TTU DB: WVU was ‘by far the cockiest... team I have ever seen’

West Virginia went into Lubbock last Saturday ranked as the fifth-best team in the country according to the Associated Press. They slumped out a few hours later looking like the fifth-best team in the Big 12. At best.

Texas Tech stuffed the Mountaineers and their high-scoring offense, holding WVU to just 14 points. Red Raiders defensive back Cody Davis recorded 13 tackles in the game and surpassed 300 tackles for his career. That effort was good enough to get him named Big 12 Defensive Player of the Week.

It was also good enough for him to rub it in against the Big 12 newcomers on his personal blog. Below is an excerpt from a post titled “Bringing the Mountaineers Back Down to Earth” where he calls WVU “by FAR the cockiest and [most] selfish team I have ever seen.”

“I usually don’t say anything bad about opponents, but this was by FAR the cockiest and selfish team I have ever seen on film and in person. I have played a lot of football too, so I think that says something. From Eugene Smith not shaking hands at the coin toss and waving us off to Tavon Austin doing his strut every single catch he made, they were all about Me, Myself, and I...”

You can read Davis’ full blog post HERE. He doesn’t go into other details about what made the Mountaineers “cocky” and “selfish” other than what’s pasted above, but Davis is certainly direct in the blurb.

Were the Mountaineers too cocky heading into Lubbock? Considering they had won nine straight games dating back to last season, the latest of which was a huge road game in Austin, they at least had reason to be. Also, none of this sounds like WVU was doing anything out of the ordinary. The “me first” attitude is common at this level.

Not that it matters. WVU got embarrassed and needs to go back to the basics if it wants to still be in the mix for a Big 12 championship at the end of the year. In that regard, yes, the Mountaineers were brought back down to Earth.