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20 June 2010
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - A press conference at Milan Puskar Stadium's Touchdown Terrace on Monday was not to announce Oliver Luck's hiring as West Virginia's new athletic director, but to welcome him home.
The formality was handled last Thursday. This was the festivity.
This celebration began at 1:33 p.m., just three minutes off schedule, which hardly seems worth noting. Then again, we must get used to waiting.
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12 June 2010
MORGANTOWN - Luring Oliver Luck back to his alma mater as West Virginia's athletic director wasn't as much about offering him the job as it was convincing him to take it.
He was far and away the most appealing and desirable candidate from the start, even more so than when he was recruited to play quarterback for the Mountaineers in 1978, and it took some sweet-talking.
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07 June 2010
Bill Stewart is changing the way WVU approaches recruiting.
According to Stewart , WVU will no longer allow verbal commitments to leak their status until their parents have visited the Morgantown campus.
WVU’s new recruiting coordinator, Chris Beatty , is on board with his coach’s new policy.
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04 June 2010
Of the other four other most prominent "media-mentioned candidates" - former WVU quarterback and current Board of Governor's member Oliver Luck, Jim Schaus of Ohio U., Missouri's Whit Babcock and Kentucky's Rob Mullens - Luck has gotten the most attention.
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04 June 2010
MORGANTOWN — Oliver Luck won’t be West Virginia University’s next director of athletics.
“Nothing has changed,” the former Academic All-America quarterback told me on Thursday via telephone. “I couldn’t be interested in that position at this time.”
Luck’s name has appeared among candidates for the athletic director position in some publications. But he never officially sought the job Ed Pastilong is vacating June 30 after 21 years.
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29 May 2010
MORGANTOWN — There’s an old joke that goes something like this:
A guy is wandering around Times Square in New York City, obviously lost. He stops a guy who looks like he knows his way around Manhattan.
“Hey, buddy, how do I get to Carnegie Hall?” he asks.
The New Yorker looks at him incredulously, and answers:
“Practice, practice, practice.”
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27 May 2010
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - For really the first time since he became West Virginia's offensive coordinator in 2008, Jeff Mullen has finally got several players well-versed in his way of doing things.
Of those expected to be on the offensive two-deep this fall, 15 players have at least a year of playing experience in Mullen's system including 10 with two year's worth of experience (that does not include Geno Smith, who took about 200 snaps last year as Jarrett Brown's backup QB). One of those two-year veterans is junior wide receiver Brad Starks, who admits the learning curve for Mullen's offense can be pretty steep for some players.
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26 May 2010
The word from both schools is that they plan to sit out any wave of conference reconfiguration triggered by the Big Ten's prospective expansion. The Irish prefer to stay independent in football. The Longhorns say they're committed to the Big 12. Athletics directors at both schools nonetheless acknowledge their resolve could soften if change is momentous — say the Big Ten expands to 16 schools and the Southeastern follows suit — and both programs are faced with being left out of a newly defined upper tier of college sports.
"It's not something we have to think about. It's something we are thinking about," says Texas' DeLoss Dodds.
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26 May 2010
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - The conference meetings going on across the country are more about brainstorming ideas than implementing them and discussing problems instead of fixing them.
Still, I remain hopeful Athletic Director Ed Pastilong returns to West Virginia University's campus Wednesday with an agreed-upon explanation for exactly what happened on "Lost."
One thing Pastilong and the rest of his Big East brethren will discuss this week is the concept of an early signing period for football. I say this because the Big Ten had pushed the topic and that league seems to be - or believes to be - the first domino in all college athletic initiatives.
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24 May 2010
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - At the beginning of the 2010 season, and not long after his preseason all-Big East third baseman was lost before it ever started, West Virginia baseball Coach Greg Van Zant had a talk with his staff about what to expect.
What they'd known previously wasn't entirely optimistic. Gone from one of the best offensive teams in the country were leadoff hitter Justin Parks, Austin Markel and his 15 home runs, Vince Belnome and his school-record 81 RBI, Joe Agreste, who'd been drafted previously, and catcher Tobias Streich, who went in the second round to the Minnesota Twins.
