WVU Baseball Fans Emotional About End of Historic Season

WVU Baseball played to their best record in program history during the 2025 season, winning the Big 12 outright in the regular season and going 44-16 overall. Their journey came to an end with a Super Regional sweep for the second season in a row, matching their best postseason finish, and with head coach Steve Sabins just 38 years old — and coming off his first season at the helm — West Virginia appears to be trending steadily upwards.

Nevertheless, the Mountaineers’ season didn’t come to a harmonious end. Program legend Grant Hussey, the all-time leader in home runs for WVU Baseball, expressed his frustration in the hours after the season ended at how his Mountaineers’ career came to a close, kept out of the batting order despite his pedigree at the plate.

Slap in the face. I don’t even have words for it

— Grant Hussey (@Grant_Hussey616) June 9, 2025

As a result, Mountaineers fans and media displayed a wide variety of takes on the way the season ended: hope for the future, consternation at Hussey’s treatment, and even rage at Sabins… after a disappointing end to a year that saw the team ranked among the top ten, no emotion was left off the board. 

Here’s a look at what they had to say.

This time last year I committed to WVU, not knowing it would be the best decision of my life. There’s no staff I’d rather play for, no guys I’d rather battle with, and no state I’d rather represent. The best is yet to come for West Virginia baseball. Thank you❤️🤟🏻

— Jack Kartsonas (@JKartsonad) June 9, 2025

Imagine Bob Huggins retiring, and leaving a protégé head coach. Then imagine that coach winning 30 games, the regular season conference championship, and making the Sweet 16. Oh and 20 years ago the team was playing in a highschool gym. Now apply that to WVU baseball. Still think…

— WV Sports Talk (@SportsTalk_304) June 9, 2025

A wins record, the first outright conference title, doing it all in Steve Sabins' first season at the helm. 2025 marks the best year for the WVU baseball program. It will now be interesting to see if the Mountaineers can take that next step and actually get to a College World…

— Mike J. Asti (@MikeAsti11) June 9, 2025

What a season. What a group of guys. Thank you, WVU Baseball for an unforgettable year.

Let’s go Mountaineers. pic.twitter.com/KoxAZFGLm8

— Cade Kincaid, 71st Mountaineer (@WVUMascot) June 9, 2025

Anyone arguing WVU should fire Steve Sabins is either just looking for a reaction or being completely unreasonable. Sabins is far from perfect, but he led a program to its greatest season in his debut season. This should not even be a topic of discussion at all.

— Mike J. Asti (@MikeAsti11) June 9, 2025

Proud of this team. They continued to raise the standard for WVU baseball.

From players, to staff an unbelievable group that grinded & worked everyday to represent the great state of WV. Thank you Mountaineer nation for your unwavering support!

1 Thessalonians 5:18

— Steven Rosier (@srosier20) June 9, 2025

Benching Grant Hussey, who ultimately put WVU on his back for years and this season will go down as one of the biggest “what if” moments in WVU baseball history. Good luck to you all Steve and family. I appreciate your friendship and support over last couple of years. https://t.co/J0f0KdpjB0

— James (@cbc_james) June 9, 2025

Let's put some positivity on the timeline@WVUBaseball will be returning:

-Armani Guzman
-Sam White
-Logan Sauve
– Skylar King
-Gavin Kelly
-Ben Lumsden
– Chase Swain
– Spencer Barnett
-Chase Meyer
-Ben McDougal
-Carson Estridge
-Robby Porco
-Gavin Van Kempen

— ⚡️ (@LickMyHarbaughs) June 9, 2025

Some people will look at the results of the Super Regional and call this disappointing. But in the big picture, this was the greatest season in the history of WVU Baseball in Steve Sabins’ first season.

What an incredible run for the Mountaineers in 2025. The future is BRIGHT! https://t.co/yip9c5SOIg

— Tanner Mountz (@TannerMountz) June 9, 2025

Overall the @WVUBaseball season was a success. I was skeptical about WVU even making the postseason going into the year, so I'll take 44 wins and a Super Regional birth to kick off year 1 of Coach Sabins tenure. Go grab some pitching depth in the portal, and let's build off of…

— WV Sports Talk (@SportsTalk_304) June 9, 2025

Bob Huggins teams making the Sweet 16 with shitty offense

🤝

WVU Baseball making Super Regional with shitty pitching

— West Virginia vs the world (@MarshallSucks) June 7, 2025

For a related story, Steve Sabins puts his first season as WVU baseball head coach in perspective.