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Howard, Holgorsen lead West Virginia on the field against Georgia Southern in 2015 home opener by nicole curtin sports editor @nicole_WVU

College football is finally upon us, as West Virginia opens the season against Georgia Southern tomorrow night.

Since it is the first meeting for both teams, and the

first time Georgia Southern has played a team in the Big 12, this home opener is sure to be interesting. Last season was the first year the Eagles have been in the FBS and they had a perfect record in their conference, 8-0, finished the season with a 9-3 record, and earned the Sun Belt Conference title last year.

The Mountaineers are coming off a 7-6 season in 2014, just making it into the Liberty Bowl where they lost to Texas A&M. To prepare for the Eagles’ offensive schemes this weekend, defensive coordinator Tony Gibson has spent about five months working on how to stop the triple option.

“I hope I never have to look at another snap of Georgia Southern after this weekend,” Gibson said. “I don’t know any defense that’s built for option, unless you go back 50 years ago maybe, right now I don’t know if there’s any that are built to stop it.”

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WVU creates first sexual assault advocacy course

MEET THE MOUNTAINEER

by paige czyzewski staff writer @dailyathenaeum

with a heart condition who threw the first pitch at a WVU baseball game in 2014.

He remained close with Lalone after the baseball game and describes the Lalones as his “second family.”

“Ty is like a little brother to me. I wear his shirt under my buckskins—when you go out there, you’re going to see that grey shirt under my buckskins,” Garcia said. “He’s with me and anyone who has struggled through something is with me. Anyone that wants to look up to me and see me as a role model or a light can see me and see my excitement and enthusiasm and maybe use that to push through whatever hard thing they’re going through.”

Since Garcia is easily

The first sexual assault advocacy course is being offered at West Virginia University this semester, as an extension of the Peer Advocate program.

The three-credit course, designed by WVU, WELLWVU: The Students’ Center of Health and the Center for Service and Learning, serves as a part of The Million Hour Match, an initiative for WVU and community residents to complete one million hours of service by 2018.

Administrators received approval for the course just weeks before the start of the fall semester. Fifty-one students were recruited in four days.

Those accepted into the class, which is in the directory as Service and Learning 459, had their first session on Tuesday.

“It’s a service learning course. The students are being trained in and serving the student body with education and response protocols for sexual assaults,” said Mariana Matthews, the campus safety grant resource associate teaching the class. “The point of the program (is that) they are a student who can talk to another student confidentially and take them through those processes.”

Matthews works in WELLWVU’s Office of Wellness and Health Promotion and with Campus Peer Advocates. She said the goal of this course is to help students understand resources and systematic structures and to learn how to safely offer those services to victims.

“We really need to make sure the student body is educated on what resources are available for them and people they may come in contact with,” Matthews said.

“A victim is a human being. In regards to what they believe in—anti-abortion, pro-abortion-rights, democrat or republican—none of those things matter. They are another person that’s been victim of something traumatic and horrible that no one should ever be victim of. And you’re there to provide options to them.”

Enrolled students will be taught medical, legal and judicial counseling and criminal protocols, in addition to gender identity, human sexuality and LGBTQ perspectives.

Training is an estimated minimum of 65 hours, according to Matthews.

The course will involve learning inside and outside of the classroom. Students will visit professionals at the Morgantown Police Department, Ruby Memorial Hospital, the prosecutor’s office, the Rape and Domestic Violence Information Center and WVU’s Title IX office.

Due to the intensity of the training and a portion of the services being completed with victims, interested students must be of sophomore level or above and in good academic standing.

Students are to apply with a cover letter and resume, as well as essays surrounding sexual violence and Title

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Michael Garcia, the current Mountaineer Mascot, takes part in the commonly known “Let’s Go, Mountaineers” chant during a football game last year.

by laura haight

social media & campus connection editor @laurahaight_

Michael Garcia may seem like just your average West Virginia University student. He goes to class, enjoys eating his favorite burger from Tailpipes and makes time to read a good book.

However, most WVU students aren’t the target of the “Let’s Go” chant when walking across campus.

As the Mountaineer Mascot, Garcia is far from average.

Growing up in Fairmont, West Virginia, Garcia attended his first WVU football game when he was just 8 years old.

Garcia was first declared Mountaineer Mascot in 2014 and renamed Mascot for the 2015-16 academic

year. Now in his first year of graduate school for public administration, Garcia has a tight schedule between classes and Mascot duties.

On Friday, the day before the first WVU football game, Garcia will start his day by going to a Career Services event, then leaving to go to a pep rally at Mylan Park, returning to the Career Services event, going to a tailgate at noon, a Mountaineer Maniacs event following that and will end his day with a soccer game at 7 p.m.

“The whole experience is definitely unique, seeing that there’s only one Mountaineer here, where other schools have mascots, six or eight of them, that can fill in wherever when someone’s busy, with me it’s just me,” Garcia said. “The second thing about it that makes

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it unique is that people can see my face. I can talk to them in uniform or out of uniform, which really is so weird. Because I’m not a celebrity in my mind, but people recognize me all the time.”

Garcia, who is humble yet passionate, said he’s just someone who wears the buckskins, supports the teams and lets fans know it’s OK to get excited and show enthusiasm at games.

Being the Mountaineer Mascot has allowed Garcia to meet thousands of fans across the nation.

When he travels outof-state in the buckskins, he gets questions such as, “Are you in a play or something?” or, “Do you live in the wild?”

One of his special moments as Mountaineer Mascot was when he met Ty Lallone, a young boy

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WVU to add 200 parking spaces on Evansdale campus by hollie greene staff writer @dailyathenaeum

Along with new buildings, statues and other structures, West Virginia University is creating more short-term and permit parking spaces on the Evansdale campus.

The first lot, ST-9, is adjacent to the Creative Arts Center and has 98 available spaces. Another lot, ST-1, is just off of Patteson Drive and should open within the next month.

Overall, about 200 more parking spaces will be added

to Evansdale for student and faculty use, according to Clement Solomon, director of the Department of Transportation and Parking.

“We’re really trying to maximize parking lot usage and provide short-term parking for our students, but the other part is the whole concept of intermodal. It’s just really going to help a lot,” Solomon said. “If a student lives in an apartment off campus, they can get dropped off just below the PRT station and have access to the entire campus.”

Short-term spaces al-

low drivers to pay a meter by the hour instead of purchasing long-term permits which typically charge $1.50 per hour. Soloman hopes those spaces add to campus intermodality.

Much like the design of Mountaineer Station, buses like the Mountain Line Transit and shuttles from various housing complexes will have accesstothelotsfortransporting passengers.

“The location of these spaces will give students direct access to the Engineering campus and PRT station,” Solomon

said.

The construction of these parking lots is part of a larger project to update and revitalize the Evansdale campus.

One piece of the project, Evansdale Crossing, will also be easily accessible from the new parking spaces. These elements will work together to give students easier access to both halves of the Evansdale campus.

“Evansdale Crossing is really going to provide some connectivity,” said John Thompson, WVU’s associate director of design

and construction. “It’s going to allow you to go from the upper campus down to the lower campus sort of over the PRT through a walkway.”

According to Thompson, the Evansdale Crossing building will act as a type of Mountainlair for the Evansdale campus.

“It’ll be a one-stop-shop for student registration, admissions and records. The Reed College of Media will have a facility in there, and there will be several restaurants as well as some general purpose classrooms,” Thompson said.

The placement of the new parking lots will allow students to easily access this facility, which in turn will give them access to the lower half of the Evansdale campus’ amenities such as the Student Recreation Center, the Outdoor Fields and several dormitories.

According to Solomon, both parking lots should be ready for use in one month.

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Governors discuss budget at Bureau of Finance meeting by jake jarvis city editor @newsroomjake

Several members of the Student Government Association’s Board of Governors walked away from Thursday night’s Bureau of Finance meeting more at ease about the organization’s budget.

SGA hoped that the University would give it a significantly larger budget so that it could give more money to student organizations—but that didn’t happen. The budget turned out to be about the same as last year.

“As the way I understand it, you can put money into student org grants but you can’t take money out,” said Erin Heeter, SGA director of student organizations and member of the bureau.

“Once it’s in there, it stays

in there.”

SGA’s budget is made up of three “buckets,” as Heeter describes it: operations, grants for student organizations and elections. Inside those buckets are line items. Those line items suggest how much money should be spent on individual expenses in the bucket.

But line items don’t mean much, according to Chief of Finance Zach Schwartz. Any money inside the bucket, regardless of what line it’s on, can be spent on any other line in the bucket. And then, any money from the operations or elections bucket can be transferred to the grants for student organizations bucket.

The BOG failed to pass its budget Wednesday night because governors wanted there to be more

money in the grants for the student organization bucket.

At the meeting, Governor Sam Richardson said he didn’t feel comfortable approving a budget that he just saw “30 minutes ago for the first time.” SGA’s budget is usually approved by the incoming administration and BOG in July, but that didn’t happen this year.

Heeter said the Office of Student Life told Student Body President George Capel to tell the bureau to increase the budget it requested from the University. SGA originally asked for about $180,000, Heeter said, but after several revisions, ended up asking for upward of $500,000.

