Hot Reads: Winning Ugly

Radio sideline reporter Jed Drenning provides periodic commentary on the Mountaineer football program forWVUsports.com. Be sure to follow him on Twitter @TheSignalCaller.

Winning ugly.

It’s a football term of art, more endearing than it might sound to the untrained ear, intended to describe a rough-around-the-edges style of victory that’s short on fashion but long on grit.

College football is littered with oxymoronic jargon. From offensive tackle and up back to forward lateral – the game is replete with contradictions in terms containing concealed points. But winning ugly might be the granddaddy of them all. It’s also the last one you would expect to see associated with Dana Holgorsen – an…