Mike Casazza
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Battle-scarred shogun @247Sports I know my work. I know the risk. A sledgehammer's job is to break what it hits. I wrote a book: https://t.co/Vr2LfHDNfX
Joined August 2010
Jevon Carter: Troublemaker. "Guys have cancelled because of him," Bob Huggins said. "They've had their agents call and cancel when they found out J.C. was going to the workout." (Free)
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I suspect this was not Pat's intent, so forgive me for taking liberties, but the fact Pat is who he is and lacks "a relationship with anybody in WVU Athletics" says a good bit about why things are the way they are there today.
I don’t have a relationship with anybody in WVU Athletics currently so take this as you may… but as somebody who has followed along from afar. this feels like a VERY SOLID move for the progrum. Excited to see if WVU can regain some notoriety nationally. GREAT place. #Climb.
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There's a nationally televised pep rally happening in Morgantown right now.
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Dana Holgorsen: I need a fresh start. Houston: OK. Now hold this prop that's so synonymous with you that it makes you uncomfortable and recite that line from your biggest moment at your former school. That'll be the perfect introduction!. Whose idea was that?.
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Former #WVU quarterback JT Daniels tells @EerSportsDotCom about his season, health, exit, future and more. "When I'm done with ball, I'd be surprised if I didn't get into coaching, and if West Virginia was an option, I'd be very interested." 🆓.🔗
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BREAKING: A federal judge issues a TRO to keep the NCAA from enforcing its transfer rules *and* the restitution rule. It's a 14-day window . but the restitution rule keeps the NCAA from punishing teams/players retroactively. RaeQuan Battle should be in the lineup on Saturday.
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WVU's season is over. No NCAA Tournament bid. Not in the NIT bracket last night or the College Basketball Crown bracket this morning. You could call this a red flag.
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#WVU football coach Rich Rodriguez is talking about facilities on campus and mentions the basketball practice facility. "I'm one of the biggest donors to that. Dunno if you knew that." . It's true. Years ago, WVU put his buyout toward it.
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What I'm hearing: Trades are happening and #WVU is looking good for the Duke's Mayo Bowl in Charlotte. That's against an ACC team and probably either UNC or Clemson. "How?" you ask. The Big 12 has an extra bowl-eligible team. The SEC doesn't have enough teams to fill the slots.
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Honestly didn't expect to see this . but glad to see this and with such conviction. "Terrible tragedy" and the data doesn't tiptoe around the intent.
Heartbroken for @WVUhoops. I can’t comprehend this team being left out. Our resume was better than several teams in the field and it’s a terrible travesty that we weren’t included. I have so much appreciation for @Coach_DeVries, our coaching staff and players. They deserved
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Sources tell @EerSportsDotCom that #WVU coach Rich Rodriguez is retaining Chad Scott as part of the new coaching staff. 🔗
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#WVU has its 36th football caoch. It's the 32nd. The Mountaineers are expected to hire Rich Rodriguez as the next football coach, according to @PeteThamel.
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Between this and last night's staff meeting, I'm fully expecting a knock on my door tomorrow morning. "Hi. Name's Neal. Heard you lived near the stadium, and I was in the neighborhood, so just thought I'd say hi. I bought Tudor's. Is that OK?".
An emotional @NealBrown_WVU addressed Trojan Nation at halftime of today's men's basketball game . "From my family and I, I thank you, thank you so much, God bless and Go Troy.". #OneTROY
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Hey @PFF_College . I feel like you have to create and/or name an offseason efficiency rating after Neal Brown. Well earned!
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The N.C. State band went first at halftime . and played "Sweet Caroline." Quite the ovation, as you might expect.
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#WVU coach Josh Eilert revealed the NCAA is once again assessing the RaeQuan Battle case. The waiver was denied. The appeal failed. And now? . "There is a reconsideration in play," Eilert said, adding it is "based on new information.".
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When all the buyouts are paid and debts are settled, #WVU will have around a $5 million profit after changing head coaches. 🔗
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Lots of emotions, but I'm excited to say I've taken a job covering WVU with CBS and @247Sports. First day: July 15.
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This is happening now. #WVU is finalizing a deal to name Troy's Neal Brown as its next head coach. Word is spreading quickly among those involved. @PeteThamel was first.
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Neal Brown's first words? "Appreciate the media being here." . We're in Oz.
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Deep breaths. Count to 10, everyone. If Austin Kendall wants play for #WVU, the school can apply for a waiver to make him eligible in 2019. I think Kyle Bosch and Will Grier were harder cases, and Waiver U. prevailed in both.
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Practice starts today, and yet Bob Huggins on this week's NCAA bombshell is midseason form Bob Huggins. (VIP)
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Enlightening exchange between a reporter and Bob Huggins at interviews today.
