WEST VIRGINIA MOUNTAINEERS RUMORS & GOSSIP
No. 66 Marshall Thundering Herd season preview: Cato to lead Herd to bowl berth & C-USA contender
No. 66 Marshall Thundering Herd (5-7) Coach Doc Holliday (fourth season, 17-20 at Marshall, 17-20 overall)Returning Starters: 17, 8 offense, 7 defense, 2 special teamsRecruiting Rank: 61 If Marshall is going to contend for a C-USA title, the Thundering Herd must get better defensively. The Herd surrendered 43 points per game last year – a number skewed a bit from allowing 51...
Tuberville surprised West Virginia made move to Big 12
Count former Texas Tech coach Tommy Tuberville as one who was surprised when West Virginia joined the Big 12 to get the conference back to 10 members following Missouri's defection to the SEC. Dennis Dodd at CBS Sports had a good interview with Tuberville who has never been shy about sharing his thoughts on expansion or the Big 12's need for a championship game. “They ...
Florida State quarterback Clint Trickett transferring to West Virginia
Junior Paul Millard and redshirt freshman Ford Childress spent the spring in Morgantown fighting for the starting quarterback job at West Virginia. As expected, that battle will continue into fall camp with neither quarterback gaining a sizeable lead in the race throughout spring camp. That race will have a new participant when practice resumes this fall with Wednesday's announcement...
Geno Smith lashes out at critics of 2013 QB class.
West Virginia Mountaineers quarterback Geno Smith is a special talent that should transform himself into a longterm starting quarterback within the NFL.
His work ethic has more times than not been lauded. Yet even he is getting tired of the disrespect that his class of quarterbacks has been subjected to.
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Video: Skip Bayless & Stephen A. Smith react to PFW's assessment of Geno Smith
Stephen A. Smith and Skip Bayless of ESPN, joined also by Todd McShay, react to Pro Football Weekly's Nolan Nawrocki's critical assessment of QB Geno Smith.
Smith is currently number 24 on Mel Kiper's big board, and ranked even lower than that by some. Among Nawrocki's comments were that Smith was "not a student of the game", had a "mild practice...
Photo: Can’t even blame this on autocorrect
We are going to assume that whoever was in charge of the graphic below was just trying to get a good laugh, because there is no way that this was an accident, especially since it was spelled correctly at the top of the graphic. We have all been victims of autocorrect while typing and especially texting. The most famous for sports fans might be trying to text second, we mean SEC....
Tavon Austin: ‘I’m the all-around best player in the draft’
Welcome to the 2013 NFL Scouting Combine. May you also have the pleasure to meet Tavon Austin, of West Virginia. His mouth is already NFL-ready, and he is ready to show everyone just how good he is over the next few days. Just ask him. “If we all lined up and raced I think I’d come out on top but I’m not really a 40 type of guy. I’m a game type of guy,” Austin says. ...
Geno Smith: I believe that I can make an impact
Get used to hearing the name Geno Smith even more than you did during the 2012 college football season.
The West Virginia quarterback is currently considered the top quarterback in the current NFL draft class. He recently talked up his own ability.
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2013 NFL Draft: Tavon Austin Will Be One of this Year’s Biggest Steals
The chances are slim that he hears his name announced on the first night of the 2013 NFL Draft; however, the team that selects West Virginia’s Tavon Austin will get one of the steals of this year’s draft. Austin’s highlight-filled senior season will be dismissed because of his size by many coaches and GM’s. … Continue reading »
FREUDIAN SLIP?
West Virginia paper prints hilarious error
The Weirton Daily Times in Weirton, West Virginia didn’t mean for this typo to get into the Sunday paper. Or… perhaps they did. Either way, this “accidental” bit of word greatness accurately sums up the Pinstripe Bowl and the season half of West Virginia’s 2012 season as well. Graphic… but spot on. Please, someone get [...]
LOW BLOW
Orange Bowl Twitter account heckles WVU
The official Twitter account of the Orange Bowl took a shot at West Virginia over last year's game. See the clever joke here.
SOFA KING DUMB
WVU student gov't couch-burning PSA
Over the years, West Virginia’s football fans have garnered a bit of a reputation for being some of the craziest in college football. It’s a reputation that dates back many decades and was only heightened with the decision to sell alcohol inside Milan-Puskar Stadium for the first time last season. However above all, there is one thing that rabid West Virginia fans have...
West Virginia’s New Big 12 Logo is Wonderful and Depressing
Mountaineer Field is getting a Big 12 logo on it for the very first time. The logo itself isn’t necessarily what caught my attention (although damn it looks good), but instead I’m fixated on the fresh paint, green grass, pristine hash marks and Jesus I could just reach out and touch it. College football – [...]
HANG A 70
West Virginia billboard boasts about bowl win
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What’s worse than getting destroyed by West Virginia 70-33 in the Orange Bowl? Having West Virginia put up a sign of the score 70-33 for recruiting purposes on highway I-79. It just so happens that the highways speed limit is 70 miles per hour so of course they incorporated that into the billboard. It’s important to drive safe.
WVU spokeswoman Becky Lofstead...
CONFERENCE CALL
Does Big 12 want West Virginia?
The Big 12 looks like it's going to add West Virginia, but do the rest of the conference's schools support the move?
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