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  On 11/2/2020 at 3:44 AM, MotownHorn said:

It's so funny how WVU wants to be Texas's rival. 

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What makes it funnier is how desperate they want to be UT's rival. Sorry moonshiners, not interested. You want a rival, go to the ACC where all your rivals are(Pitt, Louisville, Syracuse, Virginia Tech). In a way, it's pathetic. 

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It is pathetic. I lived and worked in Morgantown for 7 years. I've left that shit hole now, thank God. 

They've completely made up this imaginary rivalry. Students fly upside Texas flags year round, throw the Horns Down year round in pictures, talk about this week as "Texas Hate Week," etc. etc. etc.

We live in their heads. Meanwhile we barely pay attention to them.

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  On 2/2/2021 at 6:53 PM, clapclapclap said:

Timely thread, thanks for bumping.  I just got a job up there reclaiming abandoned land mines and want to learn as much as possible about WV.

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Abandoned land mines?  Is your new job in Cambodia?  Or maybe you meant to say abandoned coal mines...or maybe I don't know what I'm talking about.

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Thx for finding below tweet  @Wayne 

Total of 14 players possibly leaving West Virginia this year...

WVU starting defensive back leaving the team

by Chris Anderson.  19 minutes ago

West Virginia starting cornerback Dreshun Miller dropped some shocking news on Thursday night, announcing that he was entering his name in the NCAA Transfer Portal. The former junior college defensive back came to WVU, redshirted, and then started nine of ten games last year, missing just the bowl game due to health safety protocols. He graded out as one of the better players on an elite defense

Miller joins safety Noah Guzman, offensive linemen Briason Mays and Blaine Scott, running back Alec Sinkfield, wide receiver Ali Jennings, quarterback Austin Kendall, and linebacker Charlie Benton as scholarship players that have entered the portal since the end of the season. Offensive lineman Junior Uzebu, defensive backs Tavian Mayo and Tacorey Turner, defensive lineman Quay Mays, and wide receivers Zack Dobson and Keion Wakefield entered the portal prior to that. 

The NCAA introduced the portal on Oct. 15, 2018, providing athletes a path to explore their options. Players do not need to ask permission from their coaching staff in order to transfer. They merely need to request that compliance enter their name. Usually, it takes 24-48 hours for a player to appear following their request. Schools are free to contact a player without restriction once their name appears in the portal.

While a player entering their name in the transfer portal means they intend to explore their options, it does not necessarily mean they will leave. A player is free to withdraw his name at any time. However, schools are under no obligation to keep a player on scholarship once they enter the portal.

The first portal cycle saw 1,942 FBS players enter in the initial calendar year of its existence, per a source. 

 

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  On 3/23/2021 at 8:53 PM, Machinator said:

Quite the fall for him. Was considered a rising star just a year ago.

 

 

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West Virginia's hiring of Kirk Ciarrocca is a late-March steal

By  CHRIS HUMMER Mar 24, 2021

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Penn State hired Kirk Ciarrocca away from Minnesota almost 16 months ago to the day. The move drew national acclaim at the time and was considered to be the most important coordinator hire of the offseason. Minnesota’s offense had just jumped from 67th to 23rd nationally in yards per play, sparking the first 11-win season for the Gophers since 1904. Few offensive coordinators had Ciarrocca’s cache, and he chose to go home and work at Pennsylvania’s flagship university.

One year later, Ciarrocca is on the move again. His hiring at West Virginia as an offensive analyst drew far less fanfare this time. Ciarrocca was fired in January after Penn State’s offense slipped to 83rd nationally in yards per play, down from 49th the year prior, and was promptly replaced by Mike Yurcich in Happy Valley.

Yet one year of poor results in a season in which the pandemic made things difficult on everyone, but especially first-year coordinators, should not take the shine away from what is again one of the offseason’s most intriguing hires.

Ciarrocca won’t be on the field for West Virginia. But his experience and game-planning acumen will be invaluable for the Mountaineers.

West Virginia head coach Neal Brown and Ciarrocca worked together at Delaware in 2005 and Brown tried to hire Ciarrocca as his initial offensive coordinator in Morgantown. He did so for good reason. History indicates Ciarrocca makes offenses better when given time. Let’s take a look at how Ciarrocca’s initial offense performed at each of his last three starts versus his final offense.

Western Michigan: 112th (2013) | 16th (2016)
Minnesota: 118th (2017) | 23rd (2019)
Penn State: 83rd (2020) | NA (2021)

The situations at Western Michigan and Minnesota were different than Penn State. There was an immediate expectation of success with the Nittany Lions compared to rebuilding jobs at Ciarrocca's prior two stops. But that statistical rise with the Broncos and Gophers indicates Ciarrocca-led offenses tend to thrive when given runway. 

West Virginia won’t undergo an offensive overhaul with Ciarrocca coming in as an analyst. The role of an analyst is to accent and augment the system that’s in place, aiding the offensive staff in anything that's needed. This is a Nick Saban-like hire by Brown. He’s bringing in a highly-respected coach for a gap year (or two) before said coach rebounds for another job. It’s a deal that works out for both parties, but it’s especially favorable for the Mountaineers.

With a great defense and the second-most production returning of any team in the Big 12, the Mountaineers are positioned as a Big 12 sleeper entering 2021. The offense, which finished 85th nationally a season ago in yards per play, just needs to improve to make a jump like that possible.

Brown is West Virginia’s play-caller. He’s done so throughout his career to much success. But there were times last season in which Brown was openly critical of himself and an offense that often failed to produce explosive plays: “I didn’t do a good enough job,” Brown said after last year’s game with Baylor.

