DOWN GO THE SOONERS! WVU Football defeats Oklahoma at home on a Casey Legg kick, Shane Lyons is forced out as WVU's AD, and WVU dominates the basketball Backyard Brawl!

Summary

On this week's Got Your Eers On? WVU Football defeats Oklahoma at home behind the impressive second half performance of Big 12 Offensive Player of the Week Garrett Greene, Shane Lyons is forced out as WVU’s Athletic Director and now the expectation is to have a new AD in place within three weeks, and WVU Basketball picks up 2 wins including a dominating performance on the road against Pitt! Join us for all this and more on this week’s episode of Got Your Eers On!

Show Notes:

Segment 1: WVU Beats Oklahoma for the first time since 2008! 23-20 final score

• But… Shane Lyons fired after nearly 8 years at WVU (Luck did it for 5, Ed Pastilong 21yrs)
  • WVU announces Monday AM that Shane Lyons has resigned as WVU Athletic Director
  • Press release says that there will be no changes to the football staff until after new AD is hired and can review the coaching situation
  • Does this mean that WVU didn’t want Shane to hire the next coach?
  • Rob Alsop(pn: ‘all-sop’), vice president for strategic initiatives, is the interim director of athletics
    • Says they anticipate a new AD in place in the next 3 weeks
    • Billy Hahn suggests Bob Huggins as the new AD
  • Does this mean HCNB might stay 1 more year?
  • Did WVU think that an AD hire was more important than coach hire?
  • How much did Bob Huggins retiring soon play into this decision?
  • Was this about he was being pursued by Nebraska? Or other jobs?
  • Pres. Gee will make the ultimate decision on the next AD…. along with search firm and “appropriate stake holders”
• Football Game
  • JT Daniels benched… Garret Greene comes in and wins B12 offensive player of the week
  • Throws 12/22 for 138yds throws 1TD to BFW. Rushes 14 times for 119yds and 2TDs
  • GG’s touchdown pass to BFW was on a rope
  • QBs in WVU history with 100+ yards and 2 TDs rushing, with 200+ yards and 1 TD passing:
    • Major Harris
    • Pat White (4x)
    • Garrett Greene
  • Defense still give up over 400 yards
    • OU running back Eric Gray rushed for 202 yards. It’s only the 2nd time ever that WVU has won a game where the opponent rushed for over 200 yards (Kansas in 2017).
  • Casey Legg kicks the game winner as time expires
  • The first half of this game was a complete mess
  • Neal Brown postgame:
    • “We owed them”
    • Immediately says no decision has been made on the starter for Kansas State
    • “It’s fair to expect both QBs to see time vs Kansas State”
  • Announced attendance was 50,281
  • WVU students completely stayed away

Other Football:

• James Gmiter announces he is stepping away from football
• TE Corbin Page enters the transfer portal
• CB Mumu Bin-Wahad enters the transfer portal
• Kansas State at WVU on 11/19 is set for 2p on ESPN+
• WVU at Oklahoma State on 11/26 is set for noon on ESPN2
• The NFL capacity crowd in Munich sang a great rendition of Country Roads

Basketball:

• 2 wins last week
  • 76-58 over Mount St. Mary’s
    • The announcers on ESPN+ had a hard time that both teams were “Mountaineers” vs Mount St Mary’s
    • Produced possibly the funniest tweet I’ve read in a while
  • 81-56 blowout in the Backyard Brawl over Pitt
    • Scored 47 points (!) in the first half and were up 11 at halftime
    • Joe Toussaint has 18 pts in this game off the bench
    • WVU dominated this game and then handed out this brutal tweet
• Erik Stevenson is shooting 60%
• Emmitt is playing a lot of time (avg 31min a game)
• Wague is 9/10 shooting this season
• WVU Move up 23 spots to #50 in Ken Pom after last week
• WVU faces Morehead State and Penn this week

Keeping Score: PRE-SEASON PREDICTIONS

This week's predictions:

• Gweedoe: 37-31, Kansas State
• Johnson: 27-24, WVU
• Scoot: 34-24, Kansas State

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