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Sources tell @EerSportsDotCom that #WVU and Bob Huggins have agreed to a multi-year contract extension. Only five other NCAA coaches have won more games than the former Mountaineer captain and MVP. 🆓.🔗
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No mercy.
Only the nation’s top institutions earn Carnegie’s R1 research status … And we’re 1 of them! 👏 . Our faculty, staff, and students continue to lead the way in research to improve our state, our nation, and our world! 🌎 . It’s just another way that Mountaineers go first! 💛💙
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It's late in February. WVU is 19-8. Bob Huggins is talking about the next day's game with reporters. Unprompted, he states matter-of-factly: ". and if you think about it, we really should have won the Charleston Classic.".
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All these amateurs tracking flights and surveiling the airport. Wren Baker won't slip one past me.
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Marshall's Ott Elmore just got a technical in the timeout. He's committed four fouls, made a 3-pointer and fouled Jevon Carter on a four-point play. He's played 71 seconds.
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#WVU football has a new offensive lineman at practice. It's a center . from the basketball team. Sources tell @EerSports that Jimmy Bell is taking his former sport on a test drive for the final two weeks of spring practice. 🆓.🔗
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I can't see Oklahoma State getting worse instead of better. If this is the worst team in the Big 12, good damn luck doing this 18 times everybody.
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They've been playing basketball for a a long time at WVU. The Mountaineers have attempted fewer free throws only three other times and just ONCE since 1906.
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Sources tell .@EerSportsDotCom. #WVU has scheduled a meeting at 4 p.m. to include AD Wren Baker and Neal Brown.
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That's garbage. Is it illegal to do "(Opponent mascot) down" in every stadium? And that was absolutely not a flagrant play by Cajuste.
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BREAKING: State Attorney General Patrick Morrissey, working with a coalition of seven states, filed a lawsuit against the NCAA that challenges the association’s transfer eligibility rule. This is the latest maneuver to secure RaeQuan Battle's eligibility.
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Read: Arsonists arrive to put out the fire.
Sources: The SEC and Big Ten are set to announce that they are setting up an advisory committee. It’s expected to look at the entire college sports landscape and solutions within it.
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🚨 OPTIMISM ALERT 🚨. @chris_hummer states @JahiemWhite_305 is a college football player set to emerge in 2024. "There's an argument to be made that White is the most exciting skill player in Morgantown since Tavon Austin. He's got that kind of juice.".🔗
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Bob Huggins says not to expect Sagaba Konate in the CBI. "I've been kind of concentrating on working on maybe getting him a redshirt.".
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My goodness. #WVU has dismissed Esa Ahmad and Wesley Harris from the basketball team for a "violation of athletic department policies.".
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BREAKING: Former Syracuse center Jesse Edwards, a third-team All-ACC pick this past season, commits to @WVUhoops. 🆓.🔗 .
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Sources tell @EerSportsDotCom that #WVU Hall of Famer Pat White is returning to the program as an assistant coach.
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#WVU gets an innovative Group of 5 head coach who knows the northeast and the south, who's been an OC in the Big 12 and the SEC and who's been winning for three years now. Scared national champ Clemson in 2016, beat LSU and Nebraska the past two years.
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The #WVU Board of Governors just approved $41 million for the next two phases of renovations at the football team's headquarters. 🆓.🔗
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Zoom conference with Bob Huggins shortly, and I gotta admit . I wasn’t ready for basketball season until this exact moment.
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David Sills has five touchdown catches, and nobody taught him the touchdown celebration? Somebody has to fix this quickly.
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Everybody, check the bottoms of your shoes for Tracy Wolfson, please.
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This might be the stupidest thing I've seen on this website.
By rejoining the Paris Climate Agreement, President Biden indicates he’s more interested in the views of the citizens of Paris than in the jobs of the citizens of Pittsburgh. This agreement will do little to affect the climate and will harm the livelihoods of Americans.
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Mario Kegler was the name on my fake ID. Sadly, it was *too* Morgantown.
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This is cool, but I'm also kind of sad. Over the last few months, there's been a running gag among a few friends and readers who see DeVries in public doing normal stuff and no one seems to know who he is. Those days are probably over now, so I hope he enjoyed it while it lasted!
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Matthew McConaughey has a unique look for his new movie. His inspiration hits close to home in West Virginia.
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When #WVU took the floor, West Virginian's Chase Harler and Logan Routt both stopped to congratulate Marshall's Jarrod West.
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That's Beanie Bishop's first career punt return. Also: That's a 78-yard touchdown.
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TTU is No. 125 in scoring defense, No. 132 in passing defense and No. 125 in total defense plus No. 118 in sacks and No. 88 in TFLs. #WVU has three points, 98 passing yards and 125 total yards and has been sacked four times and tackled behind the line six times. in 34 snaps.
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#WVU has a top-shelf defensive head coach, and that coach just added the player who made more 3s than anyone in the country this past season.
