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AD Shane Lyons shines over sloppy, terrible joke of an AD Oliver Luck. Luck was good QB but no AD.

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Shane Smooth Lyons is a real professional AD that handled this like a boss. He told Holgorsen to get the hell gone and find a job while he quickly got his replacements lined up and picked a star coach Neal Brown. Shane told Dana we’re done and we need better. He basically told Dana that he’s a joke of a coach and that he will fire him if he doesn’t leave.

Shane Lyons is a grown ass man. Sloppy Luck was a mess and nobody wanted him as AD after watching his tenure at WVU from 2010-2014. Oliver Luck was like howdy doody and ran when he realized he made a horrible mistake with hiring dumbass Dana, a terrible head coach who was way over his head. Luck made a unprofessional hire on the coach in waiting decision. Then fires Stewart. Luck handled things unprofessional and sloppy. Luck gives Dana a bad deal where he was stuck with him for a couple years forward and ran when he realized it was a disaster hire. Luck was a Texas out of touch moron at this point. Luck didn’t get us into a Big 12. The Big 12 needed us badly and Luck jumped. A year later the ACC would have taken us easily. They had to take Louisville and didn’t want them. Louisville would have went to Big 12 if WVU didn’t go. Louisville was initially selected but Big 12 picked WVU instead when we showed interest.
 
Shane Smooth Lyons is a real professional AD that handled this like a boss. He told Holgorsen to get the hell gone and find a job while he quickly got his replacements lined up and picked a star coach Neal Brown. Shane told Dana we’re done and we need better. He basically told Dana that he’s a joke of a coach and that he will fire him if he doesn’t leave.

Shane Lyons is a grown ass man. Sloppy Luck was a mess and nobody wanted him as AD after watching his tenure at WVU from 2010-2014. Oliver Luck was like howdy doody and ran when he realized he made a horrible mistake with hiring dumbass Dana, a terrible head coach who was way over his head. Luck made a unprofessional hire on the coach in waiting decision. Then fires Stewart. Luck handled things unprofessional and sloppy. Luck gives Dana a bad deal where he was stuck with him for a couple years forward and ran when he realized it was a disaster hire. Luck was a Texas out of touch moron at this point. Luck didn’t get us into a Big 12. The Big 12 needed us badly and Luck jumped. A year later the ACC would have taken us easily. They had to take Louisville and didn’t want them. Louisville would have went to Big 12 if WVU didn’t go. Louisville was initially selected but Big 12 picked WVU instead when we showed interest.
You should substitute Fast Eddie for Ollie.
 
Shane Smooth Lyons is a real professional AD that handled this like a boss. He told Holgorsen to get the hell gone and find a job while he quickly got his replacements lined up and picked a star coach Neal Brown. Shane told Dana we’re done and we need better. He basically told Dana that he’s a joke of a coach and that he will fire him if he doesn’t leave.

Shane Lyons is a grown ass man. Sloppy Luck was a mess and nobody wanted him as AD after watching his tenure at WVU from 2010-2014. Oliver Luck was like howdy doody and ran when he realized he made a horrible mistake with hiring dumbass Dana, a terrible head coach who was way over his head. Luck made a unprofessional hire on the coach in waiting decision. Then fires Stewart. Luck handled things unprofessional and sloppy. Luck gives Dana a bad deal where he was stuck with him for a couple years forward and ran when he realized it was a disaster hire. Luck was a Texas out of touch moron at this point. Luck didn’t get us into a Big 12. The Big 12 needed us badly and Luck jumped. A year later the ACC would have taken us easily. They had to take Louisville and didn’t want them. Louisville would have went to Big 12 if WVU didn’t go. Louisville was initially selected but Big 12 picked WVU instead when we showed interest.

Show some respect for a fellow alumnus. Act like you have a little bit of class.
 
Jesus, Uder. What the hell goes through that addled mind of yours, to bring you to the point where you would say some of this crap?
 
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Louisville was initially selected to Big 12 and then Big 12 decided they wanted WVU instead when we stopped being loyal to fading Big East. Louisville threatened lawsuit against Big 12 but didn’t matter. Big 12 wanted WVU because we were bigger, better option. Louisville was actually a more western, better geographic and cultural fit sitting in more northwestern Kentucky. They are much closer to Big 12 than WVU is.

Luck was no hero. The Big 12 was desperate for a good athletic school and WVU provided the next best option available for football and good basketball. They needed us. A year later the ACC was desperate after Maryland left and had to settle on the best thing left which was Louisville. WVU would have been best thing left if Louisville would have went to Big 12 a year earlier. None of this was Luck. The Big 12 was desperate and got TCU and WVU. Hiring Dana was sloppy work by Luck.
 
