[Game Thread] Coastal Carolina @ West Virginia (12:00 PM ET)

[u/CFB_Referee]

GAME	Coastal CarolinaCoastal Carolina @ West VirginiaWest Virginia
Location	West Virginia Milan Puskar Stadium
Time	12:00 PM ET
Watch	TV: TNT
	Flair ¦ Discord

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[u/Bweasey17]

Winning by a TD to a mid tier sun belt team, not great.

Biggest concern was a 10 point lead with the ball and 2:00 minutes left. Couldn’t get a first down and end the game. That’s concerning.

[u/Weekly-Host8216]

Best QB is on the bench. Scotty Fox

[u/No_Exercise9369 → u/Weekly-Host8216]

neal brown has a fetish for mediocre qb play, it's basically his brand at this point

[u/Atomoxetine_80mg → u/Weekly-Host8216]

Really?

[u/sadneer69]

Fire RR bring back Dana

[u/Mtn_Raven → u/sadneer69]

How about no more retreads 🙄

[u/Riskitall101]

Saying 'we stunk in the second half' when calling nothing but runs down the middle of a loaded box lol. 'We' is doing heavy lifting with that one. Secondary looked bad but the calls looked worse...

[u/Infamous_Inside9172]

Not as depressed as I was in the 1st half

[u/Sctvman]

Second half: “We stunk”

[u/Atomoxetine_80mg → u/Sctvman]

Got that right

[u/EggplanttWizardd]

Comical

[u/TheSpacePopeIX]

I didn’t watch but I see this offseason we’ve progressed from actually losing to Ohio University to barely beating Coastal Carolina?

PROGRESS!

[u/DoItForTheTanqueray]

Everyone needs to chill the hell out.

[u/ProposalSilent4582]

24 to 0 to... 31 to 24.

[u/Bengjumping]

A W is a W. Couldn't care less how it comes.

[u/Set-Admirable → u/Bengjumping]

I care how it happened, but I think there are some overreactions here.

[u/Fonduby]

GG CC, goodluck on your games.

[u/Fraegtgaortd]

Another 4 win season on the menu boys

[u/theyellowjart → u/Fraegtgaortd]

I admire your optimism.

[u/DoItForTheTanqueray → u/Fraegtgaortd]

Chill

[u/Mtn_Raven]

Not one of the assholes in the secondary knows how to take a proper angle. Zac Alley should be fired today.

[u/PackOfBraves83_95_21]

Can’t even move the line to -9.5 without WV being idiots. You were up 17 like a minute ago

[u/AegisCruiser]

I'm sure they practice the absolute crap out of it, but I feel like it'd be very weird to be a holder for a lefty kicker.

[u/mountaineer_93]

We never should have hired a washed up sex pest traitor

[u/DoItForTheTanqueray → u/mountaineer_93]

lol chill

[u/Haha08421 → u/DoItForTheTanqueray]

Im with you. People need to chill for the moment.

[u/Shepboyardee12]

It's gonna be a long year for us but mad respect to CC. That's a team worth watching this year for that fanbase.

[u/Mtn_Raven]

This defense would get roasted against a D3 team. This is embarrassing.

[u/SIser187 → u/Mtn_Raven]

I think High School offense would obliterate this secondary.

[u/DionWaiteress]

I hate my life

[u/VoltWVUmax]

I definitely would have thrown a TD there if CC. It was free for the taking

[u/AreYouEmployedSir]

I love how the safety just ran past the receiver he was covering 30 yards deep, to try to go contain the QB or something

[u/chrobbin]

WVU almost assuredly holds on here (if you give up 2 scores in the last 30 seconds, that’s a deserved L anyway).

But boy have they cranked the drama level up for some reason.

[u/PolicyEntire3375 → u/chrobbin]

It’s not for “some reason” it’s for no reason, they have literally just gotten ultra conservative and haven’t got away from the inside zone even though coastal is stacking the box. This game could have easily been more than over by now, even with how bad WVs secondary looks.

[u/Mtn_Raven → u/PolicyEntire3375]

I hate Rich Rodriguez so much.

[u/mountaineer_93]

This is embarrassing

[u/EggplanttWizardd → u/mountaineer_93]

Aren't you used to it?

[u/CoalCountryCoyote → u/EggplanttWizardd]

I bet you’re an eggplant wizard alright

[u/Mtn_Raven → u/EggplanttWizardd]

What the fuck is your problem?

