Post-Game Hangover: Backyard Brawl (11/26/11) Edition
by WVUIE97 on Nov 26, 2011 12:15 PM EST
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What a glorious day to be a Mountaineer!! On a beautiful, chilly fall night, our Mountaineers found a way to capture what could be the final Backyard Brawl despite numerous miscues. Here's your post-game media coverage. There's lot's of video today.
UPDATE: This just in: Tino Sunseri was just sacked....AGAIN.
UPDATE: Videos of the on field celebration has been added (courtesy of BlueGoldNews.com)
Recaps and Features:
West Virginia batters Pittsburgh, remains in chase for automatic BCS berth - ESPN
Recap, stats, photos, video, etc
WVU 21, Pitt 20 - MSNsportsNET.Com
Dana Holgorsen was hired last December to light up the scoreboard, but tonight it was the Mountaineer defense that came up big in the second half of West Virginia's 21-20 victory over Pitt at Milan Puskar Stadium
WVU Wins Brawl - WVMETRONEWS.COM
Recap, video and gallery
Sack Exchange - MSNsportsNET.Com
This article was actually posted Friday morning before the game....boy, talk about prophetic; this guy ought to go into the predicting business
Backyard Heartbreak: Pitt Falls to WVU 21-20 - Cardiac Hill
From the Pitt blog perspective
WVU rides stout defense to win over Pitt - Big East Blog - ESPN
Miller had the most dominating performance of his career, in the final home game of his career, on his birthday no less, keying a stifling defensive effort to help the Mountaineers beat Pitt 21-20 on Friday night.
WVU football: Mountaineers come back, sack Pitt, 21-20 - Charleston Daily Mail
"It was pretty fun," Coach Dana Holgorsen said after his first game against the rival Panthers. "I don't have a voice. Fun. Good atmosphere. Gosh dang, that was fun. The sideline was unbelievable and obviously feeding off the crowd. The crowd got going in the second half. It was loud and rowdy and a lot of fun for the players. They had a great time down there."
WVU has just enough to nudge Pitt, stay in Big East, BCS chase - Charleston Daily Mail
Mountaineers defense enjoys sack party against Pitt in Backyard Brawl - PPG
Mountaineers edge Pitt in possibly final Backyard Brawl, 21-20 - PPG
Brawl to the finish - Charleston Gazette
Mountaineers rally from 20-7 deficit to beat Pitt 21-20
WVU players redeem, give fans something to remember - Charleston Gazette
Saved by the punt - Times West Virginian
Corey Smith helps turn things around as WVU rallies by Pitt in 21-20 thriller
HERTZEL COLUMN: Proof is in the pounding for WVU’s defense - Times West Virginian
All of that is terrible impressive … but 10 sacks, two short of the school record, and nine of them in the final 25 plays of the game.
West Virginia sacks Pitt in Backyard Brawl - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
West Virginia vs. Pittsburgh Game Recap - WVillustrated
West Virginia Rallies To Edge Rival Pitt - Intelligencer / Wheeling News-Register
Defense stands tall, sacks Sunseri 10 times
Defense Tough When Needed, Keys WVU Victory - WVillustrated
Mountaineers nip Panthers, 21-20 - Parkersburg News and Sentinel
West Virginia defense records 10 sacks vs. Pitt
Mountaineers win ‘Brawl’ - Register-Herald
West Virginia escapes with 21-20 victory
WVU quarterback hits up record books in win - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Quarterback Geno Smith broke three West Virginia passing records, shattering the single-season marks for attempts, completions and passing yards.
Opinion-Lessons Learned from Backyard Brawl - WVMETRONEWS.COM
Photos:
WVU vs. Pitt: Photo Gallery 1 - WVillustrated
Photo Gallery II: WVU vs Pitt - BGN
Video:
Head Coach Dana Holgorsen - Mountaineer TV
West Virginia coach Dana Holgorsen talks about his team's 21-20 victory over Pitt.
Defensive Lineman Julian Miller - Mountaineer TV
Defensive lineman Julian Miller's postgame remarks after West Virginia defeated Pitt, 21-20, on Friday night.
Video: Analyzing Pitt-West Virginia - Big East Blog - ESPN
Bruce Irvin talks about West Virginia's 21-20 victory over Pitt.
Quarterback Geno Smith - Mountaineer TV
Quarterback Geno Smith's postgame remarks after West Virginia defeated Pitt, 21-20, on Friday night.
