Odds and ends about WVU from the State's biggest ass clown

[wbgvwbgv]

Furfari

. . . . . . .

I don’t drive anymore, but I ride through the daily traffic jams and they’re horrible in Morgantown. Now word (or rumor) is that my Alma Mater of WVU is thinking about expanding to 50,000 students.

In my firm opinion, the fore fathers should have set a limit of 15,000 students as a maximum.

Let's deny tens of thousands of students a great affordable college education so this little man doesn't have to wait in traffic. Think small and be small.

. . . . . . .

Oliver Luck, in my opinion the most damaging athletic director in school history, fired Coach Turnbull before taking a job with the NCAA a year or so ago.

Luck hired a great wrestling coach who just recruited one of the best classes in the country. If Furfari cared at all about providing WVU's student athletes with the best facilities, best competition, and the best coaches possible he wouldn't have second guessed Luck. Turnbull was leading the program in the wrong direction and every one knew it. Furfari just made a complete ass of himself by defending his close buddy.

. . . . . . . .

I think it’s time for Marshall to be an early-season part of West Virginia’s football schedule annually.

Where are the games going to be played and how much money will WVU not make by playing a series with Marshall? This man is clueless.

. . . . . . . .

He turned out championship caliber football teams out of Conference USA the past two years. And I hear that the Thundering Herd will be pretty good again this year.

Don’t be surprised if Doc Holliday gets back to WVU as head football coach one of these days.

I am not surprised that Furfari likes CUSA and his friend Holliday ( who now interviews for just about every power conference head coaching job that becomes available and is never hired ). Furfari likes everything about Marshall including the size of their University.


http://www.register-herald.com/spor...cle_198b3705-42c9-505c-ba43-1469efb6e6ae.html

Mean-spirited, bitter, untruthful, and delusional. Also, his supporters & defenders are morons.

 

[torontoeers]

Oh boy....here we go.........

I am of the opinion that many may not agree with what he says in these excerpts you have chosen (myself included)...but he is 90 years old man!!! God willing I make it to 90 I'm gonna be more than a bit crotchety myself...and so will you I'm willing to bet!

There is more important stuff to concentrate on imo...

 

[3xWVUenginEER]

To quote the most famous Morgantown native ever, Don Knotts, "I think he's a NUT!"

With that said, you and every one else who reads, posts, and critiques his out of reality views in his rantings give him more attention, no way more attention than he deserves.

I just ignore people like him. If the agenda overrides logic, then it's really propaganda. Sad but most wv 'news'papers have went that way.

Heck the only newspaper guy for sports I read regularly anyways is Barry Trammel. Occasionally I'll read Cassaza during football season & I did like his book.

 

[WarezEER]

Heck, I can't ignore the man now that I know he is 90. This man may.............just may.................I say .... just may know what he is talking about. Now.............the cops are in the parking lot, I'm much to drunk to drive. The band is packing up their stuff..........it must be closing time.

 

[tigeer]

This is one of the divisive topics on here that have made this a tough place to visit...which is unfortunate.

I do fail to see the need to share every thought that crosses your mind. You want to do that? Get a Twitter account.

Oh boy....here we go.........

I am of the opinion that many may not agree with what he says in these excerpts you have chosen (myself included)...but he is 90 years old man!!! God willing I make it to 90 I'm gonna be more than a bit crotchety myself...and so will you I'm willing to bet!

There is more important stuff to concentrate on imo...

 

[WarezEER]

This is one of the divisive topics on here that have made this a tough place to visit...which is unfortunate.

I do fail to see the need to share every thought that crosses your mind. You want to do that? Get a Twitter account.

Tigeer....................I do get your point and feel that you should take your own advice. Ain't I a good looking mans?

 

[tigeer]

I do have a Twitter account and avail myself to it from time to time. :victory:

Tigeer....................I do get your point and feel that you should take your own advice. Ain't I a good looking mans?

 

[wbgvwbgv]

Oh boy....here we go.........

I am of the opinion that many may not agree with what he says in these excerpts you have chosen (myself included)...but he is 90 years old man!!! God willing I make it to 90 I'm gonna be more than a bit crotchety myself...and so will you I'm willing to bet!

