Topic: Let it die: WVU-MU not worthy

[W0lfman]

Let it die: WVU-MU not worthy
By DAVE POE

When West Virginia University and Marshall University began negotiating to play an annual football series, I was one of the earliesst and most enthusaistic supporters of that effort.

Why shouldn't the only major state universities play each other in football, I reasoned.

They ...

http://newsandsentinel.com/page/content.detail/id/532343.html?nav=5064

[Thunders]

THis guy is not so smart. Look at the beginnings of every in state rival game and you will see dominaton by one school or the other. It happens in every rivalry. Later down the road the power switches and the games become more competitive. It is just the way it happens.

When they started this series Marshall just came off a winning streak of multiple years and WVU was just going into its winning streak. MU has been down and WVU has been better than they had ever been in their history. Had the series been started in the late 90s and continued until now it would be a different story and the series would probably almost be tied or very close to being tied. It is just a matter of one school being down and the other being up. All rivalries usually start out this way. Just so happens MU has been down during the series.

[dgparent]

 I like this part - maybe if they did not playus they could get ranked playing Coastal Carolina twice

"Beating Marshall does nothing for WVU's quest to be nationally ranked. It hurts the Mountaineers' strength of schedule. Dropping the Herd would allow West Virginia to pursue stronger opponents from bigger, more prestigious conferences."

[morpheus]

Poe has been nothing but A WHO homer idiot since he started writing.  Don't see any change in that department.  Let them go if other "BIG NAME' schools want to play them.  The other schools probably look at it as an easy win.

[DC01HERD]

Sometimes I wished  Marshall just played 4 straight times in Morgantown from 97-00. We wouldn't have to put up with articles like this! They hit a homerun with Rich Rod and we struck out with Snyder.

[W0lfman]

Spot on DC and Thunders! 

[mckayt]

I probably shouldn't have, but I sent an email to that idiot:

Go Mountaineers, right Dave?  Your whole article speaks of only the benefits and detriments to WVU.  What about Marshall?  What about what is good and bad for Marshall?  What if you ask Marshall fans if they want to continue the series?  What would ten Marshall fans say if you asked them?  Last year's game was in a pouring cold rain and the WVU students decided to stay home.  Is that Marshall's fault?  Marshall has not been competitive?  Marshall has had one hand tied behind their back with Coach Snyder and WVU has had arguably the best teams they have ever fielded.  It's obvious that you have spent a lot of time on the WVU message boards and written your article straight from those delusional thoughts and ideas.  It's very obvious that you are not an unbiased writer, you are a Mountaineer fan who happens to be a writer.

Go Herd!!

[W0lfman]

I think you did right.  I'd be interested in hearing his response to you.

[Slice11]

Just another reason I stopped getting the Parkersburg paper

[BHFIOHIO]

from here on out I don't reply to trolls, pot stirrers or any Qu-eers unless I perceive they actually know as much as I do about the whole deal with USPAM and about CFB in general....most of these guys would take pencil and paper and an hour to tell you the 12 teams in one of the major confs........I don't have time for the panty waist crowd.

[Porkopolis]

Dave Poe is a second-rate reporter for a second-rate paper. While growing up I read the morning and afternoon Parkersburg papers.  My parents had subscriptions to both and also read the Marietta Times.  Now they--and many others I know--subscribe to none of them.  The WVU homerism in Poe's writing grows worse as the years progress; I'm not sure why we even care what he has to say to a crowd that largely agrees with him.

[HerdnClt]

Never heard of the Dude. Seems clueless. Powers such as Liberty could certainly be added every year. Go Coastal!

[HerdEcon]

Anyone else think it's interesting how Marshall hire an AD and head football coach who finally have Marshall headed in the right direction and the WVU crowd starts crying louder about how it's time to end the annual series?  Are they afraid of something?

WVU has peaked and is now headed down hill back their normal level of play.  Marshall is coming off the it's worse run of the modern era and just now (hopefully) beginning to turn it around and climb back up to being heart breakers.  WVU fans are trying to end this series before both teams get back to where they should be and Marshall starts taking WVU to the woodshed. 

[WV_Dave]

  "When West Virginia University and Marshall University began negotiating to play an annual football series, I was one of the earliesst and most enthusaistic supporters of that effort." 

