COMMENTARY
ARLINGTON, Texas — Getting recruits to Morgantown is one of the challenges facing any West Virginia football coach and one that Neal Brown has embraced early in his tenure. It’s rare for top-flight recruits to simply fall into the Mountaineers’ laps because they just happen to be in the neighborhood.
But one of the Big 12’s best players spent nearly every summer in WVU’s backyard. Preseason Big 12 defensive player of the year Kenneth Murray is known to everyone as an Oklahoma Sooner. Last season the outside linebacker averaged 11 tackles per game, besting even WVU dynamo David Long, who was named last year’s conference defensive player of the year.