The Antagonism Thread

[mjah]

Hey, I finally found that Morgantown Gardens postcard.

http://www.uploadfile.info/uploads/18a1fdd517.jpg

[PleaseBlitz]

Ralph Friedgen's Scale

http://www.wemustignitethiscouch.com/uploads/photos/101.png

[mjah]

You've already used that one.

Plus, you forgot to mention that it's the SECOND time the needle went around, as you noted in the past.

You're slipping, man. BUCKLE DOWN.

[PleaseBlitz]

You've already used that one.

Plus, you forgot to mention that it's the SECOND time the needle went around, as you noted in the past.

You're slipping, man. BUCKLE DOWN.


I think it was EersSkin that used it considering I stole that off of his website. :laugh:


Get a hobby!

[mjah]

Ah, so that was EersSkins'. I should have used passive voice, then: It has already been used.

Get a hobby!
:laugh:

I'm happy to see you enjoyed that thread too. What a maroon that guy is.

[mjah]

Mobile Home Star Runner

http://www.uploadfile.info/uploads/04109d07e4.gif

[PleaseBlitz]

http://www.sptimes.com/News/040301/photos/spts-trophy.jpg

[PleaseBlitz]

Cheaters (http://users.adelphia.net/~jayntiff/media/vtoops.wmv)



...

[mjah]

Even I have a hard time figuring out what dook has to do with this thread, as there aren't many dook fans around here to antagonize (especially after March).

But as I'm a team player, here's another photo of dook success...

http://www.81x.com/Authors/mrjah/dukemvp.jpg

And a classic image of dook's dominance in the NBA...

http://www.81x.com/Authors/mrjah/dunl.jpg

But anyway, now back to antagonism of folks who actually show their faces around here on a regular basis... :cheers:

[PleaseBlitz]

Even I have a hard time figuring out what dook has to do with this thread, as there aren't many dook fans around here to antagonize (especially after March).



My picture was of Duke winning the National Championship. Is wasnt intended to antagonize Duke fans. It was intended to antagonize Maryland fans. :D

[Diggs]

And a classic image of dook's dominance in the NBA...

http://www.81x.com/Authors/mrjah/dunl.jpg

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

Dude got roundhouse kicked Chuck Norris style!

[TheSteve]

My picture was of Duke winning the National Championship. Is wasnt intended to antagonize Duke fans. It was intended to antagonize Maryland fans. :D

Maryland's last national title came more recently than Duke's last cutting down of the nets. :rolleyes:

[mjah]

Maryland's last national title
You mean the four national titles this year?

Oh, wait, you mean the recent basketball national title.

The one this year, right?

Oh, wait, you mean the recent men's basketball national title.

This one:

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/basketball/college/2002/ncaa_tourney/news/2002/04/01/maryland_indiana_ap/lg_dixon_all-01.jpg

http://www.urhome.umd.edu/marylandimages/image/fs/510.jpg

Wait, Duke who?

Oh, that same Duke that Maryland beat in two of this year's national title games?

Yeah, I've heard of them. I think. ;)

Oh -- and in case there are any Indiana fans around here...

http://www2.indystar.com/library/factfiles/sports/basketball/college/iu/moye.jpg

[EersSkins05]

Referee has a talk with Maryland Head Coach, Ralph Friedgen:

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j238/Beeeyeatch/ralph-2.jpg

[mjah]

And speaking of head coaches:

http://img462.imageshack.us/img462/830/unclerichrod7wa.jpg

[mjah]

I just read a very interesting article (see link below.) According to public health records, West Virginia leads the Big East, and occasionally the nation, in:

- Toothless fans per capita
- Trailer homes per capita
- Lack of education per capita

So maybe those aren't vicious, untrue rumors after all!

I'll have to keep this article in my back pocket for future reference.

Of particular interest: 43% of West Virginians have lost at least one of their original adult teeth, making them the most toothless fanbase in the country. By contrast, Maryland ranks highest in the ACC for tooth retention.

That Article (http://www.everydayshouldbesaturday.com/?p=2195#more-2195)

[PleaseBlitz]

I just read a very interesting article (see link below.) According to public health records, West Virginia leads the Big East, and occasionally the nation, in:

- Toothless fans per capita
- Trailer homes per capita
- Lack of education per capita

So maybe those aren't vicious, untrue rumors after all!

I'll have to keep this article in my back pocket for future reference.

Of particular interest: 43% of West Virginians have lost at least one of their original adult teeth, making them the most toothless fanbase in the country. By contrast, Maryland ranks highest in the ACC for tooth retention.

That Article (http://www.everydayshouldbesaturday.com/?p=2195#more-2195)


So that article assumes that every West Virginian goes to WVU and that all WVU students are from West Virginia? Thats pretty smart.



The Princeton Review:
"Top Party Schools" 1997 (Coincidently the first year I got there. :) )

1. West Virginia U.
2. U. of Wisconsin at Madison
3. State U. of New York at Albany
4. U. of Colorado at Boulder
5. Trinity College (Conn.)
6. Florida State U.
7. Emory U.
8. U. of Kansas
9. U. of Vermont
10. Louisiana State U. at Baton Rouge

http://chronicle.com/free/v44/i02/02a06701.htm

[mjah]

So that article assumes that every West Virginian goes to WVU and that all WVU students are from West Virginia? Thats pretty smart.

Nope. It implicates WVU, Marshall, etc. fans as, by and large, residents of the state of West Virginia. In fact, the authors mention that explicitly in the article.

But WVU is a flagship and academic face of the state -- a face without teeth, of course (http://www.statemaster.com/graph/hea_ora_hea_los_of_nat_tee--oral-loss-natural-teeth).

West Virginia's reputation as a top party school must be a source of pride for the most uneducated populace in the Big East (http://www.statemaster.com/graph/edu_bes_edu_ind-education-best-educated-index).

:D <-- Smiley face with teeth, not from WV

[PleaseBlitz]

Nope. It implicates WVU, Marshall, etc. fans as, by and large, residents of the state of West Virginia. In fact, the authors mention that explicitly in the article.

But WVU is a flagship and academic face of the state -- a face without teeth, of course (http://www.statemaster.com/graph/hea_ora_hea_los_of_nat_tee--oral-loss-natural-teeth).

West Virginia's reputation as a top party school must be a source of pride for the most uneducated populace in the Big East (http://www.statemaster.com/graph/edu_bes_edu_ind-education-best-educated-index).

:D <-- Smiley face with teeth, not from WV


Yeah yeah yeah. Assuming that the majority of WVU students are from West Virginia is wrong.

West Virginias reputation as a top party school is a source of pride. College is supposed to be fun. There is more to life than books, riots, hating Duke, and remembering back to when the basketball team was decent. :D

[mjah]

Is WVU's reputation as a third-tier school also a source of pride?

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: <-- One per tier

[PleaseBlitz]

Is WVU's reputation as a third-tier school also a source of pride?

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: <-- One per tier



Right, cause UMD is considered a great school. :laugh:


FEAR THE TURTLE! :rotflmao:

[Diggs]

Nope. It implicates WVU, Marshall, etc. fans as, by and large, residents of the state of West Virginia. In fact, the authors mention that explicitly in the article.

But WVU is a flagship and academic face of the state -- a face without teeth, of course (http://www.statemaster.com/graph/hea_ora_hea_los_of_nat_tee--oral-loss-natural-teeth).

West Virginia's reputation as a top party school must be a source of pride for the most uneducated populace in the Big East (http://www.statemaster.com/graph/edu_bes_edu_ind-education-best-educated-index).

:D <-- Smiley face with teeth, not from WV

Ralph Friedgen is a big fatty. He is the coach of the University of Maryland, which could be called the "face of Maryland." Conclusion: All Maryland natives and residents are big fatties. :doh:

http://www.maximonline.com/shared_images/blogimages/friedjelly.jpg

[PleaseBlitz]

Ralph Friedgen is a big fatty. He is the coach of the University of Maryland, which could be called the "face of Maryland." Conclusion: All Maryland natives and residents are big fatties. :doh:

http://www.maximonline.com/shared_images/blogimages/friedjelly.jpg



Or all Maryland natives look like Moe.

http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2003/Mar-20-Thu-2003/photos/acc1.jpg http://goodtimesgoodtimes.typepad.com/goodtimesgoodtimes/images/moe.JPG


:silly: :laugh:

[mjah]

Let's not pretend that Maryland and West Virginia share academic reputations. That's laughable.

Here's what US News says about various public universities in the region...

West Virginia: Third tier of national universities. Endowment: $2.6 million :doh:

Maryland, VT, Virginia, UNC, PSU, Delaware, NC State, Kentucky: First tier of national universities. Endowments: $Hundreds of milliions

Now, whether you put much stock in US News or not, among those of us who are rational there is absolutely no denying that there is a gargantuan rift between WVU and those insitutions it would accidentally refer to as "peers."

And how about that $2.6 million endowment. Seriously, is that a typo? I had no idea that WVU's endowment is less than that of West Virginia State, who has $2.7 million and who US News doesn't even list as a "national" school. Doesn't anyone in the state of West Virginia give money to their school's general fund? Holy cow!

