Football
Neal Brown did something Monday morning that he has not done since taking the West Virginia football job 20 months ago. He complimented the Mountaineer ground game. WVU ran the ball 51 times for 329 yards and five touchdowns in last Saturday’s 56-10 win over Eastern Kentucky. That represents nearly one-third of WVU’s total rushing output in 2019, and nearly matched the seven rushing touchdowns it generated in 12 games last season.
During West Virginia’s first football season under head coach Neal Brown, the rushing attack was nonexistent. On Saturday against Eastern Kentucky, the Mountaineers finished the game with 329 yards rushing as a team after gaining only 879 yards total last season.