Online Dynasty News - An Honest Coach

After watching his West Virginia team implode in a 59-22 loss to Rutgers, coach mkyle11 got real honest about his team:

"Their offense was tough and our defense did not show up to play. I mean, you could have landed a plane in our secondary there were so many holes, but we knew that was a weakness going in. Once we saw the defense was not there, we abandoned our game plan and just started trying to score quick and often, which resulted in interceptions. "

But, he wasn't throwing his team under the bus. Coach went on to take the blame and offer solutions:

"It was a rookie mistake on my part so I will take the blame for that. However, we will take the defense back to the drawing board - maybe even completely revamp it. There is no reason to lose a game when one player alone has 200 yards rushing. That is not to take anything away from Rutgers - and to their credit we were the number three team (not number 4 as was earlier reported by the AP).

"We will learn from this -losing builds character.

He even made a bold statement about the entire league:

"This is a tough league; Gentleman, this Big East is the new SEC. Anything can happen on any given day."

Meanwhile, the Rutgers-Cincinnati game has been set for a 5 PM, Friday evening kick-off and can be viewed on ESPN 2.

After Wednesday's practice, we caught up with joaj34:

"This is going to be a real tough game...[Rutgers] is a good team that's putting up unreal numbers. We've been worried about defense and turnovers since we beat Oklahoma, and this is a team that can exploit those weaknesses. But, we're going to play our game and try to force them into our tempo and hopefully put them away. We need a big game and some solid defense."

When asked which QB would start, joaj34 had no comment.