[u/YungShkreliOG → u/EggplanttWizardd]

Professional hater

[u/Safe-Career-3687 → u/YungShkreliOG]

What is there to hate at this point? Haters envy talent and skills. We have neither.

[u/YungShkreliOG → u/Safe-Career-3687]

Amateur hater

[u/MF_SKOOMA]

Fire every coach with the last name Rodriguez.

[u/ForTheImminent]

Absolutely comical performance today lmao nothing has changed from last season

[u/1slow40]

QB a menace

[u/AreYouEmployedSir]

what absolutely awful angles those blitzers are taking. what are they doing?

[u/EggplanttWizardd]

373 pass yards for Coastal. WV even worse than suspected.

[u/Bengjumping → u/EggplanttWizardd]

I mean when you're down the entire game you have to pass. That kind of inflates the statistic.

[u/YungShkreliOG]

lol

[u/chester_white]

Deuce Bailey…you’re him

[u/ticket21truth]

“Not showing the playbook” is not an excuse. This is what Rich Rod does.

[u/Fraegtgaortd → u/ticket21truth]

Yep. Constantly running up the middle against a stacked box is exactly why we lost to Pitt in 07. He’s a moron

[u/montani]

This is atrocious

[u/Fonduby]

At least we aren't doing prevent defense

[u/Bengjumping]

These week 1 overreactions are kind of hilarious

[u/Mtn_Raven]

No one on this defense deserves whatever they're getting from NIL

[u/VoltWVUmax]

At this point even if we lose I’d feel the same. Season obviously isn’t going to be what we wanted it to be

[u/DoItForTheTanqueray → u/VoltWVUmax]

lol it’s week one brother

[u/Nice-Dog8302]

Classic Rich Rod coached team with that Roughing hit. What a piece of shit

[u/rastapastanine]

Coastal’s uniforms today are incredible

[u/quinnhughesbdaytwin]

Yeah Deuce is gonna be a stud. Really impressive showing against a P4 Defense as a RSFR

[u/Mtn_Raven → u/quinnhughesbdaytwin]

This defense is in the P4 but they're a far cry from P4-level.

[u/SIser187 → u/quinnhughesbdaytwin]

I hate to tell you this but this secondary is horrendous.

[u/MF_SKOOMA]

Slick ass 4 win season incoming.

[u/PolicyEntire3375 → u/MF_SKOOMA]

where do you see 4 wins?

[u/Mtn_Raven → u/MF_SKOOMA]

If we're lucky.

[u/umbchoos]

Coastal’s coach looks like a chad

[u/SIser187]

Absolutely disgraceful and pathetic second half.

[u/VoltWVUmax]

That was one of the worst offensively called second halves I’ve ever seen

[u/Mtn_Raven]

I hate Rich Rodriguez.

[u/DoItForTheTanqueray → u/Mtn_Raven]

I don’t like you either

[u/chester_white]

if i had a nickel for every time rich rod had the opportunity to put this game away in the 2nd half and somehow fucked it up, i’d be bezos

[u/TriflingHotDogVendor]

Literally all you have to do is have any one of the TEs run a pass pattern in any vertical direction on any of those snaps and it's a first down. They crashed 9 every play.

Rich Rod is so frustrating with his stubborn ass Tecmo Bowl 4-play playsheet.

[u/LettuceBeefFrank]

Chants are no slouch but that was a damn awful second half of football.

[u/AmphotericRed]

Dude’s got a three letter playbook

[u/CoalCountryCoyote]

Absolutely terrible second half

[u/Atomoxetine_80mg → u/CoalCountryCoyote]

Right? What happened to my 40 point blowout

[u/CoalCountryCoyote → u/Atomoxetine_80mg]

Rich Rod mad haha eat shit pitt haha

So over that shtick JUST PLAY BETTER

[u/Megalomanizac]

Well, I guess I’m at least able to accept this.

[u/quinnhughesbdaytwin → u/Megalomanizac]

I mean 21.5 point underdog in week 1 with new staff and roster and we've easily covered.

Could be much worse

[u/MusketEER565]

There is real cause for concern. Absolutely smoked in the 2nd half. Against a team that had to overhaul almost exactly how we did last season. I know some here are going to have reasonable takes but this was a genuinely bad showing

[u/Mtn_Raven → u/MusketEER565]

The defense is genuinely awful. The secondary is non-existent. Alley is genuinely terrible as a DC.