Nice revisionist history...

The Big XII never selected Louisville because of Oliver Luck.

Luck has a J.D. from the Texas School of Law.
So he is actually a Texas Ex as well.

The ACC was never an option. Luck knew this so he did what he could to get WV into the Big XII.

If Louisville was the tenth school the ACC would have went with UCONN.
 
So Ollie had a misfire with Holgy. Otherwise....
He banished the Raeseites from the AD
Signed the multi million dollar deal with IMG
Got us in the last lifeboat when the SS Big East sank
Pulled the plug on the Marshall football and basketball series
Told Manchin to take a hike

Whereas Pasthisprime….
Made a 2am kneejerk hire of Bill Stewart
Waved bye bye from dockside when BC, VPLies, and Cryami jumped to the Asheshe
Turned Huggy down when he first wanted to come home
Gave us Jockitch if only for one week
Finally hired Beilein after turning him down the first time
Allowed Manchin to hold him hostage until the deal was signed for the Marshall football series just to keep a campaign promise for his former roommate
 
Nice revisionist history...

The Big XII never selected Louisville because of Oliver Luck.

Luck has a J.D. from the Texas School of Law.
So he is actually a Texas Ex as well.

The ACC was never an option. Luck knew this so he did what he could to get WV into the Big XII.

If Louisville was the tenth school the ACC would have went with UCONN.
The only reason Loserville jumped to the Ashe she was to replace Maryland which went to the BIG. Had the Ashe she really wanted us, they would have taken us rather than BC
 
Louisville is Little Brother Syndrome at its finest.
At least Georgia Tech has better academics than UGA
Clemson has a better football history than S Carolina
FSU looks down on UF as their trailer park little brother with Jorts.

Louisville is inferior to UK in everything

Even if the ACC fell a part the Big XII wouldn't be interested.
 
I’m convinced Pride is a government experiment to test the patience of the WVU sports fan demographic
 
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So Ollie had a misfire with Holgy. Otherwise....
He banished the Raeseites from the AD
Signed the multi million dollar deal with IMG
Got us in the last lifeboat when the SS Big East sank
Pulled the plug on the Marshall football and basketball series
Told Manchin to take a hike

Whereas Pasthisprime….
Made a 2am kneejerk hire of Bill Stewart
Waved bye bye from dockside when BC, VPLies, and Cryami jumped to the Asheshe
Turned Huggy down when he first wanted to come home
Gave us Jockitch if only for one week
Finally hired Beilein after turning him down the first time
Allowed Manchin to hold him hostage until the deal was signed for the Marshall football series just to keep a campaign promise for his former roommate

Good post. Ollie also was able to organize the boosters to get any kind of funding. All EP did was whine that there's no $
 
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Pastilong was AD in the Stone Age of normal college football before money had started ruining the game. He would never be an AD in these days of greed, money, corruption.......Luck came in 2010 where ADs had to be more aggressive financially......Luck wasn’t anything special. 99% of ADs from 2010-2014 would have done the same thing and more. Luck biggest blunder was hiring Dana the way he did and simply hiring the wrong guy. Totally unprofessional cluster shit situation. Sloppy work by Luck. By Lucks last 2-3 years WVU football and basketball was losing a lot. Dana ran us into ground. It was hard to stomach. Huggs is too inconsistent. Good guards won’t play for him often. JC was his rare steal.
 
Pastilong was AD in the Stone Age of normal college football before money had started ruining the game. He would never be an AD in these days of greed, money, corruption.......Luck came in 2010 where ADs had to be more aggressive financially......Luck wasn’t anything special. 99% of ADs from 2010-2014 would have done the same thing and more. Luck biggest blunder was hiring Dana the way he did and simply hiring the wrong guy. Totally unprofessional cluster shit situation. Sloppy work by Luck. By Lucks last 2-3 years WVU football and basketball was losing a lot. Dana ran us into ground. It was hard to stomach. Huggs is too inconsistent. Good guards won’t play for him often. JC was his rare steal.

Do you seriously have nothing better to do than sit around and make up all of this slanderous shit! Smh!
 
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Shane Smooth Lyons is a real professional AD that handled this like a boss. He told Holgorsen to get the hell gone and find a job while he quickly got his replacements lined up and picked a star coach Neal Brown. Shane told Dana we’re done and we need better. He basically told Dana that he’s a joke of a coach and that he will fire him if he doesn’t leave.

