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A Tiger Fan's Guide to Morgantown, WV
Posted on 3/31/11 at 8:41 pm
Posted on 3/31/11 at 8:41 pm
I'm going to try and cram as much information into this guide as possible. Of course if anyone has any questions you can always ask and I will do my best to answer them.
I'm going to start you all off with a video that the West Virginia Chamber of Commerce put together. Some people don't know a whole lot about our state, except the stereotypical stuff, so this will give you an idea of just what we're all about. It sure makes me and all Mountaineer fans proud to be from West Virginia. This Is Our West Virginia
Now on to Morgantown...The City of Morgantown is the County seat of Monongalia County located along the Monongahela River and close to the Pennsylvania border in the north central part of West Virginia. Morgantown is the home to West Virginia University, the largest institution of higher education in the State with an annual enrollment of 28,898 students (Fall 2009); and is the medical, cultural, and commercial hub of the region. Daytime population estimates 70,000 in Morgantown.
Morgantown and Monongalia County offer "Mountains of Opportunity" for business development and expansion. This is one of the major growth areas in the State. Monongalia County was the only north central county to realize population growth for the last 20 years, and it has been one of the fastest growing counties in the State during the 1990's.
Morgantown and Monongalia County have consistently seen some of the lowest unemployment rates in the state. Some of the major employers in the area include the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Mylan Pharmaceuticals, West Virginia University. Some of the most notable people from Morgantown include Don Knotts and of course, Jerry West.
Morgantown was recently featured on NBC Nightly News as one of the few towns in America that continues to grow during the downturn in the economy.
NBC Nightly News story on Morgantown
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Now that I have you acclimated to the state and the city, let’s get into some useful information. I’ll start you off with some hotels in the area. I will asterisk the ones I would personally recommend.
Best Western
304-599-5399
Comfort Inn
304-296-9364
Econolodge **
304-599-8181
Eurosuites
304-598-1000
Fairfield Inn and Suites
304-598-5006
Hampton Inn
304-599-1200
Hilton Garden Inn **
304-225-9500
Holiday Inn Express **
304-291-2600
Microtel Inn and Suites
304-292-0055
Quality Inn and Suites
304-599-1680
Residence Inn by Marriot
304-599-0237
Waterfront Place Hotel**
Waterfront Place Web Site
304-296-1700
This post was edited on 9/18/11 at 5:36 pm
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Posted on 3/31/11 at 8:42 pm to wvubrandon
Now let’s talk a little about West Virginia University.
Enrollment for the fall 2009 semester was 28,898. The University offers 185 majors in 15 colleges. WVU has produced 25 Rhodes Scholars, including former WVU president David C. Hardesty Jr., ranking No. 6 among American public institutions. The University also has produced 30 Goldwater Scholars, 19 Truman Scholars, five members of USA Today 's All-USA College Academic First Team, and two Morris K. Udall Undergraduate Scholarship winners. Although WVU is not considered a first-tier university in the controversial U.S. News & World Report ratings, it is ranked by The Princeton Review as one of the best 368 colleges in the nation (out of a total of about 2,500 four-year institutions).
Under the terms of the 1862 Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act, the West Virginia Legislature created the Agricultural College of West Virginia on February 7, 1867. On December 4, 1868, lawmakers re-named it West Virginia University. In the 1990s, WVU developed several recreational activities for the students, such as Fall Fest, a concert that welcomes students back to classes. In 1998, WVUp All Night launched to offer free weekend entertainment to students. The popular Student Recreation Center was completed in July 2001.WVU is designated as a Research University (High Research Activity) by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Funding from external sources for total sponsored programs is $138 million. WVU is affiliated with the Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute, dedicated to the study of Alzheimer's and other diseases that affect the brain. WVU is also a leader in biometric technology research and recently became the Federal Bureau of Investigation's lead academic partner in biometrics research. On April 13, 2007, the Board of Governors voted 16-1 to elect Morgantown attorney Michael Garrison to succeed David Hardesty as the University's president. The Faculty Senate voted to work with Garrison but approved a vote of no confidence in the search. Garrison began work in July; his appointment officially began September 1, 2007. Garrison's early initiatives, including move forward to build a campus child care center after three decades of discussion on the subject and working with the Board of Governors to approve the largest salary increase since 1993 won him praise from many faculty and staff members. The Chronicle of Higher Education and Inside Higher Ed profiled him as an example of a trend toward non-traditional university presidents. In June 2008 Garrison announced plans to resign in September 2008. According to the Washington Post, Garrison sought to "end a scandal stemming from the university's awarding of an unearned degree to the governor's daughter." C. Peter McGrath was named interim president in August 2008. James P. Clements became WVU's 23rd president on June 30, 2009. He previously served as provost at Towson University. WVU has been listed as one of the top party schools in the United States.
