The Mountaineer head football coach goes in-depth on handling the disappointing start to the 2024 season.
football program right now, and rightfully so. The Mountaineers have underperformed this season and, really, have failed to truly turn the corner in Neal Brown's six years as the head coach.It won't go away or even simmer down until the program starts producing better results and on a consistent basis. The Mountaineers fell flat on their face in their three opportunities on the big stage this season, and you could say it was four if you include the Backyard Brawl.
"You want to coach and you want to play at a place where it matters. Just like Joe said nobody outside puts more pressure on you than the team - the players, the coaches. You want to do well. You're sacrificing a ton of time and energy into doing this. When it doesn't go right, man, it hurts. It's almost like a mourning process. You lose a game on Saturday and it's not the same, I'm just saying it's similar, it's like a death.
"For me, what I've got to do with our staff and do with our players is be able to kind of lock that out and explain that to them that it's normal. I can turn off social media. I'm in a bubble, basically. Dax had a flag football game on Monday, so I was out in public for an hour then, and I'm out in public here for two hours, and that's about it. I can be in my bubble, I'm not on social media. But our players, they don't have that.
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