re: Went to my first Backyard Brawl this past weekend…

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Another thing I noticed talking to people, most of the students at WVU are really from New Jersey or the DMV area. I maybe met 2 actual people who are from WV and went to WVU, so I imagine that doesn’t help the long term culture when out of state kids come in and come out and there’s not locals. Felt like LSU when I was there was 80% people who were from LA and their dad went to LSU and his dad went to LSU etc… you could really feel those layers and layers of culture.

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I lived in Morgantown for 3 years. I was surprised at this at first, but then I learned that WVU's out of state tuition is about $10,000 - $15,000 per year lower than Penn State, Ohio State, VT, and UVa and WVU is pretty liberal with its student aid distribution. I also learned that West Virginia is one of the major party schools for the DC, western Pa, and eastern Ohio areas students would rather go to WVU than a city or commuter college in their home states.

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Their students also got much more excited for their NFL teams on Sunday compared to the Saturday game even though it was Pittsburgh. Again this makes sense given that most of these kids are really from NFL country. Along with that they didn’t follow WVU recruiting at all. They also generally found it bizarre we would actually watch signing day stuff on TV.

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That has to do with them being terrible the last 3 seasons. I first moved to Morgantown in 2019. The fan base was excited to have no longer have to watch Dana Holgerson's teams choke. There was legit excitement when Texas came to town that year. Neal Brown's mediocrity has a lot more to do with the fans' apathy in my opinion.