WVU Football Roster, Injury Update, 2 More Gone

he welcome in uh going to talk about the press conference by Neil Brown today first day of fall camp that means we are one month away from the Penn State game uh quite a few things to talk about uh I apologize if I'm not as sharp as I might be I've been kind of a rough stretch and some of you may know this is rockus who's also having a bit of a rough stretch so bear with us and let's see if the caffeine will kick in as we go uh I'll also be doing a video about uh my reaction to some comments and interviews by a member of the Penn State media who thinks West Virginia has no way no path to victory in that game I will discuss why his interview is a master class in logical fallacies yeah I know it's football not a college class but hey I'll make it fun it it is fun uh meanwhile uh this is WVU football going deep I am Forest posting oh boy I am Forest posting oh over and I rockus doesn't like the way he's being held he wanted to come over now he's not so sure cuz I'm not just paying attention to him anyway please uh subscribe uh share click thumbs up click the notification Bell make comments and tell your friends as I said uh coach Neil Brown gave his uh press conference today to discuss fall camp that included injury updates and as usual that's a mix of good news and bad news uh we did find out how the roster gets down to 85 uh favus and I think rockus is going to give up on this all right we'll see how long it takes before he says he wants back up here anyway uh favus is taking a uh special type of medical red shirt removes him from the active roster uh that was expected that he was my guess and I think gu the professional media unofficially knew that that was coming uh also Mo Hamilton he he was just moved from offensive line to defensive line but evidently uh his injuries from last year uh Coach Brown said lower back and legs uh he's also technically taking the medical red shirt and off the active roster but Coach Brown did say in his case he thinks it will be career ending uh so I know a lot of us wanted to to see what Hamilton could do evidently it is not going to be playing football um other injury reports are mostly better than what we last heard um spells is uh participating in a limited manner in Camp and there is hope he will be ready to play opening game uh we were looking at you know maybe maybe not maybe several games into the season so this is an improvement uh and that that could help quite a bit I think our other Corners are sharp and strong but having spells is certainly uh a good thing uh McIntyre and Al tuner May both be back by midseason or around midseason so not gone for the whole season at this point uh and that again before we were hearing you know possibly or likely uh all or most of the season so that's an improvement uh Redwood is uh participating partial and in 10 days or so hoping he will be full go in Camp uh and yeah he is he's a favorite of mine I think he's you know if he can stay healthy he is going to be a disruptive force uh while he's at WVU and uh fiser is still limited uh you know limited is better than out so we have not seen him at all hope I'm hoping he's going to have a big career he is certainly an interesting possibility at this point um and that was pretty much it for the injury updates uh planning to make it a more physical Camp to the degree that they can while trying to avoid injuries uh say it's going to be more game likee in several of the practices and there will be two scrimmages uh it's going to be General prep up until August 21st then they start the Penn State prep uh specifically talking about some of the uh other programs that help you know the strength program nutrition said once again Mike Joseph is the best in the game and you know nutrition program have gotten it to where or where they want it to be of course always working to improve and since nutritional changes do take time for the benefits to show we are really just starting to see that uh body fat General appearance all of those things uh are better than ever uh so now of course a lot of other teams are doing similar things but they are trying to keep West Virginia ahead in those areas also includes the sports psychology which he says is also uh just here in the last 6 to n months has gotten to where they want it to be making a big difference for players and staff so I found that of particular interest uh also me you know because we have you some of the uh Consultants uh graduates guy you know some of the guys who could do no or limited coaching are now by the rules allowed to coach which is you know will take a lot of pressure off of uh the you know head of various rooms allows them to break rooms up into smaller groups in different ways and you wants to make this a program that not only launches careers for players but launches careers for coaches uh I I've said before Neil Brown is a teacher and it is the nature of a teacher to want to uh do things like that to not just you know keep everybody there but to improve the whole system even Beyond you know the West Virginia program uh actually West Virginia program that's something I'm meant to mention at the beginning hey I said I wasn't at my sharpest um talked a bit about West Virginia being the winningest T you know program in the current Big 12 um and up near the top in a number of other categories and yet not really getting a lot of notice or respect uh for that and uh now this wasn't something Coach Brown said this was my thought and reaction you know West Virginia is a blue collar state it is a worker