MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – In order to get his offense moving forward against North Carolina State, Neal Brown had West Virginia move sideways.
Motion was a major part of the Mountaineers first-half game plan. West Virginia put someone in motion on 14 of its 31 first-half snaps. On eight of those motions, there was jet- or fly-sweep action that made the wide receiver a threat to take handoffs or short shovel passes from Austin Kendall.
“We tried to get them running east and west early,” Brown said. “We felt we could get them moving east and west to go north and south.