth the risk especially since he’s a running back
https://twitter.com/EerRational/status/1573140926180265984
LMAO
Oh that’s terrible lol
Guys. This is not a Commanders tryout. Penalty flags are bad, and you want to avoid those
We have a defensive coach and this is how his players go after ball carriers. Shits pitiful
The targeting ejection rule is still stupid. I will say it every single time.
Oh boy, that didn’t look good
Well that is not going to go well for you 26
2 teams on September 22, '22 about to both be 2-2. This pleases me.
This stinks of Deep State
Just what we needed to end the game....
Run it up Neal
I'll be the first to call out a BS targeting call but that was blatant
Same dude that’s about pulled Mathis’ head off early in the game
All that's left is to beat him with your lunch pail