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08 November 2010
Should Oliver Luck replace head coach Bill Stewart at the end of the 2010 football season?
On the surface that question appears to be a simple yes or no answer. As with most issues involving Stewart there are no simple answers.
Losing back-to-back games to Syracuse and Connecticut have placed Bill Stewart on the hottest of hot seats at West Virginia University. Suffice to say that Stewart is doing his part to increase global warming.
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19 October 2010
The West Virginia University football team opened Big East conference play on Thursday against the University of South Florida. The Mountaineers defeated the Bulls 20-6 and earned sole possession of first place in the Big East.
As with most wins by the WVU football team Mountaineer Nation again displayed concerns about the offense in the USF win. Specifically, the Mountaineer running game appears to be digressing as the season unfolds.
Through the first half of the 2010 season WVU has amassed 894 yards rushing, an average of 149 yards per game. Against USF, the Mountaineers only managed 79 yards on the ground, just over half their average for the year.
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13 October 2010
The West Virginia University football team completes its short turnaround for the University of South Florida on Thursday. The Mountaineer football team played last Saturday against the University of Nevada Las Vegas.
WVU beat UNLV by the score of 49-10; in the process WVU generated what many fans have been longing for, “style points”.
To be fair, WVU has not scored many “style points” in Stewart’s tenure as head football coach. To paraphrase, Stewart has often stated that a win is a win, no matter how many points his team wins.
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11 October 2010
Before the start of the game between the West Virginia University Mountaineers and the Rebels of the University of Nevada Las Vegas, there was much angst about the performance of the Mountaineer offense.
By the time the game was three minutes old, that anxiety had disappeared. The Mountaineers were up 14-0, and essentially the game was over.
WVU paid the UNLV Rebels $740,000 to travel east to play at Milan Puskar Stadium. Mountaineer Nation should consider that money well spent.
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07 October 2010
Earlier this week it was reported in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that for the first time since the fifth week of the 2005 season West Virginia, Pitt, and Penn State were all absent from the Associated Press Top 25.
Having placed the names of those three schools in the same sentence again got the hamster on his wheel that is my brain.
With WVU and Pitt members of the Big East Conference and both often mentioned as possible league champions in football, it is not a rare occurrence for the two to be grouped together.
It is the addition of Penn State to the equation that was out of place.
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05 October 2010
Possibly, the toughest week for football fans during the season is the bye week, especially when their team lost the game heading into the bye week.
Precisely the situation Mountaineer Nation found this past weekend.
The good news is that WVU has only one bye weekend left for the entire regular season, November 6. However, there is a long layoff after the South Florida game, nine days.
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01 October 2010
Beginning with the post game press conference after Saturday‘s loss at LSU, and continuing through the Big East Monday media call Bill Stewart was agitated, at best, with reporters. Stewart was out of character in dealing with reporters questions.
Many in Mountaineer Nation drew the correlation that this demeanor was proof positive that Stewart was beginning to crack under the pressure that is the head coaching position of an FBS school.
To begin his weekly press conference on Tuesday, Stewart wished Colin Dunlap a speedy recovery from a minor surgery Dunlap had performed. Dunlap is the reporter of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and covers WVU athletics for said paper.
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29 September 2010
West Virginia University’s bid for an undefeated season wilted in the Louisiana humidity on Saturday night.
The things the Mountaineers could not do and win, they did and lost.
Ryan Clarke, spelling an injured Noel Devine, fumbled and Louisiana State returned it to the WVU 7-yard line. That fumble allowed LSU to take a 7-0 lead in the first quarter. The only touchdown scored by the LSU offense all night.
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20 July 2010
As a lifelong Mountaineer fan, I have seen many games involving the WVU football team. As most fans of sports teams do, I have compiled a list of my all time favorite games. Each game on this list represents a turning point in WVU’s football fortunes. Some marked the end of an era, some the beginning of an era, all are significant. Take a walk through my “Ten Best” WVU football games of all time.
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11 July 2010
Several weeks ago, Michigan issued its public response to the ongoing NCAA investigation into its storied football program. Renewing the discussions concerning Rich Rodriguez and his tenure as Michigan’s head football coach.
Prior to that, there was great debate web wide about the NCAA investigating WVU concerning Rich Rodriguez and his time as the head football coach.
It’s funny how Rich Rodriguez can have that effect on people ‘irregardless” whether those fans follow Michigan or West Virginia football. Love him, or hate him, Rodriguez engenders an opinion from most college football fans.
