West Virginia Football: I Was Afraid This Might Happen, but so Soon?
Published on: 23rd October, 2010
The third quarter was frustrating. The fourth quarter was completely surreal. The Orange offense squeezed each valuable second out until the snap. A long handoff ensued, as every run—Syracuse threw the ball only five times—seemed to be in slow motion, milking still more essential ticks off the clock. Every player got ...College Football Poll With A Warning Label: Boise State No. 1, TCU No. 2
Published on: 17th October, 2010
I awakened early to put my poll together before 10:30 Mass. Although I worked with the Associated Press Week 7 Top 25 poll that many members of the media voted on, I have the only votes in my Intuitive Top 10. Without further explanation, here it is: Boise State: I'm giving the Broncos a chance ...West Virginia Football: The Resemblance Is Eerie, WVU 2010 Looks Like WVU 2005
Published on: 13th October, 2010
West Virginia is taking a one loss non-conference record into its Big East league season. The team's lone defeat was at the hands of a nationally-ranked opponent from a strong Bowl Championship Series conference. With the Big East looking battered and weakened, its member teams are getting no respect. BCS experts and bloggers ...College Football: Look Again at the Consensus Preseason Poll Before the BCS Poll
Published on: 1st October, 2010
The Bowl Championship Series of the NCAA’s Football Bowl Subdivision is quickly approaching the first weekend of the BCS standings. The components are two polls called “human polls” and an amalgamation of six computer ranking services called “computer polls.” The human components comprise of a) a coaches’ poll of 65 FBS head ...TCU Horned Frogs’ Big East ‘Hop’ Will Appeal To WVU AD Oliver Luck
Published on: 29th September, 2010
Yep. If the noise surrounding TCU and a hop to the Big East conference turns into music, it'll appeal to West Virginia Athletic Director Oliver Luck. Oh, yeah. The man is one of the most competitive people West Virginia has known. As it is said in Almost Heaven, Luck "will make dang sure" no ...West Virginia Football: Friendly Answers To LSU and an LSU Senior Writer
Published on: 23rd September, 2010
So, Justin Goar, you have a "want." Actually, three of them, along with corresponding "do not wants." I, a b/r featured columnist for West Virginia football, will go over with you—a b/r senior writer, and a really good writer—how you can get those wants while avoiding the others. Suggesting we do this as gentlemen, ...College Football: Five Big Games, Winners Will Manage Intangibles Better
Published on: 22nd September, 2010
College football fans are in store for a great weekend in this the week 4 of the 2010 season. Three games involving six teams from the Top 25 of the USA Today Coaches' Poll are scheduled. If you do what I like to do and stretch the coaches' poll out to ...West Virginia Mountaineers Football: How To Profit from the LSU Trip
Published on: 19th September, 2010
By now, the West Virginia coaches are breaking down the tape of Saturday afternoon's victory over Maryland. LSU is next, and there are 150 odd hours remaining to get ready for the biggest test on the Mountaineer slate. Of Bill Stewart's 40 games as WVU's head football coach, this is his biggest opportunity by ...West Virginia Football: Can The Mountaineers Benefit From “Cougar Ball?”
Published on: 17th September, 2010
No, Cougar Ball is not a dance for a bunch of leggy women in their 40s and 50s and their 20-something male "special friends." Cougar Ball is an up-tempo, vertical passing attack that employs an accurate touch passer, such as Geno Smith, throwing footballs all over the field to every talented ...West Virginia Football Defense: Risk-Taking D vs. No-Risk D Depends on Offense
Published on: 3rd September, 2010
I'd love to take credit for this phrase, but it was the legendary Paul "Bear" Bryant who first said he wanted defensive players who were (cue in the Southern drawl) "mo-bile, a-gile, and hos-tile." Southern, Northern, Eastern, Californian. Say it however you say it. Mo-bile, a-gile, and hos-tile, and you have a great description of West ...Featured Sponsors
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