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The Bell Tolls for Thee

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locustwv said:
I’m not trying to start a fight but what is there to get excited about? Football or basketball?
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Not much. Especially when the long view shows that NILs only reinforces the push by media outlets to concentrate college football, and to a lesser extent basketball, down to only a handful of teams. WVU is not likely to be invited to this concentration of power and without that invite being relegated to irrelevance would be inevitable. So being in such a poor position in both sports with the already slim chances of a magical season rapidly vanishing, it's hard to be excited.

I fear in 5-10 years I will not care much at all about college sports. That would've seemed impossible to me when I joined this board 17 years ago. Of course I was a WVU student at that time, but I age hasn't been what has impaired my love of WVU FB and BB. I really hope I'm wrong.
 
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SKYHAWKBALL

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Another game, another loss.

Not sure why Gabe only got 7 minutes. Wonder if it’s because he didn’t bow down at the Huggins shrine the past few days?
 
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locustwv

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The Bell Tolls for Thee said:
Not much. Especially when the long view shows that NILs only reinforces the push by media outlets to concentrate college football, and to a lesser extent basketball, down to only a handful of teams. WVU is not likely to be invited to this concentration of power and without that invite being relegated to irrelevance would be inevitable. So being in such a poor position in both sports with the already slim chances of a magical season rapidly vanishing, it's hard to be excited.

I fear in 5-10 years I will not care much at all about college sports. That would've seemed impossible to me when I joined this board 17 years ago. Of course I was a WVU student at that time, but I age hasn't been what has impaired my love of WVU FB and BB. I really hope I'm wrong.
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I agree. I’ve been a diehard WVU fan since I was 11 and went to my first WVU football game in 1984. (Boston college) what a game that was!! Over the past few years my interest has been different. I still watch every game religiously. I guess my expectations are much different.
 
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Meh, no different than defending Huggins 24/7 on a message board. Some people believe Coaches are not above criticism some people worship them like Gods. End of the day it's a WVU Sports Message Board.
 
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The Bell Tolls for Thee said:
Not much. Especially when the long view shows that NILs only reinforces the push by media outlets to concentrate college football, and to a lesser extent basketball, down to only a handful of teams. WVU is not likely to be invited to this concentration of power and without that invite being relegated to irrelevance would be inevitable. So being in such a poor position in both sports with the already slim chances of a magical season rapidly vanishing, it's hard to be excited.

I fear in 5-10 years I will not care much at all about college sports. That would've seemed impossible to me when I joined this board 17 years ago. Of course I was a WVU student at that time, but I age hasn't been what has impaired my love of WVU FB and BB. I really hope I'm wrong.
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Well said.
 
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WVUFanForever said:
And what exactly does bitching 24/7 on a message board like tootie do accomplish?
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Complaining on a message board accomplishes nothing. Root, Bucky And vault need to remind Lyons about all the money they have donated to the athletic department over the years. I am sure their 7 figure donations have landed them on speed dial in Lyons cellphone.
 
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