There is more important stuff to concentrate on imo...

If he is old enough to fling shit on everyone then he is old enough to have some thrown back at him. It is a real travesty that this man is in WVU Sports Hall of Fame, and he is by far the most undeserving person ever to be selected. He wasn't a former athlete or coach or administrator. I wouldn't be surprised if his Raese brothers' connections had a big part in his selection - highly speculative.

 

[skygusty]

50,000 students in that little town - add 6 people for each student in support and get to 300,000? Hopefully some visionary can install an underground subway that connects to the PRT, employ a few coal miners in the process and deal with the god awful traffic. Developers run that town. City seems clueless and has no plans for infrastructure. Great town to be 21 in I guess, not so much fun for old farts like me, even less fun for really old farts like Furfari.

 

[HurdyGurdyEer]

Just exactly how many papers publish his drivel these days? 1, 2, 3? How large is the readership of these rags?

A couple of years ago his son used to post on another board (a board which will remain unnamed here). He made it clear at that time that Mickey's family had been strongly encouraging him to put away his pen. But Mick is gonna do what Mick is gonna do and he'll keep doing it as long as there is an editor or two who will publish his partially demented rants.

If you want to complain then contact the editors of the papers who publish him. They're the ones stringing him along.
Or ... you could just ignore the whole situation realizing that virtually no one actually reads Mickey these days.

I would bet that the number of people who read Mickey's crap because it gets linked on a chat board more or less doubles the number of readers who read his stuff. Just ignore him AND the papers who print his crap.

 

[COOL MAN]

Just exactly how many papers publish his drivel these days? 1, 2, 3? How large is the readership of these rags?
.

Actually, that's an interesting question.

From what I recall......and I may be mistaken about this......most of Mickey's "kill WVU" pieces arrive here courtesy of this same online Bluefield paper. That would seem to indicate somebody there in power may have some personal connection to Mick or his family (or is perhaps a big MU guy who takes unusual pleasure at published shots directed toward Mo-town by a hometown guy).

Come to think of it, I'm a little surprised the Herald-Dispatch in Huntington doesn't buy Mick's pieces. Regardless......and I obviously can't prove this......something tells me these pieces move the needle several magnitudes more on this Board than anyplace else in the State.

 

[Cuyahoga Falls Eers]

I disagreed with everything Mickey wrote in that article. But the more folks on this board stir the pot, the more it looks like they've been beaten again by a 90-year-old. The old fart sure gathers a lot of attention from people who say he's irrelevant. Write on, Mickey! Even if it's just to spoil some people's breakfasts.

 

[KeatonsCorner]

man, you know your reputation as a legitimate writer is tarnished when you need your butt buddy to come on the internet and claim "troll victories" for you.....


The watermark of a valued professional career is not shaming yourself by publishing complete falsities and outright slander, and then leaning on age as an excuse.


"He writes to stay alive" is not an excuse........

 

[Darth_VadEER]

I disagreed with everything Mickey wrote in that article. But the more folks on this board stir the pot, the more it looks like they've been beaten again by a 90-year-old. The old fart sure gathers a lot of attention from people who say he's irrelevant. Write on, Mickey! Even if it's just to spoil some people's breakfasts.

IMO, that's very unprofessional of you to say. I assumed given your long career in journalism that you'd be against writers who only serve to "spoil some peoples breakfasts", especially when you (disingenuously) say you disagree with everything he wrote. It would be one thing if he were writing facts, but he isn't. He's just turning out increasingly incoherent and embarrassing opinions, ones no one agrees with, apparently not even his life long friends.

They say journalism is dead and it appears the journalist themselves were the ones who killed it. It's a real shame, because it should an honorable way to make a living. Unfortunately some have made a mockery of their podium and their "friends" seem to be encouraging it along the way.

You're right about one thing. Mickey gets a lot of attention. But that's not surprising, is it? I've always felt people who are desperate for attention and go out of their way to draw it towards themselves usually end up getting the most, go figure.

This is nothing more than "Kardashian Journalism".

