10 Things No One Born After 1995 Know About WVU Football
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I wish id read your post before you edited it out. I am pretty sure you hold coach nehlen in higher regard than the previous poster. I was in Morgantown for the Cignetti years. I can tell you Don was a breath of fresh air. and I didn't hate Cignetti. I mostly felt bad for him. Very bright man. but Don was a winner. he knew how to win and how to build a winner. he made us believe we could win. I remember being in Atlanta for the Peach Bowl and wondering how everybody could possibly pick Fl. to beat us. My buddies and I never once thought we even could lose. the next yr my roommate and I were in Norman and once again wondering how everyone thought UO could beat us. They hadn't lost a home opener since 1954 or something but we never even discussed losing. when we walked into the stadium I thought it was a dump. hay covered walkways and just dirty. When we made it to the stands there were probably 5000 or more WVU fans, many from our friend group in MOrgantown , sitting there all knowing we were going to win. Maybe we were naïve or just to drunk but that's the kind of belief Don gave us. granted he averaged out over time but outside beating Louisville and the introductiom of Pat and Steve, most all my favorite memories are from the Nehlen days. Even the BCS wins, as fun as they've been, haven't really given me the type of excitement and pride I felt with Coach Nehlen from 80 to probably 98. Even the down years were OK because you knew they wouldn't last. People also either don't know or cant remember the coaches who came thru here during Dons time here. The Nehlen coaching tree is pretty damn impressive.
Facts are facts when it comes to wins, losses, average wins per year. But so are the feelings many of my time will always hold dear and will always hold Don Nehlen in very high regrard. A HOF coach? If he had left in 89, I would have voted for him.
Facts are facts when it comes to wins, losses, average wins per year. But so are the feelings many of my time will always hold dear and will always hold Don Nehlen in very high regrard. A HOF coach? If he had left in 89, I would have voted for him.
PBODY - I agree with every word you wrote. Anyone that does not realize how tough the major powers in the east were in the years for 1980 to 1985 does not have a real clue about college football.
Mountaineer field was a lot better home field experience even in defeat, in the 80's and 90's.
The sun bowl against Amazing RB's Barry sanders AND Thurman Thomas on the same Osu team
How can you forget the bluebonnet bowl against tcu
17-14 wvu defeats psu on the leg of woodside.
Major running all over the field against psu
Attending the fiesta bowl against ND as a 10th grade HS student. Awesome experience even in defeat.
And that "very average coach" nehlen running the table and going 11-0 twice in the regular season - an amazing accomplishment at wvu that will not be touched again by another HC.
The sun bowl against Amazing RB's Barry sanders AND Thurman Thomas on the same Osu team
How can you forget the bluebonnet bowl against tcu
17-14 wvu defeats psu on the leg of woodside.
Major running all over the field against psu
Attending the fiesta bowl against ND as a 10th grade HS student. Awesome experience even in defeat.
And that "very average coach" nehlen running the table and going 11-0 twice in the regular season - an amazing accomplishment at wvu that will not be touched again by another HC.
wrong. They did not play for a NC in 1993. Thanks for proving my point in this thread of "things WVU fans don't know".
you are very likely correct. As a member of the Big 12, WVU will never play such a weak schedule as that 1988 team did to finish undefeated. If Dana played that slate, he would be 11-0 as well.
Really....Dana just lost to K-State (and that was all on him). I'm not saying KSU sucks this season...just that WVU did play tougher teams in '88 (Syracuse comes to mind).
...plus his second undefeated regular season squad in '93 had plenty of pretty good teams on the schedule too.
Did Nehlen **** one of your family members? It may be time to give it a rest.....we get it, Nehlen sucked, Miami sucked, Boston College w/ Flutie sucked, pitt with Marino sucked, VT with Vick sucked, Penn St sucked, Syracuse sucked, Maryland sucked, Ohio State sucked, Oklahoma sucked, Florida sucked, Notre Dame sucked,....they all sucked, Nehlen sucked....we get it.
Yes, same guy; Yup-Yup/Ya-Ya Man aka: Henry. I lived in Clarksburg in the early 1980's and found out that he lived there and took a bus to Morgantown for the games. Rumor was that he was a challenged son of a prominent local family, spent his time on the streets of Clarksburg and Morgantown. Used to talk with him in a local bar, 212 Pub, and found that he was a bit sharper than most gave him credit for. He died in the 1990's I believe from cancer.
