Topic: UCONN fans being very disrespectful about Marshall and WV as a state..

[The E-Man]

UCONN fans are being very disrespectful about Marshall and our great state.
Nothing can make my Christmas more cheerful, than beating these wanna be BIG TIME PRICKS! UCONN is well known for basketball and hoops alone.. Their fans seem to think, their football team deserves the same props.

http://the-boneyard.com/forums/uconn-football.2/

[Scottyo614]

I see two real threads on the game. The one with 4 pgs there's a guy mentioning Marshall is disrespectful toward UCONN and many who can't get over the Fiesta Bowl. The other thread the guy who started it just did the stereotype thing trying to be funny. Kinda played out and old but that's what people do.

On another note, have you ever seen two fan basis with such similar reactions? They are like no way can I fly the day after Christmas to watch UCONN play Marshall, bowl system a scam, and so on. We have many saying the same things about UCONN lol. I don't even think they care this games going on on that forum. Maybe they will watch the fiesta bowl replay and pretend it's a bowl this year.

[Ovaltine Jenkins]

If this is the most negative tone, no big deal.  In fact I thought a couple of the jabs were funny.  But the poster was complimentary of Huntington residents.

Serious observations
1. The airplane tragedy that befell their football program still hangs over that town palpably.
2. The airport is perched on top of a mountain. Scariest place I've ever flown into
3. People in Huntington are some of the nicest people you will ever meet

Poking fun a bit
1. Main road is Hal Greer Boulevard - Huntington's most famous native son
2. I once ate at a restaurant across the street from Marshall. Across the other intersection is a river. As I'm ordering my dinner, this guy comes up over the river bank...barefooted, no shirt on and jeans with a big ass catfish in his hands that he caught barehanded. Needless to say I ordered chicken
3. Huntington is on the border of Kentucky, Ohio and WV. Many 'hill people'. Once went to a summer concert series there. Molly Hatchett was playing and I was flirtin with disaster
4. Had a meeting scheduled with the CFO of my client at the end of the business day. He had to leave a little early for his nephew's birthday party. So I asked benignly how old his nephew was.... He was 45. I kid you not. Insert your West Virginia stereotypical joke here.  :)

Think we beat em by 10

[MarshallGrad]

From their board:

The Disrespect Marshall keeps showing is ridiculous, Or at least their indifference towards us... Just shows we gotta roll them down in Tampa and soon we'll be saying "Marshall WHO?"

I suppose turn-around is fair play. I don't really see too much negative either way. Not like it will become a rivalry or anything. A post season game for the fun of it.

[SuperAnjario]

My thoughts:

I think it's cool and indicative of our program's growth that we (some fans) can disregard and almost look down on UConn's football team.  Not a storied program, but UConn is, by any measure, a wealthy school in a wealthy area with some name recognition.

I also think it's cool that UConn takes offense that we're not taking them that seriously (some fans, not the team).

[coloradoherd]

Considering the total year we had, I'm happy with an AAC matchup.  Better than another MAC team.  UConn doesn't have a great football program, but they do have name recognition. 

I have a lot of respect for UConn.  But it is crazy that some of their fans just think they're gonna roll over us.  A lot of talk coming from a team that has been in FBS for an even shorter time than us, and was left behind when the Big East ended. 

[SuperAnjario]

I have a lot of respect for UConn.  But it is crazy that some of their fans just think they're gonna roll over us.  A lot of talk coming from a team that has been in FBS for an even shorter time than us, and was left behind when the Big East ended. 

That sentiment is a little silly.  All metrics and Vegas favor the Herd.  On paper, we're the better team IMO, too.

[bbcard1]

As a fan base, we have a pretty thin skin and are easily offended as a general rule.

[SuperAnjario]

All fan bases have a pretty thin skin and are easily offended as a general rule.

Fixed it!  I think we're just like everyone else in that regard.

[The E-Man]

As a fan base, we have a pretty thin skin and are easily offended as a general rule.

Here's a few quotes from their fans, " You smell them before you see them",
" And 4 teeth..."the typical inbred insults, and many more I've read about Huntington and the state. The Huskies Fans are some very arrogant asshol*s!

[iherdya]

Here's a few quotes from their fans, " You smell them before you see them",
" And 4 teeth..."the typical inbred insults, and many more I've read about Huntington and the state. The Huskies Fans are some very arrogant asshol*s!

eh, don't get so worked up about what random people, you don't even know, think.

[The E-Man]

eh, don't get so worked up about what random people, you don't even know, think.

Trust me, I'm not worked up...lol..just a reminder of what West Virginian's face on a daily basis being stereotyped by ignorant people.

