During a recent appearance on the Marty and McGee Show in West Virginia head coach Neal Brown had some kind words for ESPN’s list of the 100 greatest players in college football.
Brown mentioned that he texted an ESPN employee and asked how they still had a job after snubbing key WVU athletes.
“I was texting one of your colleagues at ESPN the other day,” Brown said. “You made this list of the 100 best college football players, and I was like, ‘Man, how can you have a job? And how do you decide on the top 100 list when Garrett Greene isn’t on it?’ Because I don’t get it.”
Garrette Greene became one of the greatest dual-threat playmakers in college football in 2023. He threw for 2,406 yards and a touchdown-interception ratio of 16:4 while rushing for 708 yards and 13 touchdowns.
“We have a tackle, Wyatt Milum, who is going to be drafted either in the first or early second round; he wasn’t on the list either,” Brown continued. “I’m just wondering if you didn’t get to W in the player search because West Virginia, you know, didn’t you get to our name?”
The Mountaineers were not mentioned at all by the list of the 100 greatest college football players, even though twelve different athletes from the Big 12 Conference are on the list.
West Virginia will have the opportunity to prove the folks at ESPN wrong when they kick off the 2024 season against Penn State on Saturday, August 31.