[u/ace_toad]

Is that Mike Golic Jr. I’m hearing?

[u/montani → u/ace_toad]

Yes

[u/CountryFalse586]

Let's not do WVU things on the onside and just get this game over with please

[u/EggplanttWizardd]

Worst Virginia

[u/quinnhughesbdaytwin → u/[deleted]]

Agreed

[u/MF_SKOOMA]

WVU has a running back taking snaps and a defense that can’t read a fucking thing.

[u/Mtn_Raven → u/MF_SKOOMA]

Hawkins has played just fine, he can't help that Rich wants to only call runs up the goddamn middle.

[u/MF_SKOOMA → u/Mtn_Raven]

Shit designed run on 3rd and 9 screams this guy has a cannon.

[u/Mtn_Raven]

lol there is absolutely no way we're going to a bowl game. The defense looks worse than it's ever been.

[u/Fonduby]

Man everything looks ok except the secondary looks god awful. Why cant we ever have a complete team?

[u/VoltWVUmax]

I’m more up on coastal than WVU. I feel like they have more potential

[u/CountryFalse586 → u/VoltWVUmax]

10 win season maybe?

[u/quinnhughesbdaytwin]

Well we covered. So that's a plus

[u/montani]

My main takeaway of this game is that we finally have a kicker who can get touchbacks

[u/AreYouEmployedSir]

great effort by the secondary to let the receiver score there

[u/bonerbasketball]

Deuce Bailey is a dog and our corners probably wouldn’t start on some high school teams

[u/MF_SKOOMA]

Fire Dick Rod

[u/CountryFalse586]

Flashes. A wake up call. Lots of fixable mistakes. Hate it for Wiley and presumably losing a guy for the season already.

All in all, it's fine even if a 40+ shutout win would have been a lot cooler. Maybe next week.

Definitely got a LOT of work to do before wk 3

[u/Pretend_Package7540]

I am going to have to drink heavily when we play against UVA, aren’t I?

[u/mountaineer_93]

Well, a lot of good and a lot of bad today. I’m going to be positive and hope that us having some adversity in a controlled environment where we don’t get a loss on the box score will be a kick in the ass for this team. We have another game to get right before UVA who is looking like a very good team. That second half was unacceptable though, we cannot do that against any team with a pulse and expect to win.

Still nervous about the Rich Rod hire but the offense has some juice.

[u/AmphotericRed → u/mountaineer_93]

You get out of here with all these perfectly reasonable assessments

[u/mountaineer_93 → u/AmphotericRed]

Jesus we may have spoken too early. This is bad. We are probably fine but giving them that ball back is bad

[u/mountaineer_93 → u/AmphotericRed]

Yeah I am as negative as the rest of the fanbase about the second half, that seemed like Coastal catching on to our playbook and adjusting and Rich not wanting to show any more of the playbook than absolutely necessary. But I’m optimistic that the first half with Cam and Hawkins shows our ceiling though. The defense needs to be able to handle mobile QB ls or we are not going to be competitive in the Big 12z

[u/AmphotericRed → u/mountaineer_93]

I think we’re going to need to pass in practice. Offense needs more than one option, and defense needs to see what they look like. I get not wanting to show everything this early, but letting them hang around is a bad idea

[u/Mtn_Raven]

Can we trade offensive coordinators with CCU?

[u/Megalomanizac → u/Mtn_Raven]

You sure you want a Petrino?

[u/montani → u/Megalomanizac]

Just put a motorcycle clause in the contract

[u/AmphotericRed]

To be fair they apparently haven’t defended a pass all off season

[u/TriflingHotDogVendor]

Add the boneheaded fumble into the endzone and it's 38-14 in a game where the head coach literally ran exclusively inside zone runs against a team stacking the box for the entire 3rd quarter.

I'm not trying to jump off a bridge like some of y'all quite yet.

[u/Set-Admirable → u/TriflingHotDogVendor]

Nice to see I'm not alone....

I'm not saying it's been great, but we don't need to be creative to win right now.