I mean, I thought Maryland's was bad at only $300 million (it should be at least $500 million in my opinion).

No wonder nobody ever mentions the WVU endowment. It basically doesn't exist!

But hey, at least the sports have been good recently. :laugh:

[EersSkins05]

Not surprisingly, the University of Maryland leads the nation in the all-telling pretentiousness/reason to be pretentious ratio index at a stunning 250 pretentious ***holes per 1 person with a reason to be pretentious.

:D

[EersSkins05]

BTW, Mjah- your stats are flat-out, mind-numbingly, hokie4redskins-esquely wrong when it comes to the endowment:

http://www.wvuf.wvnet.edu/news/041806-endowment.htm

(EDIT- Criticize other aspects of the school, but if you're going to point out the endowment, make sure that you're not criticizing an endowment that is $75 million more than your own school... lol)

[mjah]

Oh, just saw your arguments regarding the Fridge and Gary. Compelling.

You're arguing that an individual Maryland resident's physical traits do not represent those of the entire state. Any reasonable person would agree.

(They might also point out that according to the CDC 25% of the state of West Virginia is clinically obese, making it the second fattest state in the country after Mississippi. :laugh: )

I'm arguing that West Virginia's toothlessness, lack of education and preponderance of trailer homes -- as measured over the population of the entire state -- are indeed a reflection of the entire state's toothlessness, lack of education, and preponderance of trailer homes. It's hard to argue that one, even with the type of, um, "flexible" logic skills one apparently takes home from a third-tier university.

So, maybe you should either concede the point or actually argue it. :laugh:

And I enjoyed the earlier argument that "Well, a bunch of WVU students aren't even from West Virginia." Way to throw the rest of the state under the bus. But what are the actual in-state vs. out-of-state statistics? I actually don't know this and didn't find it during a quick Google search.

[mjah]

BTW, Mjah- your stats are flat-out, mind-numbingly, hokie4redskins-esquely wrong when it comes to the endowment:
You'd better call US News, then. Because either they count endowments in a very, very different way from WVU, or there's something strange at play. At best, it's some admin assistant's typo.

Seriously, I would call them. $2.6 million? Something is funny there.

I obviously won't poke more fun at the endowment -- it was a surprisingly small number and I'm not terribly surprised that it was wrong.

But I am surprised at how little WVU seems to have achieved with so much money.

Or is the WVU's third tier ranking a typo, too? :laugh:

Gotta run for a while -- more fun later, maybe tonight. We also need to get back to the direct link and Photoshop nature of this thread, or else this will turn into the same argument thread we always get around here.

Smell ya later.

[PleaseBlitz]

Let's not pretend that Maryland and West Virginia share academic reputations. That's laughable.

Here's what US News says about various public universities in the region...

West Virginia: Third tier of national universities. Endowment: $2.6 million :doh:

Maryland, VT, Virginia, UNC, PSU, Delaware, NC State, Kentucky: First tier of national universities. Endowments: $Hundreds of milliions

Now, whether you put much stock in US News or not, among those of us who are rational there is absolutely no denying that there is a gargantuan rift between WVU and those insitutions it would accidentally refer to as "peers."

And how about that $2.6 million endowment. Seriously, is that a typo? I had no idea that WVU's endowment is less than that of West Virginia State, who has $2.7 million and who US News doesn't even list as a "national" school. Doesn't anyone in the state of West Virginia give money to their school's general fund? Holy cow!

I mean, I thought Maryland's was bad at only $300 million (it should be at least $500 million in my opinion).

No wonder nobody ever mentions the WVU endowment. It basically doesn't exist!

But hey, at least the sports have been good recently. :laugh:

BTW, Mjah- your stats are flat-out, mind-numbingly, hokie4redskins-esquely wrong when it comes to the endowment:

http://www.wvuf.wvnet.edu/news/041806-endowment.htm

(EDIT- Criticize other aspects of the school, but if you're going to point out the endowment, make sure that you're not criticizing an endowment that is $75 million more than your own school... lol)

Mjah has been......

http://hof44.smugmug.com/photos/76094321-L.jpg

[SkinsHokieFan]

Lets antagonize the boo-hoos, its much more fun

Here is their new uniform for the 2006 season

http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/3717/uva9me.jpg

[EersSkins05]

Lets antagonize the boo-hoos, its much more fun

Here is their new uniform for the 2006 season

http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/3717/uva9me.jpg

:laugh:

[hokie4redskins]

Little late to this one, but "esquely"?

There are probably a thousand reasons ACC never EVER considered WVU during expansion. Academics being one of them.

[mjah]

Ownage "smack" from a third-tier school... That's rich! :laugh:

Your exalted alma mater can't even be bothered to send the right numbers to US News and you want to pawn that off on someone from a school that can actually count?

WVU got...

http://home.houston.rr.com/jeffnamy/photogallery/Hostonly/Owned/Selfowned.jpg


Incidentally, I saw this magnetic ribbon on the back of a UVA alum's car the other day:

http://www.81x.com/Authors/mrjah/iwearthistofootballgames.jpg

[Diggs]

WVU might not be in the same galaxy as Ivy league but Christ, stop pretending any of these other schools are sniffing academic greatness compared to the real elite Universities. At least WVU fans don't go around with our noses up. This sounds like an argument by the 'Hoos.

WVU might be "3rd Tier" but we hold our own. WVU has a had 25 Rhodes Scholars which is more than the rest of the BIG EAST combined. But meh, I don't jump up and down over academics. And WVU has done me just swell written on my resume when I was interviewing for jobs. Hell, my boss had a daughter who went to VT and I even took a shot at the Hokies during my interview! :laugh:

[mjah]

I think you missed the title of the thread. ;)

Oh, and it just occurred to me that a brilliant Rhodes scholar candidate certainly would know exactly where to go if they really wanted to stand out from the crowd.

:silly:

[Diggs]

I think you missed the title of the thread. ;)

Oh, and it just occurred to me that a brilliant Rhodes scholar candidate certainly would know exactly where to go if they really wanted to stand out from the crowd.

:silly:


Ahh yes.

And we all know where a law abiding student athlete would want to go and stand out from the crowd. :D

http://www.virginia.org/images/VTFootballPic.jpg

[mjah]

Hmm.

WVU: nope
Maryland: nope

Where would he go?

[SkinsHokieFan]

Hmm.

WVU: nope
Maryland: nope

Where would he go?


http://www.onlinesports.com/images/tsr-umem1.jpg

[EersSkins05]

Hmm.

WVU: nope
Maryland: nope

Where would he go?

Might I take a guess?

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j238/Beeeyeatch/StraightOuttaBlacksburg.png

[mjah]

...Waiting for a VT Photoshopper to arrive with a response to that one...

Whom shall I antagonize next?

[EersSkins05]

...Waiting for a VT Photoshopper to arrive with a response to that one...

Whom shall I antagonize next?

We should have a Hokie game show where they try to guess the names of all of the guys in that picture. Some are really easy, (Vick, Beamer), some are not. All were arrested. :D

[Diggs]

Might I take a guess?

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j238/Beeeyeatch/StraightOuttaBlacksburg.png

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

http://www.daileycreative.com/Fun/Idol_Final.gif

Straight out of Blacksburg! It’s a brother that'll smother your mama!
& make your sister think I love her!
Dangerous motherf***** raises ****ing hell!
& if I ever get caught, I make bail!
See, I don't give a f***, that's the problem!
I see a motherf****** cop, I don't dodge him!


..Hmmm...Yep, sounds about right! ;)

[PleaseBlitz]

Ownage "smack" from a third-tier school... That's rich! :laugh:

Your exalted alma mater can't even be bothered to send the right numbers to US News and you want to pawn that off on someone from a school that can actually count?

WVU got...




You post a link that is obviously false, wait, you didnt even post a link :nono:, it ends up being utterly and completely wrong to the point that you made fun of WVU for having a smaller endowment than UMD (like that matters) and then when the truth is revealed and slaps you on the ass, you say I was "self-owned?" Sorry my friend, seems like you got bamboozled.

I figured someone from a top-tier :doh: school would know better. :laugh:

But hey, you always have womens basketball to keep you warm at night. :rotflmao:



OK, well, that about covers the usual suspects. Here's one for ND:

http://www.profootballtalk.com/rumormill.htm


NOTRE DAME DENIES THAT WEIS TOLD PLAYERS TO PICK AGENTS

According to the Fort Wayne (Ind.) Journal Gazette, Notre Dame denied on Monday that coach Charlie Weis has told his senior players with NFL aspirations to select agents prior to the start of the 2006 football season.

After reporting last week that quarterback Brady Quinn has honed in on agent Don Yee (at, as we've heard, the urging of both Weis and Patriots quarterback Tom Brady), we were told by a league source that Weis has given his guys the directive to pick their agents before the season begins, in order to minimize distractions. There mere fact that Quinn, who potentially will be the No. 1 overall pick in the draft, has spent time (as reported elsewhere) narrowing the universe of potential agents to six (and as we've heard unofficially cutting the list to one) tends to support the notion that Weis has put out such an edict.

