MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Could this be the last time West Virginia faces Mack Brown? Will the Mountaineers’ next matchup against Nick Saban come in Atlanta next August or in Austin next November?
Based on a smoking gun email sent last January from super-agent Jimmy Sexton, some put the Saban-to-Texas odds at 50-50, the same way our panelists view the Saturday night’s game in Morgantown:
| Week 11 |  Brad Howe |
 Randy Gyorko |
 Hoppy Kercheval |
 Kyle Wiggs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Texas at West Virginia |
Texas 35-24 |
Texas 31-23 |
Texas 31-20 |
WVU 24-21 |
| Oklahoma at Baylor |
Baylor 42-31 |
Baylor 47-27 |
Baylor 45-35 |
Baylor 38-28 |
| Kansas State at Texas Tech |
K-State 35-31 |
Texas Tech 34-28 |
Texas Tech 34-21 |
Texas Tech 32-24 |
| LSU at Alabama |
Alabama 28-21 |
Alabama 31-20 |
LSU 28-27 |
Alabama 24-17 |
| Oregon at Stanford |
Oregon 38-27 |
Oregon 34-24 |
Oregon 37-34 |
Oregon 42-30 |
| Auburn at Tennessee |
Auburn 31-24 |
Auburn 30-17 |
Auburn 30-24 |
Auburn 32-24 |
| Notre Dame at Pitt |
Notre Dame 28-21 |
Notre Dame 21-13 |
Notre Dame 21-17 |
Notre Dame 27-21 |
| Virginia Tech at Miami |
Va. Tech 21-17 |
Miami 20-10 |
Miami 28-27 |
Miami 28-21 |
| UCLA at Arizona |
Arizona 31-28 |
UCLA 31-28 |
Arizona 31-28 |
Arizona 28-24 |
| BYU at Wisconsin |
Wisconsin 35-24 |
Wisconsin 28-21 |
Wisconsin 34-28 |
Wisconsin 30-24 |
| Last week: Season total: |
8-2 70-30 |
7-3 70-30 |
7-3 67-33 |
8-2 66-34 |
| Week 11 |  Allan Taylor |
 Garrett Cullen |
 Greg Hunter |
 Travis Jones |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Texas at West Virginia |
WVU 27-24 |
WVU 24-23 |
Texas 31-24 |
WVU 24-23 |
| Oklahoma at Baylor |
Baylor 40-30 |
Baylor 44-31 |
Baylor 54-38 |
Baylor 37-30 |
| Kansas State at Texas Tech |
K-State 31-28 |
Texas Tech 35-21 |
Texas Tech 45-31 |
Texas Tech 29-24 |
| LSU at Alabama |
Alabama 31-17 |
Alabama 27-20 |
Alabama 28-21 |
Alabama 21-14 |
| Oregon at Stanford |
Oregon 38-31 |
Oregon 41-27 |
Oregon 52-28 |
Oregon 31-21 |
| Auburn at Tennessee |
Auburn 26-17 |
Auburn 31-21 |
Tennessee 35-31 |
Auburn 16-10 |
| Notre Dame at Pitt |
Notre Dame 20-16 |
Notre Dame 17-6 |
Notre Dame 31-28 |
Notre Dame 13-10 |
| Virginia Tech at Miami |
Miami 20-14 |
Miami 30-20 |
Miami 24-14 |
Miami 23-13 |
| UCLA at Arizona |
UCLA 28-24 |
Arizona 31-28 |
UCLA 45-35 |
Arizona 31-30 |
| BYU at Wisconsin |
Wisconsin 33-24 |
Wisconsin 28-21 |
Wisconsin 27-20 |
Wisconsin 28-21 |
| Last week Season total |
7-3 65-35 |
7-3 65-35 |
7-3 61-39 |
6-4 59-41 |
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Comments
Jason
We won an OT game last week against a bad team and now everyone is predicting us to beat Texas. If we would have lost last week everyone would have predicted Texas to win by 2 TD's but since we beat a bad TCU team in OT now we're going to beat Texas. There's only two problems...we still have no QB and our head coach refuses to Sims 25 - 30 touches.
