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Friday, February 15th, 2013
There are over two months until this year's NFL Draft. One thing that is becoming very apparent is that this year won't be like last year. At this point a year ago, the No. 1 pick was already solidified -- Andrew Luck to the Colts was just a formality. This ...
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Thursday, October 25th, 2012
For most of the early part of the season, it looked like West Virginia quarterback Geno Smith might be the run-away winner of the Heisman Trophy. Two weeks, and two Mountaineers losses, later, the new front-runner is Collin Klein, who dismantled that West Virginia team on Saturday, accounting for seven ...
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Friday, October 19th, 2012
West Virginia announced its arrival into the Big 12 by beating Baylor and then going on the road to beat Texas, but that momentum came to a screeching halt when the Mountaineers lost to Texas Tech, 29-14, last weekend. But that result has to be a thing of the past ...
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Friday, October 5th, 2012
Two years ago it appeared that the Texas Longhorns' long history of success had hit a bit of a road block. Even coach Mack Brown admits he didn't do his job very well and had to refocus heading into last season. It certainly wasn't all roses, but the team finished ...
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Friday, September 28th, 2012
Dana Holgorsen knows what the Big 12 is all about. West Virginia's head coach was an assistant at Texas Tech from 2000-2007, so he knows the style of football and knows plenty of the coaching staffs that have firmly entrenched themselves in the conference.
There are things Holgorsen can pass along ...
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Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012
The last time we saw the West Virginia Mountaineers football team, they were stomping Clemson 70-33 to cap off a solid season with a dominating Orange Bowl performance. That was enough for coach Dana Holgorsen to not even show his guys the film when they came back to campus in ...
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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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