Neal Brown not thrilled with his Mountaineers after first full scrimmage

Football

Mountaineer Training Camp Report #10 | West Virginia University Athletics
West Virginia football players used to wear a plain, drab, gray t-shirt with the word TEAM in navy blue emblazoned across the front. It symbolized the importance of a greater good - a cause much more important than one's self.

Brown still seeking that edge | Times West Virginian
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With the band back together, Brown not pleased with first full squad practice | WV MetroNews
Although Neal Brown was pleased to have his entire squad on the practice field at the same time for the first time in over five months, the head coach wasn’t pleased about much else during the team’s ninth workout of preseason camp.

WVU holds first full-squad scrimmage in a quiet Milan Puskar Stadium | WV Illustrated
West Virginia conducted an 88-play, two-hour, officiated scrimmage this morning inside the stadium under sunny skies and reasonably cool temperatures for mid-August.

WVU Football Innovators – Don Nehlen | West Virginia University Athletics
When Don Nehlen got his first good look at the football team he was inheriting after he took the West Virginia University job in 1979, he was appalled. There are no photos to be found of West Virginia’s weight room at old Mountaineer Field because no coach in his right mind would ever let anybody see it.The place was beyond abysmal.

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