http://www.realfootball365.com West Virginia Mountaineers Football News, scores, analysis and discussion. College Football News. en-us info@realfootball365.com Copyright (C) 2005-2008 www.realfootball365.com http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/westvirginia/14253 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/westvirginia/14253 With the rise and fall of the Big East the past few years (as well as leading into this one) as a Fan of West Virginia University football I have to wonder to myself two things: 1. Why is there no talk of Noel Devine, maybe the most explosive running back in football, get's no preseason talk? and 2. why isn't he getting 30 carries a game? Coach Stew was well excepted when he was hired as the... gstavrak32@gmail.com (gaps2420) West Virginia Mountaineers 2009-08-13T07:43:23-05:00 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/westvirginia/12499 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/westvirginia/12499 Sure, Division 1-AA Villanova at No. 8 West Virginia on Saturday sounds like a gross mismatch, but what you may not realize is that the Wildcats beat the Mountaineers the last time they played. Unfortunately for the visitors, that was 31 years ago -- long before West Virginia had Pat White at quarterback. True, the 2008 Wildcats have experience on offense, defense and the sidelines -- 17... writersbridge@hotmail.com (Darrell Laurant) West Virginia Mountaineers 2008-08-28T19:09:00-05:00 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/westvirginia/12285 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/westvirginia/12285 When it comes to carrying the football at West Virginia these days, size obviously doesn't matter. Starting tailback Noel Devine is 5-foot-8, 175 pounds, and backup Jock Sanders is even shorter (5-7). Certainly, it didn't matter for Devine in 2007. The sophomore speedster from North Fort Myers, Fla., (he attended the same high school as Deion Sanders) averaged an eye-popping 8.6 yards a carry as... writersbridge@hotmail.com (Darrell Laurant) West Virginia Mountaineers 2008-08-07T05:14:00-05:00 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/westvirginia/11682 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/westvirginia/11682 Lost in the rubble that surrounds the bitter divorce between West Virginia University and former head coach/new Michigan coach Rich Rodriguez (a.k.a. Benedict Arnold in Morgantown) is just how good a team the Mountaineers are likely to still have in 2008 under new sideline skipper Bill Stewart. With Heisman candidate Pat White at quarterback, lightning-quick tailback Noel Devine, and two... chrispreston@shelburnenews.com (Chris Preston) West Virginia Mountaineers 2008-06-19T05:28:01-05:00 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/westvirginia/11680 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/westvirginia/11680 Ever since school let out for the summer, Dominik Davenport has been telling Shawne Alston "You've got to come up here." Meaning West Virginia University, to which Davenport and Phoebus High school teammate Tajh Boyd have already given their verbal commitments to play football in 2009. And considering that Davenport weighs 260 pounds and holds the Phoebus record in the bench press, such a... writersbridge@hotmail.com (Darrell Laurant) West Virginia Mountaineers 2008-06-19T05:02:00-05:00 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/westvirginia/11681 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/westvirginia/11681 Charlie Russell has never played in a football game for West Virginia University. Now, it appears, he never will. The 6-foot-3, 210-pound redshirt freshman quarterback announced last week that he was quitting the team to devote more time to his studies. A biochemistry major, Russell plans ultimately to be a doctor. Russell was a hometown hero who led Morgantown High School to a 38-3 record and... writersbridge@hotmail.com (Darrell Laurant) West Virginia Mountaineers 2008-06-18T17:10:00-05:00 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/westvirginia/11605 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/westvirginia/11605 It hasn't been a good spring for former West Virginia football coaches. The most recent to join that category, Rich Rodriguez, is still entangled in legal unpleasantness revolving around his abrupt departure for Michigan and how much he is owed from WVU (or vice versa). And on Tuesday, his successor -- Hall of Fame member Don Nehlen -- underwent triple bypass heart surgery in Morgantown. It... writersbridge@hotmail.com (Darrell Laurant) West Virginia Mountaineers 2008-06-13T00:07:00-05:00 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/westvirginia/11565 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/westvirginia/11565 When Bill Stewart replaced the departed Rich Rodriguez as head football