PLAYERS:
Dana Holgorsen,
Charlie Weis,
Tavon Austin
TEAMS: West Virginia Mountaineers, Notre Dame Fighting Irish
TEAMS: West Virginia Mountaineers, Notre Dame Fighting Irish
West Virginia and Kansas are playing on Saturday for the first time since the Mountaineers moved into the Big 12. The game will be between two teams that have disappointed. Kansas is a pathetic 1-10 under first-year head coach Charlie Weis, while West Virginia plummeted to 6-5 after a promising 5-0 start. Though the game seems like a dud on the sports calendar given all the big conference championship games taking place that day, matters got a lot more interesting after Dana Holgorsen’s teleconference on Monday.The West Virginia coach took the ultimate shot at Weis through some heavily sarcastic praise. “They’re going to coach them up. We’re going to be at a major schematic disadvantage going against their coaches,” Holgorsen said of Kansas. “They’ve got coaches with a tremendous pedigree that have coached everybody in the world and coached for decades and decades. “It’ll be challenging. You never know what you’re going to get,” Holgorsen said. “They kind of have a flavor of the week
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November 27, 2012

