For the life of me...I can not understand why the decision makers at WVU allow that "crap to happen" when visitors come the Mountain State. Being voted annually the "worst place to visit on football Saturdays is no Badge of Honor. I will defend the WV native student body....I can't imagine them being a part of the hostile environment because Mom & Dad would "bust their asses" if they HERD about that behavior. It has to be folks from out of state (duh---Yankees).
The crowd at a Spamite game consists of three elements:
- The rich kid (anyone who can attend a private or out-of-state tuition school is rich) out-of-state students (the majority). Understand that most all schools that have P5 football are highly selective. You do not just graduate HS and apply to good ole State U. Rather you are directed to a cascading series of lesser schools. So these rich New Jersites have a choice of something like Montclair State or the virtually open admissions USPAM. Those that go to USPAM are a self-selected group. They want to act like losers. They chose (at WV taxpayers' expense) to attend a school where the main pursuit is drunkenness and general assishness, and the academics are easy.
- The in-state students (the minority). WV has plenty of colleges. You can go anywhere you want. Again, these students WANT to be around the New Jersites. Kids with proper upbringing make other choices.
- The hilljack fans. Understand that a total suspension of disbelief, or just being so fundamentally stupid you do not know any better, is REQUIRED to follow USPAM sports. The idiocy spewed by the in-house flacks and the lap dog media is so unbelievable it takes some one really really really out of it to not just say "this is pro wrestling on astro turf" and walk away. So in a state of 1.8 MILLION people, 40 thousand or so (after you account for the student seats) show up. A self-selected group. People who have never been anywhere or done anything, because exposure to the wider world is inoculation to believing the idiocy that one MUST believe to follow this stuff. Non-alumni (of anywhere) mostly (college educated people are way too smart to buy in).
You go to church, or the movies, or plays, or whatever it is you do in your free time. You are normal (AFAIK). Most people, by definition, are normal. These 40K or so want, with 10000 other options, to spend six saturdays per year getting drunk, acting like a**es, and ACTUALLY BELIEVING that THIS year will be different from every other year.
A very different thing from what goes on in Huntington, or Blacksburg, or State College, or Columbus, or most any place else you want to name. A self-selected student body of drunken losers, the majority turned down by their home state schools, and a self-selected fan base that are simply the worst of the worst, 0.3% of a state that actually has a lot of really great people in it.
And then, to the hilljacks, there is us. We, who know better than to believe the idiocy. Who actually know how the world works. That hate us. Because they ain't us.
Now, even though we are "not rivals" and "don't matter", some Spamites, for some reason on OUR board, will post 6th grade level combacks, usually "you are female" and the internet version of yelling "is not true either" really loudly.
It is sad really.