But Notre Dame associate athletic director for compliance Mike Karowski says that any such suggestion is "far-fetched."

"Did I find it a little ridiculous? Yeah," Karowski said Monday. "No one from the site has called me or Charlie or anyone else asking how anything is handled."

But so what if we haven't called Charlie or Karowski? Either Weis has told his guys to pick agents early or he hasn't. The fact that we haven't dialed up someone for a self-serving perfunctory denial doesn't mean that what we've heard isn't true.

Says Karowski: "We told them they can't make the final decision or any overtures. Are some of our kids working with a list of 10 as opposed to 30, sure, it’s permissible."

"We have every confidence that Charlie knows the rules, has communicated the rules and that our compliance people are in complete concert as to what can be done and what can’t be done," added Notre Dame associate athletic director for media relations John Heisler.

The issue likely has become a sore spot in South Bend because (as we realized after hearing that Weis is telling the kids to pick agents) even a verbal agreement to retain the agent upon completion of the player's eligibility renders the player ineligible.

And it's obvious that something out of the ordinary is happening, given that Karowski has conceded at least "some of our kids" have narrowed the list of potential agents more than two months before Touchdown Jesus settles in with His popcorn for the first game of the year. If any one of those kids makes a final decision, communicates the decision to the agent, and the agent explicitly or implicitly accepts the representation, the kid technically has rendered himself ineligible.

That's why the entire notion of narrowing the list of potential agents before the start of the season seems like a bad idea to us. First of all, the flow of news is pretty slow right now for the folks who cover college football, and the fact that some Notre Dame players are whittling down their list of potential agents could prompt all sorts of sniffing around that wouldn't happen if the lists was being narrowed in October or November when the journalists are otherwise consumed with, you know, covering football games. Second, the wisest approach in any endeavor requiring compliance with rules is to figure out where the "line" is -- and to stay the hell away from it. Third, USC's experiences from April and May suggest that more and more folks are now inclined to pay attention to potential rules violations that previously were ignored.

Of course, the real question here is whether the NCAA would ever take action against its golden child. Barring blatant misconduct, we seriously doubt that the Irish would ever find themselves on the short end of an investigation -- and our guess is that the school took that reality into consideration when advising players as to the do's and dont's for getting a head start for picking an agent.

[Inxsive]

WVU might be "3rd Tier" but we hold our own.

I'm sure most of you guys are "HOLDING YOUR OWN" ;)

[mjah]

Sorry about not posting the link earlier. I just assumed most WVU fans didn't know how to read, so what's the point in linking more text? Using the Intarweb makes you guys dramatic exceptions.

Here's the link.

US News says: WVU is a third-tier school with $2,600,072 (http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/directory/brief/drglance_3827_brief.php)

I find it hard to believe that WVU hasn't made an effort to correct an error in such a predominant source for college information.

Maybe they tried and just gave up when they had to submit the request in writing.

...Just did a little more research on this. There are too many links to be worth posting, but with recent donations I'd estimate USM's total endowment is something on the order of $800M. It's hard to imagine the majority not going to the College Park campus. How savory! :nana:

Now I'm curious about how US News reports endowments. But not curious enough to look it up. There is important work to be done here first.

But hey, you always have womens basketball to keep you warm at night.
Maryland has only its top tier reputation, endowment, revenue sport national championships, four national championships this year, dozens of other NCs, excellent academic reputation, etc., etc. to cling to. I guess that doesn't leave us with much, does it? :laugh:

Well, we can console ourselves by not being third tier. At least we have that going for us.

[mjah]

OK, well, that about covers the usual suspects.
Speaking of the usual suspects...

http://www.uploadfile.info/uploads/ae4609685d.gif

[Inxsive]

Sorry about not posting the link earlier. I just assumed most WVU fans didn't know how to read, so what's the point in linking more text? Using the Intarweb makes you guys dramatic exceptions.

Here's the link.

US News says: WVU is a third-tier school with $2,600,072 (http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/directory/brief/drglance_3827_brief.php)

I find it hard to believe that WVU hasn't made an effort to correct an error in such a predominant source for college information.

Maybe they tried and just gave up when they had to submit the request in writing.


I can't believe WVU is so low. I guess they don't take food stamps.;)

[Diggs]

Speaking of the usual suspects...

5. Pacman’s progress. Cornerback Pacman Jones is saying and doing all the right things these days.
He’s been a regular presence during organized workouts and has stayed on the right path away from work. He’s even giving advice to Young — telling the rookie what NOT to do.
Coaches and teammates have noticed progress since his controversial rookie season.
“Pac has done a real nice job,’’ Fisher said. “He has really, really improved. He is all about football and has taken a professional approach to what he is doing. … He is clearly a better cornerback now than he was at the end of last season.’’

PacMan (http://tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060623/SPORTS01/606230411/1027)

Wocka Wocka Wocka Wocka Wocka

Game over indeed.

[mjah]

Time will tell. He still has a hole to dig out of.

Insert coin.

Fortunately, Pac-man had no time limit. :D

[Diggs]

Time will tell. He still has a hole to dig out of.

Insert coin.

Fortunately, Pac-man had no time limit. :D

You are right, some guys just never seem to change. However, I feel Pac's troubles have been more of his environment and people he has associated with rather than him just being a punk. I mean, it's not like he had a millionaire older brother in the NFL to keep him in line. :rolleyes: (see: Pac's history of growing up, seeing his father shot to death as a kid, being surrounded by streets and drugs, etc.).

Edit: I am not making excuses for him.

[EersSkins05]

Fellas, fellas, there is entirely too much explaining going on in this thread and not enough photoshopping.

I'm going to be pissed off if someone doesn't have a WVU hillbilly/maryland ***hole/VT thug picture up here pronto... lol

[The Evil Genius]

It's slanted...but there is some impressive stuff on here. Too bad people only look at places like Hurricane (no offense intended - why is it pronounced Hurrican and not Hurricane?) for their image of the state.

Of course, those same people tend to end up there for the cheaper property and lower crime. :silly:

http://www.wvu.edu/Rankings/academic_excellence.html

WVU is classified as a Research University (High Research Activity) by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

Twenty-five WVU students have received Rhodes Scholarships for study at Oxford; few public universities have produced more Rhodes Scholars than WVU.

WVU has had 29 Goldwater Scholars (America’s premier science scholarship).

There have been 17 Truman Scholars from WVU, two Udall Scholarship winners (for undergraduates in areas related to the environment and Native American studies), and two British Marshall Scholars (for understanding of British culture).

In 2006, the only student in America to win both a Truman and a Goldwater Scholarship was WVU student Rebecca McCauley.

WVU has contributed five members of USA Today’s All-USA College Academic First Team.

The WVU College of Engineering and Mineral Resources was ranked eighth on Hispanic Business magazine’s list of top ten best engineering schools for Hispanics.

Through a partnership with the FBI, WVU created the world's first university-level degree program in forensic identification. WVU is an international leader in biometric technology research. The program has been featured in Newsweek, USA Weekend, the Washington Times, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and Rolling Stone.

WVU’s landscape architecture program was ranked fourth in the eastern US and thirteenth in the nation by the Design Futures Council.

The 2007 edition of U.S. News & World Report ranked WVU’s rural medicine program twelfth in the nation.

West Virginia University’s graduate engineering program is ranked among the best in the nation by the 2007 edition of U.S. News & World Report’s America’s Best Colleges.

The School of Journalism produced an Emmy Award-winning documentary, Cancer Stories: Lessons in Love, Loss and Hope.

The National Institutes of Health listed WVU’s Otolaryngology Department as one of the top ten ear, nose, and throat departments in the country.

The Department of Political Science was ranked among the top 40 programs in the nation in research productivity, and was ranked 18th nationally in public law research.

WVU forensic identification students have access to the most advanced Automated Fingerprint Identification System available, through a partnership with SAGEM Morpho .

The Department of Psychology received the American Psychological Association 2005 Board of Education Affairs Award for Innovative Practices in Graduate Education in Psychology.

The Department of Psychology was recently ranked fourth in the world in the publication of research in behavior analysis and therapy, and the Society for the Advancement of Behavior Analysis honored the program.

U.S. News & World Report ranked the doctoral program in clinical psychology among the finest in the nation in 2004. The Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy gave the doctoral program in clinical psychology the 2001 Outstanding Training Program award.

The WVU Debate Team ended its 2006 season ranked fortieth in the nation out of about 125 schools.

WVU was cited as one of the nation’s best workplaces for commuters by the Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Transportation in May 2006 for its innovative and effective transportation services for employees and students.

The master of public administration program was ranked 65th nationwide by U.S. News & World Report in 2004.

In 2004, WVU had its first Jo Anne Trow Undergraduate Scholarship winner. Selection by the Alpha Lambda Delta National Honor Society was based on academic records, campus activities, and community involvement.

WVU was the second academic institution in the world to require electronic submission of theses and dissertations.

WVU is home to one of a few complete puppetry theatre programs in the nation.

WVU’s Wood Science and Technology Program is one of only 22 in the nation and one of only ten accredited by the Society of Wood Science and Technology.

