WVU Sports

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – If you want to get a true measure of how good Rutgers is just go watch the South Florida game. The West Virginia coaches have watched it over and over again. Jock Sanders caught four passes for 47 yards last year against Rutgers. B.J. Daniels – the guy who West Virginia couldn’t [...]

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Much has been made in recent weeks of the regained health of West Virginia’s football defense. While Mountaineer Coach Bill Stewart and defensive coordinator Jeff Casteel have remarked repeatedly about WVU finally getting all of its early season starting cast back on the field, that’s not really true. As West Virginia (8-3, [...]

Second-year running backs coach Chris Beatty will be the first one to say that Noel Devine is a much more complete running back this year. Devine is on a pace to rush for nearly 1,700 yards and score 18 touchdowns this season. What stands Devine apart, according to Beatty, are the little things Devine is [...]

When Pahokee (Fla.) High School Coach Blaze Thompson lost his running back a couple of games ago, he turned to wide receiver Fred Pickett. “He’s been one of our key playmakers,” Thompson said. “He just fits right in and doesn’t look back. We needed a running back and he just stepped right in. He’s a [...]

SYRACUSE, N.Y. – The game was dripping with offensive irony as much as the halftime ceremony was dripping with emotion. On a Saturday when Syracuse christened the Carrier Dome turf for one of its historic rushers – and other similarly gifted legends among several who wore No. 44 – the Orange and West Virginia struggled [...]

SYRACUSE, N.Y. – It may seem rather simplistic to reduce it to one of the sport’s most basic concepts, but when West Virginia plays Syracuse this afternoon at the Carrier Dome the outcome is likely to come down to this:Which team’s playmakers will make more plays?Granted, that’s no grand revelation. After all, pretty much every [...]