 

[Darth_VadEER]

man, you know your reputation as a legitimate writer is tarnished when you need your butt buddy to come on the internet and claim "troll victories" for you.....


The watermark of a valued professional career is not shaming yourself by publishing complete falsities and outright slander, and then leaning on age as an excuse.


"He writes to stay alive" is not an excuse........

Of all the fabrications Team Mickey tries to sell, that is the most disingenuous. He's had stable employment in a good profession for approximately 70 years. That's more than what most folks get in life, yet we're suppose to believe the old goat simply can't put away his typewriter or he'll starve to death on a dirty mattress.

 

[KeatonsCorner]

Don't you know that every young man with dreams of being a great reporter starts out with the hope of one day being nothing more than a published troll, Darth?



That's seriously becoming a thing though with elderly internet users......................... it is better to be hated, yet acknowledged, than be completely forgotten about by the world around you.....

 

[Darth_VadEER]

It's not easy being his age and I'm sympathetic to that fact. We've all watched aging parents or grand-parents and as we know, it's a struggle even for those in moderately "good" health. My grandfather was a very accomplished and intelligent man and stayed sharp to the end, but if at age 90 he ever tried putting his opinions out for public consumption as Mickey does, our whole family would have done the appropriate thing by standing up and telling him - No.

Where are those folks for Mickey? Oh, they are here on this board encouraging him.

 

[WVex-pat in GA]

He's got one helluva Twitter feed though... @Mickey_Furfari. :wink:

 

[Darth_VadEER]

Mickey is still entitled to his opinions, however a message board or a personal blog would be a much more appropriate place. A newspaper should know better.

 

[43rd Parallel]

Morgantown traffic was bad 50 years ago, which is why the Nixon administration signed off on the personal rapid-transit system to connect the campuses. While the federal government did its part, the city and the university failed to make the hard choices necessary to improve traffic flow.

In their defense, the terrain pretty much limits the options to Beechurst/Boulevard and/or University Avenue. Still, major investments in those corridors should have been made a generation ago. It's not like Morgantown has no engineers or urban planners.

 

[Darth_VadEER]

Morgantown traffic was bad 50 years ago, which is why the Nixon administration signed off on the personal rapid-transit system to connect the campuses. While the federal government did its part, the city and the university failed to make the hard choices necessary to improve traffic flow.

In their defense, the terrain pretty much limits the options to Beechurst/Boulevard and/or University Avenue. Still, major investments in those corridors should have been made a generation ago. It's not like Morgantown has no engineers or urban planners.

They could definitely make it more walkable with more pedestrian paths between the campuses.

 

[wbgvwbgv]

50,000 students in that little town - add 6 people for each student in support and get to 300,000? Hopefully some visionary can install an underground subway that connects to the PRT, employ a few coal miners in the process and deal with the god awful traffic. Developers run that town. City seems clueless and has no plans for infrastructure. Great town to be 21 in I guess, not so much fun for old farts like me, even less fun for really old farts like Furfari.

WVU (or whatever it was called back then) was located in Morgantown long before there ever was a Mickey Furfari. And in my opinion, the traffic problems in Morgantown are nothing compared to the traffic congestion in and around places like Pitt, Maryland, and Ohio State.

WVU is the economic engine for the entire region and it is those 21 year olds seeking a higher education along with tax dollars from all around the State that made Morgantown a great college town. Complaining about the hand that feeds you seems somewhat absurd (like most of Furfari's articles).

Hard to see how Morgantown would be anything more than another Rivesville without WVU. Gee indicated that he would like to see WVU as a 40,000 student system-wide University, but I think that he is trying to establish a branch campus network to reach those levels.

http://wvutoday.wvu.edu/n/2014/10/0...ise-gee-shares-big-ideas-for-wvu-its-partners

 

[MountaineerGuy]

I disagreed with everything Mickey wrote in that article. But the more folks on this board stir the pot, the more it looks like they've been beaten again by a 90-year-old. The old fart sure gathers a lot of attention from people who say he's irrelevant. Write on, Mickey! Even if it's just to spoil some people's breakfasts.