The Morgantown campus comprises three sub-campuses. The original main campus, typically called the Downtown Campus, is in the Monongahela River valley on the fringes of Morgantown. This part of campus includes eight academic buildings on the National Register of Historic Places. The Downtown Campus comprises several architectural styles predominantly featuring red brick including Victorian Second Empire, Federal, Neoclassical, and Collegiate Gothic among others. The Evansdale Campus, a mile and a half north-northwest, on a rise above the flood plain of the Monongahela River, was developed in the 1950s and 1960s to accommodate a growing student population, since space for expansion was limited at the Downtown Campus. The Health Sciences Campus, in the same outlying area (but on the other side of a ridge), includes the WVU Health Sciences Center, Ruby Memorial Hospital, Chestnut Ridge Hospital, Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center, UHA Physicians Office Center, Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute, WVU Eye Institute, WVU Center on Aging, and WVU Children's Hospital.
Woodburn hall is pictured center here. It gets lit up for Christmas each year.
This is actually the mast from the USS West Virginia which sunk at Pearl Harbor.
Enrollment for the fall 2009 semester was 28,898. The University offers 185 majors in 15 colleges. WVU has produced 25 Rhodes Scholars, including former WVU president David C. Hardesty Jr., ranking No. 6 among American public institutions. The University also has produced 30 Goldwater Scholars, 19 Truman Scholars, five members of USA Today 's All-USA College Academic First Team, and two Morris K. Udall Undergraduate Scholarship winners. Although WVU is not considered a first-tier university in the controversial U.S. News & World Report ratings, it is ranked by The Princeton Review as one of the best 368 colleges in the nation (out of a total of about 2,500 four-year institutions).
Under the terms of the 1862 Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act, the West Virginia Legislature created the Agricultural College of West Virginia on February 7, 1867. On December 4, 1868, lawmakers re-named it West Virginia University. In the 1990s, WVU developed several recreational activities for the students, such as Fall Fest, a concert that welcomes students back to classes. In 1998, WVUp All Night launched to offer free weekend entertainment to students. The popular Student Recreation Center was completed in July 2001.WVU is designated as a Research University (High Research Activity) by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Funding from external sources for total sponsored programs is $138 million. WVU is affiliated with the Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute, dedicated to the study of Alzheimer's and other diseases that affect the brain. WVU is also a leader in biometric technology research and recently became the Federal Bureau of Investigation's lead academic partner in biometrics research. On April 13, 2007, the Board of Governors voted 16-1 to elect Morgantown attorney Michael Garrison to succeed David Hardesty as the University's president. The Faculty Senate voted to work with Garrison but approved a vote of no confidence in the search. Garrison began work in July; his appointment officially began September 1, 2007. Garrison's early initiatives, including move forward to build a campus child care center after three decades of discussion on the subject and working with the Board of Governors to approve the largest salary increase since 1993 won him praise from many faculty and staff members. The Chronicle of Higher Education and Inside Higher Ed profiled him as an example of a trend toward non-traditional university presidents. In June 2008 Garrison announced plans to resign in September 2008. According to the Washington Post, Garrison sought to "end a scandal stemming from the university's awarding of an unearned degree to the governor's daughter." C. Peter McGrath was named interim president in August 2008. James P. Clements became WVU's 23rd president on June 30, 2009. He previously served as provost at Towson University. WVU has been listed as one of the top party schools in the United States.