The WVU School of Nursing was the first in the nation to purchase a webcasting system for live webcasting of all graduate nursing courses.

WVU’s Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering partnered with Lockheed Martin Corporation, Four Rivers Associates, LLC, and the WVU College of Business and Economics to create the first Lockheed Martin Radiant Trust Center of Excellence.

U.S. News & World Report named several WVU programs among the best in the nation in 2004, including the Division of Art’s master of fine arts program and programs of the School of Nursing. The Division of Music’s graduate program in music education has consistently made the list.


BTW - WVU is home to one of a few complete puppetry theatre programs in the nation.

:doh: Who knew? :laugh:

[PleaseBlitz]

I can't believe WVU is so low. I guess they don't take food stamps.;)

Getting tired of educating you...........

Already posted once. (http://www.wvuf.wvnet.edu/news/041806-endowment.htm)

[PleaseBlitz]

WVU is home to one of a few complete puppetry theatre programs in the nation.



Who knew?

I knew. I remember freshman year, getting back to the dorms after a late night of getting hammered at one of the world famous WVU parties, getting into an elevator, and seeing 2 or 3 people with puppets.

Most people havent experienced being completely disoriented and seeing double, in a confined space with several talking monsters. I have. :laugh:

[The Evil Genius]

I knew. I remember freshman year, getting back to the dorms after a late night of getting hammered at one of the world famous WVU parties, getting into an elevator, and seeing 2 or 3 people with puppets.

Most people havent experienced being completely disoriented and seeing double, in a confined space with several talking monsters. I have. :laugh:

I have always wondered if the Dorms are all on the hill at the main campus solely to punish drunk freshman. :laugh:

[Inxsive]

I have always wondered if the Dorms are all on the hill at the main campus solely to punish drunk freshman. :laugh:

Of course the reason they can get so hammered as freshman is that they are all legal drinking age when they start as WVU.

[PleaseBlitz]

Of course the reason they can get so hammered as freshman is that they are all legal drinking age when they start as WVU.


Or they just lie about their age like INXSive. :laugh:

[Inxsive]

Getting tired of educating you...........

Already posted once. (http://www.wvuf.wvnet.edu/news/041806-endowment.htm)

LOL, so your saying you do take Food Stamps. Considering this is an antagonism thread I thought you might detect a hint a sarcasm. Silly me, too much to expect from hillbillies.

[mjah]

Getting tired of educating you...........

Already posted once.
That's the link that talks about the WVU food stamp program, right?

[PleaseBlitz]

That's the link that talks about the WVU food stamp program, right?

Dont mention food. Friedgen might hear you and tear your house down.

[PleaseBlitz]

LOL, so your saying you do take Food Stamps. Considering this is an antagonism thread I thought you might detect a hint a sarcasm. Silly me, too much to expect from hillbillies.

Well it kinda sucks when I keep burning you but you are too dumb to realize it.

Its like insulting a monkey. :laugh:

[Inxsive]

Well it kinda sucks when I keep burning you but you are too dumb to realize it.

Its like insulting a monkey. :laugh:

The only people who think that are you and your kin folk at WVU. I'll be waiting for another insult attempt in the form of an accusation of lying about my age or that the school I graduated from doesn't have a football team. That's some killer stuff you bring to the table kid. So when new people meet your father do you introduce him as your mother’s husband or her brother?

[mjah]

Dont mention food. Friedgen might hear you and tear your house down.
Don't mention stamp. Pacman might hear you and think it's time for another face mashing bar brawl.

The Drugmobile's a'comin'! Grab your AK, pappy!

Welcome to Pac-man. Insert coin.

[mjah]

So when new people meet your father do you introduce him as your mother’s husband or her brother?
I think they have a separate word for that. Pappy, or something like that.

[Diggs]

Hey, remember the days when Maryland Football was respectable? In fact, Fridge even seemed to be close to "ownership" of WVU at one time. Then Scott McTraitor graduated. How many losing seasons has Maryland had in a row now, I forget? :D

http://www.fotosearch.com/comp/FSP/FSP170/066012.jpg

[Redskin4ever]

In case you toothless fans forgot, let me remind you. This was the 2nd time that year you were embarrassed.

Let me know the next time you beat MD in a big game.

[Diggs]

In case you toothless fans forgot, let me remind you. This was the 2nd time that year you were embarrassed.

Let me know the next time you beat MD in a big game.

:snore: :yawnee: Oh I'm sorry, is it 2003 or something? F a Gator Bowl. BCS games are where it's at homey. How did Maryland do the last time they made one of those games?

I think this picture pretty much sums up the WVU and Maryland series these days. Meet Owen Schmitt.

http://www.msnsportsnet.com/gallery/91705maryland/WVU10.jpg

[EersSkins05]

Yes, I believe we have an authentic representation of last year's Maryland/WVU game on hand:

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j238/Beeeyeatch/Marylandgame.png

(The authenticity is verified by the empty seats in the 4th quarter.)

[PleaseBlitz]

Yes, I believe we have an authentic representation of last year's Maryland/WVU game on hand:

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j238/Beeeyeatch/Marylandgame.png

(The authenticity is verified by the empty seats in the 4th quarter.)


:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

[PleaseBlitz]

Don't mention stamp. Pacman might hear you and think it's time for another face mashing bar brawl.

The Drugmobile's a'comin'! Grab your AK, pappy!

Welcome to Pac-man. Insert coin.


Maryland fans may want to stay away from the drug related insults. No one thinks Pacman used drugs or had anything to do with drugs or else that story wouldnt have blown over so quickly. Marylands best athlete ever is a confirmed drug abuser. :(

http://espn-att.starwave.com/media/nba/2005/0916/photo/g_bias_195.jpg

[Spaceman Spiff]

Maryland fans may want to stay away from the drug related insults. No one thinks Pacman used drugs or had anything to do with drugs or else that story wouldnt have blown over so quickly. Marylands best athlete ever is a confirmed drug abuser. :(

http://espn-att.starwave.com/media/nba/2005/0916/photo/g_bias_195.jpg

Oh ****. That's cold.

[mjah]

And yet, despite twenty years of extra experience...

...time he might have spent learning something from the world around him...

Pacman still hasn't learned to avoid selling the stuff!

:doh:

But to anticipate your objections: I'm sure it's all just a big misunderstanding (http://wowktv.com/story.cfm?func=viewstory&storyid=10273&catid=215) . Pacman just loaned his car to a trusted friend who, without Pacman's knowledge, was a huge pusher.

This is Pacman's Second run in with the law in less than a week.

As we reported last night, a 2004 Red Cadillac XLR with Pacman embroidered on the headrests was confiscated by police.

Pacman says he loaned the car to a friend who was arrested while driving the car. That friend... Darryl Jerome Moore is allegedly the leader of a major drug ring.

Police confiscated 1600 pounds of Marijuana, 128 pounds of Cocaine, and more than 600 thousand dollars in cash.

That's one hell of a big car! Too bad Pacman lost so much of his signing bonus to the cops, though. :laugh:

- And I'm sure the bar brawl wasn't his fault.

- And I'm sure he was a completely innocent, level-headed bystander during that mysterious hail of gunfire (http://wowktv.com/story.cfm?func=viewstory&storyid=10273&catid=215) he got tied up in.

Imagine if some blood has splattered across those custom embroidered Pac-man seats of his! Who would pay for that? Not poor underpaid Pacman.

What terrible luck that pleasantly narcissistic egomaniac has.

It's enough to make a guy want to stop gobbling up little white pills!

...Almost.

With bonehead idiot rookie mistakes like this (http://www.docsports.com/afc-news.html) , it's no wonder he wanted to make a little extra money on the side selling drugs. It probably would seem like a really good idea if you didn't spend any time thinking about it.

Adam "Pac Man" Jones has already managed to piss off coaches, teammates and fans in Tennessee before playing a single down for the Titans. Jones held out this summer, and took some verbal shots at linebacker and badass Keith Bullock after Bullock has commented about Jones' situation. Not smart.

Not entirely unexpected from a guy who was already on probation with a suspended one year jail sentence (http://www.zoominfo.com/directory/Jones_Pacman_812983273.htm) before he even left WVU.

http://img44.exs.cx/img44/6782/Pacman.gif
Man, I gotta get clean...



Oh I'm sorry, is it 2003 or something?
I'm sure you wish you had to squint in the rear view mirror to see that embarrassment. But Maryland handed WVU its ass in a plain paper bag, 41-7, in front of a massive Gator Bowl TV audience in 2004. Not 2003.

But you can hardly be blamed for getting it wrong, given that Maryland did smack WVU back into 2003. Plus, I wouldn't expect WVU fans to count that high.

And even if it was two years ago, it's still the defining moment between the two teams over the past quarter century. No game between Maryland and West Virginia has had more viewers than the one that saw WVU players show up in dresses and cute little blue and gold pigtails. My God, did you guys get summarily destroyed.

You know, seriously: If you're like me, you're happy to talk football with just about anyone who is also a fan. And I still run into total strangers who don't remember much about last year's Sugar Bowl, but they recall watching the red and white highlights of Maryland demolishing WVU a short while back. Go figure.