Shane Lyons is a grown ass man. Sloppy Luck was a mess and nobody wanted him as AD after watching his tenure at WVU from 2010-2014. Oliver Luck was like howdy doody and ran when he realized he made a horrible mistake with hiring dumbass Dana, a terrible head coach who was way over his head. Luck made a unprofessional hire on the coach in waiting decision. Then fires Stewart. Luck handled things unprofessional and sloppy. Luck gives Dana a bad deal where he was stuck with him for a couple years forward and ran when he realized it was a disaster hire. Luck was a Texas out of touch moron at this point. Luck didn’t get us into a Big 12. The Big 12 needed us badly and Luck jumped. A year later the ACC would have taken us easily. They had to take Louisville and didn’t want them. Louisville would have went to Big 12 if WVU didn’t go. Louisville was initially selected but Big 12 picked WVU instead when we showed interest.

You should ban yourself.
 
Louisville was initially selected to Big 12 and then Big 12 decided they wanted WVU instead when we stopped being loyal to fading Big East. Louisville threatened lawsuit against Big 12 but didn’t matter. Big 12 wanted WVU because we were bigger, better option. Louisville was actually a more western, better geographic and cultural fit sitting in more northwestern Kentucky. They are much closer to Big 12 than WVU is.

Luck was no hero. The Big 12 was desperate for a good athletic school and WVU provided the next best option available for football and good basketball. They needed us. A year later the ACC was desperate after Maryland left and had to settle on the best thing left which was Louisville. WVU would have been best thing left if Louisville would have went to Big 12 a year earlier. None of this was Luck. The Big 12 was desperate and got TCU and WVU. Hiring Dana was sloppy work by Luck.

You are perhaps the dumbest person on planet earth. You have never gotten facts correctly.
 
I am not a Dana fan and he (like so many before him) do not represent the WVU football program. But after overcoming the recruiting mess left by Stew, he righted the ship and West Virginia University was playing Oklahoma on the last game of the season for the Big 12 regular season title.
 
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Luck didn’t get us into a Big 12. The Big 12 needed us badly and Luck jumped. A year later the ACC would have taken us easily. They had to take Louisville and didn’t want them.


For someone who writes so much you know so little. The ACC could have easily taken WVU many times before and didn't. That's because they don't want WVU, it's a well known fact. They have had every opportunity since the formation of the ACC to get wvu and have never reached out. That's 65 years of not wanting WVU.
 
Oh trust me they would have taken WVU cause they were in trouble as a conference. Louisville wasn’t wanted either. They had no choice. WVU would have been selected by ACC if Louisville would have went to Big 12 instead a year or 2 before. ACC needed someone good with real fanbase. They needed substance. WVU would have been best left.
 
Oh trust me they would have taken WVU cause they were in trouble as a conference. Louisville wasn’t wanted either. They had no choice. WVU would have been selected by ACC if Louisville would have went to Big 12 instead a year or 2 before. ACC needed someone good with real fanbase. They needed substance. WVU would have been best left.
Oh come on Pride, IF the Asheshe had REALLY wanted us, they would have taken us with Pitt rather than SUckacuse to keep a rivalry together.
 
When Maryland left and Rutgers also joined Big 10, the ACC was finally not about TV markets and private schools but quality. They needed a real sports school that was quality. They needed the next best football program left to grab. Louisville was the only thing left.
 
Mr Bailey will confirm this. The ACC offered about a week after WVU committed to the Big12 when UMD left.

That could be a possibility.
I think certain schools like Boston College wanted West Virginia.
Of course Pitt attempted to bring WV into the ACC.

But...
The official word out of Greensboro and the narrative from Chapel Hill and Charlottesville was the ACC was never interested.

There may have been interest like with the SEC but an official offer was never extended.
 
Shane Smooth Lyons is a real professional AD that handled this like a boss. He told Holgorsen to get the hell gone and find a job while he quickly got his replacements lined up and picked a star coach Neal Brown. Shane told Dana we’re done and we need better. He basically told Dana that he’s a joke of a coach and that he will fire him if he doesn’t leave.

Shane Lyons is a grown ass man. Sloppy Luck was a mess and nobody wanted him as AD after watching his tenure at WVU from 2010-2014. Oliver Luck was like howdy doody and ran when he realized he made a horrible mistake with hiring dumbass Dana, a terrible head coach who was way over his head. Luck made a unprofessional hire on the coach in waiting decision. Then fires Stewart. Luck handled things unprofessional and sloppy. Luck gives Dana a bad deal where he was stuck with him for a couple years forward and ran when he realized it was a disaster hire. Luck was a Texas out of touch moron at this point. Luck didn’t get us into a Big 12. The Big 12 needed us badly and Luck jumped. A year later the ACC would have taken us easily. They had to take Louisville and didn’t want them. Louisville would have went to Big 12 if WVU didn’t go. Louisville was initially selected but Big 12 picked WVU instead when we showed interest.