“Each year, you want to go into it hoping we can provide more for more student organizations,” said

Student Body Vice President Ashley Morgan.

But then the tides shifted. The bureau was told to decrease its proposed budget back down to the original amount.

The current budget, which the BOG plans to approve or deny next week, comes in at about $184,000. But that number is a bit deceiving.

The current SGA administration won’t be able to use $18,000 of that amount—that money will go toward paying for last year’s election. And then about $3,000 will go to students who were awarded the Catalyst of Campus Change scholarship last year.

And then, Heeter said, the next SGA administration would pay for whoever is awarded the scholarship this year.

“Maybe,” said Governor Dustin Seabolt. “Maybe.”

One of the biggest points of contention with the proposed budget comes down to stipends. SGA currently plans to spend about $16,000 in executive stipends.

The stipend is a check that the University deposits to an executive’s bank account.

The reasoning behind this, according to Schwartz, is to reimburse students for all of the time they spend working for the organization. Save for the student body president and vice president, Governor Blake Humphrey doesn’t think anyone should receive a stipend since SGA is more of a volunteer organization.

Humphrey wondered how the organization can reason paying some executive more than others—

when some positions, like the directors of the Students Advocates for Legislative Advancement don’t receive any stipend.

Schwartz suggested that instead of just disbursing a stipend to executives, the money instead be considered a scholarship. If that were the case, he said, SGA could revoke the scholarship money if a person quits halfway through the semester or if they don’t adequately fulfill their role as an executive.

The BOG plans to approve or deny the budget at its regular meeting at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday night in Elizabeth Moore Hall. In the meantime, members of the bureau plan to reach out to every BOG member to see if there’s any part of the budget they’d like to change before the meeting.

Image of dead child on beach haunts and frustrates the world AP—The photo of the dead 3-year-old Syrian boy on a Turkish beach is haunting.

It captures everything we don’t want to see when we tap our phones or open our newspapers: a vicious civil war, a surge of refugees, the death of an innocent.

The image of little Aylan Kurdi is hammering home

the Syrian migrant crisis to the world, largely through social media. Aylan died along with his 5-year-old brother and their mother when their small rubber boat capsized as it headed for Greece. The Associated Press distributed the photos to its subscribers. The photos were from the Turkish news agency DHA.

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“It is a very painful picture to view,” said Peter Bouckaert, who as director of emergencies at Human Rights Watch has witnessed his fair share of painful scenes. “It had me in tears when it first showed up on my mobile phone. I had to think hard whether to share this.”

But share, he did. Bouckaert, who is in Hungary watching the crisis unfold, said people need to be pushed to look at the “ghastly spectacle” so they can, in turn, prod governments to help the suffering Syrian people.

Still, will the disturbing image galvanize people into action? Will it be like other seared-in-our-memory photographs - a vulture hovering over starving child in Sudan, a girl fleeing a napalm attack in Vietnam, the child in a firefighter’s arms after the Oklahoma City bombing?

Or will it become just another of the many images on social media, lost amid the din?

“One of the things about this story is that it’s really difficult sometimes for the world to get a handle on it,” said Al Tompkins, a senior faculty member at the Poynter Institute, a center for media studies in St. Petersburg, Florida. “Regardless of the technology, a singular iconic image can still touch us in ways.”

And that singular image is often of a child. That was the cold fact that unsettled people around the globe.

Kathleen Fetters-Iossi, a 47-year-old fiction writer from West Bend, Wisconsin, said she hopes people share the images to create aware-

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ness, then go beyond that to try to help in some way. But she has her doubts any concrete action will come of it.

“Most Americans, if they’re just now becoming aware of this issue, will ultimately feel there’s nothing we can do,” she said. “They feel like we can’t handle our own immigration problem, let alone Europe’s. Social media can help by creating wider awareness, but ultimately, `clicktivism’ didn’t help the Nigerian girls, and it’s not going to help those migrants.”

In Greece, Alicia Stallings, a mother of two, said she won’t link to the photo.

It’s too close to home.

“I watch my kids swim and play in the Aegean and am sometimes struck by horror when I think this is the same water in which children just like them are drowning every day,” she wrote in an email.

“One hates for something like this be the galvanizing element - we are pretty hard-hearted if we can ignore all the other hundreds of drownings happening all the time. But the scale is vast, and as humans it is easier for us to comprehend one specific tragedy, in a shirt and shoes like our own kids.”

(While Turkish authorities gave the boy’s first name as Aylan, an aunt in Canada gave a different transliteration: Alan.)

The photo of the body washed up on the sand was splashed on the front of all major newspapers in Brazil, a nation with more homicides than any other, according to the United Nations.

Still, the picture ignited despair and indignation.

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recognizable as the Mountaineer Mascot, Garcia realizes he is a role model in the community and said everyone sees a little bit of themselves in the Mountaineer.

“I have to be my best all the time, which I want to be. I fear failure and I’m a perfectionist, you put those two things together, and I don’t want to mess up,” Garcia said. “I’d rather lead by example. I think that’s a lot more powerful. It’s a whole lot better when you see someone on the street picking up garbage or leading a ‘Let’s Go Mountaineers!’ chant instead of whatever vulgar chant is going on.”

IX. After an informational interview, students will be screened by RDVIC employees and must submit to a background check.

Acceptance into the course does not mean acceptance into Campus Peer Advocates, however.

Students are simply receiving the training to apply to the Campus Peer Advocate program.

“Before, we had all of that training in one weekend,” said Brooke Bailey, a graduate student earning her master’s in public administration. “Having that broken up into a class is going to be so much more beneficial for the advocates because they’re going to have time to digest this information and really get a better grasp on it.”

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Brazilian newspaper covers show the photo of the dead 3-year-old Syrian boy on a Turkish beach, at a news stand in Brasilia, Brazil, Thursday, Sep. 3, 2015. old barber, lives near one of Rio de Janeiro’s slums, where a drug gang war has meant nobody leaves home after dark and schools have been shut for weeks.

“I’m used to violence.

Brazil is used to seeing violence. But this - this is just painful,” he said, staring hard at the image in a newspaper. “He’s just a baby trying to flee a war. The absurdity of this is extreme even for us.”

It inspired people like a 52-year-old grandmother from Australia to tweet multiple versions of the story.

“If these images of a dead child don’t change our attitude to refugees, what will?” tweeted Jenny Fawcett of Warrnambool, Australia. Her daughter started a petition calling on the Australian government to help more Syrian refugees.

Jeremy Barnicle, chief development officer of the humanitarian group Mercy Corps in Portland, Oregon, said it remains to be seen

whether the outpouring of grief on social media for Aylan will translate into tangible help.

“For many Americans, the conflict in the Middle East is distant and complicated, and therefore tough to engage on,” he said. “A photo like this reminds people why we should all care.”

While the image of the body on the sand was on many international websites, many U.S. sites ran a photo of a Turkish police officer carrying the limp boy in his arms. The boy’s face is obscured.

Mike Wilson, editor of The Dallas Morning News, decided to run the tamer photo. He received an email from a reader who said the picture was “gory.”

“I wrote back and told her that I appreciated her sensitivity,” he said. “We chose it specifically because it wasn’t gory. It’s just a forlorn, heartbreaking image that tells the reality of what’s happening.”

Bailey was a peer advocate last year and is currently enrolled in SRVL 493. She said that sexual assault is about power, which means victims sometimes are too intimidated to approach a person of authority for help.

“When you’re approached by a peer, someone on the same level as you, someone who has been involved with the same thing as you or knows someone who has been involved, but knows that system just as well as the person of authority, then it’s a less intimidating environment. The person feels more comfortable, and they are getting some of that power back,” Bailey said.

Bailey believes having students train to be campus peer advocates will help normalize the discussion of sexual violence and teach students how to help

fellow Mountaineers that could be victims.

“The course has opened up the door for the conversation to be started, and those 51 advocates are the catalyst for that conversation.”

The Hunting Ground, a documentary about sexual assaults on college campuses and how cases could be handled on campus will show at 7 p.m. on Sept. 9 in the Gluck Theater in the Mountainlair.

The event is sponsored by the Interfraternity Council and Panhellenic Association as part of the It’s On Us campaign.

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Colt Ford makes return to Schmitt’s meg weissend

said in the same interview. “They are so freaking good, and those are the same guys you hear playing on the record which you don’t see much of in Nashville. I want people to walk out of a show thinking, ‘Man, that was fun.’”

Another WVU student is interested in seeing his performance tonight.

“I think he’s going to put on a fun show,” said Hannah Bailey. “His music is upbeat; definitely songs you want to dance to in a bar.”

Schmitt’s Saloon is planning for a busy weekend, especially with the first WVU football game of the season on Saturday.

“We expect a large crowd all weekend with the great music scheduled,” Koon said. “We want Schmitt’s to be a game day destination for Mountaineer fans.”

Tickets for tonight are available online for $35.

Fellow hick-hop artists Moccasin Creek will open the show at 9 p.m.

Schmitt’s Saloon will also host an after party following the game Saturday night.