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Throwing away a bunch of information I don't need after the few days and I remembered this . which I feel the need to share:. Neal Brown's staff at Troy had FIVE analysts. WVU has two.
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WVU's Jevon Carter sports his team's tribute to Texas guard Andrew Jones, who's sidelined following a leukemia diagnosis.
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We're 9:11 into this. Esa Ahmad, Wes Harris and Brandon Knapper have not played. #WVU has zero turnovers.
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The top 20 QBs in 2024, according to @247Sports. Look at No. 14:. "It's a dangerous comp, sure, but Greene is the closest quarterback we've seen to Johnny Manziel in the Power Conference ranks in several years.".🔗
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Went to bed last night so much more enlightened about how to do my job, thanks to Twitter. Imagine my surprise when I woke up and learned social media got it wrong. My world is shaken!.
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Emmitt Matthews on teammate Oscar Tshiebwe’s dash-and-dunk. “If that’s not No. 1 tonight, SportsCenter might have to cease to exist.”. Most of the bench almost ceased existing after this.
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A statement from the remaining eight Big 12 institutions.
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WVU won at Texas with one healthy RB, four healthy DL, 1 healthy CB, four turnovers. Saw 100 plays on D, scored seven points in final 44:49.
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Expectation is that the team will be informed Brown is out after six seasons.
Sources tell .@EerSportsDotCom. #WVU has scheduled a meeting at 4 p.m. to include AD Wren Baker and Neal Brown.
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Where'd you get that?.
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FINAL: #WVU 62, (7) Kansas 61. The Mountaineers not only led by 18, but they *never trailed* to win for the first time at Allen Fieldhouse. Did it without two starters, too. Rapid Reactions podcast to follow. The Most Important Moments will hold you over.
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The Huggins quotes are pretty great, as is custom, but I've enjoyed Oscar Tshiebwe's candor so far.
#WVU snaps a long losing streak, and Bob Huggins doesn't sound, um, hostile about continuing the series with Pitt in the future. "Why not? The way we travel in our league, it's refreshing to jump on a bus and ride an hour, believe me." 🆓.🔗
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🧯#WVU STAFF HOT BOARD V 1.3🧯. Two updates today. Oh, and if you're stealing our news and intel for your podcast, you should know it's a giveaway when I get a stat wrong in my reporting and go correct it . but you include the mistake in your content.😉.
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Coach Huggins, has Coach Calipari called yet? "Twice." Said Calipari predicted WVU/Kentucky in the same bracket, UK/Indiana at same site.
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On West Virginia Day, no less.
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Darian DeVries has two four-stars FROM CALIFORNIA in his first class. Spending energy is as valuable as spending cash, but remember, #WVU spent more on recuiting for women's basketball than for men's basketball for four straight years . and it showed.
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A twist with former Miami QB Jack Allison. Hearing he's not headed to a junior college, as has been reported, and is instead bound for WVU.
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idk when's the last time you paid to go to work?.
@mikecasazza That’s funny when was the last time you paid for a ticket?.
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Not a lot of “Big 12” in this Big East/Big 12 Battle, and that’s perfectly fine. This has a throwback Big East feel to it, and now I realize how much I’ve missed that.
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#WVU gets the top-rated player in the entire country in cornerback Jairo Faverus.
Story now updated with quotes from the newest Mountaineer (FREE) -->
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In Big 12 losses, #WVU is 23 points worse than the opponent with McCabe off the floor than it is with him on the floor.
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Derek Culver gets it, Part IV: "I was a kid last year. I was a baby. I’m not going to lie. If I had seen myself and how I am this year compared to last year, I probably would fight myself, to be honest with you. That’s dead-ass honest."💰.🔗
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Never forget that @DariusStills56 found a sideline reporter during a game, asked her to report that he said Baylor’s offensive line was soft and then picked up three sacks. 💰.🔗
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#WVU comes back, defeats No. 3 Gonzaga in overtime for the first marquee win of the Darian DeVries Era. My three thoughts on the performance.
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How on Earth is there no better filler available than a coaches roundtable from October for the half hour between games?.
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Dawn Plitzuweit coaches in the WBIT here tonight. I'm 60 miles from Darian DeVries' new office. Feels like a Pulitzer is within reach.
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Saw AD Shane Lyons before game. He said WVU has heard from NCAA about possibly hosting women's games in first two rounds. "We're prepared.".
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❗️HOT BOARD VERSION 9.0❗️. Sources tell @EerSportsDotCom the Jacksonville State coach was being honest last night when he said he didn't have an interview scheduled with #WVU. Rich Rodriguez did his interview earlier this week.
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My wife amazes. Approaching a landmark birthday and is going to Puerto Rico to volunteer with @AllHandsHearts and @ADLAPuertoRico. This is her carryon. Stuff for school kids there. I need to get her a #HamiltonPR ticket. When her time is up, she'll have done enough, @Lin_Manuel.
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