[u/montani → u/TriflingHotDogVendor]

Can’t wait until we are down 17 and running exclusively zone reads

[u/montani]

Mountaineer needs to work on his pushups. Yikes

[u/Sctvman → u/montani]

Mary had better pushups

[u/Set-Admirable → u/montani]

He looks like a holler crackhead. Normally they're pretty strong. I'm kind of surprised.

[u/ForTheImminent → u/montani]

I was thinking the same thing lol

[u/Fonduby]

I know we've been shit in the 2nd half but it should be 38 -14, which is way better than last year. Remember we gor manhadled by Ohio last year

[u/Sctvman]

That TD saved a lot of angst among the fan base

[u/montani]

Score looks reasonable now

[u/AmphotericRed]

Defensive coordinator has had to be real creative here to defend 17 straight runs up the middle

[u/chrobbin]

Good stuff, Hawk. Would like to see him do well.

[u/Bengjumping]

Never in doubt

[u/VoltWVUmax]

We are so lucky

[u/Mtn_Raven]

Thanks for the bailout CC

[u/soonerwx]

That’s right Hawk

[u/quinnhughesbdaytwin]

GG WVU

[u/ProposalSilent4582]

Lol never seen someone dive their head into a kicker's leg

[u/pArKy24 → u/ProposalSilent4582]

literally dolphin dove💀

[u/Fonduby]

What was he thinking lmao

[u/moonani19 → u/Fonduby]

“I’m gonna block this kick” probably and then “fuck”

[u/AreYouEmployedSir]

welp, that should do it. killer penalty

[u/Megalomanizac]

We hit the kicker. Fuck this. Weak ass roughing penalty

[u/Mtn_Raven → u/Megalomanizac]

There have been some weak ass penalties called against us, too, but that roughing was pretty textbook lol GG

[u/quinnhughesbdaytwin]

Nuke.

Would've been good from 50+

[u/montani]

wtf does 3 here do?

[u/baconbringer → u/montani]

Baiting them into penalties, obviously

[u/Keyblade_Yoshi → u/montani]

Gets them a first down in this particular case.

[u/Set-Admirable → u/montani]

Forces them to score two touchdowns in four minutes.

[u/AreYouEmployedSir]

Looking forward to another run up the middle here on 4th down.

[u/bonerbasketball]

Michael Hawkins better be physically unable to throw currently or this is the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen. It’s only a 10 point game this game is not over

[u/Set-Admirable → u/[deleted]]

We play UT-Martin next week, we're fine

[u/Bengjumping → u/[deleted]]

Against UT Martin?

[u/Mitochondria__Tim]

It’s so embarrassing we are in survival mode draining clock with starters in.

[u/quinnhughesbdaytwin]

Why is WVU playing AT UTM?

[u/ProposalSilent4582 → u/quinnhughesbdaytwin]

Graphic wrong I guess

[u/Bengjumping → u/quinnhughesbdaytwin]

Nope

[u/Set-Admirable → u/quinnhughesbdaytwin]

We aren't

[u/quinnhughesbdaytwin → u/Set-Admirable]

Could've sworn that graphic said AT

[u/ProposalSilent4582 → u/quinnhughesbdaytwin]

It did, but I have no idea why. It's not right. 

[u/bonerbasketball]

Pass rush looks better than I expected for sure. However they need basically instant pressure to make up for the secondary

[u/Megalomanizac]

Fire the OL coach and don’t let him on the plane

[u/chester_white]

i was not expecting the game to go this way after the 1st play was a 72 yard cam cook rush

[u/quinnhughesbdaytwin → u/chester_white]

Getting rid of Beck changed everything

[u/Megalomanizac → u/quinnhughesbdaytwin]

Turns out a competent coach can change a lot

[u/quinnhughesbdaytwin → u/Megalomanizac]

Players play harder when the coach knows what hes doing

[u/PaperCantBeatRock]

How are we looking overall? Today is my anniversary with my fiancée so I saw exactly 2 snaps (our first touchdown) lmao

[u/jayscotts → u/PaperCantBeatRock]

Honestly we’re gonna need you to come back and watch. It hasn’t went great since those 2 snaps

[u/ticket21truth → u/PaperCantBeatRock]

You’ve seen the best of it

[u/AreYouEmployedSir → u/PaperCantBeatRock]

It started out super positive...not much since.

