Welcome to the Friday Feedback, which has all its luggage, thanks to a kind and anonymous couple from Charleston, S.C., I think. I rarely ever check my bags anymore because my luck was once so obviously bad I learned not to. There was a string of maybe four or five flights in a row when my bag just never showed up.
I was young in the game back then and didn’t realize how easier my life could have been with a carry-on and how I could still pack all the stuff I needed. So combine that with the cost now required to check a bag and it seemed smarter to take all my luggage on the plane. Wouldn’t you know it, I haven’t lost a bag since the O’Reilly All-College Classic back in 2005 … and I only checked one then because I was headed to a family function the day after the game and needed some more clothing than usual.
So I’m in Atlanta Sunday and admittedly cloudy because Jarrett Brown slept more than I did Saturday night. I’m on the concourse shuttle at 2 p.m. for my 3:50 flight. We stop at concourses A, B, C, and D. I’m leaving from Gates D21 and when we arrive at the D stop I go to grab my bag … which is not there. That triggered a frantic recovery effort which was improbably complicated because lost and found at the country’s busiest airport is closed on Sunday.
I had to go to all six concourses — T, A, B, C, D and E — and fill out reports in case the white courtesy phone called. Never happened even though I was in Atlanta until 6:20 p.m. We were supposed to leave Charlotte at 7:50 and got there just in time … to see it was delayed two hours. We left at 9:55 p.m., which was about an hour after I was supposed to be in Morgantown, and landed around 11:30. I’m usually worn down by traveling by January. This is unprecedented. The only positive was Atlanta calling me Monday morning and saying a couple had turned my bag in with a note I never got explaining how they accidentally took my bag … as well as theirs. I can live with that.
Speaking of, when was the last time WVU’s first loss of the season was met with such, ummm, indifference? Is it 2005? Maybe 2003? The Mountaineers have been national title contenders, or at the least hopefuls, for several seasons in a row and that first loss was just devastating because it seemed to ruin everything. This year? Not so much. Why, I even think fans have been pretty rational. Wasn’t a great outcome or a bad effort and people realize things could and maybe should be better. Sometimes you just have to be water.
Onto the Feedback. As always, comments appear as posted. In other words, be careful how you ask for sugar.
Jim said:
I’m curious to know why Jared Brown was throwing off his back foot so much during the Auburn game? Could that have been the reason for so many picks? He has to use his body & not just his arm. On another note, at one point in the game, after taking a hit he was shown shaking his head like he got his bell rung. Then after getting in the huddle, he was shown once again shaking his head. Knocked goofy or a concussion? Maybe there were things at work during the second half that we didn’t know about and maybe the coaches/trainers didn’t notice either. can you follow up on this?
Honest opinion? He makes those throws because he can. I thought he got hit pretty good during one of Auburn’s interception returns and then again in the third quarter. I noted he looked a little weird on the sideline, but I never noticed it in the game. Yesterday he told us Auburn threw a new defense at him in the third quarter that he wasn’t expecting to see. Maybe that was the confusion?
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