No chats for two weeks. No F Double for two weeks. Weekday games [reek] and travel doesn’t help. But don’t be mad. I come with TFGD and the best, clearest and most obvious reason why we do this.

I mean, that was a blast, right? That game last night had more swings than the Dunlap twins after dad slugs his sixth cup of coffee and pushes the tandem stroller to the neighborhood playground. The texts show it, too. Love and hate, fury and sadness, despair and elation. Aaaah, good stuff, all of you.

I enjoyed going through them all because, on my level, I could relate. For me, it was impossible to write for two reasons:

1) Wholly unpredictable
2) Very entertaining

Those are the best games. It wasn’t artistic, not at all, but it was entertaining, especially late. I couldn’t keep my eyes on it because I was writing … and yet I couldn’t take my eyes off of it. That was drama. That was fun. That was your time capsule game for this season for WVU, though with some updates for the end of this regular season.

Throughout the season, I really wanted to avoid playing last year or the last three years against this year because I’m not sure how fair or appropriate or relevant or even accurate those side-by-sides would be. Too many variables.

Yet that game last night raised some fair parallels because it felt like so many losses from 2008-10. So many.

And WVU won. I’m curious if you feel the same. Do you feel … I don’t know … encouraged?

I don’t think things are fixed or right. I think that’s going to take time and talent. I know the competition has a lot to do with this and the competition is going to change in the Big 12.

I suppose my hypothesis is that in winning these last three games the way he has, Dana Holgorsen, offensive wizard, has done so with very little offensive wizardry and that has to count for someting for everyone, not just him.

Oh, the guns were real at the end of the game last night, make no mistake. But they were silenced earlier. Yet two non-offensive touchdowns kept them in line in the meantime. Complete conviction that they’d be OK and do something to win the game after doing some things to lose it made a big, big difference.

Even the offense draws an asterisk from me. It wasn’t good. It wasn’t what it had been — and that’s the story for three games now. But it was stubborn, positively stubborn. Holgorsen and his guys don’t relent. They build their plan in the week and they stick with it in the game. Yes, there are adjustments and additions and subtractions and deviations, but he didn’t abandon the run. He stuck with screens to a fault. He kept going for it on fourth down. He won.

I just don’t know that that happens in the previous three years. I saw those teams meet resistance and change and shrink and lose. I saw those teams continue to mess up without an assist from another side of the ball. I saw those teams deflated, not inflated. I saw some or all of that this season, but not last night. Not the last three games.

Honestly, how’d they win that game? And weren’t you wondering the same thing after the two prior games? And were you asking yourself, “Hey, how’d we win that?” after playing UConn or Syracuse last season?

I just don’t know how you feel. I know there’s plenty to obsess about before noon Saturday, but I think you’re stuck with this Holgorsen fellow, too. What’s the verdict on the first WVU coach to ever win nine regular season games in his first season?

But there’s a side to you that I never knew, never knew. All the things you’d say, they were never true, never true. And the games you’d play, you would always win, always win.

But I set fire to the rain. Watched it pour as I touched your face. Well, it burned while I cried because I heard it texting out your name, your name. My edits are in [brackets].

8:21:
I hope Stedman does something big tonight. no 2 for usf is a [jerk]

8:22:
STEDMAN is gonna slug the CB #2.

8:25:
Corey Smith can’t really just flash middle fingers at all times. I suggest he wear PUNTER [APPAREL].

8:33:
Broderick Jenkins knows how to cover a receiver.  Imagine.

8:38:
Dana should STFU about kicking game rest of year

8:39:
Seems like USF is getting every favorable spot and we’re getting none.

8:39:
… And i JUST said usf’s special teams are worse than ours.

8:45:
GD special teams. Son of a mother

8:47:
Everything’s coming up Milhouse!

8:48:
I’m disappointed he made the FG after the blkd punt. Ruins the art of the drive.

8:48:
Another blown opportunity with a dumb [donkey] false start. Idiots.

8:49:
Jeff Braun is the Truck Bryant of WVU football…and no I don’t mean that as a compliment.