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For those who don’t think country music and rap mix, checking out Colt Ford’s performance at Schmitt’s Saloon tonight may change a few minds.

The Georgia native will take the stage at 10:30 p.m., showcasing his “hick- hop” style.

Ford is often referred to as a country music legend, playing a crucial role in the industry’s more recent successes. After launching his own record label, “Average Joe’s Entertainment” in 2008, Ford’s powerhouse indie label has picked up artists such as The Lacs, Moonshine Bandits and Bubba Sparxxx.

Collab orating w ith country stars like Eric Church and Luke Bryan, Ford’s musical influence has impacted the careers of many performers. A highlight in Ford’s success is co-writing the popular, Grammy Award-winning song “Dirt Road Anthem” famously covered by Jason Aldean.

However, tonight is not the first time Ford has made an appearance in Morgantown.

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Colt Ford performs his urban country music live.

“This will be Colt Ford’s second appearance at Schmitt’s,” said Troy Koon, entertainment director at Schmitt’s Saloon. “The first show was a sell out, and this one should be a sell out.”

Music lovers are anticipating Ford’s arrival, and tickets are going quickly for this one-of-a-kind

show.

“The guy is really unique,” said West Virginia University student Spencer Wagner. “I mean, he’s a country rapper, and the music he makes is different from other artists.

His song, ‘Ride Through the Country,’ is really catchy.”

The southern sensation

has released five studio albums, charting eight times on Hot Country Songs.

Ford claims the songs he writes appeal to more than one group of people.

“What you see is nobody sitting down, everyone standing up and singing every word,” Ford said in an interview with Billboard. “You also see ev-

eryone from 4 and 5-yearolds to 75-year-olds. That’s what it’s about for me.”

Ford is all about having a good time on stage and loves seeing the audience having just as much fun.

“I’ve worked really hard in creating a band that believed in me, the music and what we do,” Ford

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Art Blast on the Mon celebrates visual creativity Chelsea walker A&E writer @dailyathenaeum

Be prepared to roll up your sleeves and get creative as the annual Art Blast on the Mon returns to Greensboro, Pennsylvania for its 10th year.

Engaging in art through hands-on experience, Greensboro’s Art Blast on the Mon is a two-day event allowing those in attendance to get a true feel for creating and sculpting. Rather than observing a potter spinning a bowl on the wheel, Art Blast on the Mon gives attendees the chance to sink their hands into the clay.

“Many people get the opportunity to get their hands on clay, or even do pottery,” said Mary Shine, president of the Nathanael Greene Communit y D e velopment Corporation.

NGCDC is a non-profit organization based in Greensboro. That aims to preserve the area’s rich history and culture.

Shine said many people do not realize the significance of the Greensboro art scene, which is known for its famous pottery.

In the 1800s, a small factory was set in Greensboro where many dishes were produced and shipped

down the river to New Orleans. Shine said the fragments of the now collectable pottery are found buried beneath Greensboro soil.

“Greensboro pottery is very collectable, the people who own it treasure it,” Shine said.

The annual Art Blast on the Mon brings together artists, vendors, and community members to celebrate art, creativity and its presence in the Greensboro area.

From food to face painting and live music, the Art Blast on the Mon incorporates all realms of entertainment. Interactive artists will allow those in attendance to design clay, mosaics and pressed flower masterpieces throughout the two-day event.

Morgantown artist and international clay sculptor, Jamie Lester, will conduct a hands on sculpting workshop where he will share his skills and expertise. Lester is best known for the iconic Jerry West statue that stands outside of the WVU Coliseum.

The Art Blast on the Mon not only focuses on well-established artists in the area but pays respect to the blossoming young artisans as well. Showcasing student work in the Greene County school district, Art Blast on the Mon celebrates the arts, and

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Children participate in arts and crafts at a previous Art Blast on the Mon. fosters it as well. Shine said the NGCDC asks local schools to submit various pieces for an exclusive student exhibit. Schools that participate in donating student work then receive a donation from the NGCDC. Shine said this money is then used to purchase art supplies for upcoming classes.

Shine, who was a former schoolteacher for 30 years, said it’s important

that art programs flourish.

With budget cuts, she has seen firsthand the damage on the art curriculum within the education system.

“We feel that art is very important, so we’re just doing our part,” Shine said.

Vendors serving donuts, ice cream and funnel cakes will be in attendance, as well as live music from local bands.

“We just want to foster the interest and then maybe they can take it further after the experience.”

Art Blast on the Mon will take placeon Saturday and Sunday at the Ice Plant Pavillion in Greensboro, Pennsylvania. For more information on Art Blast on the Mon, visit http://natgreene.org/.

Musical ensembles will feature an array of genres, from country tunes, to classic rock and bluegrass.

Local groups such as Eighteen Wheels and a Crowbar, IMU and Red Turtle String Snappers will take the stage over the two-day event.

“We’re in a rural area, people just aren’t exposed to a lot of artists like we have for the festival,” Shine said.

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Student Poll

WVU, what time are you planning to start tailgating this Saturday?

The first football game of the season is fast upon us. This Saturday, the West Virginia Mountaineers will take on Georgia Southern at Milan Puskar Stadium.

As is tradition, students and alumni will turn out early to tailgate before the game.

Yesterday, 100 students in the Mountainlair were asked when they planned to start tailgating this weekend.

The most frequent response out of those polled was “not tailgating at all.”

Students who said they weren’t tailgating gave many reasons for doing so. Some had work. A few of the people polled were in the marching band, this obviously precludes them from participating in pregame activities as they will be preparing for their part in the game.

A few students said they were unable to tailgate due to being out of town. Of this group, two had weddings to attend. The others were going home to spend the long

weekend with their family.

Of the students polled who were planning on tailgating, the most popular time to start was 12 p.m. with 20 percent of the responses.

Thirteen percent of students polled were starting at 11 a.m. This was the second most popular time.

One early-riser planned on starting to tailgate at 6 a.m., making him the earliest tailgater of the students polled.

The latest start to tailgating is at 5 p.m. Two students polled gave this response.

Most students polled plan on starting their tailgate mid-morning to early afternoon. Almost 50 percent of the students polled plan on starting sometime between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m.

One thing is clear, the majority of the student body is excited for this week’s game. No matter what time they plan on starting, a lot of students are planning on tailgating.

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6 a.m.

1%

7 a.m.

3% 8 a.m.

5%

9 a.m.

1% 10 a.m.

7%

Not Tailgating 28%

11 a.m.

13%

5 p.m.

2% 3 p.m.

4%

2 p.m.

7%

12 p.m.

20% 1 p.m.

9%

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Making headway with construction As most students and residents of Morgantown have become acutely aware, University Avenue has been closed due to construction since early summer. The project was slated to end a day before move-in weekend, but unforeseen circumstances prevented the job from being finished on time. The date for the road’s reopening was moved to mid-September soon before students began returning to Morgantown for the fall semester.

The delayed project may remind many of a similar instance in which external factors interfered with construction: University Place. Extreme weather during the winter of 201314 forced construction of the University-owned apartment building to a standstill, but when students returned to Morgantown last fall looking to move in, they were forced to relocate to other apartment complexes around the city until the building was complete halfway through the semester.

Though weather may be something construction companies can take into consideration when planning project schedules, extreme weather may be something West Virginia companies should further account for in the future.

The “polar vortex” of early 2014 and intense rainfall in July, though atypical and impossible to plan around, were serious uncontrollable factors causing both projects’ delays.

Lack of support from the Department of Highways also contributed to the construction not being completed on time. Though it may be easy to become frustrated at having to use Beechurst Avenue to circumvent the closure, this editorial board believes the construction was worth undertaking and will pay off in the long run.

Frequent drivers know how heavy trucks and constant use by maintenance crews created many potholes throughout the duration of UPlace’s construc-

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A portion of University Avenue has been closed since early July. tion. Patches intermittently laid down to fill the holes caused the road to become rough and uneven, and there were no markings to indicate lanes.

What’s more, the temporary patches couldn’t withstand the wear of the heavily-used road over time, which created even more bumps and holes.

Inconvenient though it may be, University Avenue post-construction will be more level and have better pedestrian access, which will likely benefit the shops located underneath UPlace by increasing foot traffic and decrease the number of potential accidents.

Drivers will no longer have to guesstimate lane divi-

sions and won’t suffer unex- repairs will hopefully make pected damage to their car our lives easier as the seas a result of new potholes mester goes on. on the road.

A short-term traffic disdaperspective@mail.wvu.edu ruption is much better than continuous repairs throughout the winter and into next spring on an already-damaged road. In a few weeks, University Avenue will reopen to all traffic, and the

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Daycare for unvaccinated children a “disease bomb” Kody Goff columnist @retrosyk

Vaccines are one of the most integral medical advancements humanity has ever achieved. Instead of having no protection from catching serious illnesses or dying from infection, we’ve been able to effectively prevent diseases from even occurring in the first place since the early 20th century. Not only does this ensure a better standard of living for the population of a vaccinated area, but it helps those with compromised immune systems live normal lives.

