So Saturday went well, right? The most grounded and rational person could have assembled a list of needs or demands or expectations before the game and reviewed it afterward and felt pretty satisfied. Not entirely satisfied, to be sure, and there’s a chance that person could also be left wanting more with regard to some people or things.

But after consecutive losses and two weeks to stew about it, a 37-10 win with promising offense and plainly dominant defense cleanses most palates. Really, that game was hardly ever in doubt. I circled two plays. WVU took the opening kickoff and went three-and-out and I could feel the collective groan. Then Cincinnati muffed the punt, WVU scored on the next play and the rout was on for good.

If the Bearcats don’t do what they do and screw that punt up, who knows?

Later in the first half, WVU led 14-0 and Cincinnati finally realized, “Hey, we can take passes between the hashes all day long.” It was first down at the WVU 16-yard line … and Cincinnati throws a fade pass. At Keith Tandy. Interception. Cincinnati never got closer to the goal line the rest of the game.

When things go bad for a prolonged period of time, things must change slowly. It begins with one game, one seqence, one play. Saturday might have seen all three for the Mountaineers.

Onto the apropos-of-everything Texts from Game Day. I find it purely coincidental there were no profanities. Has nothing to do with the product on the field, right?

Hey, did you know that I can dance? Can we text for a while?

(11:23 AM):
All this talk about changing the offense reminded me of a song. Sing along…

(11:25 AM):
I guess the change in my pocket wasn’t enough, so I’m like, Foch you.

(12:01 PM):
RANDOM text with UNPREDICTABLE capitalization. You think ABOUT that.

(12:07 PM):
You know the crowd stinks when text messages go out easily. This one went out easily

(12:10 PM):
Just like rihanna says, loving the mtneers is a dangerous love affair

(12:18 PM):
Total program evaluation = Noel on the bench. Interesting.

(12:20 PM):
Where is Noel?

(12:27 PM):
Geno arm-punts better than Pugnetti kicks

(12:29 PM):
Nice sack. But do you really have to miss 3 times before you get it?

(12:29 PM):
Our D is stellar.

(12:30 PM):
Why is there no sense of urgency with this team? They didnt think about going after that punt and then fair caught it when they coulda ran 15 mor

(12:31 PM):
Im texting for cotton eyed joe just to piss mike off you’re welcome

(12:31 PM):
Am I gonna get a sunburn in November?!

(12:33 PM):
I hope Ollie notices that cincy’s fans are louder than his. And that there are more of them than students in student section.

(12:34 PM):
Apparently noel is sick. Took him long enough

(12:38 PM):
Somebody tell Jeff Mullen…Tavon is your biggest playmaker.

(12:43 PM):
Nice one, Tandy!

(12:56 PM):
The Tandy and Tavon show!

(1:04 PM):
Um. What was that long timeout for? Make sure we keep it at the line of scrimmage?

(1:15 PM):
Meanwhile Hayden Fox has his hands full with mighty Purdue…

(1:16 PM):
Manassassined!

(1:24 PM):
Every game it appears that the rules in MtNeer football handbook state you have to attempt at least 2 tackles before you actually get a stop.

(1:26 PM):
Cincy Circus now featuring master jugglers

(1:34 PM):
Fins to the left!!!!!!! (i heart safeties)

(2:12 PM):
How sad is it that 27 points isn’t a comfortable margin?

(2:25 PM):
The people have spoken cotton eyed joe wins

(2:30 PM):
I hate the students

(3:07 PM):
I`m a happy Mountaineer today.

(3:15 PM):
So is cincy this bad or did we decide to remember how to play better?

(3:16 PM):
Always a HEARTBEAT away from Yakety SAX… Mountaineer FOOTBALL 2010!

(3:16 PM):
I’m a Glover lover!

(3:43 PM):
Roger Goodell is charging Tandy $75,000 for that performance today!

(7:38 PM):
I just chopped a lion’s head off…it didn’t die