and a lot of great games for a good rivalry to start up with any teams other than Pitt and VT….if we started playing VT again i think it would be heated from the first rematch

If we played for let’s say a slab of friedgen’s backfat or future rights to any additional slaton family members or something. Nobody fears the turtle and wvu has made this one pretty one sided. So unless the turtle gets good and wins a few this is another eastern washington game.

We hold a 2-game edge in what has historically been a pretty even series. We just had the pleasure of waxing them the last 4 times we played. I think before that, they had won 4 or 5 straight against us. If we rattle off another 6 or 7 in a row, then maybe I’ll consider them “another eastern washington.”

I don’t know…the last few results notwithstanding, I remember feeling like 2004’s 19-16 OT win was a breakthrough for The Artist Formerly Known as Coach Rod, because up to that point the Terps had our number. I deeply cared about winning that game…it felt like a rivalry to me then! Perhaps I feel that way since I had attended the 33-0 ass-whoopin’ they gave us in College Park in ‘99, the 48-17 ass-whoopin’ at home in ’02, and both ass-whoopins in 2003. It seemed like forever since I had seen us beat them!

on the Eastern Panhandle, many feel that same hatred toward Maryland as we do for Pitt. Many of us work in Maryland or work with Marylanders and are constantly inundated with Maryland rhetoric (talk about unbearable when the BB team won the national title). My preacher is a native Marylander and we even have to listen to it from him.

Something else that we have to endure is that we’re in the DC tv broadcast zone and if the national game is a WVU game, but Maryland or VA is playing at the same time….guess what’s on our channels (granted that’s gotten better with the proliferation of cable/satellite). I’m not saying it’ll ever match Pitt in terms of rivalry, but over here at least, the hatred is there.