However, there are some who feel vaccines are unsafe.They have either fallen for the ridiculous claims that vaccines can cause debilitating mental and physical illnesses, or they’ve simply decided immunizing oneself and one’s children should be a personal choice uninfluenced by medical professionals and government regulations. One woman has even gone so far as to create a child care center based exclusively around unvaccinated children.

The idea for the No Vacc Child Care Centre was spawned by Juanita “Wanda” Halden on Australia’s east coast, which has become something of

identifying and purging the responsible measles virus before it wreaks any real havoc on their bodies. While it is very possible to survive measles (its mortality rate being somewhere around just 0.2 percent), the disease is known to cause lifelong complications like brain inflammation, which can cause catastrophic damage in still-developing human beings.

If and when this center is opened, it will become an infectious disease bomb poised to blow at the slightest provocation.

While it may not cause any outbreaks among the vaccinated population of Australia, any small disease could ravage the unvaccinated community where this center is being pushed. Gathering these children into an environment where they have high chances of contracting a large number of debilitating illnesses will inevitably lead to tragedy nymag.com and heartbreak. The absoProtestors are also concerned about the safety of vaccines in the United States, even though no scientific study has proved a link between vaccines and autism. lute worst thing about this situation, however, is it’s all a hotspot for “anti-vaxxers.” contagious, or both. unvaccinated children to are still less obvious than preventable with a simple The area is known for its It sounds like an even finger paint and play in the one would expect (for ex- vaccination. reputation of having one of worse idea when one re- dirt sounds like one of the ample, white spots formdaperspectives@mail.wvu.edu the lowest vaccination rates alizes these people would worst ideas ever imagined. ing inside the mouth). At be corralling children who Let’s say just one child this point, however, the in the developed world.

It should immediately be have not been immunized in the facility gets mea- child is already highly conobvious why this is a ter- into presumably a single sles. This particular dis- tagious. What defenses do rible idea. Diseases peo- building or shared space. ease shows only the most the other children at the No ple are typically vaccinated Everyone knows children benign of symptoms in the Vacc Child Care Centre have against, such as meningitis, have little regard for cleanli- first few days, often resem- against this disease?

Their young immune syswhooping cough and mea- ness or preventing bacterial bling a simple cold. Even sles, can be deadly, highly illness. Allowing exclusively after that period, symptoms tems are hardly capable of

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Becoming the ideal intern takes dedication and a willingness to learn Francine Fluetsch uc santa cruz

What do you think of when you imagine an ideal intern?

Maybe you think of a person who has a strong passion for the field and who is okay with investing immense amounts of time into the company without getting paid. Maybe you think of a straight-A student who wishes to beef up their resume and get ready for the real world. Maybe you think of someone who will come to work every day with a notebook in hand, eager and ready to learn from management and other employees.

Whatever you picture, there are lots of ways to embody the “ideal” intern.

All of the creative writing classes at University of California, Santa Cruz require students to attend a weekly seminar called Living Writers, a wonderful program where writers come and read to us from their works as well as tell us how they got published and about

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Employers look for motivation over previous experience in internships. their schooling and experience. They also stay to answer any other questions that we might have for them.

The hosts for the program are two of the four creative writing interns, who are selected by the professors of creative writing.

I asked Karen Yamashita, a co-director of the Living Writers Series, what exactly would sum up the “ideal intern” in her mind.

“It goes without saying that they can write and read intelligently,” Yamashita said.

“However, beyond this, I think we look for people who are personable and communicative, have poise in interacting with others, even if the others might be difficult. We invite visiting authors to campus, and while they are all very good people, they can sometimes have their particular needs and requirements. So our interns have to have social skills for working with, being respectful and supporting, others.”

It would take a lot of guts to be one of the creative

writing interns. They have to speak in front of a room full of people, which definitely can be daunting and would indeed require communication skills. Interacting with the authors would be an honor, but would also be a challenge in itself since they would always have to keep their composure.

“We also want interns to be very organized, efficient, and extremely responsible,” Yamashita continued. “We need to trust that a scheduled event or job will happen and happen on time.”

“We also want self-starters, those who can see a problem or situation and pitch in without asking,” she said. “Finally, we hope for creative minds, thinking about what we do in new ways and contributing with new ideas and possibilities.”

The interns always send UC Santa Cruz creative writing students emails packed with helpful major information as well as writing opportunities. They also send out newsletters and hold a writing society where students can bring their work to be edited and so much more.

It makes sense they would

have to be well rounded in all the areas Dr. Yamashita highlighted, for the benefit of the program and other students. It sounds like a lot of pressure, but if the passion is there, it would definitely be rewarding.

Gilbert Fluetsch, account manager at ZebraSci, said they usually have one or two interns working for them at a time.

“Most of the time, the interns we get have very minimal real life experience,” Fluetsch said. “We are a company focusing on research and development, so the intern can participate actively in new and exciting stuff related to optics or physics and support that with the textbook knowledge they have learned in the classroom.

“Since they have to design things, knowing Solidworks, a 3D CAD design software, is definitely a plus,” he said.

Interning is a great way to apply what you have been learning in class and see if it is actually what you thought it would be. As an intern, your company will know you haven’t really had life experience, but that’s okay.

As long as you show you are

willing to apply yourself, you’ll learn along the way.

“I guess the most important aspects for an intern are that he or she is willing to convert the textbook knowledge learned at school into real life situations,” Fluetsch said. “An intern can learn without being exposed to deadline pressures most of the time, and interns cannot be fired if they make a mistake. An intern should be like a sponge, taking everything he or she can learn during the time they are in a real world setting.”

Show your eagerness to learn, ask questions and show your employer you are valuing your time as well as theirs. This is your real life shot before “real” real life.

Show them what it means to you, and the sky is the limit.

In summary, if you show you are hardworking, will put in the effort, can time manage, be a problem solver and show your willingness to learn, you are on the right track to becoming the ideal intern.

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MTV VMAs criticized for glorifying marijuana NEW YORK (AP)— An organization that ran anticigarette smoking ads during the Video Music Awards has complained to MTV’s parent company about the program’s multiple references to marijuana and said it sent the wrong message to young viewers.

Show host Miley Cyrus was responsible for most of them. She even came backstage with a lit joint after the show and passed it around to photographers.

“It is entirely understandable for viewers to be confused, after hearing so much about marijuana during the VMA broadcast, to see a powerful advertisement about the dangers of tobacco,” said Eric Asche, chief marketing officer of the Truth Initiative, which sponsored two anticigarette ads.

Asche said his group was “extremely disappointed” and expressed that feeling to Viacom.

An MTV spokesman said the network declined to comment.

The VMAs are MTV’s biggest event of the year and the show was seen Sunday by nearly 10 mil-

lion people across several of Viacom’s networks.

Cyrus sang a song, “Dooo It!” that included the lyrics, “loving what you sing, and loving smoking weed.” She ate supposed pot brownies with Snoop Dogg in one skit, and lit up with a group of friends in another. She held up a selfie stick and encouraged the group of people behind her, “Everyone say marijuana!”

Pot is popular among MTV’s target audience.

College students are smoking marijuana at a higher rate than at any time in the last 35 years, surpassing cigarette smoking, according to a University of Michigan study released this week. A Pew Research Center poll from this spring found that 53 percent of American support legalizing pot, a percentage that rises to 68 percent among people born between 1981 and 1997.

The message sent by celebrities about marijuana on the VMAs is every bit as persuasive as the show’s commercials, said Tim Winter, president of the Parents Television Council.

“What they’re basi-

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Miley Cyrus passes a blunt to photogrpahers at a VMA press conference. cally doing is telling everyone, especially kids but all viewers, that marijuana use is nothing to eschew,” Winter said.

Plenty of successful people smoke pot, and have the financial cushion to handle it if things go wrong, said Kevin Sabet, head of the anti-drug group Smart Approaches

to Marijuana. Not everyone in MTV’s audience has the same luxury.

“It’s really a bad message to young people that marijuana is harmless,” Sabet said, “especially at a time when the marijuana kids are using is 5 to 10 times as strong as the marijuana their parents used.”

Asche’s Truth Initiative has been operating since 2000 to target young people about the dangers in cigarette smoking. Noticing that tobacco products like hookah and flavored cigars are on the rise, it produced a special commercial targeting those areas.

Backstage as she offered

a hit to photographers, the 22-year-old Cyrus noted that she’d been smoking for a while.

“Because you’re all my friends, and my song is kinda, sorta about the love of marijuana and the love of humankind, I brought a little joint if anyone would like any,” she said.

“Anyone?”

ABC Family gets top marks for LGBT inclusiveness NEW YORK (AP)— The television network that gets the most praise from an advocacy group that monitors content featuring gays, lesbians and transgender people has "family" in its name and targets an audience of teenage girls and young women.

GLAAD said in a report issued Thursday that 74 percent of the programming hours on ABC Family included at least one LGBT character - the highest percentage any network has recorded since the group began issuing content reports in 2007. GL AAD studied the networks for a oneyear period that ended May 31.

"We feel it is our responsibility to our viewers to reflect the world that they live in and it's a diverse world," said Karey Burke, executive vice president of programming at the Disney-owned network.

