Examining their nadir and the plummet and where they are and can go. It is pay I know, but the athletic is fantastic.
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An excerpt:
One WVU staffer likened the aftermath to walking through a stadium of zombies — fans staring into nothingness, their eyes lifeless, their souls crushed. Mozes, a rookie with the Vikings at the time, was coping with his own case of shell shock 900-plus miles away.
“I’ll never forget watching in Minnesota, and I felt that loss — like, really felt it — and I wasn’t even there,” he said. “Here I’m thinking that we’re going to the national championship, and I was running my mouth like crazy before that game. Then we lost, and the vets just got down my throat!”
Michigan offered its job to Rodriguez 10 days later, and this time there was no hesitation. The loyalty angle vanished as fans’ shock over the Pitt debacle turned to anger.
West Virginia football: After decade adrift, can Mountaineers find old magic?
Through 10 seasons in the Big 12, West Virginia hasn’t finished higher than third. Can the football program snap out of its current funk?
theathletic.com
An excerpt:
One WVU staffer likened the aftermath to walking through a stadium of zombies — fans staring into nothingness, their eyes lifeless, their souls crushed. Mozes, a rookie with the Vikings at the time, was coping with his own case of shell shock 900-plus miles away.
“I’ll never forget watching in Minnesota, and I felt that loss — like, really felt it — and I wasn’t even there,” he said. “Here I’m thinking that we’re going to the national championship, and I was running my mouth like crazy before that game. Then we lost, and the vets just got down my throat!”
Michigan offered its job to Rodriguez 10 days later, and this time there was no hesitation. The loyalty angle vanished as fans’ shock over the Pitt debacle turned to anger.
