No Depth Chart? 'We're Putting Ourselves at a Competitive Disadvantage by Doing It'

WVU and Penn State are keeping everything a secret heading into Week 1.

There's always a lot of gamesmanship going on in college football heading into Week 1. For Penn State's James Franklin and West Virginia's Neal Brown, they're not tipping their hand at quarterback or any position for that matter.

"Nah, we've went this far we might as well let it roll," Brown said when asked if he'll announce the team's starting quarterback publicly. Although it has been revealed, everyone assumes that junior Garrett Greene will be who trots out with the first-team offense in Happy Valley. 

The reason Brown isn't willing to share that information is because Penn State is keeping their depth chart close to the chest. They're not releasing one before the game either and have also not publicly named a starting quarterback although it too is fairly obvious in that it will be Drew Allar.

Brown was asked his opinion on depth charts and whether or not teams should be forced to put them out ahead of games.

"I think it needs to be across the board. And I think what we should do is we should mandate depth charts and the depth charts can have ORs in them or whatever. And we should mandate injury reports for the gambling stuff. I would be in favor of that. If they ask me for an opinion, I'd be all for mandatory depth charts, mandatory injury reports. Until everybody does it, it's not fair and balanced. But that's the way I think it should be done. We're moving more and more to a professional model and the NFL does that. But until everybody does it, we're putting ourselves at a competitive disadvantage by doing it."

Neal Brown on Not Releasing Depth Chart: 'we're putting ourselves at a competitive disadvantage by doing it'

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