Approaching Dana Holgorsen mid-game with adjustments is nothing new to Tyron Carrier.

It’s something that the current West Virginia wide receivers coach did quite a bit as a player under Holgorsen when the two were at Houston together.

“When I was playing I would come up to the sideline and talk to Dana about it. I would say coach this is working or that was working and he was one of the few coaches that I’ve heard of from talking to other players that would actually run it,” Carrier said.

So it comes as no surprise that Carrier is still doing the same thing on the sidelines in a coaching capacity to this day for the Mountaineers.

That was on full display in the second game of the season, when Carrier identified that the safeties were coming down to help with the screen game in the twin stack look as the Mountaineers would reel off six-yard gains on the quick throws to the sideline.

So Carrier told Holgorsen to fake the screen and throw the ball over top. Sure enough, freshman running back Kennedy McKoy waltzed untouched into the end zone for a touchdown.

“I’m more than comfortable talking to him,” he said.

The assistant is one of two that have worked with Holgorsen in the past under the current staff with offensive coordinator Joe Wickline serving as the second. Wickline worked with Holgorsen at Oklahoma State and has experience in the offense which has helped with suggestions as well.

That means that there is less time learning what he needs to do and more time focusing on what he needs to disseminate to the players and the necessary adjustments both pre and during games.

“It removes the learning curve,” Wickline said.

The biggest adjustment for Wickline is the fact that he is now spending his time on the press box instead of the field which is a major change for the 34-year coaching veteran.

So far, so good as he has been able to iron out the details of communication between the staff and how it all ties together.

The in-game adjustments are something that Holgorsen praised during his weekly press conference as something he's noticed a difference in this fall.

"Coach Wickline being upstairs and being an extra set of eyes, identifying what the defense is doing and knowing our offense well enough to make suggestions," Holgorsen said. "This is what we need to do to counter it."

But it’s actually something that starts as early as Sunday and continues throughout film work throughout the week into the game planning portion of the schedule.

“It’s a checks and balances deal as the game flows,” Wickline said.