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Friday, February 17th, 2012
While some teams have been unable to orchestrate switching conferences due to buyouts and such, West Virginia announced this week that it settled a lawsuit with the Big East in order to make the move to the Big 12 this fall. Mountaineers athletic director Oliver Luck wouldn't release the settlement ...
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Monday, November 28th, 2011
It seemed like a forgone conclusion that Rich Rodriguez would get back into coaching, it was simply a matter of when and where. Those questions were answered last week when Rodriguez was hired as the next coach at Arizona, taking over for the fired Mike Stoops.
Now there will be plenty ...
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Monday, November 7th, 2011
West Virginia filed a lawsuit last week against the Big East, a move intended to help them find a way to leave the conference without serving the 27-month waiting period required by the league's bylaws. In general, the lawsuit claims that the Big East is in breach of contract because ...
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Monday, October 31st, 2011
Bob Huggins is headed back to the Big 12 Conference. Huggins coached Kansas State during the 2006-07 season before leaving for West Virginia, which last week announced that it will leave the Big East for the Big 12.
For Huggins and the Mountaineers basketball program, that doesn't seem like such a ...
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Monday, July 11th, 2011
Dana Holgorsen says he's simply ready to look to the future now that he's the coach at West Virginia. And, after all the drama that led to the coach-in-waiting not having to wait as long as expected, who can really blame him?
Holgorsen was supposed to be the offensive coordinator and ...
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Thursday, June 9th, 2011
Adam Jones knows a thing or two about being a college football star. Then known by the moniker, "Pacman," Jones was a standout player at West Virginia, a player that stormed onto the scene thanks to his athletic, highlight-reel plays. Those plays also made him a big man on campus.
Now ...
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Wednesday, June 8th, 2011
Where to start with this one. First of all, you learn something new every day. At least I did. I had no idea that Andrew Luck's father was an athletic director at a BCS school. Luck, the Stanford Cardinal quarterback who opted to return to Palo Alto for his redshirt ...
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Wednesday, March 16th, 2011
The NCAA Tournament officially got underway last night with the “First Four.” UNC Asheville beat Arkansas Little Rock and then Clemson whipped UAB, who looked like a team that didn’t belong in the tournament. Probably because they didn’t belong in the tournament. Now that Clemson won, West Virginia knows who ...
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Friday, December 17th, 2010
Just recently, universities have begun to hire or promote a coach to work as an assistant for the time being with the intention for that person to take over as head coach in the future. We have seen it with Joker Phillips at Kentucky, Bret Bielema at Wisconsin, as well ...
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Thursday, August 26th, 2010
Last year West Virginia was going through a little transitional phase and it was a rollercoaster ride of a season. The Mountaineers were heading into the year trying to replace Steve Slaton and Pat White. That’s not an easy task for any team to do and the Mountaineers found that ...
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