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MORGANTOWN -- It was the players' turn to take on questions from the media following head coach Dana Holgorsen and coordinators Tony Gibson and Jake Spavital.
Unsurprisingly, their answers were very much like the men who coach them day to day.
"I actually just found out about five minutes ago," redshirt senior safety Dravon Askew-Henry said. "This sucks, I was ready to play. I come in every day prepared the same way, and I was looking forward to playing. But we have to move on to the next one now."
And, the next one finds the Mountaineers beginning Big 12 play when Kansas State invades Milan Puskar Stadium for a 3:30 p.m. clash Saturday, Sept. 22.
"I don't want any off days," Askew-Henry said. "I'm ready to move on to the next one. They canceled this game. So, I'm ready to start preparing for Kansas State now."
Feelings echoed by redshirt junior linebacker David Long Jr. -- a preseason All-American and Big 12 selection.
"I was excited," said Long, who missed the first four games of 2017 recovering from an injury. "The team, as a whole, was excited to play this game. N.C. State is 2-0. They're a good team. So, I thought it would be good for us to go down there and play. Prayers out to Carolina and the stuff that they're going through. Hopefully, it's not as bad as it looks."
A point that really hit home with redshirt senior quarterback Will Grier -- a native of North Carolina.
"I just heard the news as I was walking in here," Grier said. "I haven't had a whole lot of time to digest it. We were preparing to play N.C. State this weekend, full go, up until this point. I haven't had a whole lot of time to gather my thoughts. We can't control everything. We're going to have to pivot and move forward."
The preseason Offensive Player of the Year for the Big 12 and one of those players on the 'short list' for this year's Heisman Trophy then turned his attention to family and friends that live in the path of Hurricane Florence.
"I think especially with having friends and family in that area, I'm concerned," said Grier, who has thrown for nearly 800 yards and nine touchdowns in WVU's first two games. "We've seen what storms like this can do to places, and it's nerve-racking for everybody involved. That's part of it. I'm hopeful that everybody is safe in this event. That's my first concern is everybody's safety."
Senior wide receiver and Biletnikoff Award finalist David Sills V was the next to chime in on Hurricane Florence and how it compared to Hurricane Sandy.
"Hurricane Sandy kind of hit Delaware," Sills said. "It hit the New Jersey area and hit Delaware. So, that was probably the worst one that hit that far up north. That was one of the ones that I remember. I think my power was out for three days or something like that.
"We've all been thinking about it after seeing the hurricane kind of pick up over the last couple of days. Coach (Dana) Holgorsen has just told us to control what we can control. So, we were going to go out there (Tuesday), practice and watch film on N.C. State and everything like that. We were ready. If we were going to go down there, we'd be just as ready as we would be for any other game."