Big East and the College Football USA Today Coaches’ Poll: Again?
Published on: 6th August, 2010
If the USA Today Top 25 Coaches' Poll were extended to the USA Today Top 35 Coaches' Poll, here in terms of teams in the poll is how the conferences fared: Southeastern: Eight (but of course, and who can argue?) Atlantic Coast: Six (you cannot be serious!?!) Big Ten: Four (top heavy conference, ...Mountain Pique: WVU Geek Turns to Computers to Prove Schedule Strength
Published on: 5th August, 2010
Writers like me have been reciting by rote the lack of value West Virginia can assess from its football schedule. Cupcakes, they are. Delectable eclairs, we write when we're trying for the Los Angeles Times. Q: Have you heard of this year's headliner show at Mountaineer Field? A: Is that FCS and the Bottom-Fishers? In ...West Virginia: What’s the Best BCS Arrangement for WVU?
Published on: 2nd August, 2010
OK. I'm the curmudgeon who, since I began writing for the Bleacher Report and the West Virginia site, has had little good to say about the Bowl Championship Series and its effects on West Virginia and the Big East Conference. While I was at it, I further blamed the BCS for the ...West Virginia Football Fortitude: Titanium Gut Check Part I
Published on: 1st August, 2010
For over 35 years, from Bobby Bowden to Frank Cignetti to Don Nehlen, through Rich Rodriguez and Bill Stewart, the West Virginia head coaches, leaders on the gridiron, have pulled off some impressive upsets. How do they do that? Some call it “ice water flowing through ...Prediction: West Virginia Flies To Baton Rouge, Bags The Tigers
Published on: 27th July, 2010
Okay. I'm the guy who predicted that West Virginia will go to the Marshall campus stadium in Huntington and leave with its musket between its legs. Yeah, that's me, the novelist—you remember, setting up the theater of the state's little brother putting on a whipping. By a field goal, I so ...Prediction: West Virginia Visits Marshall, Falls a Field Goal Short
Published on: 22nd July, 2010
I'm a novelist. Novelists are schizo folks. We create and destroy, sometimes in the same stroke of the keys. So, in this piece I'm going to create the premise about West Virginia's road trip to play Marshall in Huntington on Friday September 10, then destroy it by giving you the ending first. That's ...’84 49ers and ’85 Bears: Best of the 80s Bull Market Era. Who’s Better?
Published on: 30th June, 2010
Many NFL fans, when encouraged, will immediately rank the 1985 Chicago Bears with its 18-1 record as the best team in the XLV years of the Super Bowl super era. These '85 Bears could outscore any team, but it was their in-your-face-and-in-your-place 46 defense that was the final arbiter. I don't ...1986 New York Giants: Third Best Team of the 80s Bull Market Era
Published on: 26th June, 2010
It's a great quarterback nickname, coined by the cynical New Yorkers of the late 1970s. "Parkway Joe" Pisarcik, was described by the tabloids' sportswriters as "the bargain basement quarterback." No $427,000 bonus here. No photographs of Parkway on...a Parkway. No Super Bowl victory guarantees. No Super Bowls. Then, the following year it ...1983 LA Raiders: Fourth Best Team in the ’80s Bull Market Era
Published on: 21st June, 2010
I’ll say this: If the 1983 Raiders are the fourth best team in the 1982-1987 Bull Market Era, the other three must have been coached by Saint Peter with Moses as the offensive line. But Raiders fans instead have Al Davis: owner; president; play caller; iconoclast; baby, just win, baby, because Al has an ...The Four Best NFL Teams of the 80s Bull Market Era: An Introduction
Published on: 17th June, 2010
Wall $treet and its denizens set the tone for a short period in United States history during which everything (except Democrats) had nads. Have you watched AMC's Mad Men ? Great show. Well, the 80s as a decade, especially 1982 through 1987, was the perpetually prepared Don Draper on a daily ...Featured Sponsors
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