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The End of "Jilted Lover"

No WVU fan in their right mind should ever use this term.  Never.  It is a term that Michigan fans and trolls from other schools use to disparage WVU fans.  How any self-respecting Mountaineer fan can call a another fellow fan this is beyond me.  Frankly, it's insulting enough that I am having to write a post about it to end it's use.

That's right, no more.  I am officially retiring this stupid phrase from TSM lexicon (if it's used, expect my wrath, and you really don't want that -- trust me)

You can criticize Bill Stewart all you want -- I understand that until our staff shows it in the win column, he's fair game.  You can even compare and contrast the regimes of Rodriguez and Stewart.  All of that is well within the bounds of discussion.  But at this point, nearly two years later, we can have a discussion about coaching without the taint of "jilted lover" being brought up.  It just simply does not apply anymore.  It doesn't help prove your point; it just further convinces me that you simply can't prove your point.

Once we get past this term, and all that comes with it, we can finally have a decent debate about Mountaineer coaching.  And really, isn't that what we all want?

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Hear, Hear!

Let’s just reserve the comparisons for after this season! And I am still keeping my fingers crossed that Fraud goes 5-7. Please, let it be so…

by JP Fanshawe on Aug 17, 2009 1:03 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

That's a little hypocritical.

You can’t stop the jilted lover talk and then wish ill-will against Rodriguez. That pretty much makes you a jilted lover. Let’s just focus on WVU; Lord knows we have enough problems.

by Dr. Charley West on Aug 17, 2009 2:05 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

LMAO

Thank you soooooo much JP for PROVING my point!!!! That is priceless! …….oh, and it’s also what 3 out of 4 posters on this blog are……“milted smothers”….Notice, I didn’t say it.

by WVUColumbus on Aug 17, 2009 4:26 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

And Columbus...

…yeah, you are so much better than three of four posters on this blog…

by JP Fanshawe on Aug 18, 2009 11:43 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Perhaps You Are Right?

Maybe a little hypocritical. I prefer to look at it this way: it’s more like you move on from an ex-girlfriend, but you don’t mind if she later contracts herpes…

by JP Fanshawe on Aug 18, 2009 11:41 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Doesn't bother me but...

if we are “jilted lovers,” they are obsessive stalkers over the lover they never got. In the coaching search we all had our favorites but none of us got who we wanted. Some people can’t get over the fact that they did not get their man.

by 5th Year Senior on Aug 17, 2009 1:44 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

A public letter written to me? I’m flattered.

What term shall I use when referring to people who have formed jaded opinions about characteristic A as a result of unrelated event B. If you’re dumped by a hot chick that cheated on you, that doesn’t make her not hot. A bad person yes, but doesn’t effect her looks. If a snake in the grass coach who’s winning % speaks for itsself leaves in a shady manner, it doesn’t effect the unprecedented winning percentage. A bad person, yes. But not a bad coach.

by The 25314 on Aug 17, 2009 3:57 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Not quite.

You wrongly assume that my opinions are jaded because Rodriguez left. I don’t think our offense looked like it was running into a wall at times because Rodriguez left, I think it looked like it was running into a wall because that’s what it looked like.

Rodriguez was a very good coach. I won’t call him great, because I think his system is limited in its ceiling. That ceiling was a lack of balance. Nothing he did past Pitt 2007 affected that thought process.

by Dr. Charley West on Aug 17, 2009 4:09 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

I will never leave you for a youger, snarkier blog.

by The 25314 on Aug 17, 2009 4:19 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

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