ABC Family's numbers were boosted by the drama "Pretty Little Liars," where one of the lead characters Emily Fields is a lesbian.

"The Fosters" follows the story of a lesbian couple.

"Chasing Life" featured a bisexual woman and a gay man, although the latter character died of cancer. "Young & Hungry" and "Mystery Girls" both featured gay men, and there were a number of gays and lesbians in the supporting cast of "Switched at Birth."

Network viewers are

also anticipating the January debut of "Shadow Hunters," a show based on the book series "The Mortal Instrument" that prominently features a gay couple.

Three-quarters of ABC Family's typical audience is female, with a median age of 29, according to the Nielsen company.

The network is likely to be more inclusive partly because it seeks a younger audience, an age group that is more accepting of gays and lesbians, said Matt Kane, GL AAD programming director.

S eamlessly including these characters in the stories sends a strong message of acceptance that is likely to help young people dealing with their own identity issues, he said.

"I hope that it is something that other networks are taking notice of," Kane said.

GLAAD has consulted with ABC Family on its programming, although Kane wouldn't divulge the group's specific role.

The network and its actors have helped GLAAD with some of its activities, including an annual "Spirit Day" that encourages people to wear purple for a day.

Burke said the status as GLAAD's top-rated network "makes us deeply proud.

"We were hugging each other in the halls here," she said. "It's an honor to

be recognized."

GLAAD's grade did not reflect "Becoming Us," a nonfiction series about two transgender people in an Illinois community that aired on ABC Family this summer.

That series, which averaged 452,000 viewers per episode, was a ratings disappointment for ABC Family and it has not been decided whether it will come back for another season. Executives aren't sure why it didn't do well, whether the subject matter made viewers feel uncomfortable or whether the attention paid to Caitlyn Jenner's ‘Pretty Little Liars’ on ABC features a lesbian character.

E! docuseries "I Am Cait" drowned "Becoming Us" out.

"We hope it's not a reflection of the subject matter," Burke said.

Despite the inclusive hours, GLAAD said one story line on "Pretty Little Liars" was a disappointment. The series had a mentally ill transgender woman who, in the season finale, attempted to murder both her family and the main cast of the show. GLAAD said it was "the latest in a long series of transgender women portrayed as psychotic killers in mainstream media."

Part of acceptance for LGBT characters in entertainment is having them portray villains as well as heroes, Burke said.

"We don't feel the show has anything to apologize ‘Switched at Birth’ has a number of gay characters in its cast. for," she said.

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Kip Moore sponsors skate park OITNB fits multiple Emmy categories NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Country singer Kip Moore’s style is more surfboards and skateboards than cowboy boots, so when he wanted to help children from low-income areas, he found inspiration in his own passions.

Last month in Annapolis, Maryland, Moore opened the first of four skate parks he is helping to fund with the Comeback Kid Skatepark Project, an initiative of his donor-advised charitable fund, Kip’s Kids Fund.

Another park opened in San Marcos, Texas, and two more will be opened in Nashville, Tennessee, and Boston.

Moore, along with the city of Annapolis and local community donors, helped refurbish a skate park that had fallen into disrepair by resurfacing the pavement and adding ramps, rails, corner pockets and flip banks.

Moore said he wanted to give kids a safe place to practice and create bonds with other skaters.

“Skating is such a brotherhood community,” the 35-year-old singer-songwriter said in an interview with The Associated Press during his first look at the new park in Annapolis. “In a lot of these areas, these kids are dealing with all kinds of

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Kip Moore sponsors the construction of a skate park in Annapolis, Maryland. different problems. This is a Kid” on his new album, “Wild safe place for them to go. And wwOnes,” which debuted at it’s a place where they can be No. 4 on the Billboard 200 turned on to a new sport that chart last month.

“I see it hopefully being might give them some hope, something to be proud of. a nationwide thing,” Moore I am in a position now to said of his charitable fund. make some things happen “Hopefully we can expand and that’s what I want to do this thing and turn it into a million different projects, not in these communities.”

Moore named the project just skating, but all kinds of after the song “Comeback things in the inner cities.”

NEW YORK (AP)—The creator of "Orange Is the New Black" says though the Emmys switched the hit show from the comedy category to drama, she's not a fan of people boxing the series into a single genre.

"The whole label thing is frustrating - just people's needs to define us.

OK, you know, whatever you want to call us, fine," Jenji Kohan said in an interview Wednesday. "Are we a comedy? Are we a drama? ...Are we doing good work or not? Do you like us or not? As you can hear, I have issues with the whole, you know, beauty contest thing. It's fraud."

The show, in its third season on Netflix, is nominated for outstanding drama series at the 67th Primetime Emmy Awards, which airs on Fox at 8 p.m.

EDT on Sept. 20, though last year it competed for outstanding comedy series.

The Television Academy announced this year that shows with episodes of 30 minutes or less are now designated a comedy, while those over a halfhour are dramas. Netflix's

petition to keep the hourlong `OITNB' in the comedy category was denied, according to a report by Variety. Also nominated in the drama category are AMC's "Better Call Saul," PBS' "Downton Abbey," HBO's "Game of Thrones," Showtime's "Homeland," and AMC's "Mad Men." "(To say), `You're in this box and you're in that box' - we've always been hard to define; we're kind of a hybrid, and people feel this need to call us something, and I don't feel the same need to say what we are. So, that's on them," Kohan said.

This year, "OITNB" earned a Golden Globe nomination for best television series, musical or comedy and won outstanding performance by an ensemble in a comedy series at the Screen Actors Guild Awards.

"We're funny when we feel we need to be funny and we're dramatic when we feel we need to be dramatic `cause hopefully we're reflecting life.

And life is never just a drama, just a comedy," Kohan said. "And I don't know why you have to

say it's one thing or the other."

At the Emmys "OITNB" is also nominated for outstanding casting for a drama series, outstanding supporting actress in a drama series for Emmy winner Uzo Aduba and outstanding guest actor in a drama series for Pablo Schreiber.

Kohan, who also created the Showtime series "Weeds," said she has a complex when it comes to awards shows.

"It's complicated because ... I can't base my self-worth or the show's self-worth on how other people award us or nominate us or feel about us because when we don't win we can't say, `Oh, then we weren't good,' or when we do win, `We were better' - because I'm just proud of the work we do," she said. "It's really nice to have outside validation, but ultimately it's sort of a dog and pony tale, and it can be subjective. And if I can't be all in when we lose, I can't be all in when we win either, so I have to be careful with that, just to protect myself."

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Friday September 4, 2015

Mountaineers begin inaugural season in New York

BY NEEL MADhavan SPORTS CORRESPONDENT @DAILYATHENAEUM

The West Virginia University men’s golf team is finally ready to tee off their first competitive season in almost 30 years.

On Sept. 6, the Mountaineers will travel to Verona, New York to participate in the Tiger Turning Stone Invitational.

Turning Stone Resort has three championshipcaliber golf courses that

have hosted a number of PGA Tour events in recent years. The Turning Stone courses are known to be long courses that benefit the big hitters, ranging anywhere from 7,1007,315 yards.

Due to the length and style, it plays similar to a US Open style golf course, where you will expect many players to shoot scores around even-par.

The Turning Stone Invitational is a two-day event hosted by the University

of Missouri. A number of other schools are scheduled to participate, including Villanova, Cleveland State, Boston College, Xavier, and a few others.

The host Tigers are also the defending champions of the tournament, with Cleveland State and Villanova also posting strong showings last year.

The players participating will play 56 holes over the two day period. Representing the Mountaineers at this event are Tae Wan

Lee as an individual competitor, Jon Ransone at the 5 position, Avery Schneider at the 4 position, Chris Williams at the 3 position and Alan Cooke at the 2 position. Freshman Max Sear will lead the team from the No. 1 position after a strong performance in the team’s qualifying practice rounds.

First-year head coach Sean Covich has utilized his team’s access to a number of area golf courses.

The team practices and

holds qualifying at different courses, depending on the style and layout of the course they’re playing in the upcoming event.

“Turning Stone is more like Stonewall, and less like the Pines or Lakeview.

Last week, we began practicing on courses similar to Turning Stone Resort,” Covich said. “We have access to seven courses. They are all different. Based on what we will see at the tournaments, we will play different courses.”

Covich is excited to finally see how his players respond in a competitive atmosphere.

“I spent a whole year not competing,” he said. “I am excited. I think the guys are the same.”

The Mountaineers have been preparing for this since the summer of 2014 when Covich was hired, and the moment is finally at hand. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

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West Virginia heads to Michigan for matchups with Big Ten opponents

BY CHRIS JACKSON SPORTS CORRESPONDENT @DAILYATHENAEUM

A 6-0 beating over the West Coast Conference’s top team on Sunday has the West Virginia University men’s soccer team riding high into a tough weekend series in the state of Michigan.

“It gives the guys some confidence because they played well and hopefully they can build off of it,” said head coach Marlon LeBlanc.

