Reed Williams News Archives

West Virginia University senior linebacker Reed Williams was named Thursday to the National Scholar-Athlete class and is a finalist for the William V. Campbell Trophy.

West Virginia University's leading tackler is a huge Brooke football fan. Pat Lazear didn't just randomly pick a West Virginia high school to follow - though if he had, the top-rated Class AAA team in the state would have been as good a choice as any.

Earlier this week columnist Chuck Landon of the Huntington Herald-Dispatch stumbled across section of West Virginia University Athletic Director Ed Pastilong's deposition in the Rich Rodriguez mess that centered upon the school's long-standing claim to self-sufficiency within the athletic department.

The evolution of Bill Stewart as West Virginia's 32nd football coach continues. He's won games.

Despite suffering what has been termed a "minor" concussion on the first drive of last week's game against Marshall, West Virginia quarterback Jarrett Brown could be under center when the Mountaineers host UConn Saturday.

Mountaineer linebacker Reed Williams walked into the players' lounge shortly after his team had claimed state bragging rights with a 24-7 win over Marshall, and he saw the attention being paid to true freshman quarterback Geno Smith.

MORGANTOWN If there was ever a time this season when West Virginia University's defense needed to step up and take over a game, it was Saturday during the fourth annual Friends of Coal Bowl at Milan Puskar Stadium.

Regardless of loyalties to the participants or even one's opinion on whether the game should be played at all, two wholly conflicting facts about West Virginia versus Marshall - the football version - are unavoidable and undeniable.

It starts as he boards the bus each week for the stadium and, Chris Neild knows, it will happen again as he and his West Virginia University Mountaineer teammates drive out of Lakeview Resort and head toward Milan Puskar Stadium for their annual rumble with Marshall.

Maybe it's playing indoors, but there's something about the Carrier Dome that produces some strange goings on.

We take you back to last Thursday night. Halftime. West Virginia University 14, Colorado 10.

Posted by ESPN.com's Brian Bennett Doug Marrone has repeated one message every day at practice this week: Bring the trophy back.

The mornings always came too early for Reed Williams back when he was home in Moorefield.

Bill Stewart has to be one of the nicest guys in the college football coaching profession.

A few Ohio State fans were miffed this week that its neighbor from down state jumped over the Buckeyes in this week's Associated Press rankings.

The WVU at Syracuse game next Saturday will kickoff at noon. The Mountaineers will enter that game off a win despite turning it over four times against Colorado.

After nearly three weeks of rehabilitation, Reed Williams returned to action with a bang.

Reed Williams recalled a former West Virginia University teammate who lost a toe as a child because of a unfortunate mishap.

Perhaps West Virginia's turnover problems at Auburn weren't an aberration. Yes, it appeared that way after a team that is generally good about holding onto the football turned it over six times in a 41-30 loss.

Major college football is a game with 85 scholarship players - plus a few walk-ons - and teams sometimes need contributions from 60 or so for even the supposedly easiest of tasks.