Your Mother Slept With Wilt Chamberlain

West Virginia’s offense certainly didn’t look super. For the second straight year South Florida beats West Virginia. In a game filled with turn overs for both teams it was apparent that WVU is South Florida’s hillbilly bitch.

“No. 18 South Florida is not only basking in the national spotlight, the Bulls are thriving in it.

Matt Grothe upstaged West Virginia stars Pat White and Steve Slaton for the second straight year, leading rapidly rising USF to a 21-13 victory over the mistake-prone, fifth-ranked Mountaineers on Friday night.

Grothe scrambled to avoid a sack before throwing a 55-yard touchdown pass to Carlton Mitchell, and Ben Moffitt returned one of his two interceptions 26 yards for a TD to lead a stellar defensive performance in the Big East opener.”

Like I’ve been saying all season West Virginia was over rated. I’ll admit South Florida’s defense is impressive, but their offense isn’t. Defense wins games. If you have a fair offense and a great defense you can win a lot. This is the first team WVU has played that has a defense and look at the outcome. To give you an idea of WVU’s strength of schedule so far based upon the teams they have played this year, they rank at 117 pathetic.

West Virginia (4-1, 0-1) averaged 357 yards rushing in its first four games, but only managed 188 on the ground after surprisingly opening the game throwing on seven of its first 11 offensive plays.

The Mountaineers lost White late in the second quarter after the junior quarterback was hit in the right knee on a running play. He limped off the field and remained on the sideline, but did not return.

Slaton, the other half of West Virginia’s explosive tandem, was held to 54 yards rushing on 13 carries and fumbled twice. The running back also had a poorly thrown pass glance off him and wind up in the hands of Moffitt for the linebacker’s second interception — and the Mountaineers’ sixth turnover.”

Moffitt mounted West Virginia and ass raped them much like the Deliverance movie, make no mistake about it. The reason White and Slaton have been so productive is again, look at the caliber of teams they were playing. I’m not taking anything from them, Slaton is a first round pick, White won’t NFL QB because of his height, but could another Hines Ward type of player. This West Virginia offense wasn’t accustomed to being hit like they were, smash mouth style.

“White’s backup, Jarrett Brown, threw a 9-yard TD pass to Darius Reynaud to trim West Virginia’s deficit to 21-13 with 5:45 remaining. He had the Mountaineers on the move again when USF (4-0, 1-0) held them on downs at the Bulls 40 in the final minute.

The victory before a record crowd for a USF home game (67,018), figures to propel the Bulls to unprecedented heights for a program that has only been in existence for 11 seasons. They moved up to the Football Bowl Subdivision, formerly known as Division I-A, in 2001 and entered the Top 25 for the first time two weeks ago.”

Brown moved the ball better against South Florida than White did. How embarrassing is it to lose to a program twice in a row that has only been in existence for 11 seasons? Rich Rodriguez won’t have to worry about applying to Taco Bell anytime soon, people in Morgantown still consider him as the Messiah reborn, only with green card and an accent.

Except this guy he was pissed about losing

“West Virginia coach Rich Rodriguez and his players played down redemption as extra motivation for the Mountaineers, saying they their focus was solely on playing better than a year ago.

It didn’t happen.

In the first half alone, USF forced three fumbles — two by Slaton — and defensive end Jarriett Buie hit White as he released the pass that Moffitt intercepted with a clear path to the end zone.

The Mountaineers also hurt themselves with other costly mistakes, including a bad snap that contributed to Slaton’s second fumble and another errant snap that sailed over Brown’s head and forced West Virginia to settle for the field goal that trimmed their deficit to 14-3 just before the half.”

The reason for all those mistakes? One South Florida has tremendous speed on the defense and two, West Virginia folded in a hostile environment. I’m sure the city of Morgantown is in flames due to the massive amount of couches being burned in anger. There might even be a small contention fans who want Rodriguez deported. The season is still young unless you’re a West Virginia fan, then it’s flat out over.

John Denver would be so proud.

So I profess on this day 9/29/07.

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