Charles Wesley Godwin Talks WVU Football on SportsCenter

Charles Wesley Godwin, WVU alumnus and rising country music superstar, was a guest on SportsCenter Sunday morning after performing at MetLife Stadium in New York over the weekend.

During the nearly 10-minute segment, Godwin talked about his music career, playing in the WVU tournament, his speech to the team last year and how Pirates All-Star pitcher Paul Skenes uses his song to warm up before games.

“A testament to Coach (Neal) Brown for really revitalizing the culture of West Virginia football. He brought me in because I think Neal knew that in the music business, you have to go through a lot of adversity and there are a lot of hard lessons to get to where we are in the music industry. So I was able to take my experiences and some of the mentality that I’ve developed over the years through all of these experiences that I’ve had and help those guys, pass that on to them and be able to take that negativity that they’re facing in their life and turn it into an asset for them.”

“We played the Texas Club in Baton Rouge last fall, so he and a couple of his teammates came to the show and they came for Country Roads. I knew he was a fan of the music, but I didn’t find out until he warmed up at the first game. A lot of West Virginians are Pirates fans, so they tagged me and said, ‘Man, he’s warming up for Cue Country Roads.’ I think it’s awesome and it seems like good luck because he’s awesome.”

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