A historical perspective
Every family has that one person that causes unneeded embarassment. Whether it be an incompetent criminal, a child molester, a Nazi sympythizer, or a Marshall graduate there is always someone that causes the family shame. Our family is no different. We have a Maryland apologist. While other family members try to ignore the problem or pretend they aren't related I feel that the best way to deal with something like this, which is so painful, is to attack it head on. While he may never overcome his dimentia, at least I can say I tried to show him the way with "facts." And in the every cloud has a silver lining category I discovered a couple of new and interesting links while looking for historical facts on WVU and other schools in basketball and football.
The above links will take you to all time records in basketball and football respectively. I was pleasently surprised to discover that WVU is currently 26th all-time in basketball and tied for 15th in football. The only team in the top ten in both is God's America's NBC's team Notre Dame.
Some schools relevant to WVU fans:
Pitt is unranked in basketball (top 50 all-time only) and 21st in football;
Louisville is 23rd in basketball and 96th in football;
Penn St. unranked in basketball and 6th in football;
Virginia Tech is unranked in basketball and 22nd in football;
Marshall is unranked in basketball and 62nd in football; and
Maryland is unranked in basketball and 36th in football.
Now the all-time wins doesn't neccessarily correlate with a better program as Vanderbilt has more all time wins (football) than both Miami and Florida State and Fordham is number 35 in all time basketball wins, but it is interesting to see where your school ranks historically when compared to recently.
Another aspect of the football database is that if you go to Div I teams individually you can look at historical records vs. oppenents. For instance WVU is 28-22-1 vs. Virginia Tech, but 0-1 vs. Mahoning Cycle Club (OH) and we got beat 26-0. Those biking bastards.
17 comments:
Did you really post this at 6 in the morning?
I was up all night crying over the hurtful things people say to me on these comment boards so I posted something.
How long till someone quantifies all-time records for collegiate athletes off-field legal troubles both during and after collegiate play? These stats have begun to receive attention from sports writers recently, and certainly all-time marks would be of interest to many. While highly time consuming, and considering problems accounting for absense of and inconsistencies in criminal records from the early 20th century also troublesome- I bet Marshall would be ranked there. I would like to see those numbers.
Now that would be a research project that should get some government funding.
I suggest one or two third years make that a seminar paper topic. Maybe for a crimpro seminar, or a sports law special topic. I am sure two diligent student could crank that out over the course of a semester. Well, maybe something like that would take longer... anyway, it would be THE BEST. Second only to Lala bringing me pub mix of course.
Maryland apologist- I have been called worse at Christmas dinner by the hicks(one who lives in MD) For you next assignment , look up and see whose program had the most pro athletes.. Not sure if you can count Bias or not. Please get some sleep before you do this one
I think they list all the pros at wikipedia, but I'll do this for you. If you want to post a retort email it to me and I'll post it for you. And you get called worse before you've even sat down.
Get that Terp a helmet so he doesn't hurt himself.
You could say he has rocks in his head. . . and you'd be right.
Brave Sir Robin, we are way past that stage, really nothing a helmet could prevent at this point.Damage has been done..Probably from growing up in WV with their "home" remedies
I enjoy remedies from the White Star Apothecary. Tummysticks likes to listen to .38 special, but who doesn't. Hold on loosely boys.
Interesting facts from same data:
We beat Pitt in our first meeting (1895) 8-0.
But apparently our offense struggled in 1896 scoring only 14 points over 11 games.
We also beat tOSU in our first matchup (1897).
Ah, and in our inaugural (spelling?) game: WVU 0 - Washington Jefferson 72. What is this "footey-ball" that you speak of?
another lesser known fact that you might already know, before the turn of the turn of the century, while we were beating pitt 8-0, we were not the mountaineer. actually known as the snakes, yeah- the west virginia snakes. no specific kind of snake mind you, just snakes. no bullshit.
I've got a snake.
no, you don't. you could have had one- but i distinctly remember crushing its head with my putter in your driveway. it is still possible that all the other snakes are on the way to the site of the killing. your snake was crushed by my putter. and your wife watched.
I've heard that happens too.
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