I'm honestly shocked anyone would be willing to forgive a timeout on the first play

[VaultHunter]

Under certain staffs this Board would be going ballistic.

Brown tried to blame "poor officiating" on that unfortunately that's just not accurate.

After a touchback the ref will signal for a playclock start. You then get 40 seconds. If you watch the film WVU actually got 42-43 seconds because the ref delayed starting the clock. And the players/staff obviously saw the clock was about to expire so they called a TO. So no blaming the stadium on the clock not working.

This is completely unorganized football.

You come out unprepared against a Texas Tech team missing key starters. You then get things going a bit in the second half but have multiple times where clock management cost you in that game.

You then have a week to challenge the team and prepare. You go on the road where you are historically bad and have an opportunity to get things right. You then get out and you give up a TD in 2 plays. Then on the very first play you call timeout because you are simply not ready.

The fact anyone would blame the players is disgusting because even though I'm not a fan of Brown I personally have NEVER questioned the effort at which they have played.

The team knows by now this isn't gonna work. They see the constant mistakes the staff make. They see the determination to NOT give another QB a shot.

This is just bad football all around and it starts with the Top.

BEST case is another Low Tier Bowl. Worst case is 2-10 with a loss to Kansas and 9 straight losses. In year 3.

Sorry that's just unacceptable.

 

[WVUALLEN]

Would you rather the timeout be the first play of the game or first down and goal at the 2 like it usually is?

Players should share in the portions of the blame for their lack of effort. It's more than one individual not just coaching staff.

But bad coaches get fired while bad players get to stay.

 

[There goes the Major]

Under certain staffs this Board would be going ballistic.

Brown tried to blame "poor officiating" on that unfortunately that's just not accurate.

After a touchback the ref will signal for a playclock start. You then get 40 seconds. If you watch the film WVU actually got 42-43 seconds because the ref delayed starting the clock. And the players/staff obviously saw the clock was about to expire so they called a TO. So no blaming the stadium on the clock not working.

This is completely unorganized football.

You come out unprepared against a Texas Tech team missing key starters. You then get things going a bit in the second half but have multiple times where clock management cost you in that game.

You then have a week to challenge the team and prepare. You go on the road where you are historically bad and have an opportunity to get things right. You then get out and you give up a TD in 2 plays. Then on the very first play you call timeout because you are simply not ready.

The fact anyone would blame the players is disgusting because even though I'm not a fan of Brown I personally have NEVER questioned the effort at which they have played.

The team knows by now this isn't gonna work. They see the constant mistakes the staff make. They see the determination to NOT give another QB a shot.

This is just bad football all around and it starts with the Top.

BEST case is another Low Tier Bowl. Worst case is 2-10 with a loss to Kansas and 9 straight losses. In year 3.

Sorry that's just unacceptable.

I had confidence that Brown would work out the kinks and build on the good recruiting and game planning. With the number of ridiculous timeouts and delays we've had this season that I've never even seen a junior high team make, I've lost that confidence

 

[Nova Mountaineer]

Under certain staffs this Board would be going ballistic.

Brown tried to blame "poor officiating" on that unfortunately that's just not accurate.

After a touchback the ref will signal for a playclock start. You then get 40 seconds. If you watch the film WVU actually got 42-43 seconds because the ref delayed starting the clock. And the players/staff obviously saw the clock was about to expire so they called a TO. So no blaming the stadium on the clock not working.

This is completely unorganized football.

You come out unprepared against a Texas Tech team missing key starters. You then get things going a bit in the second half but have multiple times where clock management cost you in that game.

You then have a week to challenge the team and prepare. You go on the road where you are historically bad and have an opportunity to get things right. You then get out and you give up a TD in 2 plays. Then on the very first play you call timeout because you are simply not ready.

The fact anyone would blame the players is disgusting because even though I'm not a fan of Brown I personally have NEVER questioned the effort at which they have played.

The team knows by now this isn't gonna work. They see the constant mistakes the staff make. They see the determination to NOT give another QB a shot.

This is just bad football all around and it starts with the Top.

BEST case is another Low Tier Bowl. Worst case is 2-10 with a loss to Kansas and 9 straight losses. In year 3.

Sorry that's just unacceptable.

Vault - that timeout seems to be an example of the overall failures in game management. Certainly no what you expect from a $3 million coach. But we've seen this time of thing from year one.