T h e Mo u n t a i n e e r s travel to Big Ten foe Michigan on Friday and follow up with a trip to Michigan State on Monday, the final contest coming against the No. 22 ranked Spartans in a highly-anticipated nonconference affair.

Michigan is coming off a 6-9-3 campaign and has not reached NCAA Tournament since 2012, but the team is aware of the difficulty of playing a Big Ten opponent.

“I spent the better part of my early coaching career in the Big Ten, so I know what these teams are like and I know these coaches very well,” LeBlanc said.

“They’re both going to be very well-coached teams: organized, disciplined, physical and athletic. I think they match up with us in terms of our athleticism and our speed.”

With a tough test in Ann Arbor against Michigan, the commanding offensive performance West Virginia showed against San Francisco will pay dividends as they face sophomore goalkeeper Evan Louro, who recorded a career-high seven saves in a 1-0 loss to

No. 3 Creighton.

Louro’s efforts were a huge step up from a lessthan-impressive 2014 season that ended up with the Wolverines finishing among the Big Ten’s lower tier in goals allowed.

However, WVU isn’t concerned with Louro’s superb outing and expects similar offensive displays the rest of this season, especially from sophomore midfielder Joey Piatczyc.

“I think this is who we are,” Piatczyc said. “I think the Navy game was a bit of a fluke for us. We’re a lot better than that, and I think that 6-0 showing was who we are.”

Piatczyc dazzled all afternoon against USF, recording a school-record four assists and earning himself a spot on Top Drawer Soccer’s Team of the Week.

“That’s Joey’s expectation,” LeBlanc said. “He’s expected to play like that.

He’s expected to get three or four assists. As much as I talk about Joey being such a fantastic player, that’s his job. His job is to get goals and assists for us and be a good player. I want Joey to continue along that same path, and he knows that’s what this program needs him to do.”

Michigan enters Friday’s contest coming off an impressive 1-0 loss to No. 3 Creighton, drawing 24 fouls in the process.

Colin McAtee returns for the Wolverines as one of the top players in the Big Ten, after finishing fifth in the conference in points (18) and fourth in goals (8) last season.

He’s the fourth player in program history to in-

Joey Piatczyc runs to the back corner of the field in last weekend’s game against San Francisco. crease his season goal total “We’re not really wor- iel Diaz will start his third by seven, making the jump ried about them, we’re straight game in goal and from one score in 2013 to worried about us,” Piatc- believes redshirt freshzyc said. “We’re just going man Alec Boerner is just eight in 2014.

Despite Michigan’s re- to find the little stuff that as qualified to get the cent efforts, the Mountain- we can work on from San nod. eers are solely focused on Fran, and we’re going to “Danny made two good making the progress nec- pick up from there.” saves in the first game and essary to notch their secLeBlanc has yet to de- really had nothing to do ond straight victory. termine whether Dan- in the second game,” LeB-

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lanc said. “I don’t necessarily think we’ve got one guy who’s better than the other. We’ve got two guys that are capable of being number ones, and we’ll approach every game as such.” dasports@mail.wvu.edu

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Senior middle blocker Caleah Wells goes up at the net for a spike during last season’s game against Oklahoma.

West Virginia travels to Indianapolis for tournament at IUPUI by nicole curtin sports editor @nicoleC_WVU

This weekend, the West Virginia University volleyball team returns to the court at the Hampton Inn Invitational tournament.

Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis is hosting the event.

First up the Mountaineers face the Eastern Michigan Eagles today.

This is Eagles’ first season with head coach Kimi Olson, who started this year at EMU following her position as assistant coach at

College of Charleston. The Eagles are 2-1 on the season so far, led by outside hitter Stacey Perinar who has 49 kills so far this year.

Senior libero Corynne Smith just received conference honors this week, and was named MAC Defensive Player of the Week.

The matchup against EMU is the first time the two teams will compete against each other. West Virginia head coach Reed Sunahara said the Hampton Inn Invitational is a good experience for this team’s second action of

the season.

“We have three matches against three very good teams,” Sunahara said in an interview with WVUsports.com. “We have the opportunity to build upon a few things from last weekend. We’re just looking to get better each and every day.”

Tomorrow, the Mountaineers continue play against the Charlotte 49ers, which also are coming in 2-1 so far. Sarah McDonald is leading the team with 29 kills so far this season, averaging 3.22 per set. Kaylyn Torain is also

a huge performer at the net for the 49ers; she’s put down 28 kills this year and averages 3.11 per set.

Charlotte’s defensive specialist Shelby Green is helping keep the offense on pace from the back row.

She has accumulated 40 digs this season, grabbing 4.44 per set. Saturday’s game against Charlotte is also the first meeting with the Mountaineers.

Host IUPUI will face West Virginia for the second time ever on Saturday evening. Last season, the Mountaineers played the Jaguars at the Gold and

Blue Player’s Challenge, West Virginia won 3-0. IUPUI is 2-2 so far this season after losing to No. 15 Kentucky and Michigan last weekend, both games in shutout fashion.

Junior outside hitter Kaitlyn Hickey is leading the Jaguars; she averages five kills per set totaling 65 thus far in 2015. Defensive specialist Courtney Halter is giving her efforts in the backcourt as well, tallying 54 digs this season.

The Mountaineers are coming into the tournament 1-2 on the season after losing their final

two matches in last weekend’s invitational at Michigan. Sophomore Morgan Montgomery is leading the team with 3.18 kills per set, she scored 35 kills in the tournament. Close behind her is Caleah Wells with 29 on the season and Mia Swanegan with 23.

The Hampton Inn Invite tips off tonight with the first match against EMU at 4:30 p.m., and continues tomorrow against Charlotte at 10 a.m., wrapping up at 6:30 p.m. against IUPUI. ncurtin@mail.wvu.edu

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out more of what he or she is think- listen carefully. A little self-discipline ing. Tonight: Try to bypass a friend’s will go a long way. Tonight: Let the party begin. rigidity.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHH You could end an ongoing argument if you are willing to open up, talk and change the pace. Know when to back off in a conversation -- you can do only so much. Realize that you cannot force the other party to talk or change. Tonight: Go for what you want.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHH Try not to get so involved with a problem that isn’t really yours. You might see a solution, but it will be better for the other parties to find one on their own. A partner could share a fear that has been scaring him or her.

Stay on top of what you want. Tonight: All smiles.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHHH You might want to slow down a bit in order to get a better sense of what seems to be going. Recognize where you could be vested in a certain outcome, and let

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Jovon Durante could be next great playmaker for WVU passing game

BY CHRIS JACKSON SPORTS CORRESPONDENT @DAILYATHENAEUM

West Virginia cornerback Daryl Worley celebrates with Mountaineer fans after last year’s win over Maryland.

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WVU opens season against capable GSU defense

BY DAVID STATMAN

ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR @DJSTATMAN77

A lot has been said over the past few weeks about how the West Virginia defense will fare in their attempt to shut down Georgia Southern’s triple option attack on Saturday.

But you can’t win a football game without putting some points on the board, and West Virginia’s rebuilt offense needs to live up to their end of the bargain if the Mountaineers are going to avoid an upset in Morgantown.

Georgia Southern’s defense is laden with experience, and fifth-year defensive coordinator Jack Curtis has put together a unit that has earned praise from Mountaineer coaches in the lead-up to the game.

“They have a lot coming back,” said Mountaineer head coach Dana Holgorsen. “They have good continuity. They understand what to do. They don’t have busts. They have six or seven returning starters that have played a lot. They are a very good outfit.”

Although Holgorsen’s West Virginia squads are best known for the “air

raid” offense, the inexperience and youth of his wide receiver corps, coupled with the depth in his backfield, will likely make the run game more of a focus than it has been in recent years.

And, as it happens, gaining yards on the ground has been the biggest challenge for teams going up against Georgia Southern.

The Eagles finished 49th in Division I against the run last season, although that result was inflated by a pair of dreadful performances against, ironically, fellow triple option teams Georgia Tech and Navy.

Against more conventional rushing attacks, Georgia Southern allowed only 3.3 yards per rush and 110.2 yards per game, which would have been good for 11th-best in Division I. Georgia Southern’s defensive front is also laden with juniors and seniors, including centerpiece nose tackle Jay Ellison, defensive end Bernard Dawson and linebackers Antwione Williams and Deshawntee Gallon.

If there’s anywhere West Virginia should be able to take advantage of Georgia Southern, it’s through the air. Although the Moun-

taineers have lost their biggest weapons and their offensive line has some question marks, Georgia Southern lacks any major pass-rushing threats, and they’ll be forced to roll out some inexperienced cornerbacks.

While the Eagles return a strong pair of senior safeties in Antonio Glover and Matt Dobson, the rest of the Georgia Southern defensive backfield is comprised of either bit-players from last season, junior college transfers or freshmen – and pass defense was already not one of Georgia Southern’s strengths.

But scoring on Georgia Southern will still be a challenge, even through the air, due to their allaround experience and varied defensive scheme.

“They play zone, they’ll press, they’ll blitz and play cover 3 behind, zone pressure,” said Mountaineer wide receivers’ coach Lonnie Galloway. “They just have a good mix of everything.”