I guess that was a lasting image. It's not often that one sees s bowl team outscore another by a factor of almost 6:1.

Unless it's Maryland 30, Tennessee 3. That was 10:1.

By the way, here's a more typical 4th quarter Maryland crowd:

http://www.terrapinclub.com/images/Byrd_Stadium.jpg

And I found a nice picture of this season's WVU basketball crowds:

http://www.atpm.com/7.12/sewickley/images/field.jpg

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

[PleaseBlitz]

Looks like i struck a nerve. I win. :kiss:

[mjah]

Incidentally, Duke's AD ended up receiving 42 stitches in his head after his son got drunk and plowed their boat into a pile of rocks in a no-wake zone.

Fortunately, everyone is now okay.

As I have some things to do to prepare for this week's trip to Vegas, I don't have time to pick up on this one. Would someone be so kind as to create something hilarious in remembrance of this occasion?

Here's a starting point. This was done years ago, obviously, but something more up to date (and more funny) would be perfect.

http://www.81x.com/Authors/mrjah/photo43_4-alt.jpg

[mjah]

Looks like i struck a nerve. I win.
Translation: "I got nuthin'. How can I get out of this with a shred of dignity?"

Mission: Not accomplished. :laugh:

And obviously, as I always say but some WVU fans never actually seem to believe, it's all in good fun. If you're actually getting angry or genuinely agitated by this thread, it's time to step away from the keyboard and go listen to some Dave Matthews or whatever bland, inoffensive faux-deep garbage music you enjoy.

;)

[PleaseBlitz]

Translation: "I got nuthin'. How can I get out of this with a shred of dignity?"

Mission: Not accomplished. :laugh:

And obviously, as I always say but some WVU fans never actually seem to believe, it's all in good fun. If you're actually getting angry or genuinely agitated by this thread, it's time to step away from the keyboard and go listen to some Dave Matthews or whatever bland, inoffensive faux-deep garbage music you enjoy.

;)


Oh, its all in good fun Mjah. :cheers:

I got plenty, i just dont see the need to get into the whole Len Bias thing.

Its pretty funny too that you wasted most of your night coming up with that post. :laugh: I saw you lurking for at least 45 minutes. :cool:

[mjah]

I got plenty, i just dont see the need to get into the whole Len Bias thing.
I wouldn't either. I don't poke fun at other schools either when it comes to deaths (bonfire, drugs, homicide/murder, etc.). At that point it's not the kind of thing you can make fun of and then walk away with a clear conscience.

Its pretty funny too that you wasted most of your night coming up with that post. I saw you lurking for at least 45 minutes.
Uh, that post took about fifteen minutes. I started typing, went to a friend's house to help him put in his massive window air conditioner unit, had a Coke and a smile, and then came back to finish the post. The air conditioner works great, by the way -- which it should, since it's one of those giant industrial things. I don't even know where he got it.

But more importantly -- what were you doing poking around here for 45 minutes? :D

[EersSkins05]

Sorry, Mjah, we're going to have to dock you 50 ****talking points for two critical mistakes:


1) Your pic of WVU basketball crowds was so damn big that I couldn't read your post on a full screen (irritating as hell,) and
2) You followed up your own pic with laughing smileys. Big no-no. On par with trying to immediately follow another guy's mom joke with your own.

So let's see here. Tallying up the total, :type: it seems that you have some ground to make up.

Make this one count.

[mjah]

Let's send these rulings through instant replay.

1) Your pic of WVU basketball crowds was so damn big that I couldn't read your post on a full screen (irritating as hell,)
After further review, it looks just fine on mine, with plenty of room to spare. And I'm on a laptop. Get a bigger screen.

There is no penalty on the play.

2) You followed up your own pic with laughing smileys. Big no-no. On par with trying to immediately follow another guy's mom joke with your own.

After futher review, I would never follow up some other guy's mom joke with a joke about your sister.

Second, nobody owns a copyright or has an authoritative set of rules regarding laughing smileys, nor regarding the overuse thereof.

There is no penalty on the play.

This new instant replay system is a real b$&!%, isn't it?

[EersSkins05]

Let's send these rulings through instant replay.

After further review, it looks just fine on mine, with plenty of room to spare. And I'm on a laptop. Get a bigger screen.

There is no penalty on the play.


Nope, sorry. Work computer confirms- that pic is too damn big and the text is stretched out because of it.
-25 ****talking points. You can file an appeal with the league office, but that won't get you anywhere, most likely.


After futher review, I would never follow up some other guy's mom joke with a joke about your sister.

Second, nobody owns a copyright or has an authoritative set of rules regarding laughing smileys, nor regarding the overuse thereof.

There is no penalty on the play.

This new instant replay system is a real b$&!%, isn't it

Sorry, the laughing smiley after your own joke is akin to placed an "owned" picture after your own insult. You let other people do that for you. Major cool points get lost when you do it yourself.

-50 stands on review.

With an extra -25 for complaining and arguing about the original decision. I suggest you get started on some massive hillbilly/thug/JJ Reddick blurry vision-driving orgy of a pic to make up for some of these lost points.

[mjah]

And I suggest you stop playing make-believe with "rules." It was fun for a few hours.

:doh:

Or alternately, you could stop tap dancing and give us your takes on Pacman's many problems with the law.

Here's one article (http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2106859) that gives the night club owner's perspective on one of Pacman's arrests. I wasn't aware that Pacman had actually assaulted the owner of the club. Great article title, though: "Pacman Jones surrenders..." That's awesome.

At this point, I'm wondering if Alaeze actually performed better on his SATs than Pacman.

But that's not a fair question. Pacman probably threatened to beat the $&%* out of the SAT scorers if they didn't award him a passable score.

Of course, I don't know what a passable score would be at WVU. It was once rumored that you start with 200 points, so all you have to do for those first 200 is write your name and personal information. I figure Pacman probably cleared 150, which is more than enough for a Tier 3 school. WVU was probably just happy that he broke three digits and knew how to tie his own shoes, which meant he could skip that mandatory WVU freshman class, Dressing Yourself 101. He never would have shown up anyway.

In a court appearance, nightclub owner Robert Gaddy said Jones grabbed his shirt, hit him and broke his necklace after Gaddy asked three of Jones' friends to leave the club. Gaddy told police he asked Jones' friends to leave because "they were smoking drugs."
Again, I'm sure Pacman was just an innocent bystander whose fist just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time when the night club owner tripped and ran into it with his face.

In a lengthy statement, the Titans said Jones has not matured enough in his decision-making and behavior despite team and league efforts.
When an NFL team has that to say about a star player, you know for a fact that they're in full damage control mode and asking, "WTF were we doing getting this guy?"

No wonder we're hearing reports of his "better behavior" lately. He'd have to go out and shoot up another parking lot, maybe buy a bigger car for his cargo hauling needs, etc. for it to get worse.

Hey, has he decided to start showing up for off-season workouts yet?

Incidentally, Pacman Jones gets a rating of 3.5 out of 5 big red clown shoes (http://www.fantasyfootballunlimited.com/articles/2006freearticles.aspx?id=152) from Fantasy Football Unlimited, just for his antics this year.

[Diggs]

I'm sure you wish you had to squint in the rear view mirror to see that embarrassment. But Maryland handed WVU its ass in a plain paper bag, 41-7, in front of a massive Gator Bowl TV audience in 2004. Not 2003.

But you can hardly be blamed for getting it wrong, given that Maryland did smack WVU back into 2003. Plus, I wouldn't expect WVU fans to count that high.

I had a feeling somebody would get picky about the year. Sorry, I was what, ONE day off? Maryland fans can keep grasping at that those games, as you mentioned, they are getting pretty far back in the rear view mirror. I'm not gonna disagree, Maryland beat the living :pooh: out of WVU for those few years during Scott McBrien's career. Rich Rod just had to get that 400 lb gorilla off his back with the series against Maryland. But enough about Fridge! In fact, I was at that painful Gator Bowl, but it doesn't mean anything to me anymore since WVU has taken it to the Terps the last 2 years and is one of the top 5 programs right now. Maryland is losing coaches left and right and is trying to just get back over the .500 mark in a season. But.. go ahead and keep enjoying that Gator Bowl! That's almost like the Cowboy fans still trying to say they own the Skins whereas the Skins have won the recent games. ;) I'll just continue to focus on the present and future WVU beatdowns over Maryland.

It's not often that one sees s bowl team outscore another by a factor of almost 6:1.

Unless it's Maryland 30, Tennessee 3. That was 10:1.

You wanna talk about getting embarrassed on national TV in a game that really mattered? Florida 56, Murrland 23. And that is only because the ol' Ball Coach called off the dogs. Hell, I think it was even Taylor Jacobs that burned the Maryland secondary that game!

