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My reaction to East Carolina (six days later)

I’ve held off on analyzing the West Virginia loss to East Carolina for almost a week — first because I was in that phase of not wanting to talk about the game at all, and later, because I knew I had a Friday column coming up in the DA and I figured that would be a good place to share my thoughts. Let’s just say my perspective on the game runs counter to the more positive approach of some of my colleagues.

I promise, though, that this will be my last reference to the ECU debacle. Henceforth, we’re going to look forward to the rest of the season.

I would have to say Bill Stewart and his players wish they were playing Colorado tomorrow instead of having to wait through another five days of hearing questions or comments on last week’s game. Alas, that is not the case — and truly, the team knows the extra preparation time to focus on making West Virginia better is pivotal.

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Filed under College Football : Comments (1) : Sep 12th, 2008

Forget ECU — remember when we beat Oklahoma?

And I’m not talking about the Fiesta Bowl. I’m talking about the game that was 26 years ago tomorrow. It’s certainly a much happier memory than what happened on September 11 seven years ago.

This retrospective on West Virginia’s 41-27 victory in 1982 over the Sooners in Norman is part of the weekly series I’ve been doing on significant events, people, places, etc. in WVU’s football history.

Check it out at this link.

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Filed under College Football : Comments (0) : Sep 10th, 2008

My Top 25: Week Three

Seeing as I had West Virginia lower in my rankings than any other DA sports writer before the ECU loss, I guess it’s only fitting that I drop them out of my rankings entirely. Honestly, even before the ECU game, in my mind I knew I should have been ranking the Mountaineers around the 17-18 range. 

You’ll note I have East Carolina lower in my poll than most, largely because I think that while the Pirates have looked impressive, they have done so against two highly overrated teams in Virginia Tech and WVU.

Disagree with me on something here? Leave a comment.

1. USC
2. Oklahoma
3. Georgia
4. LSU
5. Ohio State
6. Missouri
7. Florida
8. Texas
9. Wisconsin
10. Auburn
11. Kansas
12. Arizona State
13. Texas Tech
14. Penn State
15. Oregon
16. Alabama
17. East Carolina
18. South Florida
19. Wake Forest
20. California
21. Fresno State
22. Clemson
23. UCLA
24. Illinois
25. Utah

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Filed under College Football : Comments (2) : Sep 9th, 2008

Someone out there likes me…

This blog has sort of been a running joke for some at the DA. I don’t know whether I should be offended or pleased, but opinion editor Dave Ryan saw fit to make an “ad” for the blog that is never going to run anywhere. Except here. Call it our first exclusive.

I’m posting this just to justify his two minutes of hard work. You think we could get some readers from it?

P.S. Don’t blame me for today’s headline claiming a WVU loss to the “Greenville Pirates”. I had nothing to do with it. I swear.


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Filed under The Blog : Comments (0) : Sep 8th, 2008

My Top 25

This poll was completed by me late last night for use in the DA sports staff’s Top 25. In the interest of full disclosure, I’m posting it here as well. I’d like to think I’m lined up pretty well with the new polls that came out today, though I’m not sure that’s a good thing.

1. USC
2. Georgia
3. Oklahoma
4. Ohio State
5. LSU
6. Missouri
7. Florida
8. Texas
9. Auburn
10. Wisconsin
11. West Virginia
12. Kansas
13. Texas Tech
14. Alabama
15. Arizona State
16. Oregon
17. South Florida
18. Penn State
19. Wake Forest
20. Brigham Young
21. Illinois
22. Fresno State
23. Clemson
24. East Carolina
25. South Carolina

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Filed under College Football : Comments (1) : Sep 2nd, 2008

Welcome!

Soon-to-be-loyal readers:

Thanks for taking the time to visit 20/20 Sports Blog.

At the risk of being redundant with the information already in the “About 20/20 Sports” tab you can see at the top of this page, I’ll give a brief introduction of myself and this blog. You can check it out after the jump.

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Filed under The Blog : Comments (0) : Aug 25th, 2008