[wferg]

Maryland thought they were going to roll over us so not surprised that some of UCONN's fans think similarly.

[svherd]

That sentiment is a little silly.  All metrics and Vegas favor the Herd.  On paper, we're the better team IMO, too.

As we know, they don't play 'em on paper.

[herdgameplan]

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[Big Ol' Hillbilly]

Trust me, I'm not worked up...lol..just a reminder of what West Virginian's face on a daily basis being stereotyped by ignorant people.

I've never lived outside the state lines of WV, but from what I see on a day to day basis compared to what I see when I leave the state of WV, much of the stuff is well deserved. Anybody who lives in the southern half of WV and claims that they don't see a bunch of toothless hill jacks everywhere they go, must not leave their houses often. Be real, folks.

[wferg]

I've never lived outside the state lines of WV, but from what I see on a day to day basis compared to what I see when I leave the state of WV, much of the stuff is well deserved. Anybody who lives in the southern half of WV and claims that they don't see a bunch of toothless hill jacks everywhere they go, must not leave their houses often. Be real, folks.

Those aren't toothless hill jacks, they are meth heads and they are found everywhere.

[FlyHawk98]

My wife is not from around here, something she asked me..... "Why do all these guys walk around in blue jeans with their shirts off?" It was until that moment (a few summers back) that I realized, you don't see that in other places.

Go to wal mart here and your lucky if some people are wearing clean pajamas. Now I look and notice in other places and most people have a shower and know how to use it.

I always heard how obese our area was, but I never truly paid attention. Next time you go somewhere else, look and notice how fit most other places are. If not fit, they at least look like they can fit through a normal size door.

I love West Virginia and would not want to live anywhere else, but the truth is the truth.

[Big Ol' Hillbilly]

My wife is not from around here, something she asked me..... "Why do all these guys walk around in blue jeans with their shirts off?" It was until that moment (a few summers back) that I realized, you don't see that in other places.

Go to wal mart here and your lucky if some people are wearing clean pajamas. Now I look and notice in other places and most people have a shower and know how to use it.

I always heard how obese our area was, but I never truly paid attention. Next time you go somewhere else, look and notice how fit most other places are. If not fit, they at least look like they can fit through a normal size door.

I love West Virginia and would not want to live anywhere else, but the truth is the truth.

Thank you for being real. All the points I was trying to make. Glad you chimed in before everyone bombarded me about "how it's the same everywhere". My wife is not from WV and we travel ALOT. It's not everywhere. Maybe small pockets everywhere else, but not the high rate it is here. There is a bright yellow huge penis spray painted on an empty black billboard in St. Albans right off from rt. 60. It's been there well over a month. Anywhere else would have had enough pride to have it removed by now. My wife's relatives came in from Indiana and her aunt stepped out of her car onto a dirty diaper in a parking lot. Not only was she repulsed, she was in shock when we told her that was pretty common around here. Lol

[2xBison]

Maybe she should visit a few of Indianas arm pits

[FlyHawk98]

Maybe she should visit a few of Indianas arm pits

Been all over Indiana. In fact, been all over the South and Midwest. Only made a few trips to the West Coast.

Either way, yes of course, every state will have their areas. Heck, every area will have their few people like this.

The difference, is that our area is like some sort of attractant to those kinds of people.

[Big Ol' Hillbilly]

The difference, is that our area is like some sort of attractant to those kinds of people.

It's the culture... The mindset.

When i go back to where I'm originally from which is about 10-15 minutes south of Charleston, I feel like I need to eat a whole bottle of Prozac. It's depressing, man. Nasty run down crap hole houses and trailers covered in mold and filth and trash and broken plastic wal mart toys piled up everywhere. These were once nice houses when I was growing up, then the people I grew up with inherited them and they're too lazy and worthless to have any pride. If they put half as much effort into taking pride in themselves as they do scoring their next drug, they'd accomplish something.

Before everybody starts thinking I'm trying to sound like an elitist or whatnot, trust me, I'm not. My grandpa lived in a 1962 model trailer till the day he died. He had a saying "You can't help it if you're poor, but you can help it if you're dirty. Soap and elbow grease are cheap."

It's not our parent's generation's fault. It's our worthless, lazy generation's.

[MarshallGrad]

Trust me, I'm not worked up...lol..just a reminder of what West Virginian's face on a daily basis being stereotyped by ignorant people.

E-Man, you know that there are a lot of similar inbred insults about West Virginians right here on our own board. It is unfortunate but common.

[Herd 90]

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[Greg H]

Hillbilly for governor.  Seriously.

We need to take pride, rather than offense.