Mountaineers and Football

Mountaineers and Football are inseparable. Any guy with who calls himself a Mountaineer would follow Football ardently. I am big fan of Mountaineer Football. I try to watch every game that the Mountaineers play with a religious fervor. I hate seeing them lose, and am overboard when they win. You can say when it comes to Mountaineers Football, I can't hide my emotions much.

Mountaineer football can be a roller coaster ride with a lot of soap operaish off the field drama going on. Like last season, they would have been in once a lifetime Championship game, had they not lost to the lowly miserable bunch called Pittsburgh. They lost their championship hope by the loss to them where they could not make a single touchdown. All they could muster were some field goals.

Then comes the Fiesta Bowl game where they blow the Sooners 48-28 with such ease that made us all so proud. In all this is the Head Coach Rich Rodriguez drama who chickened and bailed out at the end of the regular season to Michigan. He lost his first game this year with Michigan which I think he well deserved - that selfish brat of a kid called Head Coach Rich Rodriguez.

This year they started with a high note winning easily against Villanova. Then came the true test with ECU which they lost with no signs of a team that won against the mighty Sooners in the Fiesta Bowl. I know ECU was tough team but not having to muster a touch down is hard to fathom. All they could get was a single field goal. So much for talk of a potential Championship contender and a possible Heisman for Pat White. Any hope of either of them are gone when they lose the next game to Colorado 17-14 in a closely contested game. A closely contested game is not good enough.

A good team comes out of closely contested games. It shows some character for a team to come out of holes. This team had the Heisman Candidate Pat White returning with Noel Divine as his running mate. He also has the senior line backers returning this year. The only change is the coaching staff. But this was the same coaching staff that won the Fiesta Bowl.

Anyways that my Mountaineers for you. One week they are up and the very next week they are down. This is what makes them lose the credibility points like that in the Teams in SEC. The important thing though for the Mountaineers is to have schedules with tough teams including those in the SEC. This year they have some good games lined up and the most important is against the Auburn of the SEC. They should consistently have games against the tough teams and eventually the Team will get better. They should stop having their schedule filled with teams like Marshall just for the sake of winning. Sure you can a 11-1 or 10-2 at the end of your normal schedule but if 6-7 of those wins come against teams like Marshall what good is that.

I am glad that this years schedule is tougher than last years. And as always lets cheer our team - Lets Go 'Eers.

Why Bother To Forward?

I hate forwards. Forwards are emails sent to you by your friends or colleagues about something supposedly for interest to you. 99% percent of these forwards are junks/myths/urban legends twisted. These forwards talk about the character of the person forwarding them. This ofcourse is my classifaction and none of this is personal. It is just a character assessment based on the forwards and many fall under more than one category.

Religious coward: These forward email about some divine myth/ story about something good or bad had happened and they prayed to this/that god and things have changed permanently for them. So they start this chain and curse upon on those who dont spread the chain. They believe in the curse (God being the supreme being does not curse you on such silly matters as not forwarding a story about him to someone else) and will forward to one who believes that stuff and those that dont believe in that stuff.

E-Capitalists: Remember that email chain about microsoft doing a secret survey and if you forward the email that he sent you, you will be millionaire in no time. These guys believe in instant gratification by doing a simple task of causing inconvenience by forwarding the junk to others and hoping to get rich by their benign deed.

Scare Crows: Recently I had a email forwarded from a colleague anout being careful when picking vegetables from an indian grocery store. Apparently there was a woman who died from a unseen snake hiding in the vegetables and was found dead on returning to the car with froth coming out of her mouth. Pretty graphic and bollywood like. These are fear mongerers.

Political Pundits: These guys send articles or email chains about politicians that are on the other side of their political fence. Anything negative that they can find, even if that is a myth, is an opportunity not to be lost.

Well Wishers: I had a friend who was fine until one day he began to send emails that contained images with content of philosophy, living life to the fullest and things like that. Guess why that happened. He got married and he began to see roses in everything. His wife subscribes to some website that sends her this kind of email. She forwards it to him. And he in turn sends those greetings to everyone he knows. I know you care for us, but dude keep your wife's greetings with you.

Nature Admirers: These are those that send anything wonderful they see about nature. Like the amazing pictures of the Seven Wonders of the World or the recent Olympics opening ceremony in China. These are kind of email forwards that you would have seen a long time ago, and this guy stumbled upon them only recently and cannot wait until he shares his discovery to the world.

Technology Warlords: These guys are those that are on one side of the technology rivalry like that between Apple and Microsoft. They send anything negative about the technology they hate and anything remotely positive about the technology they like. They also send emails about some cool work places, like Google office having a nice Play Pen and bed to sleep if you want. They send this only if the firm deals with technology they like or is also to rival to the technology they hate.