Friday Night NCAAFB WVU @ UCONN
October 30th, 2010 at 12:05 AM ^
Q: whats bill stewart and bobby huggins have in common?
A: they are both trying to make west virginia a basketball school.
Classic.
October 30th, 2010 at 12:34 AM ^
he would have hung up 40 points on UConn. WVU would be a national title contender, but they have fallen off since they hired Stewart. With the loss of Doc Holliday, the recruiting is going to suffer.
October 30th, 2010 at 1:38 AM ^
I was at the game, 3rd row in the student section. I was worried Noel Devine and Tavon Austin were going to go all 5* recruit on UConn.
UConn's offense is not good. The receivers still can't catch.
Yes this was UConn's first win over WVU ever but I'm not sure if it was still worth storming the field after, considering WVU lost to 'Cuse last week
October 30th, 2010 at 2:14 AM ^
first win over them and WVU has pasted (under RR) UConn into oblivion in that streak.
October 30th, 2010 at 9:31 AM ^
Or worth dog piling on top of every player.. I would of loveeed to been on the bottom of a 50 man pile.. Could be just like some of those teams that injured their star players by dog piling on them.
October 30th, 2010 at 1:59 AM ^
Soooo let me get this straight...
*Sagarin Rankings*
Big East: 37-47-55-61-76-77-88-95
deserves an auto BCS bid over...
MWC: 3-14-35-42-73-90-111-143-197
TCU, Utah, and Air Force are better than the Big East's best team. And I might take SDSU(42) over Pittsburgh(37). The only other team in the Top 50 (West Virginia) won't be there come Monday. BYU (73) would be the 5th best team in the Big East as well.
I'm not so against the BCS, but feel that either you give every conference an auto bid or you simply take the 10 best teams.
October 30th, 2010 at 2:49 AM ^
I agree with you, but there's a clear counter-argument here:
Big East Average Ranking: 67
MWC Average Ranking: 78.67
The bottom of the Mountain West is very, very bad. It always has been and it will be for the foreseeable future. This is important because winning the Big East means that you played a higher quality of team on a weekly basis, which means that Big East teams are tested more regularly, unlike the Mountain West where you play a handful of good teams intermixed with atrocious ones.
In my opinion, the best way to apportion BCS bids would be to guarantee 5 autobids (goodbye Big East) and then guarantee bids to any non-AQ conference winner who finishes in the top 10. I would also eliminate the Coaches' Poll and Billingsley from consideration. And I would use a +1 format. And I would mandate that all proceeds from the BCS bowl games be donated to charity.*
*Don't tell anyone, but the last suggestion was designed to ensure that the BCS wouldn't make any money so we can go to a playoff system. Yes, I'm nefariously trolling the BCS. [EVIL LAUGH]
October 30th, 2010 at 4:09 AM ^
Do you think if they fire Bill Stewart and hire an outside head coach that Jeff Casteel would come be our Defensive Coordinator?
I honestly don't know why they didn't make Casteel their head coach in the first place, but hey, here's hoping.
October 30th, 2010 at 6:56 AM ^
October 30th, 2010 at 9:36 AM ^
If they do decide to hire an outside guy...Casteel come to AA!
October 30th, 2010 at 8:29 AM ^
That seems like a very low number to me, considering that he's probably WVU's most explosive player. The main change Stewart implemented when he took over was to run a more pass-oriented offense, and it's not clear that it's been a good change for WVU, since you're keeping the ball out of Devine's hands.
October 30th, 2010 at 10:15 AM ^
I'm sad I didn't watch the rest of that one after halftime. It was so boring I decided to kill terrorists online. You know, do my part for America.
October 30th, 2010 at 10:22 AM ^
I would have enjoyed WVU's loss...if it hadn't cost me nearly $200.00. The $100.00 I wagered and the $90.00 profit I missed out on.
Nice job of fumbing 7 times, losing 4 of those fumbles and one of them coming on 1st and goal at the UConn 1 yard line in OT.
Well done, WVU, well done!
October 30th, 2010 at 10:58 AM ^
Nice win for UConn. Per the Connecticut Post:
The UConn football team has solved its West Virginia jinx.
They can still end up having a decent season
October 30th, 2010 at 11:05 AM ^
Using the probably inaccurate "we beat UCONN and WVU lost to UCONN" mentality, are we allowed to say that Rich Rod's spread offense is superior to Bill Stewart's spread offense?
October 30th, 2010 at 2:03 PM ^
You don't need any transitive law twisting to say that. The proof's in the damn pudding on the field. Rich Rod's offense accentuates the strengths of dual threat quarterbacks. Bill Stewart tries to make Pat White and Jarret Brown focus on passing, then tells Geno Smith to run zone reads. It'd be hilariously ridiculous if I wasn't a WVU fan in support of my best friend being from WV.
October 30th, 2010 at 9:35 PM ^