Siap: Holgerson not pleased with WVU fans, acknowledges LSU is an elite program

To say West Virginia coach Dana Holgorsen is unhappy with his fans is probably an understatement. Holgorsen let loose at the end of his weekly news conference Tuesday when asked about the lopsided attendance figures through his team's first four games.

One week after 62,056 showed up in Morgantown to watch LSU, the Mountaineers had 46,603 fans attend their 55-10 win over Bowling Green during less-than-ideal weather conditions. Holgorsen noticed.

"You came into last week, where you've got all kinds of excuses not to play well. Like, had to cancel the Mantrip, we had bad weather, it was cold. It was wet," he said. "The environment was terrible. It was relatively early -- maybe you didn't respect your opponent. No matter what the excuses were, our players didn't buy into it. But obviously our fan base did. So whatever our expectations are with our players as far as preparing every week and going to the game and playing their best, I highly encourage our students and our support to take the same approach. You only get seven opportunities a year. What's so hard about it? Is it too cold? It wasn't too cold for our players. It wasn't too cold for our coaches or managers or trainers. They were out there. So why did we have 20,000 people less at this one than we did last week?

"The funny part about it, we're all talking two weeks ago about how much difference the crowd's going to make to the LSU people. Well, LSU played well in front of 62,000 of our people and then turned around and went home and played a 1-4 Kentucky team at noon and had 95,000 people there. You want to talk about an elite program, that's one. I don't know about this place."