The Morgantown campus comprises three sub-campuses. The original main campus, typically called the Downtown Campus, is in the Monongahela River valley on the fringes of Morgantown. This part of campus includes eight academic buildings on the National Register of Historic Places. The Downtown Campus comprises several architectural styles predominantly featuring red brick including Victorian Second Empire, Federal, Neoclassical, and Collegiate Gothic among others. The Evansdale Campus, a mile and a half north-northwest, on a rise above the flood plain of the Monongahela River, was developed in the 1950s and 1960s to accommodate a growing student population, since space for expansion was limited at the Downtown Campus. The Health Sciences Campus, in the same outlying area (but on the other side of a ridge), includes the WVU Health Sciences Center, Ruby Memorial Hospital, Chestnut Ridge Hospital, Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center, UHA Physicians Office Center, Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute, WVU Eye Institute, WVU Center on Aging, and WVU Children's Hospital.
Woodburn hall is pictured center here. It gets lit up for Christmas each year.
This is actually the mast from the USS West Virginia which sunk at Pearl Harbor.
Posted on 3/31/11 at 8:42 pm to wvubrandon
Because of WVU's distributed campuses (Downtown, Evansdale, and Health Sciences), the Personal Rapid Transit system, which has become a local showpiece, was built to link them. Boeing began construction on the Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) system in Morgantown, West Virginia in 1972. The unique aspect that makes the system "personal" is that a rider can tell the system which station is the destination and then he/she will be directed to a car that is bound only for that station. WVU students, faculty and staff ride by paying a per-semester fee; they swipe their magnetically-encoded ID cards through the turnstiles when entering the stations. Others pay a cash fare of $0.50. The PRT began operation in 1973, with U.S. President Richard Nixon's daughter, Tricia, aboard one of five prototype cars for a demonstration ride. The PRT handles 16,000 riders per day (as of 2005) and uses approximately 70 cars The system has 8.7 miles (14.0 km) of guideway track and five stations: Walnut, Beechurst, Engineering, Towers, and Medical/Health Sciences. The vehicles are rubber-tired, but the cars have constant contact with a separate electrified rail. Steam heating keeps the elevated guideway free of snow and ice. Although most students use the PRT, this technology has not been replicated at other sites for various reasons, including the high cost of maintaining the heated track system in winter. The PRT cars are painted in the school colors (blue with gold trim) and feature the University name and logo on the front. Inside, the seats are light beige fiberglass and the carpeting is blue. Each car has eight seats with an overall capacity of 20 people, including standing room. The National Society of Professional Engineers named the WVU PRT one of the top 10 engineering achievements of 1972, and in 1998 The New Electric Railway Journal picked the WVU PRT as the best people mover. In 2006, the U.S. Department of Transportation and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency dubbed WVU one of the best workplaces for commuters. Each autumn, during Mountaineer Week celebrations, a special PRT car is placed in front of the Mountainlair student union where groups of students participate in the "PRT Cram" with the objective of squeezing in as many people as possible. A record of 97 was set in 2000.
The PRT runs before and after the game. You can ride it to get to and from the stadium or you can even ride it an entire loop around for a cool view of the city.
The PRT runs before and after the game. You can ride it to get to and from the stadium or you can even ride it an entire loop around for a cool view of the city.
Posted on 3/31/11 at 8:42 pm to wvubrandon
Now that I’ve got you fairly knowledgeable with the state, town, and university let’s talk about the reason you all are coming here in the first place, GAMEDAY!
Here is a link of quick facts from the university: Quick Facts Link
You will want to make sure you have your radio dial set to 101.9 which is WVAQ. Kevin Connelly should be on for the Gameday Show which is hilarious to listen to. It should come on about 3 hours before kickoff. This is also the station that will broadcast the game live for those of you who like to listen to the broadcast while in the stadium.
