MORGANTOWN — The quarterback meeting room at Milan Puskar Center more resembles a band of brothers rather than a drab, staid meeting room.

Led by Jarrett Brown and graduate assistant coach JuJuan Seider, the former Mountaineer, it’s a laugh a minute, a marathon of give and take.

“It makes it real comfortable for me,” Brown said of the set up.

Apparently.

Brown continued to ease concerns that all-legend Pat White couldn’t be replaced at quarterback with a 24-of-31 for 334 yards and four touchdown showing in a 35-20 win over East Carolina Saturday at Milan Puskar Center.

If nothing else, the game showed that offensive coordinator Jeff Mullen has complete trust in Brown to take the reins of the offense he wanted to run since being hired in the winter of 2008.

So this is what a Jeff Mullen offense looks like?

Consider Brown’s numbers through two weeks. 43-of-57 for 577 yards, four touchdowns and one interception.

But its more than numbers.

It the precision with which Brown works.

It’s understanding exactly what Mullen wants.

Coach Bill Stewart said the OC and QB have a “bond” that transcends the football field.

And it’s that bond, forged by time spent together off the field, that has melded into WVU’s 2-0 start.

“We knew he was a gifted kids from a talent standpoint,” Mullen said. “So what I wanted to do was tap into all his gifts. I wanted him to understand what type of offense we were, what we were trying to do. You have to spend some time with him and get to know him. And we did that last year, and we did that in the offseason.”

Last year Mullen was  handcuffed, if that is possible, because White was the quarterback. What White did better than anyone was run. If the wheel’s not broken, don’t fix it.

Make no mistake, this is no spread option a la Rich Rod.

It’s the package brought in by Mullen. And it fits Brown like a glove.

“I’ve got different strengths,” Brown said. “I love to throw the ball. So that’s what I work at the most. I know it’s going to help me make it to the next level. I just happen to be really good at it. It just so happens I can run a little bit.”

Oh yeah, the running.

Add Brown’s 73 rushing yards and he had 407 yards of total offense.

“He needs to understand when I make a play call where the ball should go,” Mullen said. “And he’s been able to execute that through the first two ball games pretty good.”

That Brown hasn’t been sacked in two games is a credit to the offensive line to a point. It’s also a credit to Brown. Like Pittsburgh’s Ben Roethlisberger, he just won’t go down.

“That’s good,” Brown said of the comparison. “But I’m much faster than Big Ben.”

He prefers “Tom Brady and Vince Young put together.”

Whatever, it’s still just as frustrating to the opposing coach.

“He’s hard to bring down as a quarterback — he’s a big back,” ECU coach Skip Holtz said. “He stands tall in the pocket. He threw the ball well today, and his receivers went and got the ball. I thought he threw the deep ball extremely well today. Then, when we thought we had him a few times, we couldn’t finish the tackles.”

There were at least five times when he could have been stopped behind the line of scrimmage but he broke free and turned negative into positive.

He was point on passing.

On one play, he rolled left, and, as he got near the sideline, went airborne as he was going out of bounds, and dumped the ball right over an ECU defenders hands into the hands of receiver Brad Starks. It was almost an alley-oop-type pass, not surprising, as Brown did spend one year playing basketball for Bob Huggins at WVU.

Nobody is suggesting that Brown is a candidate for Heisman, or he is even in the same ballpark as White. But then it’s a different game in Morgantown these days.

That Brown is getting in a comfort zone so early certainly bodes well for the future.