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Post by milkman on Mar 21, 2008 23:59:26 GMT -5
The NCAA has been very much involed with lawsuit!! They have spent a large amount of time at the football offices in Morgantown!!
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Post by milkman on Mar 21, 2008 18:25:25 GMT -5
Maybe someone let him know about a pending NCAA Investigation of Rod!!! Rod had this kid in his back pocket and he would have signed on Signing Day. But hearing some of the stuff that the WVU lawyer and NCAA have brought up might have changed his mind!!!
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Post by milkman on Mar 27, 2008 22:36:59 GMT -5
The comings and goings at Winter Park continue this week with a safety prospect who gained experience at two of the most prominent college football programs in the country.
West Virginia free safety Ryan Mundy told Sirius NFL Radio that he has a visit scheduled with the Vikings on Friday, March 28. Mundy started playing college football at Michigan before spending his senior year at West Virginia.
In 2007, Mundy took advantage of a short-lived NCAA rule allowing graduating players to use their last year of eligibility while in a graduate program at another college. After starting 18 games for Michigan over three years (plus a redshirt year for a shoulder injury), he decided to go to a school closer to his hometown, which is Pittsburgh.
As a senior with the Mountaineers, Mundy collected 62 tackles, 3 interceptions and 7 pass breakups as a starting free safety during his one season in Morgantown.
In a recent radio interview with profootballcentral.com, Mundy considered his strengths to be his athletic ability and ability to play different coverages and schemes on defense. On the downside, he admits he needs a shorter memory after bad plays.
It is that athletic ability that has him moving up the draft charts. During his recent Pro Day workout, he checked in at 6-foot-1, 215 pounds; he put up 21 reps at 225 pounds, ran a 1.59 10-yard dash, 2.62 20-yard dash, 4.55 40-yard dash, a 36-inch vertical jump, 10'10" broad jump, 4.33 short shuttle and a 6.81 three-cone drill time.
Mundy enrolled at Michigan in 2003 and played in 11 games as a true freshman. As a sophomore in 2004, Mundy started in 12 games at free safety. In 2005, Mundy sat out with a medical redshirt after the shoulder injury in the beginning of the season. In 2006, Mundy returned and saw some action.
During his four years at Michigan, Mundy started 18-of-35 games with 86 tackles and 3 interceptions. Mundy earned a sports management degree following his redshirt-junior season, but Michigan did not offer the master's program he wanted.
"Mundy is a strong defender who plays with excellent awareness," according to Scout.com Draft Analyst Chris Steuber. "He has a lot of range in the secondary and plays well in coverage. He takes good angles and displays outstanding ball skills. He has good timing and adjusts well to errant throws. He has a solid burst and great instincts. He's an aggressive player who will fill a gap and is strong in run defense."
"He's taken advantage of his fifth-year and really displayed excellent defensive skills with the Mountaineers," Steuber added. "He's a leader in the secondary and will be an immediate contributor on special teams at the next level."
With the Vikings looking for depth and an eventual successor to Darren Sharper in the deep secondary, Mundy is a player to keep an eye on come Draft Day.
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Post by milkman on Mar 26, 2008 17:12:13 GMT -5
This from the packet I got in the mail last week!! "Due to anticipated high demand, priority season tickets cannot be guaranteed to all NEW donors who make a MAC gift before the May 15 deadline. However, it is certainly the goal and intension of the WVU Department of Intercollegiate Athletics to assign sideline seating (lower and upper deck) to all that join the MAC and order priority season tickets before the deadline." Then it goes on to say under "New 2008 General Public Season Tickets"!!! "NO new general Public (NON-MAC) season tickets will be offered for sale intil JULY (IF AVAILABLE) after renewal season ticket orders and new MAC donor priority orders are processed!!! Now thats straight from WVU!!
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Post by milkman on Mar 26, 2008 15:40:54 GMT -5
Maybe I'll let you know
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Post by milkman on Mar 25, 2008 11:37:52 GMT -5
Touchdown Terrace Club Seats: Season Tickets: $950 MAC Gift PER SEAT: Included
Red Zone: Season Tickets:$325 Mac Gift Per Seat: $375
Gold Zone:$325 MAC Gift Per Seat: $200
Orange Zone $325 MAC Gift Per Seat: $100
Green Zone: $325 MAC Gift Per Seat: $0* *Green Zone Seating may require a per seat MAC gift minimim in future.
Season tickets renewal order form will be mailed beginning in late March/early April. MAC gift due by May 15 and will be strictly enforced!!
The way it looks right now there will be VERY VERY VERY FEW single game tickets!!! And if your going to order new season tickets GET YOUR FORM AND GET IT IN EARLY!!!