VIDEO: Pitt Post Game Interviews - WVMETRONEWS.COM
Casteel, Geno, Spain, Najee, Bruce, Tavon, Stedman and Julian
Video: Pitt Postgame - BGN
HCDH, Casteel, Stedman, Tavon and Bruce
Video: More Pitt Postgame - BGN
Geno, Najee and Spain
Postgame Player Interviews: The Backyard Brawl - WVillustrated
Casteel, Corey Smith, Najee, Bruce, Feigt, Stedman, Geno and Julian
Tales from The Tailgates: Backyard Brawl - WVillustrated
Former Mountaineer standouts Rasheed Marshall and Mortty Ivy join other West Virginia fans to talk about the Backyard Brawl and it's uncertain future.
The Dana Holgorsen Show - WVillustrated
VIDEO: Todd Graham Postgame - WVMETRONEWS.COM
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we beat USF and Cincy beats Syracuse today and UConn next week
If Cincy loses either game, Louisville wins the head-to-head tiebreaker against us and goes to the BCS at 7-5.
Now is the time boys to make a big noise.
No matter what the people say,
For there is naught to fear, the gang's all here,
So hail West Virginia, hail.
by JP Fanshawe on Nov 26, 2011 1:06 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
Still a long shot
If you assume each team has a 50% chance of winning, and there are 3 games that must have the correct outcome, the odds are 1 in 8 that that wil happen. But that outcome is just as likely as the other seven possibilities.
Not True Odds, Though...
because you can’t assume that each team has a 50 percent chance of winning. Thanks for that, though…you gave me an idea for a mid-week post!
Now is the time boys to make a big noise.
No matter what the people say,
For there is naught to fear, the gang's all here,
So hail West Virginia, hail.
It's Not Though...
I am going to look into it and see, but it can’t be looked at as either a red or black spin on a no-zero roulette wheel. A good percentage guess would involve using Vegas odds. In the history of line betting, double-digit favorites win outright (not necessarily cover, of course) 77 percent of the time. That’s what I mean by it not being true odds. If our game with USF and Cincy-Uconn are both pick ’ems, then it will be close to 1-in-4. I am pretty sure we will be a double-digit road favorite versus South Florida, and I think Cincy will also be a favorite so I like our chances.
This conversation illustrates why you should never play parlay cards. The spread in each game theoretically levels the bet to a 50 percent chance, but playing three contests does, as you mention, make your odds of hitting 1-in-8, even as the bet only pays 6-1…this is how Vegas was built!
Now is the time boys to make a big noise.
No matter what the people say,
For there is naught to fear, the gang's all here,
So hail West Virginia, hail.
by JP Fanshawe on Nov 26, 2011 4:36 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
looks like
Munchie and Cinci are doing their part today
by WVUIE97 on Nov 26, 2011 3:15 PM EST via mobile reply actions
it went unmentioned..
but Jack Fleming was in the entrance video with THE board from back in the day
By the way...
…for anyone who watched the game on tv…
during the first quarter, when we called for the fair catch and the Pitt player hit our guy anyway, the flag was thrown, and then the penalty denied… what happened there? What did the announcers think of it?
I was sitting in section 101 right near the Pitt sections, and it was hard to see that end of the field, I was just curious on what you guys thought… even the sPitt fans couldn’t believe they got away with that one.
"that place laid the foundation for who I am. A lot of outsiders make fun of it and say negative things about West Virginia. Fuck them" - Jerry West
by MountaineerAirman on Nov 26, 2011 8:16 PM EST reply actions
TV perspective...
the Pitt player was engaged with a WVU blocker who was pushed back into the returner by the Pitt player. The explanation was that the Pitt player was blocked into the returner, nullifying the infraction. I don’t think this was a very good explanation for what actually happened though. The contact seemed to be incidental, but I’m not sure that’s an acceptable reason for picking up the flag. My opinion is that if the flag was thrown, it should have held up, because I didn’t see anything which justified waving it off. The announcers hardly noticed it had happened, and treated it as a non-issue.
I saw the Pitt guy shoving our guy into our runner.
Blatant penalty, IMO.
It's like saying you dislike Don Frye's mustache, which itself is the equivalent of spitting on the Constitution. - Anthony Pace
From the field
It looked obviously intentional. Painfully so.
"that place laid the foundation for who I am. A lot of outsiders make fun of it and say negative things about West Virginia. Fuck them" - Jerry West
by MountaineerAirman on Nov 27, 2011 4:13 PM EST up reply actions
Maybe A&M can schedule a game against Pitt next Thanksgiving.
Proud of your offense? Manny badger don't give a shit!
Come on, nobody wants to see that. At least when they play UT and WVU, there’s ONE good team on the field.
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by Country Roads on Nov 27, 2011 8:28 PM EST up reply actions
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