WVU's Aliquippa-Hopewell Duo coming to an end at WVU, as Henry recovers from a Knee Injury, and Shell looks to impress NFL teams for the Draft? James Conner had to battle cancer and beat it. Shell has to battle himself and doubts he needs to get it done at WVU. Meanwhile, WVU Holgrosen needs a big year in the Big-12!
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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — At Hopewell, Rushel Shell was a force of nature, a battering ram that smashed through opposing defenses en route to becoming Pennsylvania's all-time leading rusher. His college career hasn't quite followed the same template. Shell ditched Pitt for rival West Virginia after one season, and while he has shown flashes over the past few years, he never has been a star. But Shell finally will have the chance to be the man in 2016, and West Virginia is expecting big things out of the senior — if he can block out negative voices around him and revert to the dominant mindset he had at Hopewell.
“The biggest thing that I had to tell him was you have to get over perception and what people think of you and what you should do,” running back coach JaJuan Seider said. “It's about getting out there and doing what you can do. Stop worrying about, ‘I have to hit the hole this way because that's what they said.' Stop that. Just play ball. Go do what you did in high school.” ...............Coaches have raved about explosive junior college transfer Justin Crawford and comfortable-beyond-his-years freshman Kennedy McKoy. Seider has hinted that, despite Shell's experience, the carries will be divided up by committee..............Shell and Seider have made it no secret that the senior's goal is to play in the NFL, something that Smallwood and Charles Sims before him achieved. The best way to make that happen is to focus on one final year at West Virginia and reach for a milestone he hasn't touched in college.
LINK:
http://triblive.com/sports/college/wvu/11019354-74/shell-virginia-west
Excerpt:
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — At Hopewell, Rushel Shell was a force of nature, a battering ram that smashed through opposing defenses en route to becoming Pennsylvania's all-time leading rusher. His college career hasn't quite followed the same template. Shell ditched Pitt for rival West Virginia after one season, and while he has shown flashes over the past few years, he never has been a star. But Shell finally will have the chance to be the man in 2016, and West Virginia is expecting big things out of the senior — if he can block out negative voices around him and revert to the dominant mindset he had at Hopewell.
“The biggest thing that I had to tell him was you have to get over perception and what people think of you and what you should do,” running back coach JaJuan Seider said. “It's about getting out there and doing what you can do. Stop worrying about, ‘I have to hit the hole this way because that's what they said.' Stop that. Just play ball. Go do what you did in high school.” ...............Coaches have raved about explosive junior college transfer Justin Crawford and comfortable-beyond-his-years freshman Kennedy McKoy. Seider has hinted that, despite Shell's experience, the carries will be divided up by committee..............Shell and Seider have made it no secret that the senior's goal is to play in the NFL, something that Smallwood and Charles Sims before him achieved. The best way to make that happen is to focus on one final year at West Virginia and reach for a milestone he hasn't touched in college.
LINK:
http://triblive.com/sports/college/wvu/11019354-74/shell-virginia-west
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