[For those that don't know, Stiles is a founding member of this site.  Unfortunately, he was kidnapped by human traffickers and now works as a bellhop and man servant in Central America.  Still a big WVU fan, though.]

Recently, with the football season gone to hell and the basketball year starting, I’ve had even more idle thoughts than ever. Today, I’ve decided to share some of those with you…

This Joe Mazzulla injury scares me. Without him, I don’t think WVU can be a Final Four team. I believe he’s the perfect starter to match up with Ebanks and Butler. Mazzulla can get them the ball in their spots and get out of the way. From the little I saw last year, I’m not in love with Truck Bryant’s game. He’s a classic NYC point guard, in that he loves to pound the ball into the ground. Plus, he likes to shoot, which he shouldn’t be doing a lot of when Ebanks, Butler and Jones are on the floor together. To me, he’s the perfect spark plug off the bench.

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[Note: Stiles is a founding member of the original version of this site.]

I’m going to start by saying; I’m quite possibly the biggest Jarrett Brown supporter out there. Brown could climb a bell tower with a high powered hunting rifle and kill 23 random strangers and I'd still defend him. To my knowledge, he hasn’t done that. But what he has done is go 7-1 as a starter in his career (not going to count the Marshall game) and completely reenergize an offense that was terrible last year.

You remember these numbers? 3, 14, 15 and 13. No? Welll that would be some of the point totals WVU put up last year. Yikes.

So you would think that since the Mountaineers are back to putting up four plus scores a game, people would be on the new quarterback bandwagon, right? Wrong.

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