Welcome to the Friday Feedback, which is delayed today because my Motorola Q9C was on the blink and needed to be fixed — an interminable process that requires finding and installing Micrsoft Outlook, backing up the cell onto a computer with Outlook, wiping the cell clean and then synchronizing the Outlook backup with the empty phone.
I wasn’t in a rush to do it, despite the fact I can’t see what I type or receive as text messages and any function is frustratingly slow, but I was neverthless compelled when someone asked me last night, “What about texts from the game?”
So there you have it. Sorry for the delay. Better to apologize for that than for the absence of the most popular text-based feature found on a WVU sports newspaper blog.
Busy weekend for the blog, what with the texts from Saturdays game and also tonight’s Midnight Mountaineer Madness. Photos and videos should be up either later tonight or early tomorrow. If you’re not going, that’s cool because I’ll have somewhere to sit. If you’re not sure, I can give you 10 reasons to attend.
Onto the Feedback. As always, comments appear as posted. In other words, don’t be a dope.
Patchy said:
Mike I don’t know where you were when you heard the remark but I fear that you may have contracted Herditis.
This is a geographically localized disorder found along the I-64 corridor. Individuals spending too much time in this region show a marked tendency to overemphasize the little green schoolhouse in Huntington and find themselves believing that their football team poses any sort of threat even in the face of overwhelming historical and current evidence to the contrary.
Another complication is for the affected individual to believe that Marshall has any sort of leverage when it comes to negotiations for extending the shotgun marriage known as the Coal Bowl and/or altering its game-site provisions.
I know that are probably in Morgantown more than you are in Charleston but you still may be a carrier.
WVU’s winning margin will be dictated by three things:
1) Weather
2) The amount of time the starters are left in and/or their health throughout the contest
3) Stewart’s good nature vs. his desire to ‘make a statement’
If all of the above break in the direction of WVU scoring heaps of points then the margin will be 14 pts minimum but more likely 20 or more.
Yikes, I almost forgot to mention that game tomorrow. This is a good point to start, though. I think we need more tension and hostility with this series. We need accusations of “Herditis” and other mud-slinging. I’m so tired of the “Is this a rivalry?” question because the answers are so generic and polite. I really wish some WVU player would say, even anonymously to me, “Um, rivalry? Are you serious? We’re 9-0 all-time … and, yeah, I know it’s 8-0, but I’m just assuming a gold jersey and white pants will be enough to win Saturday.” Or something like that. And then down at Marshall one might say, “Yeah, I did see that quote. Here’s my reply: 13-9. Screw you. Rivalry. See you Saturday.” And then it’s on! We need a reason to care more than passively about this game. What we have is two sides with a genuine respect for one another and a desire to win not because of some rivalry, but because the opponent is formidable. Yawn. If nothing else, the future of the series has generated a palpable feistiness that can be developed into some hostility if managed properly — ie, irresponsibly — over time.
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