[Inxsive]

I had a feeling somebody would get picky about the year. Sorry, I was what, ONE day off? Maryland fans can keep grasping at that those games, as you mentioned, they are getting pretty far back in the rear view mirror. I'm not gonna disagree, Maryland beat the living :pooh: out of WVU for those few years during Scott McBrien's career. Rich Rod just had to get that 400 lb gorilla off his back with the series against Maryland. But enough about Fridge! In fact, I was at that painful Gator Bowl, but it doesn't mean anything to me anymore since WVU has taken it to the Terps the last 2 years and is one of the top 5 programs right now. Maryland is losing coaches left and right and is trying to just get back over the .500 mark in a season. But.. go ahead and keep enjoying that Gator Bowl! That's almost like the Cowboy fans still trying to say they own the Skins whereas the Skins have won the recent games. ;) I'll just continue to focus on the present and future WVU beatdowns over Maryland.

:doh: Hypocrite U strikes again. I love how the WVU fans were giving 'MJAH" crap for going back 2 1/2 years to a blowout of WVU yet they are willing to go back 20 years to Bias killing himself. Typical WVU hypocrites!



You wanna talk about getting embarrassed on national TV in a game that really mattered? Florida 56, Murrland 23. And that is only because the ol' Ball Coach called off the dogs. Hell, I think it was even Taylor Jacobs that burned the Maryland secondary that game!

Anyone else notice how WVU fans make all sorts of excuses when it comes to head to head games. This is like the "VT smoked us before we had this guy or this guy in the lineup" crap. I heard you WVU guys preach how much more important bowl results are than regular season games yet apparently the result of that UMD Gator bowl is less important than the last two regular season games you have beat UMD. So which are more important to you guys. Could it be which ever one you happened to win? LOL:geek:

[EersSkins05]

And I suggest you stop playing make-believe with "rules." It was fun for a few hours.

:doh:

Or alternately, you could stop tap dancing and give us your takes on Pacman's many problems with the law.

Nah, you're actually much better off if I stick to critiquing your style. :D

(http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2106859)Here's one article (http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2106859) that gives the night club owner's perspective on one of Pacman's arrests. I wasn't aware that Pacman had actually assaulted the owner of the club. Great article title, though: "Pacman Jones surrenders..." That's awesome. (http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2106859)

That's because he didn't. The charges were dropped. (And not because some greasy club owner got paid- the DA dropped them.) No charges were ever even filed in connection with the drug arrest and his Cadillac.

Maybe you should sign on as a prosecutor down there, though. You seem to have better evidence than they did.


At this point, I'm wondering if Alaeze actually performed better on his SATs than Pacman.

But that's not a fair question. Pacman probably threatened to beat the %4$samp;%* out of the SAT scorers if they didn't award him a passable score.

Of course, I don't know what a passable score would be at WVU. It was once rumored that you start with 200 points, so all you have to do for those first 200 is write your name and personal information. I figure Pacman probably cleared 150, which is more than enough for a Tier 3 school. WVU was probably just happy that he broke three digits and knew how to tie his own shoes, which meant he could skip that mandatory WVU freshman class, Dressing Yourself 101. He never would have shown up anyway.


Again with the academics? You really ARE a closet Hoo fan, aren't you? I've never seen someone take the US News and World Report college rankings so SERIOUSLY. My guess is that WVU's lower-tier ranking has something to do with the fact that they accept too many freshmen every year and the student/professor ratio is way out of wack in required general studies classes.

Personally, I don't really care. Your education is what you make it. At WVU, at UM, at Harvard, wherever. My grandfather (might want to hold the WV jokes here, he was a UVA Law grad) used to say that "Education occurs between the ears, not between the walls." This is borne out by the aforementioned bounty of Rhodes Scholars that WVU has produced. (BTW- GWB is a Yale grad. Warrants mentioning.)

Oh, and Pacman, despite his jock major of Athletic Coaching Education, was a regular member of the WVU AD's Honor Roll. I'm not saying he's bright, by any means (if you hadn't oozed that Maryland condescension all over the page, I would share a humorous anectdote regarding an encounter with Pacman), but he didn't have any academic issues while at WVU.

So let's see here, you've got Pacman on zero convictions or plea-bargains (just suspicions- welcome to the world of Hokielogic), and are standing on a soapbox clinging to a copy of a magazine's rankings of US colleges.

Like I said, might want to stick to style arguments over substance. :2cents:

[Diggs]

:doh: Hypocrite U strikes again. I love how the WVU fans were giving 'MJAH" crap for going back 2 1/2 years to a blowout of WVU yet they are willing to go back 20 years to Bias killing himself. Typical WVU hypocrites!

Wait, explain to all of us how football asskickings have anything to do with overdosing on cocaine? :doh: :doh: :doh:

[mjah]

Eers, I fixed this for you:
I'm actually much better off if I stick to critiquing your style
That'll be twelve stamps.

Pacman, despite his jock major of Athletic Coaching Education, was a regular member of the WVU AD's Honor Roll.
Fascinating. He must have aced his Not Eating Crayons class.

My guess is that WVU's lower-tier ranking has something to do with the fact that they accept too many freshmen every year and the student/professor ratio is way out of wack in required general studies classes.
That's a good start. I think you've just about dug a snowball out of that giant iceberg. Keep chipping away.

Hey Diggs -- does the past count or doesn't it? Which one is it gonna be?

Wait, let me guess. It's going to be whichever one is more convenient to you. :doh:

I had a feeling somebody would get picky about the year. Sorry, I was what, ONE day off?
It's funny how one day can make such a difference. They do teach you the calendar in kindergarten/WVU, right?

You wanna talk about getting embarrassed on national TV in a game that really mattered? Florida 56, Murrland 23.
Hmm. Losing a BCS game 56-23 to perennial powerhouse Florida, helmed by one of the best college coaches in recent history... vs losing the Gator Bowl 41-7 to your next door neighbor. :laugh:

No, sorry. The 41-7 game is far more embarrassing. And more recent.

I love the serious responses to the WVU academic smack, though. It shows that it's a real sticking point for you guys. And as for the UVA grandpa, I suppose I could put my grandpa's Harvard degree up against his any day. But resorting to grandpa's educational fortitude is about the stupidest thing I've ever seen on these boards, and I can't believe you'd resort to the Great Depression to make a point about West Virginia, the state that never saw the Great Depression end. :whoknows:

Gaaaaah, gotta get back to work. Clients calling. I'll post a test message later to see whose computers can handle images larger than a West Virginia food stamp.

[Diggs]

Hey Diggs -- does the past count or doesn't it? Which one is it gonna be?

Wait, let me guess. It's going to be whichever one is more convenient to you. :doh:

Of course the past counts. But recent past tends to mean more when judging a football team or program. I agreed with you that Md flat out stomped WVU in that Gator Bowl on Janurary 1st, 2004. Can't change history. Have you seen a trend since then between the series? I have.

Hmm. Losing a BCS game 56-23 to perennial powerhouse Florida, helmed by one of the best college coaches in recent history... vs losing the Gator Bowl 41-7 to your next door neighbor. :laugh:

No, sorry. The 41-7 game is far more embarrassing. And more recent.

Yikes, if that Florida whoopin' didn't tell the country that Maryland didn't belong in a BCS game, I don't know what does. Again, WVU got whipped 41-7, but that is more of a "Maryland/Fridge had WVU's number" thing more than anything else IMO. Thank God that is over with. And it was in the Gator Bowl, not even close to the grand stage that the BCS games play on.

I love the serious responses to the WVU academic smack, though. It shows that it's a real sticking point for you guys. And as for the UVA grandpa, I suppose I could put my grandpa's Harvard degree up against his any day. But resorting to grandpa's educational fortitude is about the stupidest thing I've ever seen on these boards, and I can't believe you'd resort to the Great Depression to make a point about West Virginia, the state that never saw the Great Depression end. :whoknows:

Geez, these academia arguments are laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaame......

http://www.bumperart.com/ProductImages/2004012091_Display-25.gif

[EersSkins05]

It's funny how one day can make such a difference. They do teach you the calendar in kindergarten/WVU, right?


You're seriously embarassing yourself at this point, dude. Are you really making an issue out of the exact year that he cited, even football seasons are typically referred to in 2-year terms (the 2005-2006 season ended in January. Go ahead and get your panties in a bunch if I refer to that as the 2005 season, I suppose.)

Hmm. Losing a BCS game 56-23 to perennial powerhouse Florida, helmed by one of the best college coaches in recent history... vs losing the Gator Bowl 41-7 to your next door neighbor. :laugh:

Wow, you're really proud of that Gator Bowl, aren't you? To each his own, I suppose. I know if I was staring down the barrel of yet another losing season in football, I'd cling to whatever second-class bowl win I had 3 years ago too. And I would also make sure to conveniently forget the past two defeats to the school I was making an ill-fated attempt at belittling. (To be fair though, if you're like your UM breathren, you tuned out with 10 minutes to play last year, so you might not remember it... lol)


I love the serious responses to the WVU academic smack, though. It shows that it's a real sticking point for you guys. And as for the UVA grandpa, I suppose I could put my grandpa's Harvard degree up against his any day. But resorting to grandpa's educational fortitude is about the stupidest thing I've ever seen on these boards, and I can't believe you'd resort to the Great Depression to make a point about West Virginia, the state that never saw the Great Depression end. :whoknows:


If this is your capacity for nuance and complex thought, I'm seriously not impressed with the institution that is the University of Maryland. The note to my grandfather's education had absolutely nothing to do with defending the school against your silly academic attacks. It was to prevent the smarmy, self-agrandizing sort of response that I would expect out of a UM fan when mentioning a saying of my grandfather. (Which would go something like this, I imagine: "Well, your grandpappy didn't have any ejucashun either, what do you expect.")