8:49:
That was the most WVU2011 drive of 2011.

8:49:
This is reminding me somewhat of 13-9.

8:49:
Holgs is an offensive genius?? Still waiting for that …..

8:50:
Why does Corey Smith wear gloves?

8:50:
Hey! There’s an army in so. Fla too!

8:54:
take that you casteel haters!!

8:55:
Jenkins is no pat miller thankfully.

8:55:
You may run like Mayes but you catch like (his sister).

8:55:
WVU has control of the game with defense, special teams, and a rushing game. If this were against a team that’d been around that long, I’d think it was 1993.

8:58:
There seems to be a “no measurements” rule tonight. Anything close is a first down for each team.

8:58:
Millard is sporting a sweet Uncle Rico mustache.

8:59:
I am tired of Tavon’s efforts to get out of bounds instead of getting forward progress. It almost cost us the pitt game. Let’s hope he straightens it out.

8:59:
Thaaaaat’s the Corey Smith we know!

9:01:
And now it’s time for the special teams to (shake) the bed.

9:02:
Josh Jenkins is at our ganewatch

9:03:
Holgorsen has to be reasonably impressed by Jeff Casteel’s cooking skills after one-and-a-half games of making chicken salad.

9:04:
Even when Pat Miller does something amazing it looks like an accident.

9:04:
Blind squirrel finds a nut

9:04:
Pat miller gets a pick six and my head explodes

9:04:
Casteel – 7. Holgorsen – 3.

9:08:
Pat miller! For real? Prob what he was thinking.

9:09:
Someone must’ve put on a pat miller jersey bc there’s no way that was him

9:09:
I forgot that Marsha’s former coach (snyder) is now at U. Of Suck Florida. I now hate them more.

9:10:
Tandy tackling is a fave oxymoron of mine.

9:13:
Satan just put on his winter coat

9:16:
BE officiating, where good judgment goes to die.

9:16:
That was the most [banal] thing I’ve ever seen.

9:16:
They’d better not call that a TD. We would NEVER get that call!!!

9:16:
He didn’t have the ball in his hands when this foot touched!

9:17:
Providence just pushed the BW3 button

9:17:
That TD call was literally the biggst bag of [hooey] ever. Ball was not in his hands when a foot was down.

9:18:
That is quite possibly the worst [football] call I’ve ever seen. How in the [heck] can you review that and change the call I’m the field?!?!?! [Low five] big east officials

9:18:
Ladies and gentlemen we now have an instant replay call that rivals 2 yrs ago at Cincinnati

9:19:
Marinatto ordered ref [suddenly] commenceth

9:19:
There goes Tavon to the sideline. Uh-gain!

9:22:
Seems like there’s significant more [smack] talking in this game as opposed to others, yes?

9:24:
Is don nelhen honorary oc for this game?

9:25:
It makes me sad that our quarterback’s career long run is 20 yards.

9:27:
Howzabout dialing up another halftime changeup, cuz this is making me sad.

9:56:
Why cant receivers just go down when the play’s over!?

9:58:
Easy to tell a player to “go down” fron the booth.

10:02:
How does WVU always make over rated USF QB’s look like heisman candidates?

10:08:
Tell me how You interfere with an ineligible receiver.

10:08:
I don’t have a 3DTV, but BJ Daniels’ face looks like its in 3D when he has his helmet on.

10:14:
Well, that was fortuitous.

10:15:
My god. That just happened. See what happens when he stays inbounds!

10:15:
There are angles, and Tavon gives nary a damn about em.

10:16:
Add that to the lawsuit.

10:16:
TAVON!!!!!!!

10:16:
WVU players dancing to SNA was hilarious!!!

10:22:
Key to “indisputable” standard: only one replay official.

10:22:
If the standard is “indisputable” then doesn’t the replay official’s call get thrown out when the TV guys disagree with it?

10:23:
Yikes. Daniels’ last pass hit that receiver in the numbers and he didn’t even try to catch it.

10:27:
How many times are we going to do this?

10:31:
Pat Miller strikes again! Blown tackle!

10:32:
Our tackling makes me weep.