Kickoff will likely be in the evening. Because of the evening kickoff traffic shouldn’t be too big of an issue as cars tend to trickle in to town all day long. Your best bet is to park in the lots next to the Coliseum and ride the shuttle to the football stadium. I believe the cost is $4.00 per rider for round trip to and from the stadium and is the fastest way in and out of town. While you’re there make sure to have a look inside at where WVU plays all it’s home basketball games and get your picture taken with the Jerry West statue!
WVU Coliseum:
Blue Lot
The majority of tailgating takes place in the Blue Lot which is sandwiched between the football stadium and Ruby Memorial Hospital. There are many many other tailgates that take place all around the stadium. Don’t be afraid to interact with our fans as many will offer you free food and beer. Just beware of the few select students who have chosen to drink a case of beer all by themselves and feel like acting like complete douche bags for the day. Just ignore them, they will go away.
Here is a PDF of all parking for game day: Football Parking Map
If you are looking for something to do before the game you can always walk around and interact with fans or you can even take a visit to the Brohard Hall of Traditions which is located at the stadium. Hall of Traditions
The last thing I need to remind you of is to be in your seats AT LEAST 30 minutes prior to kickoff. The Pride of West Virginia, the Mountaineer Marching Band, which has close to 400 members, will take the field one half hour before kickoff and this is absolutely one thing you do not want to miss during the experience at a Mountaineer football game. Sometimes the crowd gets louder for the band then they do the football team. Here is a link to the history of the band: WVU Band History
The band was awarded the coveted Sudler Award in 1997, which is the Heisman Trophy of marching bands and can only be awarded once. Only 27 schools have been awarded the trophy.
That’s all I got, folks. My fingers hurt. If you guys have any questions at all please let me know and I will get back to you! Looking forward to seeing some of you on September 17th!
Here is a link of quick facts from the university: Quick Facts Link
You will want to make sure you have your radio dial set to 101.9 which is WVAQ. Kevin Connelly should be on for the Gameday Show which is hilarious to listen to. It should come on about 3 hours before kickoff. This is also the station that will broadcast the game live for those of you who like to listen to the broadcast while in the stadium.
Kickoff will likely be in the evening. Because of the evening kickoff traffic shouldn’t be too big of an issue as cars tend to trickle in to town all day long. Your best bet is to park in the lots next to the Coliseum and ride the shuttle to the football stadium. I believe the cost is $4.00 per rider for round trip to and from the stadium and is the fastest way in and out of town. While you’re there make sure to have a look inside at where WVU plays all it’s home basketball games and get your picture taken with the Jerry West statue!
WVU Coliseum:
Blue Lot
The majority of tailgating takes place in the Blue Lot which is sandwiched between the football stadium and Ruby Memorial Hospital. There are many many other tailgates that take place all around the stadium. Don’t be afraid to interact with our fans as many will offer you free food and beer. Just beware of the few select students who have chosen to drink a case of beer all by themselves and feel like acting like complete douche bags for the day. Just ignore them, they will go away.
Here is a PDF of all parking for game day: Football Parking Map
If you are looking for something to do before the game you can always walk around and interact with fans or you can even take a visit to the Brohard Hall of Traditions which is located at the stadium. Hall of Traditions
The last thing I need to remind you of is to be in your seats AT LEAST 30 minutes prior to kickoff. The Pride of West Virginia, the Mountaineer Marching Band, which has close to 400 members, will take the field one half hour before kickoff and this is absolutely one thing you do not want to miss during the experience at a Mountaineer football game. Sometimes the crowd gets louder for the band then they do the football team. Here is a link to the history of the band: WVU Band History
The band was awarded the coveted Sudler Award in 1997, which is the Heisman Trophy of marching bands and can only be awarded once. Only 27 schools have been awarded the trophy.
That’s all I got, folks. My fingers hurt. If you guys have any questions at all please let me know and I will get back to you! Looking forward to seeing some of you on September 17th!
