Look For Marshall Tickets to Flood Ebay Real Soon

Editors Note: I don't know the whole story, and I really don't care. Just be advised that this is speculation on my part. OK check that, single game tickets will not be sold for the WVU game. About half way down.

As part of Marshall's plan, and it's really kind of smart, if you want to attend the WVU-Marshall game this fall, you will need to be a season ticket holder, or one of the lucky bastards to get one of the 5,000 tickets alloted to WVU for the game. And in order to be on the list to get one or however many of those 5,000 tickets, you have to make a $2,500 donation to the Mountaineer Athletic Club. So, let's do a little math. Marshall season tickets=$585-$140 per ticket. Just the chance to get one of the 5k alloted to WVU=$2,500. You see where I'm going with this, right?

However, a look at the rest of Marshall's home schedule does not look all that great.

Division I-AA power New Hampshire (My emphasis, and by the way, isn't it supposed to be the playoff division and the championship division respectively now? Whatever the eff that means!) visits the following Saturday on Sept. 15, followed by home dates against Conference USA rivals Southern Miss (Oct. 21), Rice (Oct. 27), East Carolina (Nov. 10) and UAB (Nov. 24).

Well, I like Southern Miss to be good this year, and can't say anything about ECU.

Now if we could just get rid of the damn Coal Bowl thing! Maybe that's a story better tackled another day.

Third Annual New Song Academy

Sorry for the double post to the one or two of you that peruse both my blogs, but I though this might interest some of you that live in and around the DC/eastern panhandle area.

From August 9th-11th, the third annual Mountain Stage New Song Academy will be held at Shepherdstown, WV. And it’s sure to be one of the best songwriter instructional events anywhere in the country. Click the link above for registration and general info.

The impressive list of instructors includes: Susan Werner, Craig Bickhardt, Devon Sproule, Paul Reisler and Jason Blume. Devon played at songwriter night back in April in Parkersburg, and gave a songwriting clinic the next day. And I can say that just from that class, you will lean something! And reading the resumes of the rest of the instructors, she’s in pretty good company!

And of course, even if you are not a songwriter, these people are all excellent musicians and there will be a concert Saturday night, the 11th. I’ve always found it interesting to hear the songwriter play a hit song so you can get an idea of how the song originally sounded as compared to the final product from the “artist.” Yeah, I’m biased toward songwriters. Sue me!

See you there…….

This Didn't Piss Anyone Off?

File this under Ceremony for a fat lip. Really, how does this guy walk? He must have balls big as church bells. Hats off to ya, but be ware. Those guys in the black leather in the Police Academy movies didn't seem too hetero. I'm just saying....

Ouch, Coaches That Lit West Virginia Up

MSNsports.NET is running a piece on the greatest coaches WVU ever faced. And man, there are some numbers that will bring the proudest Mountaineer fan back to Earth real quick.

#20 Butch Davis- "Davis was 5-1 against West Virginia with a pair of gut-wrenching three-point victories over WVU at Mountaineer Field in 1996 and 1998." Um, hey we did win one! But that 1996 blocked punt as the game was winding down sucked really bad and stuff!

#18 Lou Holtzths- I'm copy and pasting all this just because he's the only one on this list with a losing record against WVU!! Woop! "Lou Holtz got a rude awakening to college football in 1970 when his out manned William & Mary team was soundly whipped by West Virginia in his first ever head coaching appearance. “For crying out loud they still had (Jim) Braxton in the game in the fourth quarter,” Holtz said afterward. But he had learned a valuable lesson – when you get an opponent down, bury them. Holtz got his revenge two years later when his N.C. State team routed West Virginia 49-13 in the Peach Bowl, and his victory against the Mountaineers in the 1989 Sunkist Fiesta Bowl gave him his only national championship coaching at Notre Dame."

#13 Barry Switzer- "In 1978, Oklahoma and Heisman Trophy winner Billy Sims rolled to a 52-10 victory in Norman. Four years later in 1982, Don Nehlen pulled off one of the biggest upset victories in school history by beating Oklahoma 41-27." Yeah, I remember that game, so that makes me old. I only really bring this one up because 12-1 are not pretty.

12 Jimmah Johnson- 1-0, but what a one. I, unfortunately, was there (yes, I know I'm old) to witness one of if not thee worst beatings the Mountaineers ever had. 1986, the year before Vinny Testaverde went into a football coma in the NFL. He was throwing 60 yard bombs left handed before the game, and his back up was smiling like the butchers dog because he knew this one would be over quick. 58-14 quick! Unfortunately I was still too young to drink.

#9 Steve Spurrier- In his only meeting with the Mountaineers, Spurrier's team went down 7-0 and put up 41 straight points on the "hung over" Mountaineers. Hey, people say they saw 'em out partying the night before and I believe them from the looks of that game. I don't think Darren Studstill has been the same since looking out his ear hole. Ouch!

#7 Bobby Bowden- 2-0. He never forgave us for hanging his likeness outside his house. All he is is a damn dirty assistant coach thief anyway.

#6 Fielding Yost- Hey this guy is from Fairview, WV. Where ever that is. Hehehehe. In his Michigan team's only meeting with the Mountaineers, they put up a 130-0 squeaker. No really, it was tied 0-0 midway through the opening gun.

#1 Joe Paterno- Ugh! 25-2 versus the Mountaineers, but I only attended the two wins in '84 and '88. Maybe I should have gone to more Penn St. games?