November 8, 2013 at 10:28 am | Report comment
Don Rickles
I was watching the Baylor/Oklahoma game last night.Now,keep in mind that Baylors colors are green/gold and OU is red/white.I'll be darned if I didn't see Baylors HC in a GRAY shirt,and one of their assistants in an ORANGE shirt.Not only that,Mike Stoops of OU had on a Black shirt......oh the travesty,they should all be fired immediately !!!! Am I right little larry ?
November 8, 2013 at 8:53 am | Report comment
Rock Solid
@Don Rickles: Did you notice that Dana had on a dark blue cover at TCU, with a black tee shirt underneath! I almost fell out of my seat, at least he is finally trying to think of WVU's heritage instead of OK STATE.
November 8, 2013 at 6:28 pm | Report comment
Hop'sHip
I'm feeling pretty good about this one. A.T. proved himself to be quite the seer last week, and Hoppy is picking Texas, so I think we have a real shot. This has inspired me to make my own fearless prediction. I predict a Mountaineer victory in men's basketball tonight.
November 8, 2013 at 7:54 am | Report comment
big tom
now think about it,,, think about Luck vs. pastiliong,,,, think where we would be right now with eddie,,,,no bb practice facility,,, no big 12, no big time tv rights contracts coming in,,, no new baseball facility,,,,NO FUTURE IN BIG TIME COLLEGE SPORTS.
ok,, I admit,, I think Ollie will just as soon as another job comes along,,, that's life at wvu,,, but while he's here , he's turned this place around,,, I hope he stays.
November 8, 2013 at 12:08 am | Report comment
WVWho
WVU by at least 10. Sims has 200 all purpose yards.
November 7, 2013 at 8:30 pm | Report comment
Steve
Its still hard to believe that the University of Texas will be playing under the bright lights of Mountaineer Field for a nationally televised conference game. A little over 2 years ago, WVU was almost left for dead when the winds of conference expansion started blowing. Thankfully WVU has a president and AD who both took a proactive approach in order to make sure WVU was not going to be left behind in a non Big 5 Conference. Without that forward thinking, WVU could be playing host to SMU, Houston, or one of the several lower lever Conf. USA Texas schools instead of welcoming the University of Texas to Mountaineer field this Saturday! Can't wait to get there!
Let's Go Mountaineers!!!!!!
November 7, 2013 at 8:07 pm | Report comment
Jock Strap
WVU has a good shot at this game, players starting to step up and all aspects of coaching showing improvement
November 7, 2013 at 6:10 pm | Report comment
Rock Solid
@jock strap: you have gone insane! With no quarterback, it's like a rifle with no trigger. All you end up with is a gun metal blue stick!
November 7, 2013 at 6:51 pm | Report comment
Jock Strap
And did the coaching staff not make adjustments last game for that?
November 7, 2013 at 7:33 pm | Report comment
Rock Solid
@jock strap: No we just ran into a team that was more inept than we were. Go ahead and hit a long horn steer with a stick and see what happens. It may not be very pretty. Hope you are right, but don't bet on it.
November 8, 2013 at 6:22 pm | Report comment
Jock Strap
Why is it people who have no idea what they are talking about find it so easy to complain yet when the staff makes changes that everyone yells for you can't give them credit just make up more bs reasons we were successful.
November 8, 2013 at 7:24 pm |
Matt
Please die Little Larry you miserable human being.
November 7, 2013 at 6:09 pm | Report comment
JHT
I really hope that you are right Dave. Man, now that would be big. Bigger than the Okey State victory.
November 7, 2013 at 5:28 pm | Report comment
Dave
BTW, WVU has this one in the bag.
LET'S GOOOOOOOOO MOUNTAINEERS !!!!!!!!!!!
November 7, 2013 at 5:26 pm | Report comment
Dave
Green Larry, How many people do you think actually read all that dribble?
November 7, 2013 at 5:24 pm | Report comment
Billy
I read it all. At least he has come up with a solution, even if you disagree with him. The powers that be at WVU have not even admitted that there is a problem.
November 7, 2013 at 5:44 pm | Report comment
JHT
Sorry, hope that I am wrong but Mountys are just too inconsistent this season. Texas is firing on all cylinders. Mountys best chance at a small bowl is to defeat Kansas and Iowa State. Taking Texas by a score of 34-24. Being at home will keep it close until the end. Longhorns pull away for a ten point victory in 4th Quarter. I really really hope that I am wrong though.
