EVERY MOUNTAINEER ABSOLUTELY WOEFUL! WVU Football takes on one the chin to Kansas State at home, a season finale trip to Stillwater is on deck, and WVU Basketball grabs two more wins!

Summary

On this week's Got Your Eers On? it was EMAW vs Kansas State in Morgantown: Every Mountaineer Absolutely Woeful as WVU Football takes another loss on the chin to the Wildcats, Oklahoma State is now on deck to bring this season to a close, and transfer portal rumors are already heating up. Meanwhile, WVU Basketball grabs two more wins this week ahead of their upcoming trip to the Phil Knight Legacy Tournament! Join us for all this and more on this week’s episode of Got Your Eers On!

Show Notes:

Segment 1: WVU loses at home to Kansas State, 48-31

• Charles Woods appears to announce he’s heading to the transfer portal
  • You know, prior to the last home game of the season, on senior day, no bigs
  • It looks like he’s headed to UTSA (Nicktroy Fortune happens to be there, fwiw)
• Kaden Prather did not dress for the game. HCNB later explained he’s dealing with an injury
• Garrett Greene starts (and it was a rough start, but then he settled in)
  • Feels like HCNB begrudgingly starts GG, which continues to be fascinating
• KSU 28 WVU19 after the first quarter. Those 47 points set a new record at Mountaineer Field for most in a qtrbreaking the previous record of 44 against Richmond in 1958
• Casey Legg had a rough day after not having missed a kick all season. Misses two XPs and a FG
  • Including a delay of game into missing one of them
  • Entered the game as a team MVP candidate
• This drive description is a pretty good quick summary of this game
  • Three straight penalties on offensive plays feels like a new low bar (that we may want to refer to as “The Neal”)
• WVU now finishes with it’s 3rd losing season in Neal Brown’s 4 years
  • WVU falls to 21-25 under Neal Brown
  • Lowest home season attendance since 1999
  • HCNB will go down as the first WVU head coach to not coach a ranked team during his tenure since Gene Corum (1960-1965)
• Sam James commenting on Senior Day: “…felt like a good relationship coming to an end.”
  • He has one year of eligibility left…
• WVU plays Oklahoma State at noon Saturday in Stillwater on ESPN2

Other Football:

• Pat White puts in a vote for Matt Borman as WVU’s next AD
  • Currently president at LSU’s Tiger Athletic Foundation
  • Prior stint at Georgia among others

Basketball:

• WVU defeats Morehead State at home, 75-57
• WVU defeats Penn at home 92-58 for Bob Huggins 920th win. He’s moves into 3rd all-time
  • Erik Stevenson goes for 21 as 14 different Mountaineers score
• James Okonkwo had been in the doghouse for a stint during the win over Morehead State
• Huggs now comparing Tre Mitchell to Da’Sean Butler in terms of his scoring ability
  • And reminding people that he’s not even in great shape yet after not playing for 2 months
• Huggs referring to Emmitt Matthews as “our rock”
  • His + / - through 4 games is +98
• Jose Perez has enrolled for the Spring Semester

Other Basketball:

• Pat McAfee made a video with Texas, or something, I don’t know, whatever.

Other Other:

• Alek Manoah finishes 3rd in MLB’s Cy Young voting

Keeping Score: PRE-SEASON PREDICTIONS

This week's predictions:

• Gweedoe: Oklahoma State, 43-13
• Johnson: WVU, 27-24
• Scoot: Oklahoma State, 45-17

Game	Scoot	Gweedoe	Johnson	Actual
@Pitt	Loss	Loss	Loss	Loss, 38-31
Kansas	Win	Win	Win	Loss, 55-42, OT
Towson	Win	Win	Win	Win, 65-7
@Virginia Tech	Win	Win	Win	Win, 33-10
@Texas	Loss	Loss	Loss	Loss, 38-20
Baylor	Loss	Loss	Loss	Win, 43-40
@Texas Tech	Loss	Win	Loss	Loss, 48-10
TCU	Win	Win	Win	Loss, 41-31
@Iowa State	Loss	Loss	Loss	Loss, 31-14
Oklahoma	Loss	Loss	Loss	Win, 23-20
Kansas State	Loss	Loss	Win	Loss, 48-31
@Oklahoma State	Loss	Loss	Loss
Total	4 - 8	5 - 7	5 - 7	4 - 7

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