National Personality Changes Tune on WVU Based on Past Comments

It’s always amazing how much can change in just a year’s time. A year after calling WVU “God awful” and bashing Neal Brown, a national personality has completely changed his tune on the Mountaineers.

Brandon Walker of Barstool Sports, who once said West Virginia made a mistake by not firing Brown, has completed a full 180 on what he thinks of the WVU program. On Barstool’s “Unnecessary Roughness” college football preview show, Walker complimented Brown for proving his critics (like Walker himself) wrong in 2023 and explained why he believes in West Virginia in 2024.

“This time last year, we were basically standing, looking down in the grave of Neal Brown and we had shovels and we were just throwing dirt on him. It’s over for him, you’re fired! You’ll be gone, forget it Neal Brown. Well, guess what? He started climbing out. He climbed out because he has a good quarterback. He climbed out because he has a good running game. He climbed out because he has one of the best offensive lines in the Big 12. He climbed out because they can score points,” said Walker.

He then went even further. “They have probably the best opportunity of any Big 12 team in America in Week 1. They get to play Penn State at home and you want to talk about a tough or tricky place, West Virginia is a tough or tricky place. I’m not saying they’re going to beat Penn State because I like Penn State a lot, but I think they’ll at least scare them. They have a schedule that looks tough on the surface. Out of the top seven Big 12 teams, they play six of them. Well, guess what? I think they can handle themselves. I think they end up in the top five of this conference. I think they end up in that eight or nine win range. I like West Virginia in the new-look Big 12. I like them a lot.”

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