In one of the best live sports show outings of the year, ESPN’s Pat McAfee announced a massive pledge to support West Virginia athletics.
Before wrapping up the show, McAfee announced that he would donate one million dollars to the West Virginia NIL Collective, Country Roads Trust, on behalf of his teammates at WVU.
“I would like to make an announcement before we wrap up here,” McAfee said. “I will be donating $1 million to the West Virginia NIL collective. It will not be from my name. It will be for the entire team that I played alongside. It was all of us. I was very lucky to be on a team with you, Pat White. I was very lucky to be on a team with you, Owen Schmitt, Reed Williams, Darius Reynaud. You go through the list of absolute dogs, from front to back, that we had on those teams that changed this entire place.”
Despite being one of the most vocal members, McAfee is one of many West Virginia alumni interested in supporting Neal Brown and the Mountaineers on their path back toward success. After Brown corrected the ship in 2023 to the tune of a 9-4 season, capped off by a win in Duke’s Mayo Bowl, the Mountaineers have earned some incredible praise this offseason as a College Football Playoff sleeper.
McAfee finished his thoughts by saying, “From our West Virginia team to this new West Virginia team, we want to say thank you for the hospitality. $1 million bucks. I hope you spend it in the right way, and let’s enjoy the s*** out of a weekend in Morgantown, West Virginia.”
Saturday’s matchup between Penn State and West Virginia kicks off at 11:00 a.m. CT in Morgantown.
