SHANE LYONS SPITTING FIRE, A WIN IN STILLWATER, AND 2-1 IN PORTLAND! Shane Lyons gives a critical MetroNews interview, Football breaks the Stillwater losing streak, and Basketball wins 2 in Portland!

Summary

On this week's Got Your Eers On? Shane Lyons joins MetroNews and answers questions critical of President Gee and the WVU administration, WVU Football breaks a 7 game losing streak to Oklahoma State in Stillwater, and WVU Basketball dominates Florida to finish 2-1 and takes home 5th place in 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 beats Oklahoma State, 24-19

• A rainy, miserable, messy, ugly game
• ESPN spent some time reporting their opinion of Neal Brown returning next season
• Spencer Sanders Dresses for Ok State… Stands on sidelines, but does not play!
• After a 36 yard TD run by Garrett Greene, he was benched to give Nicco Marchiol a series
  • It was the 3rd series, so, you know…
  • Neal always loves an opportunity to mess with Garrett Greene
• One of the most WVU DB things of the season occurred when Malachai Ruffin gave the incomplete pass celebration as his man ran downfield with the ball…that he caught
• Jaylen Anderson was the story of this game as he scored on runs of 54 and 57 yards
  • He finished with 155 yards on just 15 carries
  • Named the Big 12’s Newcomer of the Week
• WVU breaks the Oklahoma State win streak against them as this season continues to be weird
• Gweedoe and Johnson correctly pick the season at 5-7 while Scoot is one off at 4-8
  • We all picked Kansas, Baylor, TCU, and Oklahoma incorrectly though (weird season)
• Dante Stills finishes with the Most Games Ever played by WVU Football Player 59 Games played

Other Football:

• WVU settled with Shane Lyons for $2.6 million
  • Lyons has already returned to Alabama as Executive AD and Chief Operating Officer
• Shane Lyons has interview with Hoppy on WV Metronews Talkline
  • He blasts Gee… Talked opening about being the “scape goat” for the football program
  • Was fired because of the extension
  • 2 weeks before being fired… Gee mention he was happy to “be in the foxhole” with Lyons.
  • Says Gee was pushing Shane to “Cross the Line” when working with the Country Roads Trust and NIL
  • Lyons “felt hurt” they he was pushed out
  • Feel like it was because the fan based was worked up about football… he was is the scapegoat
  • Asked if he would keep HCNB “This was Year 2 for Neal Brown” He is still building. He would keep him.
• Rodney Gallagher is now visiting Penn State
• Rich Rod a finalist for the Eddie Robinson Award
• Lance Leipold and Kansas agree on a new contract through 2029
• Cincinnati’s Luke Fickell is headed to Wisconsin

Basketball:

• WVU Basketball played in the Phil Knight Legacy Tournament
  • Lost to Purdue in game one, 80-68
    • Purdue big man Zach Edey was a problem
    • Getting a foul called on him was also a problem
    • Erik Stevenson had a nice put back dunk
    • Emmit Matthews went over 1,000 points for his career
    • This was a 4 point game with 5:00 to go, but WVU just couldn’t get over the hump
  • Beat Portland State in game two, 89-71
    • Portland State’s head coach had an interesting pre-game speech on toughness
    • Huggs took over 3rd place on the all-time wins list
    • Huggs still wasn’t happy with the defensive effort
    • 6 Mountaineers scored in double figures, led by Tre Mitchell
    • This bumped WVU’s KenPom to 36
  • Dominated Florida in game three, 84-55
    • Erik Stevenson chatted up some UF cheerleaders following a dunk
    • WVU let the lead slip to 8 before half, but then proceeded to come out of half on a 20-2 run
    • Big Tunka dominated Colin Castleton
    • Rebounding was…not an issue in this game
    • We got aggressive Emmitt!
    • The WVU Basketball Twitter account continues to kill it
    • WVU finishes 5th in the Phil Knight Legacy bracket
  • Purdue ends up dominating this tournament with wins over WVU(by 12), Gonzaga (by 18), and Duke (by 19)
• WVU climbs to 30 in Ken Pom… and is just outside the AP25 at 29th and 30th in coaches poll
• Travel to Xavier Saturday, 12/3 at 6:30 pm

Keeping Score: PRE-SEASON PREDICTIONS

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	Win, 24-19
Total	4 - 8	5 - 7	5 - 7	5 - 7

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