coach at West Virginia last year, there was some concern out in the Mountaineer blogosphere that Stewart might be too nice a guy for the job. Tell that to Charles Pugh. Last Tuesday, the day the news broke that the senior safety had been charged with felony use of stolen credit cards (to the tune of $1,600), Stewart... writersbridge@hotmail.com (Darrell Laurant) West Virginia Mountaineers 2008-06-11T05:30:00-05:00 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/westvirginia/11508 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/westvirginia/11508 Like just about everyone else in the Southeastern Conference, Auburn and Alabama were interested in a cat-quick quarterback from the coastal community of Daphne. They thought Pat White would make an excellent defensive back. Quarterback? Uh, no -- a little too small. A little too inclined to run instead of throw. The type of kid who is a dime a dozen these days. So they talked to Pat White... writersbridge@hotmail.com (Darrell Laurant) West Virginia Mountaineers 2008-06-06T03:17:00-05:00 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/westvirginia/11268 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/westvirginia/11268 So what do you know about Noel Devine, if you're a football fan but don't follow the University of West Virginia closely? You know he's fast. You know he'll be the featured running back for the Mountaineers this season, replacing Houston Texans draftee Steve Slaton. And you might also know that he got in a little trouble earlier this year in Morgantown, something about a bar fight. Another one... writersbridge@hotmail.com (Darrell Laurant) West Virginia Mountaineers 2008-05-20T04:29:00-05:00 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/westvirginia/11205 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/westvirginia/11205 Two years ago, Steve Slaton was Tony Dorsett. Now, he's Warrick Dunn. But that's fine with the Houston Texans, who took Slaton in the third round of last month's NFL draft. Even the real Dunn would be a significant upgrade at the Texans' running back position. And there is a good chance that by snagging the former West Virginia University star with the 89th pick (the 11th running back chosen),... writersbridge@hotmail.com (Darrell Laurant) West Virginia Mountaineers 2008-05-14T04:53:00-05:00 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/westvirginia/10774 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/westvirginia/10774 West Virginia University football fans have good reason to be unhappy with the University of Michigan right now. After all, that's the school that lured away their former head coach, Rich Rodriguez, at the tail end of last season. It wouldn't have been so bad if Rodriguez had any previous Wolverine ties, but he had spent his entire playing and coaching career in West Virginia. Thus, insult was... writersbridge@hotmail.com (Darrell Laurant) West Virginia Mountaineers 2008-03-29T15:43:01-05:00 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/westvirginia/10744 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/westvirginia/10744 If he played basketball, they'd call a guy like West Virginia defensive tackle Keilen Dykes a "gym rat." Dykes will take a degree away from WVU in athletic coaching, and some day he'll make an excellent coach. Right now, though, the 6-4, 290-pounder has unfinished business with the National Football League. It irked the Mountaineer senior when he wasn't invited to the NFL Combine. Instead of... writersbridge@hotmail.com (Darrell Laurant) West Virginia Mountaineers 2008-03-27T01:06:00-05:00 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/westvirginia/10681 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/westvirginia/10681 Steve Slaton, NFL wide receiver? It could happen. Slaton worked out as much at pass receiver as running back on West Virginia's March 13 Pro Day at the Caperton Indoor Center on the WVU campus, attended by a large contingent of NFL scouts and coaches that included Pittsburgh Steelers' head coach Mike Tomlin. And according to reports, he caught everyone's attention with a couple of difficult... writersbridge@hotmail.com (Darrell Laurant) West Virginia Mountaineers 2008-03-19T14:10:01-05:00 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/westvirginia/10650 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/westvirginia/10650 The other shoe finally dropped Friday for West Virginia running back Noel Devine and three of his Mountaineer teammates, but it turned out to be more of a soft slipper than a hob-nailed boot. For several weeks, it was an open secret that Devine had been among the WVU players involved in a February fracas with some other students outside a Morgantown bar called Club Z. On Thursday, he, running... writersbridge@hotmail.com (Darrell Laurant) West Virginia Mountaineers 2008-03-15T01:17:00-05:00