West Virginia offensive coordinator Chad Scott touched upon the controversial fourth down slide by Garrett Greene.
In the third quarter of the game against Oklahoma State, quarterback Garrett Greene ran and started his slide too early on fourth down, short of the first-down marker, resulting in a turnover on downs for the Mountaineers. With a ton of openfield, people believe Greene could’ve glided to a first down then got out of bounds instead of sliding in the open field.
“Not good at all. Not that its not good enough, not good at all. Not smart. And he knows that. He knows that that’s the time we want him to stay on his feet. The times we want him to slide, he stays up. The times we want him to stay up, he slides. So, we got to get him the same page,” Scott said. “Hopefully, it’s just an in-game experience, and him knowing the impact it had in that situation, that was a critical play for us, and he learns from it.”
Had the score been closer, this could have been a costly mistake for the Mountaineers.
“That probably eliminates the open field slide,” Garrett Greene jokingly said in his Monday press conference when discussing the play. In the moment, he thought he was past the sticks, but the call was that he slid short of the marker with an open field in front of him.
WVU looks to improve to 3-0 in Big 12 play Saturday. No. 11 Iowa State will travel to Morgantown and play in the first-ever “Coal Rush” game at 8:00 p.m., which will be televised on Fox.