One thing head coach play-callers often say about the task is that split focus can cause them to fall short in other duties. It can cause situations in which they lose sight of the big picture or, conversely, the down-to-down play-calling situation. Gerald Parker and Chad Scott were Brown’s co-OCs last year. Both are highly-respected coaches, yet neither have play-calling experience in their careers. Ciarrocca helps fill that hole on West Virginia’s staff. He’s an injection of experience into the room and someone Brown can lean on from a game-planning perspective.

There’s no guarantee the Mountaineers make a huge jump offensively. There are pieces in place for success, yet questions remain about the offense’s ability to create explosive plays due to limitations of both quarterback Jarret Doege and the wide receiver group.

Regardless, this is a no-lose situation for the Mountaineers. Adding Ciarrocca to the staff only helps elevate the offense’s ceiling in 2021. 

 

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Video: Take a tour of West Virginia's redesigned football facility

Neal Brown and the Mountaineers spent $55 million to rework and upgrade their football facility, and they made some impressive changes.

DOUG SAMUELS   3 HOURS AGO

Earlier this summer, West Virginia put the finishing touches on $55 million worth of upgrades and renovations to their football facility.

“It was renovated for three reasons: for our current players, for recruiting - or our future players - and as a source of pride for former players and coaches.” 

They not only reworked the space, like moving the Hall of Traditions from the back of the building to the front so it is accessible to the public and moving the meeting rooms to a different area of the facility so they're no longer split into offensive and defensive wings, but they've added some really nice branding and changes in the way the players utilize the facility too.

The Hall of Traditions is now an interactive area for fans and recruits. The area has footballs honoring some of the biggest games in Mountaineer history with a video screen accompanying it, and when someone touches the football, a big moment from that respective game flashes on the screen. Also featured in the Hall of Traditions is technology that allows you to create your own custom uniform. 

The school recently released a video featuring an extensive tour of the new facility with athletic director Shane Lyons where he talks about some of the changes.

Among the new additions in the facility is a nap room complete with a few egg-shaped sleep modules, the now customary barbershop that is a must-have in every modern college football facility, massage chairs and zero gravity chairs, an extensive recovery room featuring a light therapy pod (that looks like a tanning bed) and cryotherapy pod, and a new location for the team meeting room and position meeting rooms.

Also, Neal Brown's office overlooking the stadium will double as his family suite, with glass that can be frosted at the touch of a button.

One of the coolest subtle touches that they show off is the family pictures of coaches and players on the wall as they head in and out to the field. It may seem small, but it's an idea that they picked up after seeing the same type of thing done at coal mines in the state. Before coal miners would head down to work for the day, they'd see a similar wall with pictures of family everywhere.

Once players come off the field, they've got an assigned place where their shoulder pads, shoes and gloves can dry and then they head right into the "car wash" where they walk through a high wind area, followed by vertical and horizontal streams of water to remove any of the black turf pellets before getting into a cold tub. After that, they head directly through the showers before hitting the locker room. It's a super efficient setup that is being used more and more in major college programs.

Take a tour with Lyons below, who shares some great behind the scenes thoughts on the renovations that only an AD has.

 

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Dana absolutely despises Gordon Gee and the current WVU administration (rightfully so). I can guarantee that he's had this game circled for quite a while. This is also the exact type of game WVU loses under Neal Brown. Houston is going to pull the upset this week and make people wonder why they spent so much time worrying about WVU.

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  On 10/9/2023 at 2:04 PM, ITHorn said:

Dana absolutely despises Gordon Gee and the current WVU administration (rightfully so). I can guarantee that he's had this game circled for quite a while. This is also the exact type of game WVU loses under Neal Brown. Houston is going to pull the upset this week and make people wonder why they spent so much time worrying about WVU.

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I sure hope you're right, but remember cooger high is worse than Rice. Will take a perfect game and turnovers/penalties from WV.

 

Hey yorsuck, how do you like cooger high in the B12?? They're basically giving away tickets and they can't get people to come. If you build it, they won't come!

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I sure hope you're right, but remember cooger high is worse than Rice. Will take a perfect game and turnovers/penalties from WV.

 

Hey yorsuck, how do you like cooger high in the B12?? They're basically giving away tickets and they can't get people to come. If you build it, they won't come!

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Didn’t take close to a perfect game. I can’t believe you thought that much of a Neal Brown coached team. They are softer than dog shit. They’ll lose again in next two weeks and then people can stop pretending they have any shot of engaging in a tie breaker with us. 

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Damn kids!

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West Virginia coach Rich Rodriguez, like all football coaches, wants his players to show up on time, work hard and play their best.

Oh, and another thing: Don't dance on TikTok.

"They're going to be on it, so I'm not banning them from it," he said Monday. "I'm just banning them from dancing on it. It's like, look, we try to have a hard edge or whatever, and you're in there in your tights dancing on TikTok, ain't quite the image of our program that I want."

Making TikTok dance videos is a popular activity among high school- and college-age users of the social media platform. Heisman Trophy winner Travis Hunter, Boise State star Ashton Jeanty and Nebraska's Dylan Raiola are among college football players who have posted dance videos. 

Rodriguez is beginning his second stint as Mountaineers coach. He said he has talked to his players about the tendency in society to emphasize the individual rather than the team and that banning TikTok dancing is something he can do to put the focus where he thinks it belongs.

"I'm allowed to do that. I can have rules," he said. "Twenty years from now, if they want to be sitting in their pajamas in the basement eating Cheetos and watching TikTok or whatever the hell, they can go at it, smoking cannabis, whatever. Knock yourself out."

As for now, he said: "I hope our focus can be on winning football games. How about let's win the football game and not worry about winning the TikTok?" 

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