“They’ll play man coverage, they’ll play cover four with everybody off, they’ll play cover three with everybody off. They have a good scheme, and they’ve all played together. It’s go-

ing to be interesting to see.

I know they’ll be ready, but we’ll be ready also.”

Most of the attention given to Georgia Southern surrounds their triple option offense, but the pressure will be on West Virginia quarterback Skyler Howard to produce in his first-ever season opening start.

Although Georgia Southern will field some inexperienced corners, West Virginia only boasts two receivers who have gotten major Division I playing time in senior Jordan Thompson and junior Daikiel Shorts, nullifying any experience advantage the Mountaineers would have. Meanwhile, the West Virginia running attack will have its hands full with an experienced defensive front that has made it tough to gain yards on the ground.

You would think that a power conference team would inherently have a talent advantage over a team from the Sun Belt, but Georgia Southern has fared well against bigname opposition before.

This is a squad that can’t be underestimated. djstatman@mail.wvu.edu

After the losses of Kevin White and Mario Alford to the NFL, head coach Dana Holgorsen’s next man in line has the makings to make a bigger name for himself.

True freshman Jovon Durante has quickly emerged into the spotlight.

A product of Florida’s Miramar High School, he arrived later in fall camp due to waiting on the NCAA’s clearance.

But the shorter period to acclimate to the Division I level didn’t faze Durante. He has developed into a starter at the outside receiver spot, beating out the experienced Daikiel Shorts for the job.

“I don’t know if we’ve ever started a true freshman at wideout,” Holgorsen said in Tuesday’s press conference. “We’ve started plenty of true freshman around here.

I don’t remember any at wide receiver.”

Tag g i ng a l o ng s i d e Shelton Gibson will create one of the quickest receiver combos in the Big 12, and although it isn’t as proven as the WhiteAlford duo, it likely still bodes problems for many opposing defensive backfields.

Durante will be used in a variety of ways, including special teams as Holgorsen hopes to plug him in and showcase his versatile capabilities to improve a return game that struggled fielding punts in 2014.

“He does have outstanding speed, but his route-running ability, his hand-eye coordination, his ball skills are really good,” Holgorsen said.

“He’s a guy that we can use in the return game as well because his ball skills are good and because he’s fast. The whole thing with him is going to be if he can hold up.”

At six-foot, 165 lb., Durante’s explosive-

ness caught the coaching staff ’s eye right away.

His ability to zip downfield past defenders is unlike that of many other freshmen in the nation.

However, the amount of playing time Durante receives in the home opener might not be extraordinary. Six different receivers will be ensured snaps, but Holgorsen didn’t state that Durante has the starting spot locked.

“We don’t have any returning starters at that position. Somebody has got to get out there and do it,” Holgorsen said. “I named him and Shelton starters, but I’ll be curious to see what the total snaps are at the end of the game. There could be two other people at that position that end up playing more snaps than him.”

If Durante shines in his first appearances, he’ll likely earn himself more snaps on the field.

But he first has to establish himself as a reliable target for junior quarterback Skyler Howard, and he’ll continue to be evaluated by the coaching staff.

“We’ll just look at them, see how they’re doing, what their temperament is, what kind of success they’re having, the confidence they have and either put them back out there or put somebody else in,” Holgorsen said.

Whether or not Durante becomes the next star out of Miramar remains to be seen. Miramar has produced the likes of former Mountaineer greats Geno Smith and Stedman Bailey, and many expect him to be just another flashy and dominant Holgorsenbred receiver.

“A bunch of people are making a big deal about him being named the starter, and I’m proud of him,” Holgorsen said.

“He’s made some pretty good plays, and he has bundles of potential.” dasports@mail.wvu.edu

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Mountaineers hope that offensive line settles in

BY DJ DESKINS

SPORTS WRITER @DAILYATHENAEUM

The offensive line has always been a source of pride for the West Virginia football program.

In the last decade, the Mountaineers have produced NFL offensive lineman Don Barclay, Joe Madsen, Mark Glowinski and Quinton Spain. The latter finished their campaigns at WVU just last year.

As two of the top linemen in the Big 12, replacing Glowinski and Spain has been a priority for the Mountaineer coaching staff. However, they still find a majority of the line is experienced enough to protect new quarterback Skyler Howard and create holes for backs Wendell Smallwood and Rushel Shell.

In the team’s depth chart released for the Georgia Southern game on Saturday, it was announced that Adam Pankey, Tyler Orlosky and Marquis Lucas would start at left guard, center and right tackle. Each has started at least 13 games for the Mountaineers under head coach Dana Holgorsen and bring a familiarity to the front five for WVU. Redshirt freshman Yodny Cajuste was announced as the team’s starting left tackle for the season. Hailing from Miami, Florida, and Miramar High School, Cajuste brings good size at 6-foot-5, 295 lbs.

Cajuste is one of four players from Miramar on WVU’s

Mountaineer offensive line coach Ron Crook talks to his players on the sideline during a game last season against Texas. roster, including Tyrek Cole, just a week before kickoff. know we can rotate, don’t be Holgorsen said in Tues- surprised to see him as the Jovon Durante and Devonte Mathis. Miramar is the same day’s press conference that guard on the second series.” school that produced WVU Bosch earned a slight edge Offensive line coach Ron greats Geno Smith and Sted- because Matteo missed Crook said Bosch still has man Bailey and former WVU some reps after a shoulder a lot to learn about WVU’s linebacker and current de- injury that held him out of system, but he’s come a long way already. Crook anticifensive line coach Damon practice for a week. “(Bosch has) shown pates both Bosch and MatCogdell, who led Miramar to a 72-19 record as head toughness, he’s shown the teo to see significant playing coach. ability to be physical. He time throughout the season.

WVU was holding off on took advantage of (Matteo) Holgorsen said he has about announcing a starter at right not being able to practice for eight or nine guys who he guard because of tight com- about a week with a shoulder can rotate into the offensive petition between redshirt ju- injury,” Holgorsen said. “We line without slowing down nior Tony Matteo and Michi- know we’re going to need the team’s tempo. gan transfer Kyle Bosch, but more guards, so by (MatBackups listed on the Bosch was named the starter teo) emerging as a guy, we depth chart, like Grant Lin-

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gafelter, Stone Underwood and Matteo, give Holgorsen depth at a crucial position on the field.

“Underwood has had a great camp. Nobody wants to talk about him because Orlosky is so solid, but if (Underwood) had to go in as a backup center, it wouldn’t change what we do a bit,” Holgorsen said. “(Underwood) can also play guard, Matteo can play both guards, Pankey can bump out to tackle, Marcell Lazard has played much better, Lingafelter has played

guard and tackle, so we have depth.”

Holgorsen is realistic and understands he may not have the luxury of being able to rotate guys throughout the season without his offense feeling an impact.

WVU will face some incredibly talented defensive lines throughout the season, especially in the likes of AllAmerican Shawn Oakman and Baylor, so Holgorsen will look to place his top five guys on the line in big moments. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

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DANA HOLGORSEN QUOTE OF THE WEEK “I think at this point, it is all about getting out there and playing a game. We know we have a quality opponent coming to town, and they are as good as advertised.”

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West Virginia vs. Georgia Southern No. 6 Auburn vs. Louisville SMU vs. No. 4 Baylor No. 19 Oklahoma vs. Akron No. 11 Notre Dame vs. Texas Oklahoma State vs. Central Michigan No. 1 Ohio State vs. Virginia Tech No. 5 Michigan State vs. Western Michigan No. 3 Alabama vs. No. 20 Wisconsin No. 7 Oregon vs. Eastern Wasington LAST WEEK SEASON RECORD

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Georgia Southern boasts dangerous playmakers

BY ROGER TURNER

SPORTS CORRESPONDENT @DAILYATHENAEUM

Saturday night’s season-opening contest versus Georgia Southern may look like a sure win for the Mountaineers at first glance, but the reigning Sun Belt Conference champions can very well give West Virginia a run for its money.

2014 marked the beginning of a new era for the Georgia Southern Eagles as they took the field for the first time as an FBS program. Speculation about whether the Eagles would leave the FCS division loomed for a few years, but last season marked GSU’s debut in Division I.

In their inaugural season, Georgia Southern finished the regular season with an impressive 9-3 record, going undefeated (8-0) in the Sun Belt Conference. Although competition in the Sun Belt doesn’t match up on paper to the quality talent of the Big 12 or any of the other Power Five conferences, 2014 no doubt was a dream season for the Eagles and by no means a fluke.

Last year GSU opened at NC State and left CarterFinley Stadium defeated by only one point. The Eagles nearly upset Georgia Tech two weeks later, and don’t be surprised to see a focused, high-energy Georgia Southern team enter Milan Puskar Stadium on Saturday night when they

take on a Mountaineer team with question marks on the offensive side of the ball.

“We know we’ve got a quality opponent coming to town. They’re as good as advertised,” said head coach Dana Holgorsen in a press conference on Tuesday.

The talented Georgia Southern backfield on display Saturday night is definitely worth the price of admission. Junior running back Matt Breida poses the biggest threat, coming off a stellar 2014 performance in which he ran for 1,500 yards, averaging almost nine yards a carry.