10:32:
I’d rather have a Belk Bowl win than a BCS loss. We are flipping awful. Awful.

10:33:
Worst. Third down. Defense. In. The. World.

10:34:
Keith Tandy, PI.

10:34:
Do you know how good of a baseball player Keith Tandy is?

10:39:
Well I suppose that’s a win w a big assist from USF.

10:39:
Pat McAfee is amazed at USF kicker’s accuracy from five yards out.

10:40:
We suck just a taaaaad bit less than most of the big east. Are we B12 ready?

10:41:
Their whole team was better than our Number 8.

10:42:
WVU running about 10 plays in the entire third quarter just adds to the 13-9 similarities.

10:42:
Threw it to the scrum?

10:48:
Casteel 7. Special Teams 10. Holgorsen 3.

10:51:
Who is the asst coach in charge of tackling?

10:52:
I never would have thought that one offensive touchdown would be so hard to come by this year.

10:53:
Is it possible for a team to be bipolar? If so, we definitely are!

10:55:
WHOS MANAGING THESE TIMEOUTS!?! ANDY [FIREABLE] REID?????

10:56:
How many int’s have gotten away tonite?

10:56:
Jeff Casteel wondered what the defense was doing out of the timeout

10:56:
Casteel’s going to town on that gum.

10:58:
Black and Blue league.

10:58:
Path. Et. Ic.

10:58:
Thank God Daniels can’t complete a pass.

11:00:
How many quarters does Irvin miss before ESPN realizes? 4th qtr of Belk Bowl? Jenn Brown makes Erin Andrews look like Ida Tarbell

11:02:
OK offense, it’s time to finally do your part.

11:02:
BJ daniels is outperforming Geno. You think about that.

11:02:
If our strong point is indeed our offense, I need some proof right meow.

11:03:
Silver platter, football, game on it, tag reads “To: USF, From: WVU with love”

11:06:
Um…[popped] off is an understatement right now! Let’s get it together.

11:07:
And on our 45^th screen pass of the night, that happened

11:07:
Wow.

11:08:
Our offense has three points.

11:08:
Hey, congrats! You just gave their D more than you’ve given our O!

11:08:
Attacking a screen pass… What a concept.

11:08:
Nice bubble screen, Mullgorsen

11:08:
Will Dana blame Geno for not checking out of the WR screen?

11:08:
Just [mercifully] shoot me.

11:08:
Merry Christmas, charlotte

11:09:
This TV is way too nice to throw a laptop at I suppose.

11:09:
How about we throw the [Mountaineers’ oblong] ball downfield?!!

11:09:
Loud noises!!!!! I hate this team!

11:13:
Is it me or do we have 15 turnovers every year against these [aristocrats]?

11:14:
After this, not even the Belk bowl will want us

11:18:
Thank u, you stupid SOB!

11:22:
Well that’s a hell of a time for yeckety sax.

11:23:
If you can sit there in the stands or at home and say you did not see that coming, then this is your first game in 2011.

11:28:
Najee!!!!!!!!

11:28:
I have no problem saying that’s the [stuff] that never, ever happens for WVU. It happens to WVU.

11:32:
Holy Bill Stewart!!

11:38:
Stedman just gets it done.

11:38:
STEDMAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!

11:39:
Holtz getting creative with the icing.

11:40:
Icing by penalty and by TO.

11:40:
[Boisterous] woooooooooooooo!

11:40:
That just happened.

11:41:
Bitancurt > McAfee

11:41:
Just tell me the Big 12 is not inviting USF.

11:42:
Do you belives in miracles?!

11:42:
[Juan] [Carlos].  I’m dying young but I’ll take it.

11:42:
Wow…just…wow

11:43:
Just missed Jenn Brown w the Gatorade. Woulda been great TV.  glib out.

11:48:
Please let Dana have a co champs coozie on his Red Bull at presser

11:49:
STEDMAN Bailey is hereafter The Great Stedman Bailey.

11:54:
STEDMAN

12:21:
Maybe Holgs will show up to the presser with a big east champs shirt to show off…