MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — That imitation-equals-flattery paradigm wasn’t lost on West Virginia coach Dana Holgorsen, who admitted to mimicking Kansas State’s run-game setup during his season of reinvention.
“I used to study Texas Tech quite a bit, and now I’m studying Kansas State,” chuckled Holgorsen, almost in disbelief at the play-calling changeover.
“Offensively I’ve studied them all year based on us kind of doing some different things with our offense—quarterback run-game stuff and run game in general,” he said. “We’ve watched them a good bit.”
Not long ago Kansas State was the offensive oddball in a conference full of spread attacks, but now West Virginia has taken on a similar grind-it-out approach.