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Things have not gone that well for the West Virginia football team this season, particularly at home.

Typically, Mountaineer Field has been a challenging venue for opposing teams to play in, but this season, the Mountaineers have had some of their worst performances at home, losing four of the six contests played there this season.

Saturday’s game versus UCF will be the final home game of the year, meaning it will be the last time that QB Garrett Greene, LT Wyatt Milum, DL Sean Martin, and several other seniors will take the field in front of the home crowd.

Senior Day is filled with all sorts of emotions, and it can be challenging to block out all of the thoughts running through your head, knowing this will be the last game you play with your teammates at home. It’s a distraction, albeit a positive one.

“It’s one of the things in college athletics I think we have all wrong,” WVU head coach Neal Brown said when asked about Senior Day.

“I’d be a proponent of doing all of your senior stuff at the beginning of the year.

There’s a couple reasons for that.

Number one, then most important reason I would do it at the beginning is because everybody’s healthy, and you do it in one of your early home games, either your first or second home game of the year.

“Second thing is there’s still a lot in front of you when you’re doing that, so it wouldn’t be quite as emotional.

We’ll start training our guys tomorrow. I think it’s a really tough deal.

You think of all the things with Senior Day compared to a normal game.

First of all, you get your name called.

We don’t necessarily do starting lineups like in basketball, where you run through a tunnel of whatever it is. It’s the only time in your career your family is waiting for you.

That’s emotional, and it could be emotional if they don’t have family because of travel precautions or whatever.