If you actually had the capacity to examine a reasoned argument with some degree of reading comprehension skills, you would come to the conclusion that I really don't care about the academic institution or its reputation in the first place. (Which was the entire point, but went sailing over your head like the Scotty McBrien passes that keep your dreams wet at night.)

Your education is what you make it, and grandstanding in an NCAA forum doesn't really change that essential point.

Oh well, you can take the ***hole out of Maryland, but you can't take the Maryland out of the ***hole... lol

[Inxsive]

http://www.bumperart.com/ProductImages/2004012091_Display-25.gif


And yet your kids will probably marry each other in the end!

[EersSkins05]

And yet your kids will probably marry each other in the end!

Why don't you run out and play while the grown ups talk, ok?

[mjah]

I really don't care about the academic institution or its reputation in the first place.
Academic excellence is the fundamental mission of any university, but a triviality to you. That's perfectly fine, and self-evident BTW. My guess is you wouldn't be a WVU supporter otherwise.

But it's important to an incredibly huge number of other people. Your priorities just aren't in line with theirs. And that's fine too.

But for a guy who doesn't care about that academic side issue, you sure do expend a whole bunch of effort. :laugh:

Not caring about the academic institution or its reputation seems to be an epidemic at WVU, actually. I hope it isn't contagious to that state's neighbors.

If we looked at all BCS conference schools, I wonder how they would break out between US News tiers 1, 2, and 3. I don't have the time for that, but I bet someone else has already done it.

I know, I know. US News isn't so important. It's only one of the primary sources of information for those snobby, elitist prick students looking to go to a holier-than-thou school. Like, maybe in the top 200 or so. :doh:

So a school-by-school tier comparison might be worth a check... and probably a laugh.

[Diggs]

Why don't you run out and play while the grown ups talk, ok?

:laugh: Seriously, isn't it juice and cookies time yet?

[Inxsive]

Wait, explain to all of us how football asskickings have anything to do with overdosing on cocaine? :doh: :doh: :doh:


Did you type this in reguards to 'MJAH' mentioned the MD vs WVU game in 2004?

:snore: :yawnee: Oh I'm sorry, is it 2003 or something?


Were you implying that bringing it up was old news? If so, what do you think bring up Bias dying would be? Fresh news? That's the connection. You (WVU fans) critisized 'MJAH' for bringing up something that's a few years old and then bring up something considerable older in Bias's death. Understand? Do you need a drawing?

[Inxsive]

Why don't you run out and play while the grown ups talk, ok?

LOL, this from the people who posted a 'My kid can beat up your honor student' image.:doh: Do you even know what the word hypocrite means?:laugh: Too much to ask I guess.

[EersSkins05]

LOL, this from the people who posted a 'My kid can beat up your honor student' image.:doh: Do you even know what the word hypocrite means?:laugh: Too much to ask I guess.

That image was a joke posted to demonstrate the absurdity of the academic grandstanding taking place in this forum today. You didn't get the joke. (I am not surprised.)

BTW, Mjah... I have your Xmas gift all picked out this year:

http://theconferencestore.com/store/images/uva_stripetie.jpg

[Inxsive]

That image was a joke posted to demonstrate the absurdity of the academic grandstanding taking place in this forum today. You didn't get the joke. (I am not surprised.)

BTW, Mjah... I have your Xmas gift all picked out this year:

Well mine was a joke as well, unless you think it is likely your kids will actually marry each other.

[Diggs]

Did you type this in reguards to 'MJAH' mentioned the MD vs WVU game in 2004?


Were you implying that bringing it up was old news? If so, what do you think bring up Bias dying would be? Fresh news? That's the connection. You (WVU fans) critisized 'MJAH' for bringing up something that's a few years old and then bring up something considerable older in Bias's death. Understand? Do you need a drawing?

The Len Bias point mentioned by PB was an example to the argument (kind of a stones and glass houses reference). We were arguing football history on one hand and drug abuse on the other hand. Apples and oranges.

And no thanks on the drawing, I don't think that will explain much.

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y265/Diggs13/drawing.jpg

[Inxsive]

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y265/Diggs13/drawing.jpg

LOL, I applaud :applause: your effort to make your point. It kinda looks like your campus on fire after a game.

[EersSkins05]

LOL, I applaud your effort to make your point. It kinda looks like your campus on fire after a game.


Or possibly the fraternity house at VT that burned to the ground when they tried to start a couch fire themselves after beating WVU in 2005.

http://www.collegiatetimes.com/archive/2006-3/1/6696.html

Note to VT fans- Take the couch into the street before you burn it. (This tip brought to you by your friendly neighborhood couchburner.)

[Diggs]

LOL, I applaud :applause: your effort to make your point. It kinda looks like your campus on fire after a game.

:laugh: Well, maybe moreso the couches on the campus, cuz they are what "we must ignite." Submlinal plug EersSkins05?

As noted WVU has demonstrated the art of couch burning without actually burning down the campus, or part of it. For what it's worth - :laugh: .

[hokie4redskins]

Well, since this thread is meant to antagonize........

I was in Morgantown today. Coming home from a business trip, I needed a bite to eat and had a hankering for some McD's. Cruising down Don Knotts Blvd (RIP) and other streets through the town, I had one thought:

"This is the ugliest POS town in America."

I kid you not. Morgantown is U-G-L-Y and it ain't got no alibi, it's UGLY.

:puke:

Granted, the outskirts of the town going through the mountains to find my way back to I68 is very pretty and very reminiscent of Blacksburg, but the town itself is indeed a "hole". Any future references as "Morganhole" are fully justified.

And I couldn't even find a friggin' McD's!!! Are you kidding me?

I did, however, enjoy cruising through the town with my VT license plate and Hokie bird sticker on my back window while getting dumbfounded looks at stop lights. Other than that, it was a forgettable experience.

[The Evil Genius]

Morgantown is a hole. But the campus and the Main street are nice. So are some of the surrounding areas.

BTW - the Mickey D's are located by the newer mall (actually about 1/2 mile from) and at the Evansdale campus (about a 1/2 mile from the Coliseum).

Blacksburg and surrounding areas aren't Shangri-la either.

You want a beautiful campus in a beautiful town? Try William and Mary.

[mjah]

BTW, Mjah... I have your Xmas gift all picked out this year:

http://theconferencestore.com/store/images/uva_stripetie.jpg
Gold. Comic gold! :laugh:

My favorite, though, is the football jersey with the tie. It has been making the rounds for a while now, and it always cracks me up.

But let's not confuse ourselves -- any of us -- with the grandstanding popped-collar Charlottesville types whose carefully crafted attempts at projecting an image of effortless, slightly disheveled elegance border on the absurd.

Are all UVA students like that? Oh, no. No, no. But a great many are. Enough to make you scrratch your head as you cross that campus -- err, "grounds" -- and wonder.

"Do these people all buy their cheap flip-flops at the same store?"

Ultimately, the siren song of UVA is the allure of entitlement to the position of every other state school's boss. Unfortunately for those young enough not to know of the real world -- no thanks to carefully isolated Charlottesville and hordes of privileged braided leather belt types who master their misunderstood Jeffersonian ideals by carefully studying the bottom of a Margarita class at Tuesday lunch -- the goal is to be neither the bossed nor the boss, but rather to answer only to oneself.

A lesson lost on many a UVA grad who sneers down his nose at the other state schools, missing his own low-ceilinged destiny of retiring as a mid-level marketing manager with a modest expense account. Never modest enough to appreciate his lot in life, yet never educated or savvy enough to aspire to the positions taken by the quicker types from MIT and Harvard.

Against this grisly visage of a life misspent, Maryland and WVU can claim one unifying contrast. We earn what we receive from life, be it lofty or humble. Predisposed to avoid "aspiring" to the lukewarm medium of working CEO hours for a tiny fraction of CEO pay, we are free to avoid the lurid Zone of Least Happiness.

So we do have something in common. And perhaps it's the single most important lesson to learn from your school: how to enjoy a life well spent.

:cheers:

[EersSkins05]

Granted, the outskirts of the town going through the mountains to find my way back to I68 is very pretty and very reminiscent of Blacksburg, but the town itself is indeed a "hole". Any future references as "Morganhole" are fully justified.

And I couldn't even find a friggin' McD's!!! Are you kidding me?


I'm pretty sure WVU students coined the term "Morganhole," so you're not exactly antagonizing here. As you said, outlying areas are much nicer, but it's one HELL of a fun place to be when football season rolls around.

And there's 3 McD's in Morgantown- the two TEG mentioned and one off of the Star City exit from I-79.

