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The news that Louisville will not be sending their Cheer and Dance teams to Morgantown this Saturday for safety issues is a bunch of crap. In my mind, it's just a jilted ex-lover going out of their way to make the other ex-lover look bad. Believe me, we know something about jilted ex-lovers.
The idea that Morgantown is any worse a place to visit than any other college football town is silly on a lot of levels. Mostly because WVU doesn't own the market on stupid drunk people. You can find those types pretty much everywhere. As someone that's gone to quite a few road games, I can say that you have to be ready to defend yourself everywhere you go. Except Mississippi State. Those folks were wonderful to us. But I bet if I had looked hard enough, I would have found someone that wanted to fight me because of the clothes I was wearing.
If anything, WVU developed a bad reputation a long time ago. So every time anything negative happens in Morgantown it turns into a "see, I told you so" moment. The key to visiting Morgantown or any college football town is to not walk past a house full of drunk 18-year-olds wearing your school colors. Five minutes of research can usually help you accomplish this. But what you've done by signaling to the world that Morgantown is not a safe place for your fans or cheerleaders, is you've put a bulls-eye on every fan that does come to Morgantown this weekend. Because if you call someone an A-hole, they're probably going to be an A-hole to you every time they see you. My own suggestion to Mountaineer fans is that you kill them with kindness. Be so over-the-top nice to Cardinal fans that they kind of resent you for it. Sometimes, it's mind games.
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Poor fan behavior shouldn't be accepted in Morgantown or anywhere else for that matter. It seems like an issue college football has been fighting for as long as I can remember. But in this post 9/11 world, I'd like to think we could all find a way to come together as Americans and stop all this pettiness.