This post was edited on 4/1/11 at 12:22 pm
Posted on 3/31/11 at 8:44 pm to wvubrandon
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This post was edited on 4/10/23 at 12:28 am
Posted on 3/31/11 at 8:46 pm to wvubrandon
very nice, but are you the mayor????
Posted on 3/31/11 at 8:46 pm to msutiger
You're all right by me
Posted on 3/31/11 at 8:49 pm to bigberg2000
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very nice, but are you the mayor????
Nope, just a passionate West Virginian rolling out the red carpet for all you LSU fans coming to Motown this Fall!
Posted on 3/31/11 at 8:49 pm to wvubrandon
We. Must. Ignite. This. Couch!!!
Posted on 3/31/11 at 8:49 pm to wvubrandon
rant get together at the dragonfly imho
Posted on 3/31/11 at 8:50 pm to wvubrandon
:bookmarked: 
Posted on 3/31/11 at 8:52 pm to wvubrandon
Yall talking bout morgantown in natchez?
Posted on 3/31/11 at 8:54 pm to wvubrandon
Thanks for this. I'm only about a four hour (give or take) drive down and I am thinking about going to the game. This is very helpful.
Posted on 3/31/11 at 8:54 pm to wvubrandon
Morgantown still sucks arse and traveling Tigers will drink the bars dry. Legends will be told for years to come, mostly by local hotties with fond memories of the visiting male fans.
That said, you represent your town well.
That said, you represent your town well.
Posted on 3/31/11 at 8:57 pm to wvubrandon
Thanks. I'm booked
Posted on 3/31/11 at 8:59 pm to wvubrandon
Wow. That's a lot of good info. That only makes me more excited to play in Morgantown.
Posted on 3/31/11 at 9:04 pm to wvubrandon
damn, this thread makes me excited for the Spring Game, and ive seen everything there is to see and them some in Morgantown, haha...
Posted on 3/31/11 at 9:36 pm to wvubrandon
Wow thanks for putting all that together. Whats the buzz like up there about having LSU coming in? Hopefully we bring a big crowd.
Posted on 3/31/11 at 9:36 pm to wvubrandon
Nice posts!
I'm considering going to Morgantown for the game next fall but I hear horror stories of the way you ppl treat opposing team fans. What say you?
Would you say it's best to fly into Pittsburgh then drive in from there?
I worked in Logan, WV for 2 months last summer and loved the mountains. Every day I drove in to work I was in awe.
My dad told me there was a POW museum in the northern part of the state... first he told me Charleston then later told me way up north. Is it in Morgantown? He was a POW at the hands of the Japs (fricking bastards!) for 3 1/2 years; he survived the Bataan Death March. I'd love to get pics of the museum to show him.
Edit:
I'm considering going to Morgantown for the game next fall but I hear horror stories of the way you ppl treat opposing team fans. What say you?
Would you say it's best to fly into Pittsburgh then drive in from there?
I worked in Logan, WV for 2 months last summer and loved the mountains. Every day I drove in to work I was in awe.
My dad told me there was a POW museum in the northern part of the state... first he told me Charleston then later told me way up north. Is it in Morgantown? He was a POW at the hands of the Japs (fricking bastards!) for 3 1/2 years; he survived the Bataan Death March. I'd love to get pics of the museum to show him.
Edit:
quote:We won that in 2002
The band was awarded the coveted Sudler Award in 1997, which is the Heisman Trophy of marching bands and can only be awarded once. Only 27 schools have been awarded the trophy.
This post was edited on 3/31/11 at 9:42 pm
Posted on 3/31/11 at 9:38 pm to Lsuhoohoo
quote:
Wow thanks for putting all that together. Whats the buzz like up there about having LSU coming in? Hopefully we bring a big crowd.
its the most excitement I've seen for an OOC game since 1998 #1 Ohio State...Auburn in 2008 was buzz worthy, but they weren't very good that year...plus it was a Thursday night, and LSU is a Saturday which automatically makes it better...
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