It Used To Be Us vs. Them; Now, It's Us vs. Us.

by Dr. Charley West on Sep 7, 2009 9:54 PM EDT in Fan Manifesto Comment 14 comments

We're all on the same side here, right? I have to ask, because the last few months have seemed anything but cheery.

Here were are, starting into the middle of football season, and last thing people want to talk about is Mountaineer football. Not really, anyway. Sure, they might mention Mountaineer football, but they'd rather talk about everything around Mountaineer football.

When I read other blogs, there is a certain camaraderie with their own fans that exists. They might not love each other, but they visit the site to talk about their own team, make fun of others, and slam the occasional troll. That's why I started this site. Message boards suck -- Smoking Musket was supposed to be different. Instead, at least lately, there's been so much infighting here that it just makes the site an unpleasant place. Just like a message board.

Now, let's be straight: I don't want to fucking sing kumbaya and be a big, happy family. That shit's for Marshall and other loser schools. What I want everyone to be on this site is a Mountaineer fan. It doesn't have to be the classic, "you're either with us or against us," but you at least have to be travelling the same direction. And I certainly don't get that idea from everybody.

I lack answers on how to get everyone back on the same side here at this site. I feel like we can be both positive and negative towards certain aspects of the program while still being positive in general towards our school and team. Lord knows I don't agree with everything that goes on at WVU, considering I ran my own ficitonal (maybe) campaign for athletic director. But I go to the games, cheer like hell, and would rather see us win rather than lose, regardless of anything else on the periphery.

Is it unreasonable to hope the same of others?

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Not an unreasonable request

I agree with what you said, for some reason WVU fans love to attack each other. I haven’t seen division like this in a long time. It just boils down to pro-Stew and anti-Stew. Be that as it may, I think everyone who reads this blog will agree that we are all pro-WVU but just have differing opinions on our direction. No different than the great U.S. of A.

Everyone needs to remember that a good football debate (full of statistics and puns) are a good time but you have to remember you’re not battling a douchey LSU fan or a faggy Notre Dame queer, it’s another Mountaineer. So lets all get a long(neck) and make fun of everyone that’s not lucky enough to be a Mountaineer.

by I'm That Guy on Sep 7, 2009 11:02 PM EDT reply actions

When Tom and Jerry joined forces to take down that dog. They were unstoppable. We can win the Big East and have a good time doing it.

by 5th Year Senior on Sep 8, 2009 7:52 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions

Anything is possible....

because it reminds me of the times when we (students) used to fist fight each other in THE PIT before the game, then go to the student sections together and cheer on the Mounties! We don’t have to like each other, but the goal is the same….

That being said, it WAS pretty rediculous….

by cabincreekzeke on Sep 8, 2009 10:19 AM EDT reply actions

21 months and seven days ago Joe Manchin brought forth in this state a new football coach, who struggled with Liberty, but is dedicated to the proposition that all recruits are men of character.

Now the smoking musket is engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that blog, or any blog, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great comment space of that blog. We have come to argue whether this once top 15 program will find a final resting place under Bill Stewart, in hopes that the program RR, errrr, Pat White gave his college life to build, might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

The world will little note, nor long remember that WVU has been ranked in the top 10 at least once for 5 straight seasons, but it can never forget hump day wedenesdays. It is for us the webloggers, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work of saving WVU football, which we who stayed for the entire Louisville and sat through 8 straight bowl losses have thus far so nobly advanced.

It is rather fitting for us to be here dedicated to the great task of demanding football excellence —that from these ugly victories and dissapointing losses, we here may highly resolve that these disasters shall not have happenedin vain—that this program, under Bill Stewart, shall have a new birth of offense—and that offense: of the spread variety, by way of air or land, for the purpose of hanging half a hundred, shall win the rest of the games played on this season and WVU’s great football program shall not have perished from this earth.

by The 25314 on Sep 8, 2009 10:43 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs