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10 Things No One Born After 1995 Know About WVU Football

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USA Today the other day had "25 Things No One Born After 1995 Knew About the NFL." Well, I thought about it and realized that here are 10 things no one born after 1995 know about WVU football...

1 - Jack Fleming and Woody O'Hara
2 - "Finally!!!!"
3 - Old Mountaineer Field...
4 - "There goes Major!!!!"
5 - 2 11-0 seasons
6 - Bill McKenzie
7 - Hoss' kneel in the endzone
8 - "They got Flutie!!!!"
9 - 1:30pm kickoffs
10 - The '81 Peach Bowl


Anyone else want to add on, go ahead!!!!
 
Taking the goal posts down and cutting them up
The All American Assassin
John Denver opens the New Mountaineer Field
70222 & festival seating, so much for a fire marshall
The Pit
Sunny side block party
A loss to Rutgers
 
Double blue stripe on pants
Games vs Penn state
When sunnyside was sunnyside
Grant street block party
Kegs in the blue lot tailgates
Whiskey Jake to Ed Hill
Major to Rembert
Famous Amos
 
Tossed trash can (ended up with a lawsuit) and the shaking of an ambulance.

Batteries ?

Certainly a 'save the couches' program by public emergency services.
 
I think just about everyone who graduated high school after 1995 forgets that WVU is a top 15 all-time NCAA football program. I don't know how else you can explain so many people being satisfied with several 6 to 8 loss seasons.

1. Michigan
2. Notre Dame
3. Texas
4. Nebraska
5. Ohio State
6. Alabama
7. Oklahoma
8. Penn State
9. Tennessee
10. So Cal
11. Georgia
12. LSU
13. Auburn
14. WEST VIRGINIA
15. Texas A&M
 
Tire, you're being played by one (not me).

Fun to watch either way (you believe).

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Got to go....CBS is showing Any Griffith special IN COLOR !!
 
I think just about everyone who graduated high school after 1995 forgets that WVU is a top 15 all-time NCAA football program. I don't know how else you can explain so many people being satisfied with several 6 to 8 loss seasons.

1. Michigan
2. Notre Dame
3. Texas
4. Nebraska
5. Ohio State
6. Alabama
7. Oklahoma
8. Penn State
9. Tennessee
10. So Cal
11. Georgia
12. LSU
13. Auburn
14. WEST VIRGINIA
15. Texas A&M
That may be true - but it is total wins - We are lower(29th) when you consider winning percentage. And we are not satisfied with losing records - but you do have to realize that the schedule is much more difficult than we had in the 2004 to 2010 era. The winning percentage is .698 and is 3rd in the Big 12 behind Oklahoma and Texas which are at .718 and .710.
 
602 from Blue Ridge Cable (where I live ).

CBS..I think it's their main programming tonight.
 
I think just about everyone who graduated high school after 1995 forgets that WVU is a top 15 all-time NCAA football program. I don't know how else you can explain so many people being satisfied with several 6 to 8 loss seasons.

1. Michigan
2. Notre Dame
3. Texas
4. Nebraska
5. Ohio State
6. Alabama
7. Oklahoma
8. Penn State
9. Tennessee
10. So Cal
11. Georgia
12. LSU
13. Auburn
14. WEST VIRGINIA
15. Texas A&M

You need to go see how many more years we have played than some on that list. There are some pretty good teams right behind us. All time wins we are around 20th. If you go by national titles and bowl wins, we aren't top 15.
 
That may be true - but it is total wins - We are lower(29th) when you consider winning percentage. And we are not satisfied with losing records - but you do have to realize that the schedule is much more difficult than we had in the 2004 to 2010 era. The winning percentage is .698 and is 3rd in the Big 12 behind Oklahoma and Texas which are at .718 and .710.

We had a lot of games agaisnt some poor teams. Richmond, Temple, Kentucky adn Will and Mary, VMI.
 
Tossed trash can (ended up with a lawsuit) and the shaking of an ambulance.

Batteries ?

Certainly a 'save the couches' program by public emergency services.

Wth are you talking about?
Randy Shannon got a trash can dropped on him on Oct 25 1996 at the back of section 100.

No knowledge of history!
 
8 Southern Conference Championships, including 4 in a row.
The Cignetti Era
Jim Carlen
Pappy Lewis
The Ya-Ya Man (Henry)
Mr. Rainbow

I think you mean, "Yup-Yup Man." It's just freaking amazing how many people actually had conversations with him and remember the guy.
 
James Jett.

He did it! (Still get chills).

Look at this field Jim!..They'll never clear it.

Zach Abraham.

70,222.
 
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Sorry - a misprint on my part - it is .598 for the winning percentage - and it is still the third best overall winning percentage in the Big 12.

