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New West Virginia coach Neal Brown will look to put his stamp on the Mountaineers program right away with a strong finish to this 2019 recruiting cycle. The former Troy head man inherited 16 signees in December and is dialed in on keeping one huge in-state prospect home to begin his tenure in Morgantown. All eyes are on five-star offensive tackle Darnell Wright, a top-20 prospect in the Class of 2019 and the No. 1 player in West Virginia. Tennessee is the established front-runner, but with a new coach in place with the Mountaineers, all attention has been on Wright down the stretch. He visited Morgantown on Jan. 18 and it’s shaping up to be a two-team battle. Sure, all signs point to Wright being Tennessee’s to lose. He’ll head to Knoxville this weekend as the Vols look to seal the deal. Still, it’s hard to ignore the emergence of Brown and West Virginia down the stretch have turned this into a more interesting storyline to follow.
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Yesterday I read that WV sent 10 coaches to visit Wright at his high school.
I understand a new HC who is late to the party pulling out all the stops in an 11th hour attempt to land a top in-state kid, but I am also always extremely leery of such obviously desperate opposition.
NSD can't get here soon enough for me.
Yesterday I read that WV sent 10 coaches to visit Wright at his high school.
I understand a new HC who is late to the party pulling out all the stops in an 11th hour attempt to land a top in-state kid, but I am also always extremely leery of such obviously desperate opposition.
NSD can't get here soon enough for me.
Not a troll. Just a victim of VBS, and the slowly developing signing day disasters we’ve had in recent years.
If this guy is such a lock I would have expected him to sign in December. And I don’t buy the “wants pub for his teammates”line.
I have no inside info at all, and have no extraordinary recruiting insight. This just feels odd. Hope I’m wrong.