Jp WVU

I've gone to school at WVU for 7 years and that's actually the first I've seen the stadium. No one here really cares about college baseball, which could hurt our SEC chances but I hope not.

One thing for sure, we won't win a game in conference play.

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Did WVU play OU in '08?

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Yeah we played them in the Fiesta Bowl. I believe the final was 48-24. I was there, but don't remember the exact score.

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once in the SEC.



Did I miss something?

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This whole thread has been hypothetical if we were somehow to get into the SEC.

And I think you heard some phony info on the other part. We don't play or are rivals with any schools from Virginia.

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come on now. you know you got to those BCS bowls by playing cakewalk schedules. similar to the one you play this year, other than LSU.

when you come here youd be playing top flight competition week in and out for the most part, thus giving you similar records to that of vandy or kentucky i would imagine.

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Oh, I agree 100% we had a very easy path to a BCS Bowl, and I am not claiming that we will be a regular in BCS Bowls once in the SEC.

But the point of my post was that we won the game over Georgia, actually set the Sugar Bowl rushing record, against the SEC champ that year. Our other BCS Bowl win was against Oklahoma who was vouching for an opportunity to play in the National Championship. We beat them along the lines of 48-21 (don't remember the exact score).

I know you are more intelligent of a fan than to think that Vandy and Kentucky are of that caliber. We also spanked Miss St in our 2 game series with them and took 1out of 2 in our series against Auburn. I;m not claiming to be as good of a program as LSU, just saying we are a much better program than Vandy and Kentucky - no debating that.

And come on now, I know you LSU fans are very knowledgeable about college football and know that we have a much stronger program than Vandy and Kentucky.

We have 2 BCS Bowl wins since 2006 (one over SEC champ Georgia). We also are 14th all time in wins, the most by any school without a National Title, unfortunately.

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furthermore, i hope the family tries to get this to news outlets to make west virginia, as a state and university, look really backwards and redneck...though i don't think they have a booming tourist industry

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I don't know why you would say this. It's been mentioned several times in here that everyone in Mountaineer Nation is completely embarrassed by this event.

There is nothing wrong with news outlets reporting the truth - but to make the entire state and university look backwards and redneck just seems immature on your part.

It sucks that 3 dumbasses can ruin a good sporting event, but report it as that.

Sounds to me like WVU needs to boost their admission standards. Most of the complaints are about college students, and we are notorious for having some of the lowest admission standards.

I think if we didn't have so many students that were just plain idiots, we would provide a much better gameday tailgating experience.

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To allow the interactions between message board posters to paint the image of a fan base for you is unwise, better to go by the experiences of your Tiger brethren.

As for BGN? It's got it's share of nuts, that said when the story first popped up details were shaky. Eer fans aren't exactly new to having fictitious stories about us circulate, a few fans myself included (I'll admit I was wrong in my first assumption) were immediately suspect of the validity only because we've done the whole song and dance before. I think the majority of WVU fans upon realizing the truth are disheartened, and those who are still denying it are only doing it because they were hoping so much that our fan perception had turn a corner. The denials aren't done out of malice, more out of frustration, likely a "I don't want to believe it's true" type thing. Give it a week, BGN will get pretty self loathing soon enough.

Sucks, this really has dampened a great weekend, as has all the concerns over fans who I nor other Eer's can't control. I'm extremely tired of just wanting to be able to watch a football game and either having to apologize for the moronic behavior of the guy wearing the same colors as me, or trying to convince others that we're all not so bad.

What happened to this guy is awful, but guilting other WVU fans isn't going to help. The ones that will feel shitty are going to be people like myself who are never the problem to begin with. There are some idiots who take to Mountaineer field as if it's their birth right to make any visitors feel like shite. I always looked at it like this, with a war on two fronts, an awful economy, job market in the crapper, a country divided, do we really need any more hate? When I got to football games it's to forget about all the other real shite like that in life, and I know I'm not alone.

I offer you no excuses for this behavior, I just don't fathom any logic behind it. Having gone to WVU and earned my degree from there the last thing I would do in the name of my school is hurt someone. It's a sad state of affairs we live in.

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Good post - I feel the same way.

It's sad having to continually apologize for our reputation and convince visiting fans that all of Mountaineer fans aren't like that. This story certainly doesn't help our cause, just pushes us 10 steps backwards...

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Unfortunately I didn't get to see the antics of Holgorsen that everyone on here is discussing, as I was watching from the upper decks of the student section. In the first 3 games, he has behaved fine, and he always seems to say the politically correct thing in interviews, so I'm not going to rush to judgement.

If I had to guess, I would say his antics Saturday were uncharacteristic, and he was just really frustrated by our poor play. I love his offensive mind so I really hope there are no underlying character or maturity issues.

And for the record I've always loved Les Miles. I like his style of play and think he's hilarious.

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please tell me you're bit serious?!?! you have ZERO quality wins this year and just lost by 4 TDs.. so how the f*** are u a top 10 team???

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Haha relax man, I don't mean right this second.

We have a good shot at finishing the season 11-1 and going to a BCS Bowl. We will then be Top 10 and I am optimistic about that happening. Not sure why you're stressing out...