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After a second consecutive loss this past Saturday dropped West Virginia to 3-4 overall on the season, the seat Mountaineers’ Head Coach Neal Brown sits on has rarely been as hot as it is now. Maybe not in terms of his relationship with the administration — I have no inside knowledge on that situation so I won’t speculate — but for certain in terms of his relationship with the fans.
Brown is now 3-17 against ranked opponents during his tenure in Morgantown, and has failed to beat an FBS team in the regular season that has finished the year with 7 or more wins. He is 34-33 in his overall tenure, managing just two winning seasons in five years — whether he can make it three winning seasons in six years remains to be seen, but the results of the last two WVU games are trending in the wrong direction.
Antipathy amongst the fanbase is running high — members of Mountaineer Nation are again calling online for Brown to lose his job, and fans are even donning brown paper bags inside Milan Puskar Stadium. Fans have officially launched a website to stump for the firing of Brown, and while plans didn’t come to fruition last weekend, others are attempting to pay a pilot to fire a ‘Fire Neal Brown’ banner over Milan Puskar during a home game.
But in my opinion, it isn’t necessarily the fans losing confidence that Brown should be primarily concerned about, but rather his own locker room.
The 45-18 defeat against Kansas State is the worst loss of the season yet in terms of margin of defeat, and the sixth-worse of Neal Brown’s tenure. Outside of last season’s beating at the hands of Oklahoma , it’s the worst loss for the program since October of 2022. And while at least one loss per season of this nature seems to be par for the course during the Brown era, this is the first time since 2019 that such a large loss has served as the bookend for back-to-back losses.
