GIVE STEVE SLATON FIFTEEN MINUTES, AND HE'LL SCORE TWICE

Funny, if you listen to Maryland fans long enough, they’ll have you convinced that Fridge is a master recruiter and offensive innovator. Well, until you actually watch the Terps play. Then you’ll be convinced otherwise.

Fridge had a nice run with Ron Vanderlinden’s recruits. Since then, he’s been desperately outrecruited in his own backyard by neighboring schools like PSU, VT, UVA, and others, and Maryland has recaptured their rightful place as conference doormat. Tough break, turtles. Tough break.

West Virginia is just the inverse of Texas Tech….A good team will force them to pass, and then we’ll see what they’re made of…

(BTW, I am aware they beat UGA last year, but the turnover laden opening barrage soon gave way to a game that UGA would’ve won with more time)

Could’a, would’a, should’a…..BUT DIDN’T!

“gave way to a game that UGA would’ve won with more time”

And if my aunt had…well, you know the rest.

I took over 49.5 last night. There’s no better feeling than winning your bet with 25 minutes left to play. Frees you up from watching the game from the recliner and allows you to head to the bar.

Seemed like Maryland’s LBs couldn’t grasp the concept of containment—they kept chasing the play, then finding out it was behind them…or maybe they were just slow.

WV is like a mirror image of TT. Same reason too—- a funky offense can help you play above your talent level.

West Virginia’s team passing is decent—- they are top 10 in team passing efficency. But it makes more sense to carry for 6.8 ypc than to pass for 8.8 ypa. White has fewer than 15 attempts/game so the NCAA doesn’t rank him.

Pat White is 20/27 for 259y with 3TD 0 ints through 3 games.
Thats a 191.32 which would be good for 6th overall if he had enough attempts.

gave way to a game that UGA would’ve won with more time – I think it was VInce Lombardi who stated “We never lost the game, we just ran out of time”. I guess it’s fortunate for WVU that football games are 60 minutes long and not 65 or 70 or 80….

True, I’m sure USC WR Steve Smith could score twice in 15 minutes against the Terps…and Carolina Panther WR Steve Smith could undoubtedly pull it off, bad hammy and all…not too sure about the recently retired sharpshooter from Michigan State, maybe he could, too…but didn’t you mean Steve Slaton (again) in that second line, Orson?

So…confused….

Friedgen is gone at the end of the year… meanwhile area buffet owners breathe a sigh of relief that their businesses may yet be saved.

friedgen has more chins than a chinese phone book

“I guess it’s fortunate for WVU that football games are 60 minutes long and not 65 or 70 or 80….”

That’s like saying UGA is fortunate the game was 60 minutes long and not 55 or 50 or 40 because they would’ve lost by more than they did.

The one thing that I noticed in the game last night was the right tackle of WVU. He has an old school “donkey dick” neck roll on. You have to respect the player who’s gimmick is coming straight from the 80’s. I bet the equipment guy:

A- Had a hard time even locating one and
B- Had a terrible time trying to figure out how to tie the strings onto the shoulder pad so it fit right and stayed on.

I watched the game for ten minutes just amamzed at what I was seeing. The RT is the new Pittsnogle in my eyes.

A good ol’ time in Morgantown last night for this fella…

I think a more accurate description would be that WVU recruits speedy and workhorse-type players FOR their offensive system.

WR’s who can’t block, QB’s who can’t run, and overly large and slow linemen are NOT recruited by WVU. Rivals’ stars don’t mean a whole lot to the Eers. Remember Antonio Brown? Ran a sub-4.0 40 at one point, but he couldn’t block. Rodriguez barely used him.

And WVU took a knee deep into UGA territory at the end of the Sugar Bowl. White Goodman says, “Spare me.”

“Sam Hollenback dropped back and appeared to be scanning the walls of a Chinese optometrist. "

Nice. So thats why his face was contorted in a squinting grimmace. I thought it was just pain.

Orson,

your ’chinese optomitrists table" got the attention of my Chinese co-workers. They thought I was trying to lean Chiese. Apparently it is a childrens caligraphy lesson.

*steve slaton will score twice in 15 minutes not steve smith, and by that i mean i hate wvu with a passion. GO PANTHERS! (yea i know they are better then us and he ran all over us last year and probably will again this year but fuck it.)

I wouldn’t say that WVU is the inverse of Texas Tech.

 WVU’s schemes aren’t all that unusual on offense. They run a lot of Dart series (not surprising, since their HC invented the series), and a lot of shotgun option.
 Unless you think an OL that plays balls out on every play, WRs who block downfield like their lives depended on it, and two backs in the offensive backfield (Slaton and White) who are faster than small-town gossip makes for a “funky offense”, I would have to disagree with you. I would say WVU is just the next evolution of what Nebraska used to be.
 BTW, Owen Schmitt is already the new Pittsnoggle.

"gave way to a game that UGA would’ve won with more time"

This is one of the funniest ones that I have seen. LOL. They should have just added another 10 minutes so Georgia could have the time to dig themselves out of their grave. How much time did Georgia need to win? Guess what…when the time runs out and you have less points YOU LOSE. Feel free to whine now.

Paco – exactly the point

Orson, interested in your take on the following – while watching that game last nite, I was thinking of WVU not so much in terms of a new generation Nebraska, but what I thought it reminded me most of was the when the Fun n Gun began to really blossom, the wide open formations, the speed of skill players, the big plays, except in this instance on the ground as opposed to the air. Mind you I’m not beginning to compare this WVU team to the best of UF, but subsititute run for pass and it would make for eerie similairities.

aggy has never lost a football game, they just ran out of time.

Sam Hollenbach? Isn’t his name Stan?