[u/montani → u/PaperCantBeatRock]

Just keep that mental picture

[u/sadneer69]

This gonna be another long season I feel. I ain’t too sure my liver can handle too many more of them

[u/UPwithSISU → u/sadneer69]

You are a Mountaineer. Do you still have a liver?

[u/CygnusTM]

I see pharmaceuticals are going after Millennials now. Anime commercials.

[u/theyellowjart]

I mean, at least basketball starts soon.

[u/jayscotts → u/theyellowjart]

🤙

[u/Mtn_Raven]

Pathetic.

[u/VoltWVUmax]

Is Rich Rod trying to lose? Hawkins has looked great throwing but yes let’s run run run

[u/mountaineer_93]

There’s only one explanation for this second half, coastal Carolina brought out their secret weapon, Rich Rod’s now 19 year old secret bastard son with the cheerleader who walked up to Rich and whispered “I love you dad.”

[u/bonerbasketball]

Maybe hiring a 90 year old oline coach who openly says he doesn’t want to recruit wasn’t the best idea

[u/quinnhughesbdaytwin → u/bonerbasketball]

There's no way that's the full context, right?

Hes just super modern and wants to only use the portal

[u/bonerbasketball → u/quinnhughesbdaytwin]

Not rich rod, Rick trickett. He genuinely hates the portal and nil and doesn’t want to deal with it and I don’t blame him. But hiring that guy as a coach currently just isn’t a good idea

[u/quinnhughesbdaytwin → u/bonerbasketball]

Woof. Can't have that mindset especially in the trenches

[u/theyellowjart]

Ok, there's gotta be someone with an undefeated EA SPORTS™ College Football 27 season we could hire instead?

[u/e4mica523 → u/theyellowjart]

I lost a game but won the title at WVU, is that good enough?

[u/theyellowjart → u/e4mica523]

If you can look angry while wearing a headset and tell everyone to stay off TicTac, I'm ready to chip in a $20

[u/TriflingHotDogVendor]

Does Rich Rod know he's allowed to run a pass play? He is refusing to do anything but run inside play after play after play. CC is just crashing like crazy every play.

[u/chuckmorris007 → u/TriflingHotDogVendor]

They’re selling out for the run and we keep running I don’t get it. Is Neal brown calling plays.. fuck

[u/AmphotericRed → u/chuckmorris007]

Has anyone considered a bubble screen?

[u/Mtn_Raven]

Woo more runs up the middle.

[u/Set-Admirable]

I love Cam Cook, but you cannot run it every play when they're always stacking the box.

[u/jayscotts]

Did we get another QB that can’t pass or is RR too damn stupid to pass when they’re loading the box?

[u/Bengjumping → u/jayscotts]

They're playing the clock more than anything right now.

[u/jayscotts → u/Bengjumping]

I had enough of the “play not to lose” under the Neal Brown era. This is not acceptable for our expectations honestly. This is Year 2, RR got his guys, there are no excuses now.

[u/Bengjumping → u/jayscotts]

It was never going to be a 1 or 2 year rebuild. Expectations are like 7-5/8-4 at best this season.

[u/jayscotts → u/Bengjumping]

Agreed. I’m saying that we’re not getting to 7/8 wins if we can’t close out Coastal Carolina

[u/Mtn_Raven]

A little play action would be nice but that might be too complicated for Rich.

[u/montani]

I wonder if we’re going to run it up the middle

[u/Infamous_Inside9172]

Wvu forgot they was supposed to beat us into the dirt for 4 full quarters

[u/quinnhughesbdaytwin → u/Infamous_Inside9172]

I like to look at it as we have team that plays for its coach again

[u/HeftyBox3580 → u/Infamous_Inside9172]

Most entertaining game of the noon slate

[u/Keyblade_Yoshi → u/HeftyBox3580]

Nebraska vs Ohio is a one score game in the 4th.

[u/HeftyBox3580 → u/Keyblade_Yoshi]

You’re not wrong. Ohio had two leads in that game as well. I’ve only been watching WVU all day since the lady went there

[u/CountryFalse586]

Did we finally remember we had 3 more quarters to play?

[u/Mtn_Raven]

Our offensive line sucks ass too don't they?

[u/Bengjumping → u/Mtn_Raven]

They haven't been that bad, but Coastal is stacking the box. Hard to block everyone when you don't have the numbers in favor.

[u/ThatguyJimmy117]

Boosters had to get back with their ex