Dirtbag West Virginia Students

[mileskishnish72]

Reminds me of an occasion when MU beat Marshall and there was some controversy about a call at the end of the game. Someone said to Al something to the effect that their whole state was PO'd - Al's response was:
If I have to lose a whole state, I guess West Virginia's a good one.

[brewcity77]

You wanna see outrage, check out this thread on the WVU Scout board:

http://mbd.scout.com/mb.aspx?s=159&f=2509&t=8736197

[Benny B]

You wanna see outrage, check out this thread on the WVU Scout board:

http://mbd.scout.com/mb.aspx?s=159&f=2509&t=8736197

Apparently, "idiot" is a proper noun in WV.

[connie]

God I love Buzz.   If I were a WV fan, I would be pissed, but then I hated Huggy with the white hot passion of a thousand suns until I heard Mac talk about all the help Huggy gave him leading up to the draft (and then just despised him).  Buzz apologized.  Buzz's legend grows. They will get over it--and since we won't be playing them for awhile, I really don't care.

[jsglow]

Buzz was just enjoying the moment, not purposefully disrespecting WVU or the game.  Frankly, I'd have expected the WVU students to take it out on him regardless.  And Buzz understood why he was getting grief and was man enough not to worry about it.  I thought the on camera apology was appropriate and enough.  End of story; end of WVU.

[warriorchick]

You wanna see outrage, check out this thread on the WVU Scout board:

http://mbd.scout.com/mb.aspx?s=159&f=2509&t=8736197

I didn't take an exact count of all seven pages of the thread, but it looks to me that there were about as many defenders of Buzz as there were outraged fans.  There was quite a bit of sentiment along the lines of "Well, it wouldn't have happpened at all if we had won."

There are quite a few fans on this board that are pissed that WVU didn't win even after we basically spotted them 3 players in the first half. And understandably so.

[burger]

Friggin Digger cut down the nets at MU.  Let's see his reaction tomorrow

What year was that?

Now that is something to be "pissed" about....

[PVMagic]

Well, some of them think he should be held to a "hirer" standard.  Also, what appears to be an attempt at a grammar lesson on p 6.

Wow.

[Skatastrophy]

Heh, pulled this out of that threadnaught:



Also, TIL that WVU invented all John Denver songs.

[Dr. Blackheart]

What year was that?

Now that is something to be "pissed" about....

I think it was the Snow Game in78/79 season on the Saturday before Winter session.  Major blizzard and only about 2000 in attendance and they let the students sit anywhere. Tripuca had the schlitz, going in and out of the locker room all game IIRC. Digger was pissed about something Al did at South Bend or that MU didn't hire him when Al left. I believe this was also the famous Bill Lambeer puking incident as UND was snowed in so their players hung out after with MU friends on campus. While only 2000 strong, it was mostly students only and the abuse was uncensored.  

Is this the game Digger got the beer shower?  If it wasn't, it was the cause of it later.  We went Hillbilly for sure this game as even arena security didn't make it in.

[Avenue Commons]

Lighten up, Francis.

It was a little dance after a good win in a college basketball game. So what. It's fun. It's why we watch sports.

Anyone rather have Mike Deane out there with his insta-tint glasses?

[Dr. Blackheart]

Dug a little deeper into Digger's classic best seller autobiography and it was this 1979 game they cut down the nets...he said it was because with the victory over #11 MU that UND would be ranked #1.  Credited Tripukwad for the idea.  You youngins better understand the Digger and UND raging hate?

Of course it was the year before during Al's first season as an announcer he was covering a game in South Bend and the students booed Al at a pep rally.  Al grabbed the mic and said:  "If you don't shut up I will go back to Marquette and start a football team"

[Skatastrophy]

Found something else

[Marqevans]

Dug a little deeper into Digger's classic best seller autobiography and it was this 1979 game they cut down the nets...he said it was because with the victory over #11 MU that UND would be ranked #1.  Credited Tripukwad for the idea.  You youngins better understand the Digger and UND raging hate?

Of course it was the year before during Al's first season as an announcer he was covering a game in South Bend and the students booed Al at a pep rally.  Al grabbed the mic and said:  "If you don't shut up I will go back to Marquette and start a football team"

I remember that and it seemed like he won the crowd over after he said that!

[RawdogDX]

Mack17 wrote: I pray we play them again in the Tourney.

So they can kick the crap out of us? They beat us sitting their 3 best players in the first half.
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This was my favorite exchange on the thread.

[MUMac]

I think it was the Snow Game in78/79 season on the Saturday before Winter session.  Major blizzard and only about 2000 in attendance and they let the students sit anywhere. Tripuca had the schlitz, going in and out of the locker room all game IIRC. Digger was pissed about something Al did at South Bend or that MU didn't hire him when Al left. I believe this was also the famous Bill Lambeer puking incident as UND was snowed in so their players hung out after with MU friends on campus. While only 2000 strong, it was mostly students only and the abuse was uncensored.  

Is this the game Digger got the beer shower?  If it wasn't, it was the cause of it later.  We went Hillbilly for sure this game as even arena security didn't make it in.

I think the Tripuca thing happened in the game that Doc hit the half court winner in '81.

[Da 'Lanche]

To be fair....many of those backwood folk have probably never seen a man dancing without another man before....

[MUMac]

To be fair....many of those backwood folk have probably never seen a man dancing without another man his sister before....

Fixed

[Jacks DC]

If I were a WVU fan I would hate Buzz right now.  Of course, I have a few friends who went to WVU who already hated him after we beat them by 22 a few years ago and he left the three amigos in and pressed until the final buzzer.

[pbiflyer]

To be fair....many of those backwood folk have probably never seen a man dancing without another man before....

West Virginia, the place where they think of the movie "Deliverance" as a love story.

[MUMac]

If I were a WVU fan I would hate Buzz right now.  Of course, I have a few friends who went to WVU who already hated him after we beat them by 22 a few years ago and he left the three amigos in and pressed until the final buzzer.

I hope every BE fan outside of MU hates Buzz.  You hate the coaches that beat you.  How many fans hated Pat Kennedy?

[JakeBarnes]

[Gato78]

Al standing on the table was at the Arena, his home turf.

I am fully aware...it beats Buzz in the outrageousness scale x1000

[Da 'Lanche]

Fixed

Can anyone tell the difference in West Virginia?   

[augoman]

Am I really the only one that remembers 'dirty dick vitale' dancing at mid court of the Milw Arena after finally beating the Warriors?  He was Al's bitch forever, and couldn't contain himself.  No comments of this nature at that time.  No 'kill him', or 'he's a douch', or 'hate him', or 'I hope someone punches him in the face'.  Just went back to beating him every time.

I hope someone at ESPN has the wisdom to do a little research before talking about "classless", or "disrespectful".

I drove down to watch the Northwestern/Indiana game in Evanston the year after Bob Knight walked out and inflamed the student section with spicy rhetoric after they called him "hoosier daddy".  He was a gas.  He came out early, shook hands with and handed out candy kisses to all the Northwestern fans and instantly defused a charged atmosphere.

Buzz made his effort with the apology.  Case closed.