COMMENTARY
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — On the gauges of hype, dread and fan-ticipation, West Virginia’s opener versus 20-point underdog Georgia Southern doesn’t come near last year’s game against Alabama.
Where Tony Gibson is concerned, however, you’d think he was Bruce Willis trying to detonate a nuclear bomb on an asteroid.
Gibson’s second season as West Virginia’s defensive coordinator begins with a task unfamiliar and therefor unsettling. He hasn’t game-planned to stop an option offense since September 2005, when Wofford came to Morgantown. (A day that ultimately proved satisfying as WVU trimmed the Terriers to 1.