[hokie4redskins]

BTW - the Mickey D's are located by the newer mall (actually about 1/2 mile from) and at the Evansdale campus (about a 1/2 mile from the Coliseum).

Blacksburg and surrounding areas aren't Shangri-la either.

You want a beautiful campus in a beautiful town? Try William and Mary.

Hmm, I drove right by Evansdale and didn't see squat but did see the coliseum.

I went to Blacksburg for a bachelor party earlier this month and I hardly recognized it. The campus is beautiful and exploding with new architecture. The town itself has also grown and has a lot of small town charm. Blacksburg, IMO, is the epitome of small college town America.

My sis went to WM, agreed. But there's not much to do there.

[Diggs]

Well, since this thread is meant to antagonize........

I was in Morgantown today. Coming home from a business trip, I needed a bite to eat and had a hankering for some McD's. Cruising down Don Knotts Blvd (RIP) and other streets through the town, I had one thought:

"This is the ugliest POS town in America."

I kid you not. Morgantown is U-G-L-Y and it ain't got no alibi, it's UGLY.

:puke:

Granted, the outskirts of the town going through the mountains to find my way back to I68 is very pretty and very reminiscent of Blacksburg, but the town itself is indeed a "hole". Any future references as "Morganhole" are fully justified.

And I couldn't even find a friggin' McD's!!! Are you kidding me?

I did, however, enjoy cruising through the town with my VT license plate and Hokie bird sticker on my back window while getting dumbfounded looks at stop lights. Other than that, it was a forgettable experience.

Hmmm... what an interesting perspective coming from a HOKIE! :laugh:

On the flipside, some happen to disagree...

Morgantown (http://www.morgantown.com/no1-biz.htm)

[hokie4redskins]

Hmm, yeah, well, I'm not familiar with the fiscal factors involved with Morgantown, nor was I implying it's not a great place to live. I was simply stating it may very well be the ugliest place I've ever seen, #1 or not.

But if the dude who wrote that article actually visited the place, he must've been blindfolded.

Not sure who "demographics daily" is, but I noticed Blacksburg on that list as well.

[Inxsive]

Hmm, yeah, well, I'm not familiar with the fiscal factors involved with Morgantown, nor was I implying it's not a great place to live. I was simply stating it may very well be the ugliest place I've ever seen, #1 or not.

But if the dude who wrote that article actually visited the place, he must've been blindfolded.

Not sure who "demographics daily" is, but I noticed Blacksburg on that list as well.

Well since this is the Antagonism Thread..... Morgantown is the dingleberry located in the butthole of America and like most buttholes, it is full of crap. West Virginia is the part of the country that Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia and Kentucky didn't want. It's the green gummy bear, the brown M&M, the fat girl at the dance, and the broken bumper car that only goes in circles all rolled into one.

[EersSkins05]

^^^^^^^^^

http://www.douglas.calvinklein-perfumes.com/images/products/obsession.jpg

[SkinsHokieFan]

Hmm, I drove right by Evansdale and didn't see squat but did see the coliseum.

I went to Blacksburg for a bachelor party earlier this month and I hardly recognized it. The campus is beautiful and exploding with new architecture. The town itself has also grown and has a lot of small town charm. Blacksburg, IMO, is the epitome of small college town America.

My sis went to WM, agreed. But there's not much to do there.


Hey Hokie4redskins, the bachelor party wasn't for a guy named Chris who is getting married in late August was it?

[hokie4redskins]

No SHF, it wasn't. Wouldn't surprise me though, given the hundreds, if not thousands of weird, small world connections I had experienced in Hokie land and beyond, even 6 years after I left. Six years? Man, I'm getting old. :doh:

[Inxsive]

^^^^^^^^^

http://www.douglas.calvinklein-perfumes.com/images/products/obsession.jpg



:doh: Only you would have picture of woman's perfume handy!

[EersSkins05]

:doh: Only you would have picture of woman's perfume handy!

Only you would fail to realize that all I did was type in "obsession" under google images, then copy/paste.

[PleaseBlitz]

Hmm, I drove right by Evansdale and didn't see squat but did see the coliseum.

I went to Blacksburg for a bachelor party earlier this month and I hardly recognized it. The campus is beautiful and exploding with new architecture. The town itself has also grown and has a lot of small town charm. Blacksburg, IMO, is the epitome of small college town America.

My sis went to WM, agreed. But there's not much to do there.

Blacksburg is a hellhole. Christiansburg is even worse.

[hokie4redskins]

Blacksburg is a hellhole. Christiansburg is even worse.

Agreed on Christiansburg, but you have no clue what you're talking about with Blacksburg, especially nowadays. No need to get all angry just because Morgantown is an outhouse. And you know it too.

[PleaseBlitz]

Agreed on Christiansburg, but you have no clue what you're talking about with Blacksburg, especially nowadays. No need to get all angry just because Morgantown is an outhouse. And you know it too.

Morgantown kicks ass. Ask any of your classmates that has actually gone there for a weekend to party. If you know what that even is.

Blacksburg is a ****hole with nothing to do. You have like 3 small bars. There is a reason when people think of fun schools, Tech doesnt come up.

I can probably quote 5 Hokies on this board saying VT doesnt hold a candle to WVU in terms of fun. This is undeniable, but go ahead and try.

[hokie4redskins]

Morgantown kicks ass. Ask any of your classmates that has actually gone there for a weekend to party. If you know what that even is.

Blacksburg is a ****hole with nothing to do. You have like 3 small bars. There is a reason when people think of fun schools, Tech doesnt come up.

I can probably quote 5 Hokies on this board saying VT doesnt hold a candle to WVU in terms of fun. This is undeniable, but go ahead and try.

Aren't you the one that's always criticizing my reading comprehension?

I never said Morgantown wasn't fun. All I said is that it looks like somebody used it to wipe their ass.

You were the type of kid to get upset and take his ball home when you were little, weren't you?

[SkinsHokieFan]

Blacksburg is pretty damn fun, had a great 3.5 years there (1 semester in Virginia Tech's mansion in Switzerland)

The only issue it has, which everyone who went to VT agrees with is that there are far too many dudes, thats it

Other then that, cheap brew, fun bars, lots to do on weekends, I had a blast there every weekend

When I went to Morgantown it definitley looked like a fun place to go to college, but also as Hokie just said, Morgantown is a piece

Blacksburg is far nicer in terms of natural beauty and the way the town is laid out, and VT's campus is much nicer IMO

Partying, well more chicks at WVU, WVU wins that by default

I have no idea why Cburg was thrown into this discussion :whoknows:, you only go there if you are in the drunk tank or have to go to court

[EersSkins05]

Hey, maybe Morgantown is more fun BECAUSE it's a hole. Cops don't feel the need to protect too much of dtown Motown or Sunnyside because it's already been trashed time and time again by those who know how to put on a party.

I agree that Morgantown is not a visually pleasing city. But I've partied in both towns (lived in southern WV for a while- only about 40 minutes from Blacksburg, and had some friends that went there), and the competition isn't close in that regard. (Those friends agree.)

[hokie4redskins]

Blacksburg is pretty damn fun, had a great 3.5 years there (1 semester in Virginia Tech's mansion in Switzerland)

The only issue it has, which everyone who went to VT agrees with is that there are far too many dudes, thats it

Other then that, cheap brew, fun bars, lots to do on weekends, I had a blast there every weekend

When I went to Morgantown it definitley looked like a fun place to go to college, but also as Hokie just said, Morgantown is a piece

Blacksburg is far nicer in terms of natural beauty and the way the town is laid out, and VT's campus is much nicer IMO

Partying, well more chicks at WVU, WVU wins that by default

I have no idea why Cburg was thrown into this discussion :whoknows:, you only go there if you are in the drunk tank or have to go to court

:laugh:

Well said.

Yeah, I did the VT study abroad as well but in Spain. But I did it in the summer so I could get 4 full years in. Actually, make that 4.5. Had to stick around for Michael Vick's last season. I took like three classes and got a minor.

:laugh:

But yeah, too many dudes.

[PleaseBlitz]

I never had a problem hooking up with the ladies at VT.

Maybe its just me. :whoknows:

[Inxsive]

Only you would fail to realize that all I did was type in "obsession" under google images, then copy/paste.


Come on we all know you had it in your favorites next to your cross dressing sites and the male escort services.;)

[Inxsive]

I never had a problem hooking up with the ladies at VT.

Maybe its just me. :whoknows:

That makes sense, so how many of your sisters went there?:D

[PleaseBlitz]

That makes sense, so how many of your sisters went there?:D


Says the 17 year old virgin. :laugh:

[Inxsive]

Says the 17 year old virgin. :laugh:

Good one! I imply you're hooking up with family members and you say I'm lying about my age again and that I'm a virgin. So if both are true I'm in High School and haven’t gotten laid and you're committing incest. :rotflmao:

[Diggs]

Good one! I imply you're hooking up with family members and you say I'm lying about my age again and that I'm a virgin. So if both are true I'm in High School and haven’t gotten laid and you're committing incest. :rotflmao:

(cue laughtrack)

http://www.grsites.com/sounds/18791905/comic/comic005.wav