1/9: Fox Sports Charleston's Brandon Lowe Recaps a Huge Week for the West Virginia Mountaineers
Heartland College Sports: The Big 12 Sports Podcast
Pete Mundo
4.8 • 870 Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2019
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Fox Sports Charleston's Brandon Lowe joined Pete Mundo to discuss a huge week for the West Virginia Mountaineers which saw Dana Holgorsen skip town for the Houston Cougars, along with the hiring of Neal Brown from the Troy Trojans.
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| 0:24.2 | Brandon Lowe's our guest to Fox Sports Charleston, 9.50 a.m. We're also on that channel as well. Our show airs there on Friday. So, Brandon, you know, you mentioned his ties to Kentucky. We've talked about that. And you also said that, hey, the West Virginia pipeline runs through Florida. Then you get to Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey. That's why I thought Luke Fickle was the guy. Now, I don't know, you know, you may have insight on this. I don't know if Luke Fickle didn't want the job. He's an Ohio guy through and through, but he recruits that state. He knows that state very well. So how do you see |
| 0:30.5 | Neil Brown tailoring this recruiting process? Does he understand what that pipeline has been at |
| 0:36.0 | West Virginia? Will he go that road? |
| 0:37.8 | Or will he try the Dana Holgersen approach of basically recruiting what he knows |
| 0:41.6 | and molding the program to basically to his liking? |
| 0:47.0 | My understanding the kind of answer to the first part of what you said, |
| 0:50.7 | Luke Fickle, you know, Goret, Guy, President Guy up there at West Virginia, of course, previously at Ohio State Luke Fickle, you know, Gordon, Guy, President Gee up there at West Virginia, of course, previously at Ohio State. |
| 0:57.9 | Luke Fickle, of course, defensive coordinator of Ohio State played at Ohio State. |
| 1:01.2 | It wasn't Ohio guys, you mentioned, successful there with the Buckeyes and now has the job at Cincinnati. |
| 1:06.6 | So still in the state of Ohio there and doing a tremendous job. |
| 1:09.3 | On the bowl game, won several, what are he, 10, 11 games this year. |
| 1:13.2 | So I think Luke Fickle was more of Ghee's guy. |
| 1:17.0 | I think that Shane Lyons guy was Neil Brown coming out of Troy, Alabama. |
| 1:21.7 | We know that Shane Lyons has ties to Alabama previously to coming back to West Virginia, |
| 1:27.3 | his home state. |
| 1:28.1 | So I think both guys had their guy. |
| 1:30.8 | I think it was down to President Guy. |
| 1:32.1 | I think he would have picked Luke Fickle. |
| 1:33.6 | But my understanding what I heard was that Guy said, hey, it's up to you, Shane Lyons. |
| 1:37.7 | This is up to you to make the hire. |
| 1:39.6 | You pick your coach. |
| 1:40.4 | And ultimately, Neil Brown was selected by Shane Lyons. |
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