After a four interception performance in an 11-point loss to the Texas Longhorns on Homecoming Weekend, some Mountaineer fans are calling on Neal Brown to make a change at the quarterback position. Michael and Matt dig into the situation on this week's West By Pod Virginia, and try to look at it at from all angles to determine what would be best for West Virginia moving forward.The Cincinnati tweet that earns them entry into the Big 12 Conference:...

On today's episode of The Shotgun Throwcast, Matt (@mkirchner12) crosses into enemy territory once again, this time to talk with Gerald Goodridge (@ghgoodridge) of Burnt Orange Nation () to get inside intel on the Longhorns, what West Virginia can expect on Saturday, and why a lot of fans suddenly think Texas is a rival.Follow The Smoking Musket on Twitter @smokingmusketPowered by SB Nation and The Smoking MusketLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today's episode of The Shotgun Throwcast, Matt (@mkirchner12) crosses into enemy territory once again, this time to talk with Andy Mitts of Rock Chalk Talk (@rockchalktalk) to get inside intel on the Jayhawks, what West Virginia can expect on Saturday, and what has been the key to .Kansas' early resurgence under Les Miles.Follow The Smoking Musket on Twitter @smokingmusketPowered by SB Nation and The Smoking MusketLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Michael and Matt recap West Virginia's big win over NC State on Saturday, and dive a little deeper into some of the storylines heading into this week's game against Kansas.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're joined this week by AP beat writer for the NC State Wolfpack, and West Virginia native, Joedy McCreary to take a look at what's in store for West Virginia on Saturday when Tony Gibson rolls back into town.We're going out of our way this week to purposely not talk about Saturday's embarrassing 38-7 loss at Missouri, and instead have elected to solicit topics from you, the listener, via Twitter. We compiled the 21 best questions and answered them all but, in typical West By Pod Virginia...

On today's episode of The Shotgun Throwcast, Matt (@mkirchner12) crosses into enemy territory once again, this time to talk with Brendon Anthony of The Mizzodcast (@mizzodcast) to get inside intel on the Missouri Tigers, what West Virginia can expect on Saturday, and what happened against Wyoming last weekend.Follow The Smoking Musket on Twitter @smokingmusketPowered by SB Nation and The Smoking MusketLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today's episode of The Shotgun Throwcast, Matt (@mkirchner12) crosses into enemy territory for the back end of a home-and-home podcast series with our friends over at JMUSportsBlog.com, and talks with Todd Davis about what West Virginia fans can expect to see out of the Dukes on Saturday.Follow The Smoking Musket on Twitter @smokingmusketPowered by SB Nation and The Smoking MusketLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Michael (@mikemillerSBN) and Matt (@mkirchner12) are joined by friend of the Musket, WV MetroNews' Randy Gyorko (@GooseGyorko) to preview the 2019 West Virginia football season. There's only one way to preview a team with a new head coach and massive amount of turnover at critical positions — DEGENERATE GAMBLING! We used a series of arbitrary numbers to establish an over/under for different players, positions and the West Virginia Mountaineers, as a whole, in 2019, and then placed imaginary...

In a sneak preview of our upcoming Shotgun Throwcast series, Michael (@mikemillerSBN) and Matt (@mkirchner12) react to the news coming out of head coach Neal Brown's press conference this afternoon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome aboard the Satellite of Love, where Michael (@mikemillerSBN), head honcho of The Smoking Musket, is being held captive and forced to watch old West Virginia games. In this episode, with the help of his blogger friend Matt (@mkirchner12), Michael travels back to November 17, 2012 to relive the night that Tavon Austin broke Mike Stoops and the Mountaineers still managed to lose the game. If you want to watch the game for yourself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHpAXoK_2FA A very...

Welcome aboard the Satellite of Love, where Michael (@mikemillerSBN), head honcho of The Smoking Musket, is being held captive and forced to watch old West Virginia games. In this episode, with the help of his blogger friend Matt (@mkirchner12), Michael has to take a look at the absurdities of a 80-7 blowout win in the middle of a 3-8 season. If you want to watch the game for yourself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWXtMG6OEfE A very special thanks to John Radcliff for the amazing intro....

Welcome aboard the Satellite of Love, where Michael (@mikemillerSBN), head honcho of The Smoking Musket, is being held captive and forced to watch old West Virginia games. In this episode, with the help of his blogger friend Matt (@mkirchner12), Michael has to endure the 2008 Meineke Car Care Bowl and makes the case that former Mountaineer offensive coordinator Jeff Mullen should absolutely be in jail.A very special thanks to John Radcliff for the amazing intro. Check out John's music @...

Our watch has ended. Matt and MetroNews' Randy Gyorko recap and react to the series finale of Game of Thrones, "The Iron Throne." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Matt and MetroNews' Randy Gyorko recap and react to what unfolded the penultimate episode of the final season of Game of Thrones, "The Bells," and look ahead at the series finale. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Matt and MetroNews' Randy Gyorko recap the fourth episode of the final season of Game of Thrones, "The Last of the Starks," and look ahead at what's about to unfold in King's Landing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Matt and MetroNews' Randy Gyorko recap the third episode of the final season of Game of Thrones, "The Long Night". Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Matt and MetroNews' Randy Gyorko recap the second episode of the final season of Game of Thrones, "A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms", and speculate who will be left standing at the end of episode three. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Matt and MetroNews' Randy Gyorko recap the first episode of the final season of Game of Thrones, Winterfell. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Matt and MetroNews' Randy Gyorko preview the final season of Game of Thrones, and give their predictions about what's to come for Jon Snow, Daenerys, the Starks and the Lannisters. 

We're eulogizing the AAF and the 2018-19 WVU men's basketball team as we prepare to step into a new beginning of West Virginia football under Neal Brown.

On this episode of I Hate Quitters, the gang is in full agreement that the Cara/Paulie/Kyle storyline is suffocating everything good and cool about The Challenge. In a strange turn of events, Bear has managed to become the most hateable contestant on a show with Paulie Calafiore, which is a small miracle in itself.Michael fills Matt and Caroline in on the controversy surrounding Johnny Bananas and Amanda and MTV's alleged attempts to silence the cast members from speaking out about the...

Matt (@MKirchner12) and Caroline (@cwdarney) get you caught up on what's happened in the first three episodes of The Challenge: War of the Worlds.

We're over the basketball team, and talking about the sports that really matter (Kingdom Hearts 3, MTV's The Challenge and the Alliance of American Football) - at least for the first 10 minutes. Depression chat begins when we finally talk about how disappointing this basketball season has been, and continues as we talk about Dana Holgorsen's willful negligence when it came to recruiting - specifically in the case of two five-star in-state offensive linemen. We end on a positive note as we...

Topics covered include:- We pay our respects for the fallen West Virginia University men's basketball team, and decide to not talk about them on this episode.- PODCAST BUSINESS: Want to add your existing West Virginia podcast to The Smoking Musket and the SB Nation Podcast Network? Hit us up and we'll talk.- How West Virginia hit a grand-slam by hiring Neal Brown, and how he's already impacted the fans, the players and recruiting.- Neal Brown's assistant coaching staff is slowly taking shape,...

Topics covered include: - West Virginia's 3-point loss to No. 11 Texas Tech - Derek Culver is good. Raw, but good. - We no longer have a head football coach. - Talkin' about the candidates - CULTURE CHANGE - PODCAST BUSINESS