Leave. No. Doubt.

That's awesome bro

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@@WVgunfun Bill stewart...

No, he was "a runaway beer truck."

We would've ran all over the Buckeyes in the BCS Championship game as that corn-fed team was the type which we ate for lunch. The Buckeyes couldn't stop Illinois that year and their attack was nowhere near as dynamic as WVU's.

kevin crush I’ve said that since we lost to Pitt that year. I don’t care what anybody says we’d have stomped Ohio state that year.

Totally agree guys! This era of WVU football was the greatest ever. I've been missing it ever since.

Yes we was

I agree. They were the best team in the nation and it is so unfortunate that WVU overlooked Pitt in the last regular season game

So much fun to watch!! Most entertaining team in the country!!

I always wished WVU played USC when those guys were there it would have been a game for the ages because whenever they played in the dynasty of ncaa it was a high scoring game

This wasn't the best team! 88 Team was the best! However this team even with the loss to USF should have beat Pitt and beat Ohio State for the Title! But Dick Rod had Michigan on his mind instead of the Pitt Game!

Love McAfee but his performance in the biggest (worst lose) game in the history of Mountaineer football was tragic. He missed field goals consistently. I think that that was the only time in my memory that WVU WOULD HAVE BEEN the favorite to beat Ohio State and win the national championship. It is hard to get over , the Mounty's were 24.5 favorites at home against Pittsburg. The WVU FOOTBALL team has more wins than any team in the history of the NCAA; That has not won a national championship. Look to the baseball team for a Champion!

@@jeralnlawrence5011 Thanks for sharing what amounts to nothing more than your unsolicited opinion. How exactly did you reach the conclusion as to which team was the “best?” Is it strictly premised on stats, i.e., a win-loss ratio or individual player stats? Or is it something more? Clearly in this context the “something more” is all but smacking you in the face yet you’re too willfully ignorant to see it much less understand and apply it. The team that just learned their head coach was dumping them and felt compelled to announce it before the end of the season (RR’s final f-you to WVU) knowing full well how it would adversely impact players, culminating in a loss to their longstanding rival which ruined their undefeated season. In terms of morale it couldn’t have sunk much lower. In response to the nonstop blows hitting the team, then came acting head coach Bill Stewart. The man personified the concepts of teamwork, optimism and encouragement. He was so well liked and respected that the team regained their footing and wanted to win for Coach Stew above all else. Coach Stew stayed fully engaged with his players well after the season ended. The players became part of his family. This is the “something more” that elevates this team above others. Personally speaking, I got to know some of the players when they lived next door and above my younger sister (she dated Pat for a few months). They were good kids playing a game they loved. The end🤦🏾‍♀️

Leave no doubt

Jack Hovatter I agree man.. if that speech doesn't send chills down your spine then something's wrong... wvu hasn't had a team as good as that team since ... we could've won the national title that year... teams couldn't stop our running attack simply because Patrick white was that good ... we had a great defense then to

@@613and802 They shouldn't have played the old gold and blue, not this night!

He was one of my coaches in high school. Loved and respected him

How?

@@TheOpinionSports His head was in Michigan when WVU was threatening to be in the National Championship Game and then he skipped town prior to the bowl game

Ohh I don’t know @okcboi, maybe by messing up their heads by being in a Michigan the day before the game? Maybe by not allowing Pat White to go in after following him around with a helmet in his hand. Maybe because he has Owen Schmidt so messed up he flubbed a 14 yard kick. Rich Rod is a POS and karma gave him his. Also, to your above comment on another thread about us not beating LSU, this night, we would’ve beat anyone. Oklahoma were suppose to be the best that year and we proved that narrative wrong.

Good stuff

That’s awesome made me cry

TheBlueMew I agree .. everyone hated on coach steward simply because he was a religious man

One of the best pre game speeches ever imo

Never find a person that loved this State or WVU more than Bill Stewart !! Loved Coach Stew !! A gr8 teacher of young men .. RIP Coach

Unfortunately, that's the only one we ever got on y'all lol. Thanks for the kind words. Hope to see y'all in the B12 championship.

Too bad it’s a one sided rivalry. We’ll get you again sometime

My first day on campus. We were playing baseball in Maryland. On our way back home we were stopped a dozen times. Many couches were burning in the streets ; That was September 1982. Jeff Hostetler and the mounty's spotted Oklahoma Two touchdowns and then whipped them going away. In the bowl game the year before WVU whipped the Florida Gators. The chant was " Sooner or Gator college football will understand". California was and is my home but I Loved my years in Morgantown. PEACE P.S. How in the hell did we lose to Pittsburg?

@@thejammfam I remember watching the '82 WVU-OK game on closed circuit TV with my dad at a large civic center with hundreds of people in attendance since it wasn't broadcast on regular television. OK was nationally ranked and had not lost a home opener for ever before that. What an awesome game! What I remember most was an old guy in the crowd decked out from head to toe in Sooner garb that the camera man kept showing throughout the game. As the game went on, each time they showed him, he had less air in his balloon and fewer people around him. In the 4th quarter they showed him one last time sitting down, dejected, and no one around him... haha. I also remember Rich Hollins catching a long pass from Hostetler, and Curlin Beck running up the middle for a long TD through a hole Coach Nehlen said you could drive a truck through. Great memories.

@@krankrocker Good for you. It wasn't on tv live but as I recall it was replayed on a new network several times that week ( ESPN was three Years old). My favorite part was spotting them 14 points and the whipping them pretty good. PEACE

Yes it was. And every other day is also a great day to be a Mountaineer!

Pat White never lost a bowl game at WVU! Sugar over Georgia, Gator over Georgie Tech. Fiesta over Oklahoma, and Meineke Car Quest over North Carolina

It wouldn't have been but he's been ready to leave. Now he's just badmouthing our boys.

Holgerson hated Bill Stewart for trying to dig dirt up on him. He would not have used that speech even if it guaranteed a win over the Sooners. Holgerson was a terrible for the program and left it A LOT worse than he got it! The only 10 or more wins he ever got was with Coach Stewarts recruits/players Tavon Austin, Steadmon Baily and Geno Smith to name a few

@@sabancuz6871 Yeah Holgerson really screwed things up a fair bit, but you're right the only few wins was with Stewart's picks. Maybe our new coach can bring back that golden age of the Mountaineers in some way.

saban Cuz not advocating for Holgs bc I’m glad he’s gone too but he went 10-3 in 2016 with Skylar Howard and those were definitely all his own recruits by that point

He was never a Mountaineer

+Phil Mason MOUNTAINEEEEERS!!!!!!!

What??? Are you nice to your seeing eye Dog?

Was Pat White

Great speech. But Bill Stewart was a totally over matched as a coach. Had no business being hired as head coach.

@@pv2500 He has something the last 2 coaches have had and heart!

Not tonight.

Though I do disagree with one thing. WVU did not beat the best team in the country that year. The best team in that country that year beat Oklahoma.