You need to take the full amount of your doctor prescribed medication.
 
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I'm sure as the Big East broke up Lyons would have ignored the B12 and taken us straight to the NFL.
 
Lyons handled things like a real star AD. Luck was sloppy. Period.

As for ACC WVU would be there if they waited another year by letting Louisville go to Big 12 instead but they didn’t know or risk the chance. They had to go.
 
Lyons handled things like a real star AD. Luck was sloppy. Period.

As for ACC WVU would be there if they waited another year by letting Louisville go to Big 12 instead but they didn’t know or risk the chance. They had to go.
That is the difference between Ollie being proactive and Fast Eddie being reactive. Ollie did not wait another year because there was no guarantee that a slot in the ACC would be in the cards.
 
Louisville was initially selected to Big 12 and then Big 12 decided they wanted WVU instead when we stopped being loyal to fading Big East. Louisville threatened lawsuit against Big 12 but didn’t matter. Big 12 wanted WVU because we were bigger, better option. Louisville was actually a more western, better geographic and cultural fit sitting in more northwestern Kentucky. They are much closer to Big 12 than WVU is.

Luck was no hero. The Big 12 was desperate for a good athletic school and WVU provided the next best option available for football and good basketball. They needed us. A year later the ACC was desperate after Maryland left and had to settle on the best thing left which was Louisville. WVU would have been best thing left if Louisville would have went to Big 12 a year earlier. None of this was Luck. The Big 12 was desperate and got TCU and WVU. Hiring Dana was sloppy work by Luck.
LMAO....this board reeks with trolls, do you also troll Pitt board? Could call yourself PantherPete, and stir them up every day. :)
 
Louisville was initially selected to Big 12 and then Big 12 decided they wanted WVU instead when we stopped being loyal to fading Big East. Louisville threatened lawsuit against Big 12 but didn’t matter. Big 12 wanted WVU because we were bigger, better option. Louisville was actually a more western, better geographic and cultural fit sitting in more northwestern Kentucky. They are much closer to Big 12 than WVU is.

Luck was no hero. The Big 12 was desperate for a good athletic school and WVU provided the next best option available for football and good basketball. They needed us. A year later the ACC was desperate after Maryland left and had to settle on the best thing left which was Louisville. WVU would have been best thing left if Louisville would have went to Big 12 a year earlier. None of this was Luck. The Big 12 was desperate and got TCU and WVU. Hiring Dana was sloppy work by Luck.
and Jay got us into the Big12
 
Lyons handled things like a real star AD. Luck was sloppy. Period.

As for ACC WVU would be there if they waited another year by letting Louisville go to Big 12 instead but they didn’t know or risk the chance. They had to go.
Luck was a change agent and some things needed fixed, Mike Parsons was a real controlling figure that needed to move on, getting IMG was progress, the baseball stadium was a huge move, and finally Ollie was aware he needed to change coaches in several sports but the problem was he just did not hire the right people and in the case of football it was handled very poorly with the HCIW.
btw...Jim Clements helped screw the Dana thing up as well.
 
That could be a possibility.
I think certain schools like Boston College wanted West Virginia.
Of course Pitt attempted to bring WV into the ACC.

But...
The official word out of Greensboro and the narrative from Chapel Hill and Charlottesville was the ACC was never interested.

There may have been interest like with the SEC but an official offer was never extended.
Look, the old Big East schools wanted no parts of WVU and that included BC...BC alums hated getting beat by WVU in the BE......so saying they wanted us is not fact
 
Look, the old Big East schools wanted no parts of WVU and that included BC...BC alums hated getting beat by WVU in the BE......so saying they wanted us is not fact

Boston College media was one of the only ones who were promting WV to the ACC when Maryland left.
They may have hated losing to you but that doesn't mean they were not interested in WV joining the ACC.

Like I said the original ACC schools claim they were and never will be interested in WV.
 
Boston College media was one of the only ones who were promting WV to the ACC when Maryland left.
They may have hated losing to you but that doesn't mean they were not interested in WV joining the ACC.

Like I said the original ACC schools claim they were and never will be interested in WV.

Somebody told you a big fat lie. BC never ever would promote WVU to ACC.
 
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