state which is not to say you know we don't have management technology all sorts of things you maybe don't have as much as we should but it has historically been you know a place where the majority of the population goes to work works hard gets no recognition if the workers do their job and the company does well management gets the recognition and the worker H if they get a slight raise or a little bonus they're lucky recognition no so it is well I don't want to say appropriate but not unexpected that the West Virginia University football program would work hard do well and get no no real recognition for it of course technically they haven't really won a national championship they've competed uh but it is a blue collar program that's been said before it just happens to extend to the recognition Factor um meanwhile um also so kind of interesting talked about you players are not different from what they were like when he started coaching 22 years ago but they are more informed so now I'm I'm going to make a distinction here that Neil Brown doesn't make because he said you know since they are more informed the players like to know why they're doing things you know like okay was talking about the nutrition program at the time but applying it also to other things you know including you know uh how they do the football aspect but he said you know if players understand why you're doing something they're more willing to do it now to a certain degree that's true um I think what Brown still underestimates is that it is true of a certain type of person and player some want to know why some don't some are just tell me what to do I'll do it or not and some want more in depth they want the understanding now Coach Brown must have players who want to know why his approach will only work when he has that type of player um I don't think it's something he necessarily consciously looks for in establishing the culture but that has been the biggest difference uh players who were here before were largely those who didn't want to know why or ones who if they had been started out in that kind of a system would have wanted to know uh you know the the things that split the psychology kind of get established pretty early uh but for some people it's still uncertain as they go into college but yeah he I'll talk I talk about that more on a non-football site I won't go too much into it but just kind of found it interesting he focuses on that why um anyway also he's you said early on that we now look like a power for contender especially because we're not starting players before they're ready we're not playing freshman or red shirt freshman who haven't had time to fully develop and when one of the reporters mentioned looking like a power for team Brown interrupted and said power for contender he did not want to hear power for team he is being very specific and I I like that uh I mean you he's he's not say hey we're going to do this we're going to win this or that but he's you know we are a contender wants to make that very clear um now he did say some freshman will be ready to play we're not going to play fresh hopefully not going to have to play freshmen before they're ready but some are ready which ones isn't going to be clear until the first scrimmage now we can make some guesses like Z Jennings and that sort of thing but um we have progressed in that regard depth development um now there has been talk about Jem white and sophomore slump that is something that Coach Brown has been you know going after directly he's sophomore slumps are real he has been addressing it with white uh you he said you know hey if you have the same yards and you know as last year will you be satisfied no of course he only played half a season last year so he dang well shouldn't be satisfied but keeping him hungry keeping him focused keeping him working um they also mentioned that media outside of West Virginia has never asked about Jem white that actually when I talk about the guy from Penn State that'll come up again but imagine all the I mean white was one of the top freshman running backs in the country and people outside of West Virginia aren't even asking well now that's a lack of respect and they're going to regret it oh they're going to regret it um also mentioned that uh one of the most interesting things to him red shirt freshman because you know it's one of the biggest jumps for some of them between freshman year or red shirt freshman spring camp to fall Camp some of them are going to make a very big jump which ones is still unknown and again that's one of the things first scrimmage will help shake that out uh but there are some very talented players we have not seen that we will be seeing this year that's part of the excitement I'm looking forward to it I'm looking forward to the whole dang season Coach Brown is as well he said you 22 years of coaching 10 years as a head coach and he thinks this is as excited as he has ever been now of course Neil Brown is not one of these guys who shows his excitement a lot uh in public anyway but he is excited well I was already excited but that UPS my level uh so thanks for watching uh if you have questions something I didn't cover you know put it in the comments and I did forget to say so I will cut this in after I say it now I'll move it earlier in the video please uh subscribe uh share click thumbs up click the notification Bell make comments and tell your friends meanwhile I'm going to go do that video about the Penn State guy who made so many false assumptions and I hope he regrets it after the game for now so long