WVU Offensive Coordinator Chad Scott spoke to the media on Monday and addressed a lot of the issues that occurred in the Penn State game ahead of this week’s matchup against Albany.

Scott was asked to name his top three issues he saw from the offense on Saturday and without hesitation, the OC pointed to discipline, ball security, and execution in the red zone as the three biggest. Building on that, Scott mentioned just how surprising it was to see the offense struggle in those areas after being so good at them all off-season long.

“That was disappointing and surprising. We’ve been very discipline the entire camp. We’ve worked a tremendous amount of redzone throughout fall camp and had a lot of success doing it. So that was surprising as well, didn’t execute that.”

The offense took the field for their second drive of the game inside Penn State territory after the defense recovered a botched Penn State snap and on WVU’s first play of that drive, the Mountaineers also fumbled their snap and gave PSU the ball right back around midfield.

The fumble was one of three turnovers in the game for WVU.

In the redzone, the Mountaineers found themselves in scoring distance three times. Only once did WVU come away with a touchdown. The others resulted in two field goals, and failed foruth down conversion on a Garrett Greene QB sneak.

One of the nation’s best and most consistent rushing attacks a year prior, WVU only had 85 yards on the ground and their Freshman All-American back, Jahiem White only ran for 33 yards on eight carries. The running back did miss some time before halftime with an undisclosed injury but made the return after the delay.

Scott made it very clear that White has to be a bigger part of the offense moving forward and was supposed to be on Saturday as well.

“Definitely have to get Jahiem the ball more no question. But like I said we had some plays called for him and we had some misreads. Just bad decisions, lack of execution, undisciplined.”

WVU is 0-1 to start the season for the fourth straight year and will look to bounce back against FCS opponent Albany on Saturday in Milan Puskar Stadium at 6:00 p.m. ET. The game can be viewed on ESPN+.