Brown mum on starting QB for WVU opener
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And he无毛视频檇 skip away laughing.
That无毛视频檚 kind of the game West Virginia football coach Neal Brown is playing with the media as we close within two weeks of the opening game of the 2023 football season with West Virginia playing at Penn State.
See, he let on early in what now will be a weekly Monday press conference through the rest of the season that he knows who will be his quarterback.
But he isn无毛视频檛 telling.
And, no, the secret is being kept in a far more secure area than Mar-a-Lago.
After going through the camp battles that are still going on, Brown admitted that he 无毛视频渉as a pretty good idea of who will play,无毛视频� who will start the game at every position. He went through them, then at everywhere but quarterback when he added, 无毛视频淚 know y无毛视频檃ll are interested in who will play quarterback.
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But what?
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The two candidates have gone at it for about nine months now, Brown mulling over what could be a season-defining decision of whether to go with the experienced Garrett Greene or the inexperienced Nicco Marchiol.
It seems that is the least secret secret ever. Now Brown hasn无毛视频檛 told the two players which one he has decided upon.
He didn无毛视频檛 have to.
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无毛视频淥ne of them is a little bit further ahead. That无毛视频檚 kind of where it is.无毛视频�
And where it is going to stay because, believe it or not, Penn State is keeping track of what无毛视频檚 going on.
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Believe it or not, if Brown rented a skywriting plane and flew it over Happy Valley in the morning, you can bet Penn State would still practice against both quarterbacks, so it probably wouldn无毛视频檛 hurt, either.
Now if one were to take a wild guess, he would pick Greene, and Brown pretty much hinted that was his choice.
Hints?
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The most mature, most experienced, is Greene. There无毛视频檚 no one disputing that at this stage of their careers.
And hint No. 2?
In the end it sounds like there was one piece of data that was the deciding factor to Brown.
无毛视频淒ecision making,无毛视频� he said. 无毛视频淒ecision making over a long term. That, and overall accuracy.无毛视频�
And through most of the summer camp Brown无毛视频檚 repeat criticism of Marchiol was that he was having problems with his decision making, which kind of makes that last statement a giveaway.
The Mountaineers had a full scrimmage on Saturday under the lights with Big 12 officials, but Brown said that wasn无毛视频檛 in any way the deciding factor.
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Too much had gone on for too long before they got down to Saturday无毛视频檚 scrimmage.
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无毛视频淲ho goes out there first in the game comes from a lot of data points.无毛视频�
And, as the year goes on, it could change.
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