Henry was given free passage around the state by a group of Greyhound drivers that liked him. You would see him everywhere. When the Charleston Charlies were Pittsburgh's AAA affiliate, Henry was a fixture at Watt Powell Park.
I'm campaigning to bring back a new Frisbee Dog for pregame and halftime shows at Mountaineer Field. Some traditions should never die.
The Peach Bowl in '69 was a hoot. WVU fans tore down the the goalpost in the WV end zone late in the 4th quarter in case S. Carolina drove down close enough late to kick a FG to tie the game up.
Let's not forget the monsoon that hit the Gator Bowl in '81 just before kickoff. That night proved the old adage that once you get so wet, you can't get any wetter.
I'm campaigning to bring back a new Frisbee Dog for pregame and halftime shows at Mountaineer Field. Some traditions should never die.
The Peach Bowl in '69 was a hoot. WVU fans tore down the the goalpost in the WV end zone late in the 4th quarter in case S. Carolina drove down close enough late to kick a FG to tie the game up.
Let's not forget the monsoon that hit the Gator Bowl in '81 just before kickoff. That night proved the old adage that once you get so wet, you can't get any wetter.
lmao you just named the only team (Syracuse) on that schedule a pulse. They were the only team to finish above .500 on the entire schedule. 9 opponents out of 11 had losing records lol
Im pretty sure imagination is the closest you'll get to the actual experience.
Well, let's see... Dana didn't beat two top 25 teams and one top 10 team in any year like Nehlen did in 88 and 93.
Punisheer, I know you are in love with Dana but you don't have to denigrate our HOF coach in order to lift up Dana.
Punisheer, I know you are in love with Dana but you don't have to denigrate our HOF coach in order to lift up Dana.
Fans born after 1995 don't know about the 'juke' move. Do they? Some of the kids heard about the juke move right here on this website ................ from ole Warez.............for the very first time. They still don't know anything about it. Some of the newer folks don't even believe the juke move is real!
Pitt was 6-5 and did not play in a bowl game so Pitt was 6-5 as their final record. And several teams finished just below that level at 5-6. The 1988 team was men vs boys in most games. That may have been the best offensive live that we have had in the modern era.
I see you continue to ignore the '93 season...while continuing (attempting anyway) to explain why ANY 11-0 season could possibly be easier than beating any 5-6 team.
Dana lost to a team with a losing record.....yet Don beating several on the way to an undefeated season is somehow less impressive ?
...lol, good stuff... ..for entertainment value I hope you continue to express that odd reasoning.
100 % correct Woody. Kevin Koken and the crew were a dominating OL. If I remember correctly, Nehlen would substitute out the whole OL on every third series. That team was loaded! They did not just win, they decimated the competition.
Yup. Wholesale substitutions with two lines loaded with Sr's. and Jr's. The second line carried that team to a bowl the next year.
Those were the last two years Don saw the benefits from the end of the 115 scholarship era.
PSU had a kid at QB who was head case in '88. Paterno kept him around to bail the offense out when his HS All-American true freshman Tony Sacca got confused, which was often.
The back-up was in the doghouse that day. Sacca was wandering around stunned by the start of the second quarter. It was a massacre. Paterno put the back-up in after Don pulled his starters early in the third. I don't think Sacca was ever the same. Another HS All American QB ruined by JoePa. The man had the touch. lol!
ignoring the 1993 season? They were massacred 41-7 in the sugar bowl. And they weren't playing for the NC. I remember it well.
Other "opinions" differ with your "opinion". Let's face it, 1993 was before the BCS and final computer rankings and such. In some ways it is like today's "committee", except the verdict is final today. Then it was a matter of "opinion" on who was the top team after the bowls. IF, and it is a BIG IF, WVU had beaten UF and FSU had lost there may have well been a split decision on the top slot.
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/185127-the-story-of-the-undefeated-1993-wvu-football-season#
Wvu was #2 in coaches poll, Nebraska #1, FSU #3. If WVU would have beaten #8 UF there would have been spilt national title. FSU would have won AP title, WVU would have won coaches.
So punisher are you saying WVU would not have moved into the #1 spot in the coaches poll with a win over UF? Coaches favored WVU that year and they were #2 going into the bowl. With a win they would have been 12-0, FSU 11-1. Split title.