And yes our schedules have changed drastically. Very local until the 1920s then once the New Mountaineer Field was built in 24 we did venture out and get some home and home deals with some of our future conference foes - OSU, KU, KSU and some other larger schools. Then the movement into the Southern Conference that began with teams like Md, WF, NCST and South Carolina. But they dropped out. An upgrade beginning in 69 but still a few Southern Schools. Then the big time beginning in 1980. It became easier in 2004 and back up in 2011.
 
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I think just about everyone who graduated high school after 1995 forgets that WVU is a top 15 all-time NCAA football program. I don't know how else you can explain so many people being satisfied with several 6 to 8 loss seasons.

1. Michigan
2. Notre Dame
3. Texas
4. Nebraska
5. Ohio State
6. Alabama
7. Oklahoma
8. Penn State
9. Tennessee
10. So Cal
11. Georgia
12. LSU
13. Auburn
14. WEST VIRGINIA
15. Texas A&M
Dana averages 7 wins a year. Same as Nehlen. Same as WVU has averaged the last 30-40 years. We are playing much tougher competition and still averaging 7 wins. Impressive.
 
USA Today the other day had "25 Things No One Born After 1995 Knew About the NFL." Well, I thought about it and realized that here are 10 things no one born after 1995 know about WVU football...

1 - Jack Fleming and Woody O'Hara
2 - "Finally!!!!"
3 - Old Mountaineer Field...
4 - "There goes Major!!!!"
5 - 2 11-0 seasons
6 - Bill McKenzie
7 - Hoss' kneel in the endzone
8 - "They got Flutie!!!!"
9 - 1:30pm kickoffs
10 - The '81 Peach Bowl


Anyone else want to add on, go ahead!!!!
1.) Don Nehlen averaged 7 wins a year. Same as Holgorsen

2.) outside of Miami, the old big east wasn't much tougher than the new Big east.

3.). TCU was a solid, good program as a member of the old SWC, winning 2 NC's and a Heisman Trophy winner.

4.). The 1988 undefeated WVU football team only played one team that finished above .500 all season.

5.). Pitt was terrible and averaged 3-4 wins in the old big east during the 1990's when WVU dominated the series.

6.). The famous 1988 win over Penn State was against a Nittany Lion team that finished the year 5-6.

7.). The top 2 highest scoring teams in WVU football history belong to Dana Holgorsen.

8.). Don Nehlen did not recruit and sign Oliver Luck and Darryl Talley. They were recruited and signed by WVU assistant Gary Stevens under Frank Cignetti.

9.). Doc Holliday recruited and signed some of the greatest Mountaineers of all time under Don Nehlen and Bill Stewart such as Major Harris, Geno Smith, Stedman Bailey, etc.

10.). WVU did not play for a National Championship in 1993.
 
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USA Today the other day had "25 Things No One Born After 1995 Knew About the NFL." Well, I thought about it and realized that here are 10 things no one born after 1995 know about WVU football...

1 - Jack Fleming and Woody O'Hara
2 - "Finally!!!!"
3 - Old Mountaineer Field...
4 - "There goes Major!!!!"
5 - 2 11-0 seasons
6 - Bill McKenzie
7 - Hoss' kneel in the endzone
8 - "They got Flutie!!!!"
9 - 1:30pm kickoffs
10 - The '81 Peach Bowl


Anyone else want to add on, go ahead!!!!
1969 Jim Carlen coached team that beat South Carolina in the Peach Bowl with MVP Eddie Williams gaining over 200 yards in the mud. Other players included QB Mike Sherwood, WR Oscar Patrick, LB Carl Crennel, TB Bob Gresham, FB Pete Wood, LB Dale Farley, and DT, and my friend, Danny Wilfong.
 
3.). TCU was a solid, good program as a member of the old SWC, winning 2 NC's and a Heisman Trophy winner.

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Where did you get your info on TCU - They won their two national championships in the late 1930's same as the Heisman. On the new era of football began after WWII - TCU was a bottom feeder in the SWC. In the era 1960 to the end of the SWC they had excatly 2 bowl games. If you would look at winning percentages from 1945 to 1996 TCU would be in 8th or 9th place in the 9 member SWC. I do expect that Rice would be lower than TCU.
 
USA Today the other day had "25 Things No One Born After 1995 Knew About the NFL." Well, I thought about it and realized that here are 10 things no one born after 1995 know about WVU football...

1 - Jack Fleming and Woody O'Hara
2 - "Finally!!!!"
3 - Old Mountaineer Field...
4 - "There goes Major!!!!"
5 - 2 11-0 seasons
6 - Bill McKenzie
7 - Hoss' kneel in the endzone
8 - "They got Flutie!!!!"
9 - 1:30pm kickoffs
10 - The '81 Peach Bowl


Anyone else want to add on, go ahead!!!!

1988 Best team in the country until Michael Stonebreaker threw Major on his head seperating his shoulder on the first series of the Fiesta Bowl.
1982 victory over OU in Norman over a top 10 Sooner team.
 
Sorry - a misprint on my part - it is .598 for the winning percentage - and it is still the third best overall winning percentage in the Big 12.

