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<blockquote data-quote="Buckaineer" data-source="post: 131110230" data-attributes="member: 1428007"><p><span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'"><span style="font-size: 18px">While some trolls here try to tell you everything is "hunky dory" as WVU had one of its worst seasons in the last 20, at least Brown seems to understand lots of improvement is required going into next season--hopefully he can turn things around quickly........</span></span></p><p><em><span style="font-size: 22px"></span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-size: 22px">excerpt:</span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-size: 22px"><a href="http://wvmetronews.com/2019/12/06/brown-vows-that-wvu-needs-to-be-one-of-most-improved-teams-in-2020/">http://wvmetronews.com/2019/12/06/brown-vows-that-wvu-needs-to-be-one-of-most-improved-teams-in-2020/</a></span></em></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>Brown vows that WVU needs to be ‘one of most improved teams’ in 2020</strong></span></p><p></p><p>By <a href="http://wvmetronews.com/author/ahickey/">Alex Hickey</a> in <a href="http://wvmetronews.com/category/sports/">Sports</a>, <a href="http://wvmetronews.com/category/sports/wvu-sports/">WVU Sports</a> | December 06, 2019 at 8:04PM</p><p></p><p><strong>MORGANTOWN, W.Va.</strong> — What was good enough for West Virginia in Neal Brown’s first season at the helm isn’t going to cut it in Year 2.</p><p></p><p><em><strong>“A 5-7 record is not good enough,” Brown said</strong></em> in a season wrap-up press conference on Friday afternoon. “That doesn’t meet the standard here. I’m well aware of that.....</p><p></p><p>“It’s going to be a huge offseason for us,” Brown said. “We’ve got to be focused on being one of the most improved teams in the country next year.”.....</p><p></p><p>“The key area of improvement offensively is run-game production,” Brown said. “If we want to make strides offensively, we’ve got to be able to run the ball better.”</p><p></p><p><em><strong>The Mountaineers were 129th out of 130 FBS teams with 2.6 yards per carry, making it almost literally impossible to run the ball worse.</strong></em></p><p>“Defensively, we’ve got to increase our takeaways,” Brown said. “Those are the two biggest statistical pieces we need to see improvement in.”The Mountaineers tied for <strong><em>101st nationally</em> </strong>with 14 takeaways.</p><p><em></em></p><p><em><strong>Brown said the coaching staff has to improve, too.</strong></em></p><p></p><p>“We have to look at schematically what we can do about it,” Brown said. “When you’re as poor as we were in that area, everything’s on the table. There is a clear gap between that and anything else we have to get better at offensively.”</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Buckaineer, post: 131110230, member: 1428007"] [FONT=Book Antiqua][SIZE=5]While some trolls here try to tell you everything is "hunky dory" as WVU had one of its worst seasons in the last 20, at least Brown seems to understand lots of improvement is required going into next season--hopefully he can turn things around quickly........[/SIZE][/FONT] [I][SIZE=6] excerpt: [URL]http://wvmetronews.com/2019/12/06/brown-vows-that-wvu-needs-to-be-one-of-most-improved-teams-in-2020/[/URL][/SIZE][/I] [SIZE=6] [B]Brown vows that WVU needs to be ‘one of most improved teams’ in 2020[/B][/SIZE] By [URL='http://wvmetronews.com/author/ahickey/']Alex Hickey[/URL] in [URL='http://wvmetronews.com/category/sports/']Sports[/URL], [URL='http://wvmetronews.com/category/sports/wvu-sports/']WVU Sports[/URL] | December 06, 2019 at 8:04PM [B]MORGANTOWN, W.Va.[/B] — What was good enough for West Virginia in Neal Brown’s first season at the helm isn’t going to cut it in Year 2. [I][B]“A 5-7 record is not good enough,” Brown said[/B][/I] in a season wrap-up press conference on Friday afternoon. “That doesn’t meet the standard here. I’m well aware of that..... “It’s going to be a huge offseason for us,” Brown said. “We’ve got to be focused on being one of the most improved teams in the country next year.”..... “The key area of improvement offensively is run-game production,” Brown said. “If we want to make strides offensively, we’ve got to be able to run the ball better.” [I][B]The Mountaineers were 129th out of 130 FBS teams with 2.6 yards per carry, making it almost literally impossible to run the ball worse.[/B][/I] “Defensively, we’ve got to increase our takeaways,” Brown said. “Those are the two biggest statistical pieces we need to see improvement in.”The Mountaineers tied for [B][I]101st nationally[/I] [/B]with 14 takeaways. [I] [B]Brown said the coaching staff has to improve, too.[/B][/I] “We have to look at schematically what we can do about it,” Brown said. “When you’re as poor as we were in that area, everything’s on the table. There is a clear gap between that and anything else we have to get better at offensively.” [/QUOTE]
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