Mediocrity this... mediocrity that... whine, *****, moan, repeat.
You folks just have to admit it... WVU is mediocre. Always has been, probably always will be. Sooner you "accept" it the easier it will be for you. Makes things more enjoyable, too.
Let's look at why:
1. Morgantown is a dump. Everything sits on the sides of mountains. Little aesthetically pleasing at all.
2. The campus is spread all over the town. Educational buildings surrounded by slums. Football stadium next to trailer parks. Nothing beautiful at all but I guess beauty is in the eyes of the beholder.
3. The school accepts mediocrity from its students. This is rampantly shown on this board as people have little in the way of logical thinking and the sentence structure for most is barely 3rd grade level at best. The school will take anyone with a pulse and a checkbook.
4. The school ranks poorly when compared to other similar institutions of learning. By nearly every measure, the school lags behind. Why would those with above average intelligence and abilities come to a school that's only going to dumb them down to mediocrity?
5. Largely because of number 3, the only thing WVU is ranked highly in is being a "party school". This is just an euphemism for being a terrible school with low academics and ignorant students.
6. The football team rarely puts players in the pros. The ones that do go are either practice squad journeymen, backups, or if the rare starter not a name anyone would recognize. As a result, WVU has no "brand". No NFL players = mediocrity.
7. The basketball team doesn't put people in the NBA. Therefore, NBA level players don't come to WVU. No NBA players = mediocrity.
Lump all them all together and you get .............. mediocrity!
I feel really sorry for the people who "demand" more. As if just by fixing one of those problems above you'll fix the overall problem. If only Gordon Gee and Shane Lyons would read this board, why they'd be firing Brown & Huggins and hiring the armchair coaches from this site. WVU would climb the polls quickly, surpassing the Alabama's and Duke's of the world in no time!
Or maybe the "demanders" are just projecting their own mediocre lives onto the WVU teams?
But, alas, I'm sure you'll all be on here lauding your Magna *** Laude diplomas, demanding yet high paying jobs, and bulging checking accounts followed up with the weak name calling and ad hominem attacks. Rest assured, you fool nobody because nobody with the three characteristics above has the time nor the inclination to spend on message boards as most of you folks do hour after hour, day after day.
Good day.