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Texts From Kansas Game Day

 

This might now be the week for you. For starters, I’m going to do the Good and the Bad. If you don’t want to read it, I get it, but there are a lot of people who do, so, yeah. That’ll be fun. And then there’s why you’re here today.

I don’t know if this is going to do you any good, now with what happened Saturday (True story: Almost got trampled. Head was not on a swivel. Wasn’t expecting fans to be going HAM when I got down to the field. Wasn’t prepared when they took the goalposts and the crowd instinctively hopped back and almost swallowed me whole. Almost.) but this is your handy work from Saturday’s forgettable and yet memorable afternoon.

We’ll go over things a lot in the next two weeks, I’m sure, but let’s just briefly discuss these two weeks. Apart from pride and ending with a win and winning for the seniors which, sure, do matter, WVU has almost nothing to play for — and I’m going to be honest with you … I’m not sure they matter all that much to this bunch based on what happened Saturday.

If this were 4-7 WVU against 1-9 Pitt, it would be different. Try as I might to make it seem this way, WVU v. Iowa State is not a rivalry and nothing short of a fistfight Nov. 30 or Paul Rhoads holding a 13-9 sign just because is going to change that.

So the Mountaineers will practice this week. And next week. There are seniors who know they’re done. There are underclassmen who, to put it lightly and also frankly, are right to look around and wonder what else might change. Dana Holgorsen’s got a lot of hard work to do in the next 13 days.

No safety or surprise, the end. I’ll never look into your eyes again. Can you picture what will be? So limitless and T.F.G.D. My edits are in [brackets].

12:12:
Hope Fatboy brought his pudding.

12:12:
Millard /dies

12:10:
Odds on trickett using this wind to star in his own trash novel cover shoot all game?

12:10:
Or childress. Dammit with thus confusing quarterback shuffle.

12:11:
All those bubble screens made me misty for Mullen

12:11:
Whoo! Sims-sational.

12:13:
We scored on Kansas and the wood

12:14:
The wind (@&_; he’d &) spell check

12:15
Oh. Well at least they have no idea who their quarterback is, either.

12:16:
Montell Cozart? This is NOT how we do it

12:21:
Darwin Award. No!

12:21:
Is that dude secretly a brick wall?

12:23:
25 fans clap for cookie’s recovery.

12:26:
Fox scoring points for creative camera angles

12:28:
Millard’s back. /dies

12:28:
This is Millard’s speed

12:38:
Either city’s newspapers can feel free to use this headline later: Lost in the Wind

12:42:
Check that. Dunce in the Wind.

12:43:
Gets a Millard-on. Dies.

12:44:
2nd quarter coming. Millard will have NFL caliber arm

12:45:
Clint Trickett is…Backwards Hat Bro

12:45:
White uniforms are by far the best look this team has. Kansas is probably going with its worst look.

12:45:
Bill Stewart thinks Dana should’ve run the ball there to run the clock and punt with the wind.

12:45:
Ladies love Millard’s shag carpeting aka his stache

12:51:
If Millard doesn’t have an El Camino with Van Halen in the tape deck then I have lost faith in America

12:54:
Weis had a decided caloric advantage

1:00:
I know time travel is possible because Millard is the inspiration for Wooderson

1:03:
Pro tip: to guys nicknamed Squirt, passes thrown lower than 9 feet in the air are ideal

1:03:
7-3. Wtf?

1:08:
Hold hold hold!!!!!!

1:08:
God Will Clark sucks.

1:12:
Remind D that it’s a noon start.

1:12:
Pudding for everyone!

1:12:
We r losing to a team that has a track around their football field

1:16:
If they lose this, Ollie should either leave Dana on the bus like Kiffin our strap him to the roof for the ride back like Mitt Romney and his dog

1:20:
Kevin White victory. Both hands on ball

1:21:
Do you believe in Millardicles? /dies

1:22:
Let Sims play QB

1:22:
What’s gonna happen when we lose to Kansas?

1:28:
Seen better moves from a snail on the sidewalk.

1:28:
Delay of game there is unacceptable. Game management on this team is a [puppet show]

1:29:
No sense of pocket presence.

1:29:
Someone needs to tape a Cheetah to Millard’s back

1:29:
Sick

1:30:
Fire him at halftime

1:30:
DeFo for interim

1:30:
Ignominious!

1:30:
And the WVU media contingent sings: “I’ll be home for Christmas.”

1:31:
Cook can’t run. Why is he out there?

1:31:
I think Kansas just scored by accident

1:31:
down to the level of the competition.

1:31:
Zero reason why Cook was out there. I don’t care if he wanted to be. Someone had to tell him no.

1:31:
This is holgs uconn game….no more waiting for the fall….its here

1:31:
Bill Stewart would go on and on about that toss play being an amazing play call.

