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Morning Coffee - Dec 17, 2007 | 11:41:22
posted by: Josh
Will the campus move too? Ann Arbor might want to think about importing a Morgantown House of Pizza. West Virginia coach Rich Rodriguez has decided to join former colleague John Beilein up north at Michigan, and will look to take the Wolverines back to the promised land of college football. Rodriguez, who grew up in West Virginia, and played for the Mountaineers, has surprised some by leaving the hometown program he built to national prominence. West Virginia will play Oklahoma in the upcoming Fiesta Bowl. The game has not been moved from Glendale to Ann Arbor. Bearcat-size disappointment. Northwest Missouri State last won the Division II Football Championship in 1999, but if you asked anybody associated with the program today, it probably seems more like 100 years. The Bearcats lost their third straight title game on Saturday, falling to Valdosta State, 25-20. Michael Terry found the end zone on a 1-yard run with 22 seconds remaining in the fourth quarter to propel the Blazers their second-ever national championship. Mount count over. Like its Division II counterpart in Missouri, Wisconsin-Whitewater was playing in its third-straight Division III Football Championship title game on Saturday, and the Warhawks had the daunting task of facing Mount Union, which had won 37 consecutive games. Behind the superb running of Gagliardi Trophy winner Justin Beaver, Wisconsin-Whitewater found a way to dethrone the beast, knocking off the nine-time national champion, 31-21. Beaver ran for 249 yards, including a 66-yard run in the waning moments of the game. Mountaineers win again! Things seem to be coming in threes, and fortunately for the Mountaineers of Appalachian State, that meant a third consecutive Division I Football Championship on Friday. Appalachian State ran all over Delaware at the Football Championship Subdivision finale in Chattanooga, rolling to a 49-21 win. The Mountaineers, of course, started their season with a historic upset of Michigan, and went on to finish with a 13-2 record. Cary loves Zach. The soccer gods were watching over Zach Schilawski this weekend. Just five minutes from his childhood home, the Wake Forest sophomore tallied the game-winning goal in the Division I Men???s Soccer Championship yesterday. Schilawski and the Demon Deacons won their first men???s soccer championship with a 2-1 win over Ohio State. Wake Forest???s Marcus Tracy was named the tournament???s most outstanding offensive player. Hear us roar. Penn State won a thrilling five-game match with Stanford to claim the 2007 Division I Women???s Volleyball Championship. The Nittany Lions won their second national title in the sport, and kept Stanford from claiming its seventh. Penn State dropped just two games in six tournament matches, both to Stanford. 
CommentsIf RR wants some good pizza, I would have to recommend Pizza House to him. Top notch place to get food at. As for NWMSU, tough loss for those guys. Getting to the game is an accomplishment in and of itself, but man, losing the NC game 3 straight times has got to stink. Personally, they just didn't look nearly as up for the game as what they did in the semis against GVSU. For like the 100th time today I was disappointed to see someone giving Rich Rodriguez credit for "building" the West Virginia program. No doubt he was a good coach for the Mountaineers, but we are all remiss if we forget how GREAT his predecessor and mentor Don Nehlen was. Nehlen is a college football hall of famer, who won over 200 football games in his illustrious career. More importantly, though, was the fact that Nehlen took over a moribund Mountaineer program and led them all the way to the 1988 national title game. That Major Harris led 1988 Mountaineers team is still the gold standard by which all other WVU teams must be measured against. Rich Rodriguez put up several very nice seasons in Morgantown, but he never led his squad to the national title game. Moreover, when Rodriguez took over WVU he inherited a very solid program. One that Coach Nehlen had virtually built from scratch after taking over for the eminently forgettable Frank Cignetti (17-27 record at WVU). Nehlen was the one who built that program. Let's give credit where credit is due. Rich Rodriguez is a great coach. WVU is very lucky to have had him for the seven years they did. As a WVU fan I have had more fun in the last three years than ever before. I wish the best for Coach Rod and wish him well in his future endeavors. Now that coach Rod has left we need to pick a coach who can step right in and keep what he has built going. I know that lure of a big name hire is there. I would really like to see us take a chance though. Find someone like Coach Rod that is young and has a great knowledge of the spread option. There is a championship caliber team ready to be led. Please don???t make us take a step back. Post a Comment |
  
It means that two very good teams with very good coaches made it to the final game.
- Marie
   
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