Mountaineer Moments in Adversity Part Nine

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Mountaineer Moments in Adversity Part Nine As we round into our pre-season coverage for the West Virginia Mountaineers 2022 football season, we also round out of our series on Mountaineer moments in adversity. WVU has been on its share of lopsided rivalries in its favor, but it has a few where the tide pulls against […] READ MORE


Mountaineer Moments in Adversity Part Eight

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Mountaineer Moments in Adversity Part Eight Fall Camp for the West Virginia Mountaineers began Saturday. The 2022 edition of the Backyard Brawl kicks off in four-and-a-half weeks. As the season opener approaches, we enter the home stretch of our Mountaineer moments in adversity series. We continue in this part eight as we began in part […] READ MORE


Mountaineer Moments in Adversity Part Five

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Mountaineer Moments in Adversity Part Five The college football community at large may be surprised by this, but the West Virginia Mountaineers have accumulated 767 wins. Only 20 teams have gathered more. If we remove teams that no longer play FBS football, West Virginia is actually 15th all-time in win total. Even so, Mountaineer history […] READ MORE


Mountaineers Building Blue Collar Team

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The Mountaineers find themselves more than a week into fall camp.  The players have had their ups and downs. Head Coach Neal Brown called one early effort an “immature” practice.  But, while we have learned plenty about the attitude and improvement of the players, the staff and players have made one thing abundantly clear:  the […] READ MORE


Mountaineers Moving Forward

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Driving down Interstate 79 near Fairmont, motorists will see a prominent billboard showing new Head Coach Neal Brown declaring the arrival of a “New Era” for West Virginia football. Indeed, the West Virginia University athletic department has made it clear that the Mountaineers are moving forward. Nonetheless, over the past few weeks, various West Virginia media outlets […] READ MORE


Excitement Builds for the Mountaineers

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West Virginia Mountaineer fans have been flooded with news, almost all positive, over the past month. The Early Signing Period featured no surprises and the Mountaineers landed their most important early targets. West Virginia also hired promising young up-and-comer Neal Brown to lead the program into its next phase. Brown has made positive waves among Mountaineer […] READ MORE


The Modern Era of West Virginia Football

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In this first of this three-part series, we will look at the early modern era of West Virginia football and the Don Nehlen era to begin providing the deeper backdrop against which any current or future West Virginia football programs might best be judged. Ultimately, the purpose of the series is to examine just how […] READ MORE