Soooooo, some guy writes an article that even YOU totally disagree with and then guys come on here and trash the article because the article has no real facts or opinions worth sharing and then YOU call people out saying Mickey has "beaten" them? What a ridiculous conclusion to draw! You agree HIS article is trash and others do as well but he has "beaten" them........ Oh, boy. You're a real peach Cuyahoga. BTW..........I've been reading Mick's stuff for 50 years and have loved what the man has done until he got off on this ridiculous rant wherein he's tried to massacre Luck's reputation. When Mick does stuff like that, he's fair game to be criticized just like anyone else would be who would write the misinformation that he's written. The whole point with Luck is............we get where Mick is coming from. He doesn't like Luck and didn't agree with things he did. Yeh, we get it! Tell him Luck is GONE and it's time to move on.

 

[Mountaineer Steve]

Oh boy....here we go.........

I am of the opinion that many may not agree with what he says in these excerpts you have chosen (myself included)...but he is 90 years old man!!! God willing I make it to 90 I'm gonna be more than a bit crotchety myself...and so will you I'm willing to bet!

There is more important stuff to concentrate on imo...

Outside of the traffic being bad in Mo-town nothing he said is true. If MF (I can think of other words that match these initials), had his way, Morgantown would still be a small dying backwards town like many in WV instead of one of the most thriving in the country.

Do you also happen to believe, like MF does that we should have stayed in the BE now the AAC, and not one of the P5 programs.

For his short tenor, Luck is easily the best AD WVU ever had

And just my opinion, I think MF is the worst sports writer ever to cover WVU, and that includes Chuck Landumb. He does not get a pass just because he has 1 1/2 feet in the grave.

 

[torontoeers]

Outside of the traffic being bad in Mo-town nothing he said is true. If MF (I can think of other words that match these initials), had his way, Morgantown would still be a small dying backwards town like many in WV instead of one of the most thriving in the country.

Do you also happen to believe, like MF does that we should have stayed in the BE now the AAC, and not one of the P5 programs.

For his short tenor, Luck is easily the best AD WVU ever had

And just my opinion, I think MF is the worst sports writer ever to cover WVU, and that includes Chuck Landumb. He does not get a pass just because he has 1 1/2 feet in the grave.

Steve, if you could detail in my quoted post exactly where it says I agree with MF I'd appreciate it! That part that says '(myself included)'....maybe I should have emboldened it? I just dont demand the man's head on a pike like some people (and I'm not saying YOU) seem to desire...I'm able to laugh off his ridiculous comments as the ramblings of an old man who's bitter...

For the record I also think Luck was a fantastic AD for his time here, and I'm hopeful Lyons can be just as good or better...

Thanks.

 

[WESTBGVA]

If he is old enough to fling shit on everyone then he is old enough to have some thrown back at him. It is a real travesty that this man is in WVU Sports Hall of Fame, and he is by far the most undeserving person ever to be selected. He wasn't a former athlete or coach or administrator. I wouldn't be surprised if his Raese brothers' connections had a big part in his selection - highly speculative.

If you didn't like the article, why did you post it?

 

[WESTBGVA]

Furfari

. . . . . . .

I don’t drive anymore, but I ride through the daily traffic jams and they’re horrible in Morgantown. Now word (or rumor) is that my Alma Mater of WVU is thinking about expanding to 50,000 students.

In my firm opinion, the fore fathers should have set a limit of 15,000 students as a maximum.

Let's deny tens of thousands of students a great affordable college education so this little man doesn't have to wait in traffic. Think small and be small.

. . . . . . .

Oliver Luck, in my opinion the most damaging athletic director in school history, fired Coach Turnbull before taking a job with the NCAA a year or so ago.

Luck hired a great wrestling coach who just recruited one of the best classes in the country. If Furfari cared at all about providing WVU's student athletes with the best facilities, best competition, and the best coaches possible he wouldn't have second guessed Luck. Turnbull was leading the program in the wrong direction and every one knew it. Furfari just made a complete ass of himself by defending his close buddy.

. . . . . . . .

I think it’s time for Marshall to be an early-season part of West Virginia’s football schedule annually.

Where are the games going to be played and how much money will WVU not make by playing a series with Marshall? This man is clueless.