Junior Favian Upshaw will lead the Eagles’ unique triple option at-

tack at quarterback and sophomore L.A. Ramsby will look to make an impact in the backfield as well.

Although the Eagles have the capability to wear the Mountaineer defense down with a crucial ground and pound game, anticipate the Eagles to air it out too.

Defensively, GSU is solid, but a weakness definitely lies in the Eagles’ secondary. Last year GSU gave up 250-plus yards through the air in seven games, but head coach Willie Fritz has looked to improve the less-than-stellar secondary with half a dozen talented three-star recruits signed this offseason.

However, 2015 will mark the fifth season for GSU de-

fensive coordinator Jack Curtis who will have seven returning starters on a defense that allowed only 19 rushing touchdowns in FBS play last season.

On both sides of the ball Georgia Southern plays good, disciplined football and should not be taken lightly by the Mountaineers.

“Everybody has to do their job and we have to play assignment football,” said West Virginia defensive coordinator Tony Gibson.

The task of containing the triple option is not easy, and especially complicated to defend when run from the shotgun, which Georgia Southern will be aligned in for most of the contest. Miscues

and streaky play, similar to the Mountaineer defenses of recent years, need to be kept minimal to maximize WVU’s chances of opening the season with a victory.

How e v e r, Mo rga n town has proven it is not an easy place to win. With this game being a 7:30 p.m. kickoff, the anticipation of a packed house full of the Mountaineer faithful and the overall excitement from players and coaches alike could have the greatest impact.

“Our players are ready for this Saturday. Coaching wise, we’re ready for this Saturday,” Holgorsen said.

“Everybody’s looking forward to it.” dasports@mail.wvu.edu

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Continued from page 1 West Virginia is returning 12 players on defense who started at least once last season, including Dravon Henry, Karl Joseph,

Nick Kwiatkoski, Noble Nwachukwu and Kyle Rose. There are several other returners who have starting experience as well like Terrell Chestnut, K.J. Dillon, Daryl Worley and Shaq Petteway.

All in all Gibson just wants his guys to keep their focus tomorrow.

“The corners have a job, the safeties have a job, the linebackers and d-line, everybody has to do their job, we have to play assignment football,” Gibson said. “It’s going to limit what we do from a pressure standpoint, you just have to be patient you cannot get bored with it, that’s what they want you to do.”

Offensively the Mountaineers are returning several starting players including Skyler Howard, wide receiver Jordan Thompson, running backs Wendell Smallwood and Rushel Shell and receiver Daikiel Shorts.

Thompson is the leading receiver of the five on the roster who’ve had playing time before. He’s been looking out for freshman Jovon Durante and giving him pep talks leading up to the opener.

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vous, but when you go out there you know what you’re capable of doing, run! You know you’re fast, run, once you get your first catch out of the way you’ll be good,’” Thompson said.

Speed is the name of the game for the Mountaineer offense, Thompson said even with the young, new players on the team, its something they expected coming in.

“That’s something we worked on in the off season and in camp was tempo, running fast paced, stuff like that,” he said. “The only problem with them was probably getting the plays and knowing you only have a quick second to know your route, but that comes with being in the film room, having a relationship with Skyler and studying your playbook. But they’re going to be fine, they definitely showed me, they’re more comfortable out there now.”

West Virginia is 86-31-4 overall in season openers, 94-20-6 in home openers and 4-0 in home openers under Coach Holgorsen. Tomorrow’s game kicks off at 7:35 p.m at Milan Puskar Stadium. ncurtin@mail.wvu.edu

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Following a definitive 5-0 win over Duquesne on Sunday, the No. 11 West Virginia Mountaineers (3-1-0) are confident in their abilities as a team.

With nearly every player on the team seeing action and seven players contributing to five goals, the team was functioning at a level unseen since they scored six goals against High Point University nearly three years ago.

Head coach Nikki IzzoBrown and her team are confident the momentum created from this win, along with a 1-0 decision over Maryland last Friday, will be crucial to beating a No. 4 Penn State (30-1) team Friday night at Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium.

“It was extremely important that everybody had the opportunity to build their

confidence leading in to the big game on Friday,” coach Izzo-Brown said.

The Nittany Lions were one of only two losses for the 2014 Mountaineers, who started the year 1-2 and went on to win 19 consecutive games, including a regular season and Big 12 Tournament conference championship.

With a win over Penn State, the Mountaineers will set themselves up to run the table and enter the NCAA tournament with just a single loss to No. 12 Virginia Tech last weekend.

A Big 12 matchup against No. 13 Texas Tech is the sole ranked team remaining on the Mountaineers’ schedule after facing Penn State.

Even with all this on the line, a win against the No. 4 Nittany Lions will be no easy task.

“Penn State is a great team, and everyone knows Penn State,” said Mountaineer for-

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West Virginia’s Amandine Pierre-Louis dribbles the ball against Duquesne. won Big 12 Defensive Player ward Nia Gordon.

“It’s good to bring up the of the Week honors for her tempo and have a good week hand in shutouts of Maryland of training, and just come off and Duquesne. this weekend with two wins Buchanan, the top-ranked so we can go out against Penn player in the country by TopState.”

DrawerSoccer.com, is the Much of the Mountain- leading force of one of the eers’ success through the top-ranked defensive units first four games can be attrib- in the country. uted to the leadership and deThe WVU defensive unit fensive fortitude of Kadeisha has recorded a shutout in all Buchanan. three wins this season. In two The junior defenseman games against Maryland and

Duquesne this past weekend, they allowed a combined two shots on goal compared to 24 by the Mountaineer offense.

Kailey Utley has led the offense with three goals and an assist on eight shots, as was expected from the lone senior on the Mountaineer attack.

Her performance earned her Big 12 Offensive Player of the Week honors this past week.

In addition to Utley’s performance, the emergence of freshman Nia Gordon has been key to the Mountaineers’ offensive success.

Gordon quickly adapted to her starting role on the offense with the game-winning goal in the season opener against Southern Indiana University Edwardsville, which earned her a Big 12 Rookie of the Week honor.

Her success didn’t stop there, and she netted the second goal against Duquesne and assisted Ashley Lawrence in the scoring of the Moun-

taineers’ fifth and final goal of the game.

“We’re proud of Nia, the way she’s come in and adapted and acclimated herself as a freshman. It’s tough being a freshman,” IzzoBrown said following Gordon’s second goal of her young career.

“We’re kind of putting her on a joystick at moments but she’s doing her job.”

The offense needs to carry momentum from Sunday’s win into Friday night to be able to defeat the No. 4 Nittany Lions.

Penn State will enter Morgantown with three wins in which they outscored opponents 10-5, and a 0-0 draw against No. 21 Duke.

Starting kick-off is scheduled for 7 p.m. tonight at Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium, where the Mountaineers have won 13 consecutive matches. dasports@mail.wvu.edu

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Kwiatkoski leads all reFor a team known for its turning Big 12 players high-flying, explosive of- in tackles with 71, and fense for such a long time, is primed to control the the fact that the West Vir- Mountaineers’ front seven ginia University football in 2015. team figures to be more of Both Kwiatkoski and Joa defensive-oriented team seph are on the preseason this season could be an un- list of candidates for the Big expected advantage.

12 Defensive Player of the “Without a doubt, it Year award. If Joseph has should be the best [de- another season like 2014, fense] that I’ve had poten- he appears to be a top cantially since I started coach- didate for the award. ing 20-some years ago,” Dillon was a key chess said head coach Dana Hol- piece in 2014 for WVU degorsen in an interview with fensive coordinator Tony ESPN.com.

Gibson, and will likely beThe Mountaineers’ come a more important stingy defense in 2014 cog in the Mountaineers’ came as a surprise to many defense this season. in the Big 12, but WVU held “I think having that exboth TCU and Baylor, the perience at linebacker and nation’s top-two offenses, safety is going to be key. We to season lows in points are talking about five selast season. The defense’s niors that are second-level flashes of brilliance last players,” Holgorsen said in season have led to high ex- an interview with WVUspectations for the Moun- ports.com. “If our front taineers on that side of the line guys can be tough and hold the gaps and allow ball in 2015.

In the past, the Moun- those five guys to run, see taineers have trotted out it and understand it, then lineups with limited ex- I have confidence in our perience. In 2015 WVU defense to be able to slow will send out a veteran de- them down.”

While the Mountainfense, something that can’t be quantified by numbers. eers lose a couple pieces The Mountaineer de- from the defense’s breakfense has 16 players with out campaign in 2014, they starting experience in the are getting redshirt senior Big 12, led by senior safety Jared Barber back. Barber, Karl Joseph, redshirt se- who was third on the team nior linebacker Nick Kwi- in tackles in 2013, suffered atkoski and senior safety a season-ending injury K.J. Dillon. against Texas his junior Joseph was the Moun- season.

S a t u rd ay , Georgia taineers’ most important player in the secondary last Southern poses a huge season, and even racked threat on the ground, as up 18 tackles in the season they led the nation in rushing in 2014. The Mountainopener against Alabama.

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