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Post by milkman on Mar 31, 2008 12:26:15 GMT -5
By Matt Keller Staff Writer Posted Mar 30, 2008
West Virginia has begun to mix and match ideas for additions to the odd stack defense.
Under coordinator Jeff Casteel, the Mountaineers had been solely a three-man front with an additional blitzer on nearly every play. Now, with new assistant Steve Dunlap – a former WVU defensive coordinator known to run a four-man front emphasizing an aggressive, attacking linebacker – West Virginia is looking to utilize portions of both styles.
That’s aided by the switch from a lone free safety look to a two-deep installed last season. It significantly boosted the team’s rush and defensive backfield options and shrank the passing windows allotted quarterbacks last season. It also kept signal callers from simply checking the location of the free safety, then throwing to a wider side of the field, or challenging corners deep because of the lack of help over the top of the defense. Those boosts, combined with a return to more of a four-man look, will provide greater flexibility while still allowing the confusion, free movement to the ball and swarming nature that typifies the 3-3-5.
Thus far, the staff has just begun to install the sets and match the according terminology. West Virginia has switched base terms, something it does once every three seasons. And with the loss of the entire defensive backfield – three safeties, including Ryan Mundy, a glue guy that held the new style afloat, and both cornerbacks – there will be a feeling-out period for both what the players are physically able to do and what they can mentally grasp.
“From a defensive standpoint this will be an exciting spring for us,” Casteel said. “This is the first time we have had any turnover on our staff in five to six years, and we are in the process of meshing ideas right now. We still want to stay with what we have done here at West Virginia then take some of their ideas and mesh them with ours. We are excited about that.
“But we have lost a ton of kids defensively, and that’s going to be a big challenge for us this spring. We lost our entire back end, with two great safeties in Ryan Mundy and Eric Wicks. We have a lot of kids we think can play there, we just have to find the right spot for those kids. That is what coach (David) Lockwood and Dunlap are going to try to do. It’s also one that is really good with the situation we are in in terms of having the new coaches in here. Because the kids that we are going to line up with in the spring, frankly, we have not seen. They were young kids with the scout team. We have to find some that can step up.”
Changing out the terms and structure of the defense in one spring is both positive and negative. The plus is that, after the early issues, the defense will be fully installed with the new terms, meaning the two issues will not need to be revisited as they would if done in separate years. The bad news is that, in a spring with so many questions, it adds another enigma, both for players and staff.
“The kids, it’s a good situation for them because they are coming in with an unbiased opinion as far as guys coaching them,” Casteel said. “I think we will have enough kids there, we just have to get them in the right spots. I think Dave [Lockwood] will find through spring that they all have things that make them good football players, we just have to find the spots. We are excited about some of the young kids we have there. To be honest, we are not sure who is going to be in that two-deep. But we are excited. They are a great bunch of kids and they have had a great winter. They worked hard through the transition and they are excited.”
Note: Jeff Mullen, on West Virginia’s offensive ideals – “It’s not West Virginia offense, it’s West Virginia football. We will do what it takes to win. If it’s 3-0, if it’s 58-55, we will call plays that give us a chance to win in regards to how our defense is playing that day. We will call games from a team perspective. I am a guy that believes in balance.”
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Post by milkman on Apr 9, 2008 10:33:56 GMT -5
Remember this is Spring Drills and hopefully we can get some guys healthy for the Summer Camps
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Post by milkman on Apr 1, 2008 14:55:40 GMT -5
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Post by milkman on Mar 14, 2008 16:05:51 GMT -5
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Post by milkman on Mar 25, 2008 19:40:43 GMT -5
I'll be back down to Amelia Island over the 4th of July!!
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Post by milkman on Mar 27, 2008 15:26:42 GMT -5
....my wife wasn't born yet Neither was mine.........
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Post by milkman on Mar 25, 2008 12:04:40 GMT -5
40 years ago today I wasn't even a thought on my parents mind!!!!
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Post by milkman on Mar 26, 2008 17:18:03 GMT -5
Patrick Roy and Ron Hextal were 2 of my favorite goalies of all times!! Neither one would let anyone in their net area!! Hextal went after a ref once for bumping into him!!
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Post by milkman on Mar 25, 2008 19:38:30 GMT -5
The goalie in the red is Patrick Roy son Jonathan Roy!! Pat is the head coach of this JR. team!! Its one of the best fight I've ever seen!! Pat got a 5 game suspension and Jon got 7 games!! Take a look if you didn't like hockey you will now!!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESHa9-Czv_A
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