September 2011
15 posts
Playing The Fighting Falcons of Bowling Green...
As I’ll be attending this game, my first in quite a long time, I expect WVU to win 70-10. And they should expect to win 70-10 too, because they just carved LSU’s defense to pieces and Bowling Green State University isn’t coming to town with anybody nearly as good.
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Losing to the Fighting Tigers of LSU, 47-21
Of all the times to be out of town without immediate access to a computer…I usually do the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, but I think a game as momentous as Saturday’s deserves something more:
Things I Don’t Ever Want To Hear Again
I keep running across comments suggesting that there’s something wrong with Bruce Irvin, that perhaps he is overrated, and to those people I...
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Playing The Fighting Tigers of LSU
Let’s be honest: tomorrow’s game doesn’t look good. It’s one thing to be supportive of a team, and that we all are. We love our Mountaineers. But it’s another thing to be entirely unrealistic, and that’s what fans are doing when they talk about upsets, when they talk about victories, when they talk about shocking the nation.
LSU has two things going for it:...
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Fighting Back Against The Horrors of a Shirt
I understand your objections to this t-shirt. It’s crude. It’s objectionable. It’s tasteless. Things have gotten so bad that the university that it has created an amnesty program for those who wear the shirt, offering essentially to buy the shirt off your back for a gift certificate that will allow you to buy a new t-shirt, one without any language that some find objectionable....
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Beating Maryland, 37-31
The Good
-The first half.
The Bad
-It is very hard to remember a very good first half when the second half is a roller-coaster of horrifying disappointments that keep getting worse with every death-defying drop. For example:
…our offense ground to a stupefying halt after the first drive of the second half, going from world-beaters to also-rans in the matter of ten minutes. There was...
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Playing The Maryland Fighting Terrapins
Here is News and Notes about tomorrow’s game, in no particular order:
-WVU’s season starts tomorrow, on the road, at Maryland. Yes, Marshall played with grit, and yes, Norfolk State played with heart, but come on - those were exhibition games. The real challenge starts tomorrow, against a team that’s beaten WVU in the past, against a coach that has beaten WVU in the past, on...
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Best Moment In Mountaineer Tweeting Ever
I have an entire category dedicated to great Tweets from Mountaineers. What John Flowers just accomplished is something else, something higher, something purer, for he strayed from the casual and joking and went straight for the issue of philosophical truths:
is getting a rub and tug “cheating”
Never change John Flowers. Never, ever change.
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WVU/Norfolk State - Safety in Numbers
A recap of the game as told through stats both in and out of the box score
6, 13 – passing yards and rushing yards for WVU in the first quarter (made even more impressive that WVU finished with 431 yards passing on the game)
89%, 19.25, 3 – Pass completion percentage, average yards per pass, and touchdown receptions thrown by Geno Smith in the 4rd quarter
371 – passing yards by Geno (a...
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What Do They Think Is Going To Happen If Smoking...
To watch the Morgantown City Council operate, you come away believing that they live in another dimension in which the town’s realities on the ground are entirely different than the ones the rest of us understand. Take for example their newly developed opposition to a city wide smoking ban. Forget the fact that they’re beating a cowardly retreat from a practical decision they made only...
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Beating Norfolk State, 55-12
The Good
-You enjoyed us trying to score at the end of a blowout as much as I did. You enjoyed us throwing deep when the game was already in reach. You enjoyed us going for it on fourth down when the more charitable act would have been a coffin corner pooch punt. Why? Because WVU NEVER DOES THESE THINGS. Saturday represented the first time that a coach seemed genuinely interested in scoring...
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It's WVU! It's Norfolk State! It Better Be 60...
This is a game preview. West Virginia University is playing the Norfolk State Fighting Spartans. West Virginia University is a Division 1 football team with a new coach, a great quarterback, and a high-powered offense. Norfolk State is not.
I will be disappointed if WVU doesn’t score 60 points for the first time in recent memory.
That is all.
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WVU/Marshall 2011 - Safety In Numbers
A recap of the game as told through stats both in and out of the box score
(Oh my gosh, doing this for the second year in a row now makes it an annual tradition!)
14:36 – Remaining in the 4th quarter when the game was called due to lightning
34 – Points scored by Dana Holgorsen’s offense in just over 3 quarters in his first game against Marshall
27, 24, 24 – Points scored by Jeff Mullen’s...
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Scenes from the WVU/Marshall Rain Delay
Note: This post contains little to no discussion of actual football. In this post, which to the best of my recollection is one hundred percent accurate, football is merely the backdrop. For actual analysis of the game read this, or come back later for a deeper look into the statistics of the game
I’ve been to over 80 WVU home football games in five different states on four different days of the...
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Beating Marshall, 34-13
The Good
-WVU wins, WVU wins, WVU wins!
-Here are the statistics of one of the weirdest games that I can remember as a fan. The weather delays and eventual agreement to abandon play is something that I cannot remember happening in my tenure as a Mountaineers fan, but surely it has happened before? Anybody?
-Now that we’ve discussed the weather - and you can prepare yourself for more...
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Let's Play What If With The Upcoming Marshall Game
We’re playing Marshall on Sunday. Kickoff is in 48 hours. Things are getting tense. Nothing will make us calmer than playing What If?
What If We Lose?
Given the total meltdown of Mountaineer Nation over the last year - from fury at Bill Stewart to fury at an inept offense to a lot of fury at Bill Stewart to fury at Oliver Luck and Bill Stewart to fury at Oliver Luck to fury at the entire...
