{"id":20633,"date":"2019-02-06T14:44:25","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T19:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosoncfb.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=20633"},"modified":"2019-02-06T14:44:25","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T19:44:25","slug":"tavian-mayo-chooses-mountaineers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/2019\/02\/06\/tavian-mayo-chooses-mountaineers\/","title":{"rendered":"Tavian Mayo Chooses Mountaineers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tavian Mayo<\/strong>\u2019s name has floated around Mountaineer recruiting circles for months. The prior staff targeted him early. And the turnover in staff after <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sports-reference.com\/cfb\/coaches\/dana-holgorsen-1.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dana Holgorsen<\/a><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosoncfb.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2019\/01\/01\/west-virginia-mountaineers-and-dana-holgorsen-part-ways\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">left for Houston<\/a> and Head Coach <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sports-reference.com\/cfb\/coaches\/neal-brown-1.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Neal Brown<\/a><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosoncfb.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2019\/01\/05\/neal-brown-era-begins-in-morgantown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">replaced him days later<\/a> did little to stall that momentum. In fact, the staff turnover may have helped. <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosoncfb.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2019\/01\/23\/excitement-builds-for-the-mountaineers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Excitement has surrounded the program<\/a> since Brown took over, and that certainly didn\u2019t hurt Mayo\u2019s interest in West Virginia. As a result, Mayo chooses the Mountaineers on National Signing Day.<\/p>\n<p>Coach Brown wasted little time filling in critical pieces of his coaching staff in Morgantown. One early addition was <strong>Al Pogue<\/strong>, who followed Brown from Troy. Pogue is an Alabama native who has traditionally recruited in both Alabama and Georgia. Pogue has also coached cornerbacks for years. His group certainly performed well in Troy. Pogue\u2019s hiring certainly inspires confidence that the Mountaineers look to build a strong secondary. His hire also suggests that the Mountaineers look to continue building a Georgia pipeline under the new staff.<\/p>\n<p>Enter Tavian Mayo, Georgia native, and speedy cornerback who has combines quickness, agility, and an admirable work ethic to make play after play. In fact, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hudl.com\/video\/3\/6778787\/59acb40d2ab0e50ea4a2d41d\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">his junior highlight film on Hudl<\/a> begins with an impressive 101-yard pick-6 in which Mayo shows impressive moves.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s certainly a nice play to begin a highlight reel. Mayo is also a vocal leader, as shown here.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I don\u2019t wanna be forgotten If I\u2019m forgotten that means I\u2019m comfortable and if I\u2019m comfortable that means I\u2019m okay w where I am \ud83d\ude47\u200d\u2642\ufe0f&#8230;..\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8President 2 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZWNpXxBQv9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/ZWNpXxBQv9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; lil mayo (@tavianm1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tavianm1\/status\/1045377610677669889?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 27, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Mayo has a definite desire to prove his detractors wrong, and that will serve the Mountaineers well for years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tavian Mayo\u2019s name has floated around Mountaineer recruiting circles for months. The prior staff targeted him early. And the turnover in staff after Dana Holgorsen left for Houston and Head Coach Neal Brown replaced him days later did little to stall that momentum. In fact, the staff turnover may have helped. Excitement has surrounded the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2744,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[4537,1407,1712,4559,3366,237],"class_list":["post-20633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-big12","tag-2019-national-signing-day","tag-college-football-recruiting","tag-neal-brown","tag-tavian-mayo","tag-west-virginia","tag-west-virginia-mountaineers"],"modified_by":"Tony Siracusa, CFB Managing Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2744"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}