As National Signing Day approaches, Mountaineer Nation looks ahead to another spring with a sense of optimism that I would’ve not thought possible even as recently as three weeks ago. The whirlwind that has been the last two-and-a-half months as a Mountaineer fan has been well documented by my colleagues here at the Smoking Musket, but the TL;DR is Dana Holgorsen out, Neal Brown in, and hope restored to program that seemed destined for despair.
I will admit that I didn’t know much about Neal Brown before December 29th, but after having consumed literally all of the Neal Brown and Neal Brown-adjacent content on the internet over the past three weeks, it’s very easy to see what Shane Lyons saw in him.