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Wednesday, September 5, 2007

Busy week leading up to WVU visit


There’s plenty going on to prepare for Saturday’s unprecedented (since 1915) visit from our mountain brethren from the North. After both teams posted very different results from last Saturday, I have more idea options to play with. And as I mentioned before, how much I’d like to avoid the overly used ‘showdown’ motif, I still like using the team mascots as there’s so much personality that you can have fun with.

So I’ve got uhh … the Friends of Coal Bowl — O.K. something with coal, maybe a coal car … and WVU scored 62 points last week ... O.K. they have a powerful offense … and Marshall shot themselves repeatedly in the foot last week … O.K. I see Marco pointing a pistol … wait a minute, this could be too violent.

Stay tuned folks!