November 7, 2013 at 5:24 pm | Report comment
JaneM
Allan...... I got a feeling you are going to ride West Virginia out to the end of the season after picking them this week....WVU will win this one in a dog fight by 4 points ....
November 7, 2013 at 5:22 pm | Report comment
Big Larry
WVU had better make a play for Saban before he goes to Texas...
Here is my plan for hiring him...and fixing the problem...
I think that by now, everyone realizes that Dana "The Man in Black" Holgorsen and Bob "Sweatsuit" Huggins have both turned out to be miserable failures at WVU. Both of these men should be arrested for trying to impersonate a head coach. Their records at WVU speak for them selves.
HERES THE SOLUTION:
1. Fire Oliver Luck ASAP. He created a mess and tried to jump ship...enough said. He should be arrested for impersonating a college athletic director.
2. Hire WV native Rob Mullens (Oregon AD) to replace Oliver Luck.
3. Fire both Bob Huggins and Dana Holgorsen ASAP. The University is paying these two underachievers Six (6) million dollars a year to lose ball games. Plus, the fan base is starting to disapprove with both of them. Both programs have already fallen into the Abyss so what is there to lose?
4. Take that 6 million dollars and add another million to it, and persuade Nick Saban to come back home and coach the Mountaineers for 7 Million a year. It would be a challenge for him and he likes a challenge and the money is right. In two years, he would the turn the inept football program into a National contender.
NOTE: With the 30 million a year WVU is now making in the Big 12, they will not even miss paying Saban 7 million a year.
5. Hire Bob Bolen, (or some other young, energetic, up and coming coach) to coach the WVU basketball program. Offer them $500,000 to coach the Mountaineers and they would jump at it faster than a New York Minute. The Basketball program is a Bust under Huggins who won only 13 games last season and will be lucky to win 15 this season...Just about any sap could win 13 games. And since nobody really cares anyway, take that 3 million and apply it to Nick Saban's salary.
Yes, I realize these are extreme measures, but when the Football and Basketball programs are both sinking faster than the Titanic, extreme & desperate measures must be taken...and soon.
Anyway, this is just my opinion and I think that everyone is entitled to hear it.
November 7, 2013 at 5:18 pm | Report comment
Todd Armstrong
What the hell is a matter with you ,Hugs had a bad year and Dana will be fine, we cant win every game ,to get rid of a coach for a bad year is stupid
November 8, 2013 at 12:04 am | Report comment
Shawn
You're an idiot. So here we have another Bob Bolen butt licker. Come on dude he's no better than where he is. You're obviously from Beckley and probably went to every MSU game. You can forget about Saban because it aint happening. Go back and rewrite your opinion and please send it to me before posting it on here so I can give it my approval.
November 7, 2013 at 9:22 pm | Report comment
Steve
Poor big Larry...no national tv or big time conference games for MU...feel doody for how irrelevant MU and you are
November 7, 2013 at 8:09 pm | Report comment
Steve
Typo...feel sorry
November 7, 2013 at 8:09 pm | Report comment
Grant
Hire Saban? HA HA... be realistic about who you can get!
Fire Luck? The richest and most powerful athletic department made him a finalist for their job. He was placed on the CFB Playoff selection committee. He helped get WVU in the Big 12. He got the basketball practice facility built and broke ground on a DRASTICALLY improved baseball stadium. The non-revenue sports are better than ever. Basketball is struggling, but you don't fire a Final Four Coach this soon. He got the hottest commodity in college football (at the time) as our head coach (yes, we still are waiting to see if that is a good hire). He got VaTech and PSU back on the football schedule. He increased our revenue on all fronts. He lead a successful PR campaign to make the game day environment better for visiting fans. Yes, we should fire Luck, GIVE ME A BREAK!
November 7, 2013 at 6:10 pm | Report comment
Big Larry
Oh Please...
We need to hire a legitimate head football coach...not a head coach impersonator and wannabe like Oliver Luck hired.
At the end of the day, the experiment failed...Sorry...
And please remember to take your meds before posting again...
November 7, 2013 at 6:18 pm | Report comment
Grant
Let's just say I'll take Luck's opinion and methods over a person who probably even hasn't managed a paper route.
November 7, 2013 at 7:17 pm | Report comment
richard
WVU 34 TEXAS 32
November 7, 2013 at 5:16 pm | Report comment