Break News: WUV head coach terminate contract with team after a background Argument with manager concerning….
Rebuilding a college football program takes time. No one expects it to happen overnight, especially at a school that typically doesn’t land four and five-star recruits on an annual basis. There’s being patient and then there’s being too patient. For three-plus years now, WVU head football coach Neal Brown has preached patience with the fanbase with his “Trust the Climb” slogan. It was a pretty cool saying that quickly wore off.
There’s no question that Brown walked into a tough situation in 2019 with the roster he was left with, the transfer portal and NIL becoming a thing, and oh yeah, the pandemic. The problem is everyone has had to deal with those sorts of things. Hell, Chris Klieman was hired at Kansas State in 2019 and has his program trending in the right direction. He’s won eight games twice in his first three seasons and is already out to a 2-0 start this year. Meanwhile, Neal Brown had two losing seasons in his first three years and is now 0-2. Talk about two similar programs heading in completely opposite directions.
In year one, you have all the excuses as to why your record is the way it is. It’s not fully my team, we’re still building the culture, buy-in factor, depth issues, and so on and so forth. It’s year four. Excuses are no longer valid. Neal Brown has had plenty of time to get his guys in the program and coach them up. If it’s a talent problem, then the staff is whiffing on the recruiting trail. That could be part of it but to me, it’s coaching more than a lack of talent. Has the level of talent fallen so far that they’re truly a worse team than Kansas? No. You’ve got third, fourth, and fifth-year guys out there making the same crucial mistakes whether it be not hitting the hole on runs, dropping passes, false starts, roughing the passer, poor angling in pursuit, etc. All of those things are going to happen throughout the course of a football game. It just will. But when those plays occur and how often they occur is what is alarming. WVU had 3rd and 1 inside the five-yard line and had a false start. In overtime, they had Kansas stopped on 3rd down but the drive continued because of a roughing the passer penalty.
