MORGANTOWN — After a summer filled with fireworks, it’s been too quiet lately, maybe eerily so, where it concerns the soap opera between Bob Huggins and WVU. […]
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Wren Baker shifts focus to additional fundraising and competing in an expanded Big 12
MORGANTOWN — Having already overseen coaching changes and transitions in men’s and women’s basketball and the baseball programs, WVU athletic director Wren Baker announced a pivot to […]
Baker: No hard feelings over Arizona State AD’s comments
MORGANTOWN — On Aug. 4, the Big 12 officially announced plans to add Arizona, Arizona State and Utah into the conference for the 2024-25 season and beyond. […]
Randy Mazey to step aside as WVU baseball coach after 2024 season, Steve Sabins will take over
MORGANTOWN — Randy Mazey’s 12th season at WVU will be his final one as head coach of the Mountaineer baseball team. Mazey and the university announced a […]
Huggins vs. WVU: A bad look for both, but worse for players, staff
The ongoing disagreement between Bob Huggins and his representatives and West Virginia University and its representatives is certainly a spectacle, to say the least. We won’t say […]
COLUMN: Bob Huggins’ errors loom large, but WVU added to the list of mistakes by pushing for a rapid resignation
MORGANTOWN — It has become crystal clear — through two rounds of letters between Bob Huggins’ attorney David Campbell and WVU — that on June 17, university […]
COLUMN: Bob Huggins resigned, but E. Gordon Gee and Wren Baker are responsible for messing up the finer details
MORGANTOWN — Bob Huggins resigned from his position as WVU head men’s basketball coach on June 17, 2023. That is the university’s official stance, one that it […]
COLUMN: By now Wren Baker has to realize there is no quick fix in picking up WVU’s national perception
MORGANTOWN — If it is indeed darkest before the dawn then the WVU athletic department seems overdue for a ray of sunshine. Long has there been a […]
Wren Baker has no regrets in coming to WVU during turbulent times early in his stay
MORGANTOWN — Wren Baker is a man in dire need of a vacation, the result of a career’s worth of turmoil in the WVU athletic department all […]
Eilert’s 16 years of patience paid off, but now the challenge begins as WVU’s interim head hoops coach
MORGANTOWN — For 16 years Josh Eilert watched, listened, learned and stayed put. In college basketball years, that would normally account for two or three different addresses […]