1:32:
Mike , I blame you. You’ve been jinxing us for the last two years by saying KU is due for 1st win.

1:33:
Been a while but … I hate Wednesday Walkthrough so much right now.

1:34:
Thompson not able to catch heat from Millard. Not used to throws aided by hurricane wind?

1:36:
This is the football equivalent of [ripping] your pants in public

1:37:
Where’s my Dramamine?

1:44:
I know that fans seem to think the uniforms win the game, but as far as I can tell MANY defensive starters are not playing and our two best QBs are not p

1:44:
laying. That sort of matters.

1:50:
Read your gameday column. Know you’re looking forward to dana’s adjectives after the loss. But imagine the fun Weis will have!

1:55:
What are the odds that if KU wins, Weiss talks about schematic advantage?

2:00:
No more negativity…lets go mountaineers…

2:02:
Say what you will about Millard, dude throws a catchable ball

2:02:
Equal parts amazing play and terrible decision. Guess which one WVu is responsible for!

2:03:
Um. That’s rock bottom.

2:03:
Millard’s new first name: “Poor decision by”

2:03:
Uh… I’m going to sbarro

2:04:
Millard caught him? How pathetic is that? (how pathetic are we?)

2:05
That moment when you realize you’re the team that loses to Kansas…right…there. Right there.

2:06:
We are serving up a feast for Charlie Weis. You think about that.

2:07:
Where’s my model glue?

2:11:
Silver lining: typically Big 12 defenses turn to [stone] when they get a lead.

2:22:
We’ve entered the Hopeless Chucking portion of today’s game

2:23:
Nothing shameful in a young team going on the road & losing to Kansas… in basketball.

2:23:
Paul Millard needs to shave his mustache. He doesn’t deserve it.

2:23:
Millard sucks but ZERO help.

2:24:
Millard is looking Brad Lewis-ian.

2:26:
I just heard a red-headed stepchild tell his mother that she beat him like a Mountaineer last night.

2:34:
must face death with dignity.

2:35:
Let us clear a path for you to run. Was that enough room?

2:46:
Amazing how far this program has fallen in only two years

2:54:
This is the most apathetic, laziest, sloppiest bunch of no-pride-having players AND coaches …

2:55:
Shades of Louisville 2006 as the entire punt team goes left and OToole punts to the right. Remember when that punter never punted another ball until Rich

2:55:
Rod left town?

2:59:
Purging my O’Toole stock.

3:00:
If you EVEN do a Good and Bad this week I’m boycotting the blog.

3:03:
Holy [football] [mistake]

3:03:
Millard picked again /dies

3:05:
I’m afraid this game is what I’ll remember about November.

3:05:
The 2000 fans in that stadium are going nuts

3:05:
Good news: We’re definitely Title IX compliant. Bad news: We’re the Big 12’s [patsy].

3:05:
Someone told them they needed to win today, right? Gossamer Kansas is winning by 24 point.

3:06:
Yes. Gossamer. [Forget] you, too, auto correct.

3:07:
Weis is doing more violence to Dana than he does to a rack of ribs

3:08:
WVU now known as “the team that lost to Kansas”

3:09:
You know you’ve been here before. We’ll look back at that fourth-and-10 #TeamGoForIt as “I’m not gonna be here next year…go for it.”

3:09:
In a couple years Millard is going to be the coolest gym teacher at some Texas middle school

3:11:
Millard to the Predator…td!

3:11
A tidy nine yards receiving today by the guy you repeatedly aim at down the field. Something’s not right there.

3:12:
I just made pumpkin chocolate chip cookies. Will make it all better.

3:13:
Trickett, with backwards baseball cap, is flirting with one of the female trainers on the sideline right now.

3:14:
And dear god, what else can they mess up?

3:15
Remember this? “The way WVU lost last night was worse than that WVU lost last night.”

3:19:
Sure, let’s keep running it. Holgs so clearly does not give a [hell].

3:19:
Holgo’s plays are written on a piece of Residence Inn note pad scrap paper

3:20:
Where is his headset?

3:24:
The commentators can’t understand why Holgorsen isn’t more urgently going for a 19-point touchdown.

3:24:
No sense of urgency. No idea how to call plays. No clue how to read a clock.

3:25:
Merry Christmas, Mike!

3:27:
I can’t remember ever being glad I’m going to have to sit through only one more game. Shame on you, Dana. You make women and small children cry.

3:27:
They’re rushing the field!

3:28:
Ahem. Michael. “Results matter.”

3:34:
I’d say that was a pretty clear message by the West Virginia mountaineers to the pinstripe bowl committee.

3:42:
Two guys just walked up the street past the house hauling a couch. No lie. Tradition=bucked