Great read and insight to 2005 UL game and season...

AZeer

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White: “Honestly, at that point, I was almost ready to give up and give in. I had spoken to my father after the Rutgers game and we talked about how frustrated I was with the amount of snaps I was getting. The week before we had played Virginia Tech and we almost came back and beat them, but we lost on a few mishaps that cost us. He pretty much told me to go out every day that week, the Louisville week, and give everything I had for every play I was in during practice. If at the end of the week I felt the same, he would at that time bring me my baseball glove and I was going to head for professional baseball. I’m thankful I was able to reach out to somebody I loved and trusted and got that advice. Because had I not had anybody to speak with, I would have been very frustrated that week and when my opportunity arose in the Louisville game, I wouldn’t have been ready.”

http://newsinteractive.post-gazette.com/oral-history/west-virginia/
 

VaultHunter

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Great stuff.

Hard to believe Rich Rod was 28-21 in 5 seasons and some WVU fans were ready to fire him.

Sound familiar?
 

GoWVU

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Great article.

It's an unfortunate truth that retrospectives like these are inevitably bittersweet, because there is always someone involved whose life has taken a tragic turn. Very sad to read about the current status of Adam Bednarik in the postscript.
 

GoWVU

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Hard to believe Rich Rod was 28-21 in 5 seasons and some WVU fans were ready to fire him.

Sound familiar?
Not familiar at all, no matter how hard you try every day to spin the facts.

Guess we should all be busy booking trips to face the SEC champ in the Sugar Bowl this January, though, since they're so similar.