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WVU coaches, players share the blame
As my post-game analysis, I respectfully submit my column in today’s DA, written after wrapping up this blog and after that disaster of a football game. Apparently nothing can go right lately, so that link cuts off the last few paragraphs of the column, so I’ll present it here so the thing actually makes sense.
While everyone will look to one person or one reason to point a clear finger at for these early struggles, it just isn’t that simple.
Part of the problem is the new coaching staff.
Part of it is the loss of last year’s key players.
And another part falls on this year’s players and an inability to execute the fundamentals at critical times.
As former coach Rich Rodriguez often reminded us, the children’s movie “The Lion King” teaches us that what’s in the past no longer matters.
That’s one lesson this year’s team would be well-served to learn if it hopes to find its stride quickly enough to even be competitive in a weak Big East Conference.
Tags: Auburn, Big East, Bill Stewart, Colorado, Marshall, Rich Rodriguez, Syracuse, WVU
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Sep 19th, 2008
LIVE BLOG: September 6 NCAA Football
1:28 p.m. — As the noon kickoffs reach halftime, there are surely some raised eyebrows among college football fans around the country.
Ohio U. takes that 7-6 lead over Ohio State into the locker room in Columbus.
Wisconsin scores a late touchdown to take a 17-14 lead over Marshall into the locker room. It’s been 17 unanswered for the Badgers to end the half after the Herd jumped out to a two touchdown lead.
Auburn is only up 7-0 on Southern Miss around halfway through the second quarter.
It appears a lot of these “big name” teams have come into their games today a little listless. Tough tasks remain for any team hoping to pull a big early-season upset, however.
An update on the defending Big East co-champions: Mighty Temple has a 6-0 lead on Connecticut at the half.
Tags: Big East, Big Ten, Chris "Beanie" Wells, Chubb Small, Darius Marshall, East Carolina, ESPN, Kirk Herbstreit, Lawrence Wilson, live blog, Marshall, Michigan, Ohio, Ohio State, Pat White, Rich Rodriguez, Steven Threet, Temple, Terrelle Pryor, Todd Boeckman, UConn, Wisconsin, WVU
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Sep 6th, 2008
2008-09 WVU Men’s Basketball Schedule
Just in from the WVU Sports Information Office:
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (September 4, 2008) – West Virginia University Director of Athletics Ed Pastilong and the BIG EAST have announced the 2008-09 men’s basketball schedule.
BIG EAST schools visiting Morgantown will be Pitt, Connecticut, Louisville, Villanova, Providence, St. John’s, Notre Dame, DePaul and USF.
For the second year in a row, the BIG EAST will play an 18-game format that allows teams to play each opponent once and three teams twice. West Virginia will play home-and-home games with Pitt, Louisville and USF.
Tags: Big East, Bob Huggins, Ed Pastilong, WVU
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Sep 4th, 2008
Wannstedt’s Failure is My Happiness
To give you my long-awaited answer to the question I posed here (and on a thread on BlueGoldNews.com): As a West Virginia fan, which “enemy” defeat this weekend was most satisfying to you, and why?
1. Pittsburgh (lost 27-17 at home to Bowling Green):
After hearing derisive “13-9″ chants and having to deal with losing to the Panthers in devastating fashion in seemingly every sport (men’s basketball, women’s basketball, and even wrestling) during the past year, it was nice to see Dave Wannstedt fall flat on his mustachioed face in his team’s home opener.
Pitt’s season-ending upset of West Virginia this past December gave Wannstedt’s program a lot of mileage. Recruiting was successful (although, according to the major online scouting services, he’s had solid classes for several years and been able to do nothing with them), and Pitt was even a “sexy” pick to win the Big East this year. The team even filled the final slot in the preseason AP Top 25 poll.
Perhaps no team since, well, WVU, has received so much positive press out of one game (the Mountaineers’ win over Georgia in the ‘06 Sugar Bowl gave a similar bounce). The only other likely candidate would be Boise State after its upset of Oklahoma in the ‘07 Fiesta Bowl.
One would have to think much of that progress was utterly and completely undone with a two-possession loss to a mediocre team from the Mid-American Conference. Let those who argue that a Pitt loss was bad for the Big East fret over such things — I’ll enjoy watching that program receive as much bad publicity as it possibly can.
Tags: ACC, BCS, Big East, Boise State, Bowling Green, Chris Beatty, Dave Wannstedt, Dominik Davenport, East Carolina, Fiesta Bowl, Frank Beamer, Georgia, John Beilein, Logan Heastie, Michigan, Mid-American Conference, Oklahoma, Pitt, Rich Rodriguez, Shawne Alston, Sugar Bowl, Tajh Boyd, Top 25, Utah, Virginia Tech, WVU
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Sep 2nd, 2008
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