. . . . . . . .

He turned out championship caliber football teams out of Conference USA the past two years. And I hear that the Thundering Herd will be pretty good again this year.

Don’t be surprised if Doc Holliday gets back to WVU as head football coach one of these days.

I am not surprised that Furfari likes CUSA and his friend Holliday ( who now interviews for just about every power conference head coaching job that becomes available and is never hired ). Furfari likes everything about Marshall including the size of their University.


http://www.register-herald.com/spor...cle_198b3705-42c9-505c-ba43-1469efb6e6ae.html

Mean-spirited, bitter, untruthful, and delusional. Also, his supporters & defenders are morons.

Mickey and the late Bill Smith were two of the biggest WVU homers in history..

Furfari

. . . . . . .

I don’t drive anymore, but I ride through the daily traffic jams and they’re horrible in Morgantown. Now word (or rumor) is that my Alma Mater of WVU is thinking about expanding to 50,000 students.

In my firm opinion, the fore fathers should have set a limit of 15,000 students as a maximum.

Let's deny tens of thousands of students a great affordable college education so this little man doesn't have to wait in traffic. Think small and be small.

. . . . . . .

Oliver Luck, in my opinion the most damaging athletic director in school history, fired Coach Turnbull before taking a job with the NCAA a year or so ago.

Luck hired a great wrestling coach who just recruited one of the best classes in the country. If Furfari cared at all about providing WVU's student athletes with the best facilities, best competition, and the best coaches possible he wouldn't have second guessed Luck. Turnbull was leading the program in the wrong direction and every one knew it. Furfari just made a complete ass of himself by defending his close buddy.

. . . . . . . .

I think it’s time for Marshall to be an early-season part of West Virginia’s football schedule annually.

Where are the games going to be played and how much money will WVU not make by playing a series with Marshall? This man is clueless.

. . . . . . . .

He turned out championship caliber football teams out of Conference USA the past two years. And I hear that the Thundering Herd will be pretty good again this year.

Don’t be surprised if Doc Holliday gets back to WVU as head football coach one of these days.

I am not surprised that Furfari likes CUSA and his friend Holliday ( who now interviews for just about every power conference head coaching job that becomes available and is never hired ). Furfari likes everything about Marshall including the size of their University.


http://www.register-herald.com/spor...cle_198b3705-42c9-505c-ba43-1469efb6e6ae.html

Mean-spirited, bitter, untruthful, and delusional. Also, his supporters & defenders are morons.[/QUOTE

 

[WESTBGVA]

Furfari

. . . . . . .

I don’t drive anymore, but I ride through the daily traffic jams and they’re horrible in Morgantown. Now word (or rumor) is that my Alma Mater of WVU is thinking about expanding to 50,000 students.

In my firm opinion, the fore fathers should have set a limit of 15,000 students as a maximum.

Let's deny tens of thousands of students a great affordable college education so this little man doesn't have to wait in traffic. Think small and be small.

. . . . . . .

Oliver Luck, in my opinion the most damaging athletic director in school history, fired Coach Turnbull before taking a job with the NCAA a year or so ago.

Luck hired a great wrestling coach who just recruited one of the best classes in the country. If Furfari cared at all about providing WVU's student athletes with the best facilities, best competition, and the best coaches possible he wouldn't have second guessed Luck. Turnbull was leading the program in the wrong direction and every one knew it. Furfari just made a complete ass of himself by defending his close buddy.

. . . . . . . .

I think it’s time for Marshall to be an early-season part of West Virginia’s football schedule annually.

Where are the games going to be played and how much money will WVU not make by playing a series with Marshall? This man is clueless.

. . . . . . . .

He turned out championship caliber football teams out of Conference USA the past two years. And I hear that the Thundering Herd will be pretty good again this year.

Don’t be surprised if Doc Holliday gets back to WVU as head football coach one of these days.

I am not surprised that Furfari likes CUSA and his friend Holliday ( who now interviews for just about every power conference head coaching job that becomes available and is never hired ). Furfari likes everything about Marshall including the size of their University.


http://www.register-herald.com/spor...cle_198b3705-42c9-505c-ba43-1469efb6e6ae.html

Mean-spirited, bitter, untruthful, and delusional. Also, his supporters & defenders are morons.

how old are you?..ass-clowns, morons..you are hilarious...How many drinks did you have before you posted?

