Yes, you, the average Smoking Musket reader and author.  You come here and write posts that include "Eat Shit Pitt" and "Greg Paulas kissed a boy (and he liked it)".  You read a caption over a picture of a man wearing a sheep-fucking costume that says "Average Aubarn Fan" and you laugh.  You laugh and write front page articles about how a member of the opposing basketball team beat his girlfriend and an opposing coach had sex.  You trash opposing cities, including WVian cities, as dens of fat, crack-addicted prostitutes.  You post thousands of pictures of half-naked women.  You have bragged on this site about throwing things on the court at a WVU game and hitting a player.  You've offended, at least once, literally every person who regularly visits this site.

And now you watch a WVU basketball game and exclaim, "My goodness mother! I believe that the fanbase is out of control!  Someone should do something to remind us that manners matter and keep everything above the belt!"

Seriously, this site participates in and encourages the "extreme" wing of a culture that's been out of control for the last 20 years and NOW is going to bitch about obsenities that make the airwaves and shit hitting the court?  This place is the tip-of-the-spear for Mountaineer bad behavior on the internet, yet authors of this site are going to act shocked and appalled that an attitude which they've embraced on the internet translates into the real world?  Get a fucking grip guys.  You've chanted "asshole" at a ref at games before and you'll do it again.  You've written/read derogatory things on this site and laughed, and you'll do it again.  You're leading the wing of the Mountaineer fanbase that you're so up in arms about. 

Good Lord, what a game.

Colorado is not good and, unfortunately, we're only a Noel Devine better than them.  I'll have to admit, for as dumb as Jeff Mullen is, at least he learns (slowly) from his mistakes.  After he blew the Auburn game by keeping the ball in the hands of a... (cough)... uhh.... "below-average" quarterback, he decided to win this game by just giving the rock to Noel Devine on every single play in the clutch.  I advise everyone to look at the play-by-play from the time Brown went "Incomplete-12yd Sack-13yd Sack" in the 3rd Quarter.  After that atrocious drive, which ended with the offense being booed off the field, the offense ran 21 plays, 20 of them rushing plays.  We piled up 14 points and ate a huge amount of time off of the clock.  Three cheers for Jeff-boy, he can learn.

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