A Quarter For My Thoughts: Impressions on the 4th Quarter

1. Bullet Dodged - On 3rd and long, Jarret Brown had moved the team down the field and found Noel Devine in the flat, wide-open. Brown’s pass was a little high but one that could be caught. Devine somehow managed to miss the ball.

2. Resiliency - You just have to be impressed with the way Rutgers keeps coming back. Maybe it is the fact that West Virginia hasn’t been able to close-out this game, but Rutgers keeps pressing. Even though they lost, one has to look at the core returning next year and feel good about where Rutgers is going.

3. Defense Dominates - Considering the fact that West Virginia has been gifted good field position all half, one has to be impressed with the way the Rutgers defense has played. The front seven has been good and the secondary has limited the big gains of the first half. That first quarter made it seem like West Virginia was going to run up the score. Since then, the Rutgers defense has more than held its own.

4. Brown Out - On 3rd and long and with 1:51 left in the game, Jarrett Brown took a quarterback keeper and ran around the end, fooling almost everyone on Rutgers who bought a West Virginia fake up the middle. One of the Rutgers’ players who didn’t buy it was George Johnson, but Brown lowered his shoulder and put Johnson on his seat. A clutch play by the West Virginia quarterback.