 

[skygusty]

WVU (or whatever it was called back then) was located in Morgantown long before there ever was a Mickey Furfari. And in my opinion, the traffic problems in Morgantown are nothing compared to the traffic congestion in and around places like Pitt, Maryland, and Ohio State.

WVU is the economic engine for the entire region and it is those 21 year olds seeking a higher education along with tax dollars from all around the State that made Morgantown a great college town. Complaining about the hand that feeds you seems somewhat absurd (like most of Furfari's articles).

Hard to see how Morgantown would be anything more than another Rivesville without WVU. Gee indicated that he would like to see WVU as a 40,000 student system-wide University, but I think that he is trying to establish a branch campus network to reach those levels.

http://wvutoday.wvu.edu/n/2014/10/0...ise-gee-shares-big-ideas-for-wvu-its-partners

I hope it is through branch campuses - that would solve many problems. Hard for me to see how Morgantown can grow to be a metro area of 300K plus without some real innovative thinking and some investment in more than future student ghettoes, investment that pays over the long run and not the quick buck, depreciate and move on. If it got that big with the current infrastructure it would be far worse than OSU, Pitt, MD. Which way do they go? My guess is downriver past Star City, North past Osage with a wrap around to Granville and Maidsville. Maybe south along the river outside of Westover. Someday there is going to have to be a subway, more bridges, a true northern bypass, real high rises downtown, parking - WTF do you do with parking? As far as Mickey goes, his day is done, but I had to comment on the 50,000 student enrollment.

 

[CT Mountaineer]

50,000 students in that little town - add 6 people for each student in support and get to 300,000? Hopefully some visionary can install an underground subway that connects to the PRT, employ a few coal miners in the process and deal with the god awful traffic. Developers run that town. City seems clueless and has no plans for infrastructure. Great town to be 21 in I guess, not so much fun for old farts like me, even less fun for really old farts like Furfari.

The traffic issues are entirely the state government's responsibility, and their fault. They have done pathetic little to meet their responsibility for providing adequate infrastructure for our growing, thriving city. They prefer to p*ss their money away on roads in the middle of nowhere and fling tens of millions of dollars at Marshall to create pathetic, unnecessary duplication programs that will mostly serve foreigners and preen the egos of the Huntington business community, and money to build a indoor football practice facility in Huntington using the scam of calling it an "athletic research facility".

My understanding is the plan is to cap enrollment at around 40,000, with 32,000 on the Morgantown Campus, 5,000 at Beckley, and the remainder at Potomac State. They intend to grow the internet course participation enrollment too. They really should have more than 40,000 with Parkersburg still part of the school, but the previous administration saw fit to do the totally illogical thing and rip that off from WVU after they spent millions of dollars and years building it up, and even forced the school to permit them to keep the name and logo even though they exercise no control over it any longer in an incredible display of stupidity and pandering. But then you know Joe. Joe is for Joe, nothing else matters. I think it is fair to say that Joe rivals anybody in our state for biggest assclown, and that's saying something.

 

[HurdyGurdyEer]

In CFE's defense .... if you're stupid enough to keep paying attention to Mickey then Mickey is smart enough to keep writing. That's my paraphrase of what CFE said.

Honestly .... what difference has Furfari made with anything he has written about over the last decade? As far as I can tell he has exerted no influence whatsoever on any issue or on any person of substance involved with making decisions in the athletic department.

Get it? Mickey is, and has been, inconsequential for years. He is inconsequential outside of the fact that some people boil over when he writes his misguided crap. No one in a position of influence has paid attention to him. Nor will they. Take a cue from them.

Mickey can write what he wants to write and it will change nothing.

 

[jpf578]

The traffic issues are entirely the state government's responsibility, and their fault. They have done pathetic little to meet their responsibility for providing adequate infrastructure for our growing, thriving city. They prefer to p*ss their money away on roads in the middle of nowhere and fling tens of millions of dollars at Marshall to create pathetic, unnecessary duplication programs that will mostly serve foreigners and preen the egos of the Huntington business community, and money to build a indoor football practice facility in Huntington using the scam of calling it an "athletic research facility".