And yes our schedules have changed drastically. Very local until the 1920s then once the New Mountaineer Field was built in 24 we did venture out and get some home and home deals with some of our future conference foes - OSU, KU, KSU and some other larger schools. Then the movement into the Southern Conference that began with teams like Md, WF, NCST and South Carolina. But they dropped out. An upgrade beginning in 69 but still a few Southern Schools. Then the big time beginning in 1980. It became easier in 2004 and back up in 2011.
Just about everyone played local schedules back in the day.

For instance, Pitt and Cornell shared the mythical national championship 100 years ago.

The unbeaten 1915 Panthers rolled by the likes of Westminster, Navy, Carlisle Industrial School, Penn, Allegheny, Washington & Jefferson, Carnegie Tech and Penn State.

The mighty Big Red of Cornell stayed undefeated through a gauntlet consisting of Gettysburg, Oberlin, Williams, Bucknell, Harvard, Virginia Polytechnic, Michigan, Washington & Lee and Penn.

West Virginia, by the way, went 5-2-1 (some sources say 6-1-1) in 1915 under the coaching of Sol Metzger.

AN EXCERPT FROM HIS WIKI:

The 1915 squad improved to a record of 5–2–1 and gained some national attention. The team scored 216 points to 25 by their opponents. The two losses were a 7–0 loss to traditional power the University of Pennsylvania to start the season, and a forfeit to Washington and Lee. During the Washington & Lee game, Metzger pulled his team off the field alleging rough play while leading 8–6. The only other blemish was a tie to Washington & Jefferson which later defeated traditional power Yale. Metzger was offered the coaching position for the next season but turned it down, instead signing to coach Washington and Jefferson College
 
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When students only had to show IDs to get into Old MF. I remember going into the stadium and gathering up several friends' IDs and going back out to give them to non-student friends to get into games. Also remember a keg being pulled up over the stadium wall from the bridge. Old MF was a special place.
 
1988 Best team in the country until Michael Stonebreaker threw Major on his head seperating his shoulder on the first series of the Fiesta Bowl.
1982 victory over OU in Norman over a top 10 Sooner team.
in fairness, there's really no way knowing WVU was "the best team in the country" before the injury. They played one team that finished above .500. Unless you count Pitt at 6-5 before their bowl loss. Syracuse was the only team above. The rest all had losing records.
 
PunishEER, we've talked about this ad nauseum. I know you do not care to present a balanced argument but Nehlen's schedule did not have I-AA team give me wins (a 12th game) and his schedule in the 80s and 90s if you compare top 25 teams on the schedule is dead even with our Big 12 averages.

in fairness, there's really no way knowing WVU was "the best team in the country" before the injury. They played one team that finished above .500. Unless you count Pitt at 6-5 before their bowl loss. Syracuse was the only team above. The rest all had losing records.
 
PunishEER, we've talked about this ad nauseum. I know you do not care to present a balanced argument but Nehlen's schedule did not have I-AA team give me wins (a 12th game) and his schedule in the 80s and 90s if you compare top 25 teams on the schedule is dead even with our Big 12 averages.
I agree totally and I wonder where all the Nehlen hate comes from. The one and only football head coach that was elected to the College Hall of Fame based totally on his career at WVU. We have other coaches that are in the HOF but at least a major part of the accomplishments came somewhere else - Spears, Bowden, Cignetti, Neale.

Without Neheln WVU would not be where we are today.
 
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PunishEER, we've talked about this ad nauseum. I know you do not care to present a balanced argument but Nehlen's schedule did not have I-AA team give me wins (a 12th game) and his schedule in the 80s and 90s if you compare top 25 teams on the schedule is dead even with our Big 12 averages.

I agree totally and I wonder where all the Nehlen hate comes from. The one and only football head coach that was elected to the College Hall of Fame based totally on his career at WVU. We have other coaches that are in the HOF but at least a major part of the accomplishments came somewhere else - Spears, Bowden, Cignetti, Neale.

Without Neheln WVU would not be where we are today.
lmao funny how presenting facts becomes "hate". No you are wrong. Nehlen schedules in the 80's and 90's were not comparable to this big 12 slate lol. Get a clue. Nehlen in the HOF is not justified. He averaged 7 wins at WVU. 6 wins his entire career between Bowling Green and WVU. Hardly HOF numbers. Helps having buddies I imagine.
 
lmao funny how presenting facts becomes "hate". No you are wrong. Nehlen schedules in the 80's and 90's were not comparable to this big 12 slate lol. Get a clue. Nehlen in the HOF is not justified. He averaged 7 wins at WVU. 6 wins his entire career between Bowling Green and WVU. Hardly HOF numbers. Helps having buddies I imagine.[/QUO

you're showing your age. Believe it or not, penn state, miami, boston college, syracuse, and even pitt, and virginia tech used to be good on occasion in the 80s and 90s.
 
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