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Big 12 Announces Media Preseason Football Team

by Ashley O'Brien - July 10, 2019July 10, 2019 00

Big 12 Announces Media Preseason Football Team Irving, Texas - The Big 12 Conference has announced its 2019 Preseason All-Big 12 Football Team and individual awards, chosen by media representatives who cover the league. The Big 12 media preseason poll will be released on Wednesday followed by the annual Big 12 Football

Meet the Coaches: Vic Koenning

by Ashley O'Brien - July 9, 2019July 8, 2019 00

It's early July and football season is about a month and a half away. The 2019 season is sure to bring Mountaineer fans across the nation lots of questions, hopefully a fair amount of answers and most importantly: hopefully some wins. Earlier this year the football program underwent a large

West Virginia Mountaineers prepare for Big 12 Media Days

by Ashley O'Brien - July 8, 2019July 8, 2019 00

Big 12 Conference Media Days are next week at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. Media Days are the first official marks on the calendar that signify the start of the 2019 football season. Over the course of two days, Monday July 15 and Tuesday July 16, all ten teams from the

Bob Huggins Named to Conference USA Inaugural Hall of Fame Class

by Ashley O'Brien - July 8, 2019July 8, 2019 00

C-USA Announces Inaugural Hall of Fame Class July 08, 2019 DALLAS – As part of its 25th season celebration, Conference USA announced today its inaugural Hall of Fame Class. The 25-person class is comprised of 20 student-athletes, three coaches and two administrators. 2019 C-USA Hall of Fame Announcement 2019 Inductees “We are very pleased to

Meet the Coaches: Blake Seiler

by Ashley O'Brien - April 30, 2019April 29, 2019 00

In our next edition of Meet the Coaches, we introduce you to one of the defensive coaches, Blake Seiler. Coach Blake Seiler will be coaching inside linebackers for the Mountaineers as he moves West to East, coming to Morgantown after being on the coaching staff for the Kansas State Jayhawks.

Has this season’s team found its Mountaineer magic at last?

by Ashley O'Brien - March 14, 2019 00

It's 10:00 pm Thursday night and like most of Mountaineer Nation, I'm humming (singing) Country Roads while watching this Texas-Kansas matchup. When you read this, we'll know who the Mountaineers are going up against in Friday night's Big 12 Championship semifinals game. Since we don't know that right now in

Meet the Coaches: Travis Trickett

by Ashley O'Brien - February 22, 2019 00

For many Mountaineers across the country, there is truly nothing quite like coming home. We all know that the song says "Country Roads, take me home, to the place I belong," and for Coach Travis Trickett truer words were never spoken or sung after the last few weeks. Coach Trickett

Assistant football coaches settling into life as Mountaineers

by Ashley O'Brien - February 18, 2019February 18, 2019 00

Monday morning members of the West Virginia media gathered at Milan Puskar for head football Coach Neal Brown's introduction of the coaching staff. This coaching staff introduction event was hinted at by Coach Brown several weeks prior, during National Signing Day media conferences, and many were eager to get a

Big 12 Matchups, Looking Behind, Looking Ahead: TCU

by Ashley O'Brien - August 3, 2017July 31, 2017 00

The second game of conference play brings a certain set of horned amphibians back to Morgantown for another matchup that will surely keep Mountaineer fans biting their nails through the last seconds of play. TCU and WVU always manage to bring quite the performance, both good and bad. (Let's not

Holgorsen Takeaways: confidence in the Mountaineers

by Ashley O'Brien - August 2, 2017August 2, 2017 00

Coach Dana Holgorsen met with the media Wednesday afternoon as the football team is just days into fall practice. As everyone can tell by now, Holgorsen is settled in both his life in Morgantown and his role as head coach of the Mountaineers. That sense of settled is evident in