  Earliesst?  Enthusaistic?  When was the last time you saw a column's topic sentence with not one, but TWO misspelled words?  Even those of us who use message boards understand how to spell check -- awful.

  I'll give Poe this -- he tried, but failed, to quickly change the conversation back to ripping on the Marshall series, while his "10 random Mountaineer fans" were far more interested today in reading why Bob Huggins can't manage to stay upright for more than a week at a time.

 

 

             

[GreenSteve]

  "When West Virginia University and Marshall University began negotiating to play an annual football series, I was one of the earliesst and most enthusaistic supporters of that effort." 

  Earliesst?  Enthusaistic?  When was the last time you saw a column's topic sentence with not one, but TWO misspelled words?  Even those of us who use message boards understand how to spell check -- awful.

  I'll give Poe this -- he tried, but failed, to quickly change the conversation back to ripping on the Marshall series, while his "10 random Mountaineer fans" were far more interested today in reading why Bob Huggins can't manage to stay upright for more than a week at a time.

 

 

             

LOL!  ;D

[Herdmeister]

Here is the e-mail I sent him.  I have sent him many, but NEVER a reply.

It is so sad that the poor people in Parkersburg that used to read the writing of a giant like Jim Snyder, are stuck with someone like you now. How sad.....

When I was a high school student in New Martinsville and a sports writer in Wheeling, I uesd to look at Jim as an inspiration. I'm sure that there are no local Parkersburg kids that look to you as an inspiration.

You are such a wvu homer. Is there every any objectivity in your writing? Did they just go ahead and send your sisters paycheck to you instead?

[marcbuff]

Guys, when it comes to reading POE's articles just one word - NEVERMORE ;D

[Gaylen]

Here is the e-mail I sent him.  I have sent him many, but NEVER a reply.

It is so sad that the poor people in Parkersburg that used to read the writing of a giant like Jim Snyder, are stuck with someone like you now. How sad.....

When I was a high school student in New Martinsville and a sports writer in Wheeling, I uesd to look at Jim as an inspiration. I'm sure that there are no local Parkersburg kids that look to you as an inspiration.

You are such a wvu homer. Is there every any objectivity in your writing? Did they just go ahead and send your sisters paycheck to you instead?

Herdmeister, the whole Parkersburg and Wheeling newspaper group are WVU "homers" going even so far as to publish a weekly WVU football section inserted into those newspapers during the fall.
I am not surprised by the article. Frankly I am surprised Marshall was even mentioned by name.
By the way Dave is a good guy and most of the time very objective in his writings. But he does write for the home audience and that, alas, is the WVU fan base.

[marcbuff]

Meister- Did you work in Wheeling when Don Daniels was there? Remember that " I Beat Don Daniels " contest?  LOL I had about a million of those buttons.

[W0lfman]

  "When West Virginia University and Marshall University began negotiating to play an annual football series, I was one of the earliesst and most enthusaistic supporters of that effort." 

  Earliesst?  Enthusaistic?  When was the last time you saw a column's topic sentence with not one, but TWO misspelled words?  Even those of us who use message boards understand how to spell check -- awful.

  I'll give Poe this -- he tried, but failed, to quickly change the conversation back to ripping on the Marshall series, while his "10 random Mountaineer fans" were far more interested today in reading why Bob Huggins can't manage to stay upright for more than a week at a time.
        

Coming from you makes it more emphatic, Dave.

[Gaylen]

Here is the e-mail I sent him.  I have sent him many, but NEVER a reply.

It is so sad that the poor people in Parkersburg that used to read the writing of a giant like Jim Snyder, are stuck with someone like you now. How sad.....

When I was a high school student in New Martinsville and a sports writer in Wheeling, I uesd to look at Jim as an inspiration. I'm sure that there are no local Parkersburg kids that look to you as an inspiration.

You are such a wvu homer. Is there every any objectivity in your writing? Did they just go ahead and send your sisters paycheck to you instead?

Herdmeister, the whole Parkersburg and Wheeling newspaper group are WVU "homers" going even so far as to publish a weekly WVU football section inserted into those newspapers during the fall.
I am not surprised by the article. Frankly I am surprised Marshall was even mentioned by name.
By the way Dave is a good guy and most of the time very objective in his writings. But he does write for the home audience and that, alas, is the WVU fan base.