re: to the WVU fans who say

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Then why didnt ur Ad give dana free range? Why was he forced to keep the cancerous staff? Will you make the same excuse next year if coaches are replaced? Ur rt the best players on ur team were not recruited by dana. Without them yall would have been shut out.

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It's a PR game, trying to please the masses while making changes is a hard thing to do. Luck's coach in-waiting decision was a blunder, but it was designed to appease the camp that BS had done no wrong, while still trying to elevate the program.

And yes, without the players that BS recruited we would have indeed been shut out.. that's probably because we couldn't field a team without them. Can't fault Dana for not going out and recruiting all true freshman and playing them. I don't really get your angle. Because Stewart had reasonable success (more of his staff than him) at recruiting then he was a good coach? It was never his recruiting that displeased the fans it was his in game incompetence. I also don't see how any self respecting Eer fan would use that as an excuse this year either, last year I felt Stewarts decisions significantly hampered our shots, this year I didn't see anything coaching wise that I disagreed with.

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Wow, my gosh. I'm sure a lot of teams have YAC and quick hit short passes. It's their offense.

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Well...in the first half..that wasnt much of a factor because LSU was playing way more aggressive.

But after being ahead 27-7 at half...the D loosened up by design and allowed the dink and dunk offense to thrive...trying not to give up the big play.

Its not that complicated

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All you do is whine on here. frick you, frick WVU, and frick your shitty state

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Florida won a national title running the spread

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Florida ran a spread/option...with ALOT of run game...they didnt run the "spread"

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DJ do u think they win those championships without Jesus w cleats and Cam Newton??

I don't see WV getting those types of players anytime soon

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The two players that made the mid-2000's WVU spread as feared as it came to be? Pat White and Steve Slaton, both weren't exactly highly touted recruits. That's not to say they're Newton or Tebow level of skills, but it just furthers my point it's more about finding the players that best fit that system as opposed to the best players period. Pat White (and this pains me to say) couldn't run a pro style if his life depended on it, but in that spread he was easily a top 10 QB in the country. And that spread did give the SEC champions all sorts of issues.


But the point is moot.... like i said we haven't run the spread in years.

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Couple of quick rebuttals. The O-line did a great job of pass-blocking... (run blocking not so much).

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The pass blocking wasn't really that impressive. LSU missing tackles, especially for sacks, when they were blitzing helped tremendously--which really only occurred in the first half. Smith is talented and eludes a rush well. But in the second half, you saw nothing but vanilla pass rush.

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All you do is whine on here. frick you, frick WVU, and frick your shitty state

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Defending true fans is not whining. Posts like you just made are what ruins an otherwise great board. I'm sorry that I have PRIDE in where I'm from. Yes there are idiots here, and there is a guy having surgery done, but to blast an entire state and it's fan base is just delusional, then someone like Stacy saying stay classy when she offers nude pics of herself in exchange for tickets, talks about fighting women when she was pregnant (look at her past posts) is an absolute shame. You guys have been great here for the most part so you don't need to be a prick. I'm not being one, I'm simply saying don't blame people for what you don't know. So sorry that I'm tired of bullshite being spread. Something bad happened but quit blaming the entire fan base and no need for the comments bashing all of us. If any other group of fans understood this the most, I thought it would be you guys. But apparently some still don't get it.

This is a ridiculous post. Of course they can be a top tier program using the spread. I have one word for you... "FLORIDA". Under Urban Meyer's spread they were beating asses into the ground. WVU isn't very far from that. The offensive line totally punked our D-line in pass blocking situations and given a couple of years to develop a defense and run game they will be a force to recon with. Maybe someone watched a different game than I did... but I saw a hillbilly, pregnant wife beating, injured player booing team with a classless coach that is only a year or two away from being top tier good.

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We do out-recruit everyone in our conference, which is why we have dominated the Big East over the last 4-5 years. The problem is we aren't, and likely won't ever, out-recruit the LSU's of the world. It is improving but we will have to rely on scheme in order to have major success.

It would be awesome to have the beasts that you guys have on defense, but it just isn't realistic for us to expect to field a defense of that athleticism and size.