WVU Sports

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Success in football is sometimes best attained through a short memory. Don’t dwell on mistakes. Try not to live too long on triumphs. Last season doesn’t matter. Last week is in the past. There are exceptions, though, in which the past cannot be ignored, particularly when it established precedent, which is precisely the point [...]

Dan Hawkins seems pretty much locked into a defensive mode these days, which on one hand is a good thing for the Colorado football coach. On the other hand? Well, not so much. It’s good in the sense that the Buffaloes – who play at West Virginia Thursday night (7:30 p.m. kickoff, ESPN) – need all the [...]

MORGANTOWN — One loss, even one built on six turnovers in the passing game, will not deter West Virginia University coach Bill Stewart from his belief in filling the air with footballs. Stewart answered critics who called for a more conservative approach after losing, 41-30, at Auburn when his team threw five interceptions and lost a [...]

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Through three games this year, West Virginia looks to have stayed in line with its recent past and run the football on 53 percent of its snaps. In truth, virtually all of quarterback Jarrett Brown’s 38 rushing attempts this season have come on pass plays when he decided to ditch the plan and [...]

By Bob Hertzel MORGANTOWN — It’s an old, well-known tale worth repeating to West Virginia University quarterback Jarrett Brown only because it’s so true. It’s the tale of a man who is feeling sorry for himself because he has no shoes until he meets a man who has no feet. After all, Jarrett Brown could be Matt Grothe. Brown [...]

West Virginia has had success with its two playmakers on offense, Noel Devine and Jock Sanders. Devine had 128 yards rushing and three touchdowns in last Saturday’s 41-30 loss at Auburn, one fewer than he had all last season. His five through three games is one more than the four he had in 2008. And Sanders is [...]

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – There are two sides of Bradley Starks. One he knows pretty well. Starks was always a quarterback and a pretty good one when he was piling up gaudy stats and superlatives at Virginia’s Orange County High. “You’ve got to be pretty calm and keep all your emotions in check out on the field,” Starks [...]

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) – West Virginia coach Bill Stewart sent his players for a swim in the university pool to soothe aching muscles upon returning from a mistake-filled loss at Auburn. They’ll use a 12-day break to try to mend bruised egos, too. Six turnovers in Saturday’s 41-30 loss marred a 509-yard offensive display that included solid [...]

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – West Virginia coach Bill Stewart said Tuesday afternoon that his football team is taking advantage of the extra time to prepare for Colorado’s return trip to Morgantown next Thursday night in a game to be played on ESPN. Seven coaches were out on the road recruiting, and players banged up in the Auburn [...]

MORGANTOWN — Under normal circumstances, West Virginia University would simply turn over a new leaf after a loss.Not this week.The Mountaineers want nothing to do with turnovers.Not leaves, not apple, not cherry and certainly not the kind of turnovers that have been haunting them this season.WVU turned the football over to Auburn six times on [...]