A coach on the hot seat rarely gets off that hot seat without either good luck, good fortune or the stars aligning. In this business, you are who you are and rarely - not always - do you get to stick around long enough to “change your stars”, to quote A Knight’s Tale. This Saturday, for West Virginia Mountaineers head coach Neal Brown, is a chance to change his stars.
Let’s start with the obvious, Neal Brown has never beaten the Texas Tech Red Raiders in his four years as head coach of the Mountaineers and the scores have been close (23-20 in 2021) to blowouts (48-10 in 2022).