My understanding is the plan is to cap enrollment at around 40,000, with 32,000 on the Morgantown Campus, 5,000 at Beckley, and the remainder at Potomac State. They intend to grow the internet course participation enrollment too. They really should have more than 40,000 with Parkersburg still part of the school, but the previous administration saw fit to do the totally illogical thing and rip that off from WVU after they spent millions of dollars and years building it up, and even forced the school to permit them to keep the name and logo even though they exercise no control over it any longer in an incredible display of stupidity and pandering. But then you know Joe. Joe is for Joe, nothing else matters. I think it is fair to say that Joe rivals anybody in our state for biggest assclown, and that's saying something.

I'll agree with a lot of what you said but it certainly is Morgantown's fault just as much as the states. The city streets of Morgantown are horrible and just about the whole city looks like a ghetto. If it wasn't for the football and basketball games, I wouldn't drive through Morgantown because I find it really discouraging that a town can look so trashed and run down.

 

[Darth_VadEER]

Congestion is not a bad thing, at least not entirely. It's a sign that people want to be there and they have somewhere to go. Most folks from WV have never seen true gridlock. Many cities (Detroit for example) have spent billions of dollars to combat the perceived problem of congestion to only see the solutions wipe out their urban communities. Either way, it doesn't really matter all that much when it comes to a gameday. When 80K people converge on a small town, it's going to back things up and there's no point of flooding tax dollars into a college community simply to pacify the incoherent ramblings of a 90 year old dinosaur who doesn't like sitting in traffic while someone else carts his ass around.

 

[CT Mountaineer]

I'll agree with a lot of what you said but it certainly is Morgantown's fault just as much as the states. The city streets of Morgantown are horrible and just about the whole city looks like a ghetto. If it wasn't for the football and basketball games, I wouldn't drive through Morgantown because I find it really discouraging that a town can look so trashed and run down.

Entire neighborhoods in our city are being torn down and rebuilt. Sunnyside barely resembles what it was 5 years ago. While most of the development in our thriving city is taking place outside of the city limits, it is still one of the safest cities in America and a wonderful place to live for countless reasons. There are some dilapidated student slums remaining, but those folks are under intense pressure due to massive construction of first rate student housing facilities that offer relatively inexpensive options, so the landlords that have long fleeced our students will gradually fade into history and those buildings will be dismantled.

We have far fewer of the negative aspects of urban life than do most cities of any size at all.

 

[wbgvwbgv]

If you didn't like the article, why did you post it?

For amusement purposes and to humiliate his few remaining defenders on this board. Although this time not many came to the defense of the man that they were once calling a legend and icon only few short years ago (LOL). Most now see him as the embarrassment that IMO he always has been and posting a few of his divisive and mean-spirited articles simply reinforces that opinion.

Cut WVU's enrollment in half, lose millions of dollars of revenue to play Marshall every year, leave the Big 12, etc., etc., - views of an ass clown.

 

[CT Mountaineer]

Congestion is not a bad thing, at least not entirely. It's a sign that people want to be there and they have somewhere to go. Most folks from WV have never seen true gridlock. Many cities (Detroit for example) have spent billions of dollars to combat the perceived problem of congestion to only see the solutions wipe out their urban communities. Either way, it doesn't really matter all that much when it comes to a gameday. When 80K people converge on a small town, it's going to back things up and there's no point of flooding tax dollars into a college community simply to pacify the incoherent ramblings of a 90 year old dinosaur who doesn't like sitting in traffic while someone else carts his ass around.

The reasons for the congestion are state inaction on its responsibilities, coupled with the fact that so many people want to be here. The second reason is a very good thing.

If any place in our state deserves to have tax dollars invested in it, that city is Morgantown. Unlike what we often see in some other places, with millions of dollars being shoved down economic black holes and buying or repairing buildings that aren't needed or being utilized, our city has an incredible return on investment for public funds... about 40-1 by most calculations.