The Summer Lull in Full Effect
By MountaineerBob on Jun 24, 2008 in Football, Video/Audio
Sorry I haven’t posted anything lately folks. The summer lull and me trying (poorly) to improve my shitty golf game, has made it hard for me to find any interesting college football news. But as you can see by the countdown clock in the right column, every second is bringing us closer to opening day! Good god I can’t wait!
So to try to kill some of this summertime Lull I decided to go out and fish for some WVU news and I didn’t come up empty handed. Check it:
1. Dick Fraud has to disclose EVERYTHING!
(Associated Press) MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Former West Virginia football coach Rich Rodriguez must reveal whether anyone else has agreed to pay the $4 million buyout that WVU’s lawyers are trying to recover.
That’s the ruling from Monongalia Circuit Court Judge Robert Stone, who held a hearing on potential evidence yesterday. (SCORE WVU!)
Rodriguez has 15 days to submit the letters of intent he had with the University of Michigan before becoming its coach in December. He also must reveal whether anyone has agreed to pay off WVU for him.
Stone also says Rodriguez must turn over any employment and endorsement contracts he’s signed since 2000. (this means ANY contract he has signed.. so we they can prove he obviously knows how to sign a contract and usually isn’t pressured into it)
Those go to WVU’s argument that the coach knew what he was doing when he signed a contract with the damages clause.
2. ESPN’s MidSummer Night’s Dream
It seems Pat Forde is suffering from the same lull most of us out there are but he mentions WVU and the Big East in his quirky article from the other day…
8. The Big East wins the scheduling derby again.
A league that has shown a knack for creating huge late-season matchups will do it once more with South Florida at West Virginia on Dec. 6. At least one of the two will be in the top 10 at the time. Possibly both. Weather advantage: Mountaineers.
3. An early Bowl Breakdown per Conference:
Mark Schlaback covers all of the conferences and their potential results. In the Big East he has Pitt as the dark horse and thinks Coach Stew is a happy camper….
Big East Conference
BCS bowl contenders
Pittsburgh: The Panthers are a serious dark horse to win the Big East and compete for a spot in a BCS bowl game. Pitt fans have waited patiently for coach Dave Wannstedt to turn his talented recruits into winners, and this might be the year.
West Virginia: With quarterback Pat White and tailback Noel Devine returning, coach Bill Stewart could have a national championship contender in his first full season. Stewart is really excited about his team’s linebackers.
Should go bowling
Louisville
Rutgers
USFWait till 2009
Cincinnati
Connecticut
Syracuse
I just don’t buy the PITT hype this year. Wanny-Stach just won’t be able to pull it all together. I’m calling it now for PITT 6-6.
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wvuenvy | Jun 26, 2008 | Reply
enough Rich Rod talk! Every one get over it. Every one portrays him as this bad guy. He’s not!! How about taking another look at AD Pastilong. Rich’s main concern was not himself but his assistant coaches. Pastilong hasn’t done anything major 4 our athletic dept until Rich got there & really made us a top prorgam in the nation. Nehlen couldn’t win a bowl game & Catlett was a joke. Their jobs were never in jeopardy!! As an alumni & athletic donor I am shocked we let Pastilong stay this long. Thank God he’s done soon. He said he was going to leave a couple yrs ago & didnt. If he would of left Rich would still be in Motown. Eddie is the one with the massive ego not Rich. Think about it! By the way I will B a Michigan fan unless they play us. WVU always!
MountaineerBob | Jun 26, 2008 | Reply
Rich blew it. I don’t think he wanted to leave. I do think he’s an asshole. I think Pastilong is old and should have left the a while back before all this happened. I think Coach Rod got lucky with Pat White and Slaton … he didn’t even notice the talent he had.. they were riding the bench and got put in the game due to injuries. Rod took credit for them, he really owes Bednarik and Gwaltney for getting injured 3 years ago or he would be the next Nehlen. I’m sure you were watching the VT game on Oct. 1 when Slaton took the field and asked… who is this kid and why isn’t he a starter. Well if Coach Rod was such a good coach he would have had him in from the get Go.. and Bednarik was staring in front of WVU greatest player of all time Pat White?
Michigan … good luck. You have a mediocre coach at best who just was in the right place at the right time.