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Mickey F calling for Ollie to be fired

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He's an old man...and set in his ways..change scares people like him...complacency seems to be justifiable in his small world.......

I understnd not agreeing with change or even resisting it, but at this point all his jornalism amounts to be is a smear campaign which in the long run could hurt us in AD and coaching searches in the future of this university.

He had the chance to show his true WVU love last year when we broke 4 mil in the black since the year before he was whining about how far in the red we were.....but not a peep about it.

Mickey acts like every move made these days is the end of the university....sound familiar?
 

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Agreed, but Craig had to fight the AD for any improvements to the wrestling program. Although wrestling is not viewed as important at WVU, it makes you wonder if there could have been improvements to the program if the AD would have supported it. Craig seemed to know how to fly under the radar but showed up on somebody's screen.

Mickey is not reporting news, he is expressing opinions. He'd be better off writing on a blog site, if the newspaper has one and let a guy who wants to report the news write for the paper.
Agreed on both accounts mad. Hell, Eddie didn't ant to put money into ANY program.

Mick needs to stop pretending he's a journalist of any sort.
 

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Agreed on both accounts mad. Hell, Eddie didn't ant to put money into ANY program.

Mick needs to stop pretending he's a journalist of any sort.


Pastilong didn't have the fire to go out and find ways to drive revenue...even when he was handed good ideas on a silver plate..example Rich Rodriguez made the suggestion there was more money to be made thru the Wv landing page...Pastilong took that as an annoyance...Luck took it and made an additional 15 million a year out of it...without much effort...
 

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Guys, sports columns ARE opinion pieces, they are NOT news articles, get over it. Hell, he probably loves it when he gets talked about on these boards, everyone runs to read the column, and his readership is up, which is all his bosses care about. I am sure if he was singing praises to Holgorsen and Luck, you guys would say he was a genius. You have your opinion and he has his, both have valid points, and both have invalid points.
 

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After all these years and you barely know me :bawling:

It is not the differing opinion at all...most sportswriter snack up their opinion with some sort of fact...Mickey just writes a sentence saying his opinion and then never backs up why he has that opinion and why the differing opinion is wrong. First part of his writing is a perfect example, goes on and on about how great this coach was, but never really says why Luck was wrong in firing him.

We all have different opinions obviously...but one of the reasons I like this board is that most on here back up their opinion factual information....most of the time! :suds:
 

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Guys, sports columns ARE opinion pieces, they are NOT news articles, get over it. Hell, he probably loves it when he gets talked about on these boards, everyone runs to read the column, and his readership is up, which is all his bosses care about. I am sure if he was singing praises to Holgorsen and Luck, you guys would say he was a genius. You have your opinion and he has his, both have valid points, and both have invalid points.


Luck is a genius. Holgersen, I wouldn't say that, not at this point in his career. He has a lot to prove. Mickey is just an idiot that has lost his mind.
 

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Luck is a genius. Holgersen, I wouldn't say that, not at this point in his career. He has a lot to prove. Mickey is just an idiot that has lost his mind.

Mickey is selling papers, like what he says or not, people read his column, look at the people on here who hate him, yet read every word he writes.
 

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Mickey is selling papers, like what he says or not, people read his column, look at the people on here who hate him, yet read every word he writes.

I would agree...its like they say..bad press/good press...so long as its selling it will continue!:agree:
 

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Who would have thought that Mickey would be the Howard Stern of print media? I wonder if he recognizes it? :lol:
 

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Well those who are praying for Gordon Gee to reel Oliver Luck in....doesn't seem like that is going to happen anytime soon!!....:yahoo:


WVU President E. Gordon Gee was a recent guest on the Bob Edwards Show on Sirius XM Satellite Radio. That pre-recorded interview dealing with college athletics -- the politics, economics and culture of college sports today and the role of University presidents and Boards in setting the tone and direction for the program -- will be aired at 8 a.m. Friday, April 4, on XM Channel 121 and Sirius Channel 205, and is also available 24/7 on XM Radio Online and Sirius Internet Radio.

A compilation re-edited program is also distributed by WV Public Radio on the weekend -- locally on Channel 90.9 FM. His interview is in the final 20-minute segment of the
 

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Well those who are praying for Gordon Gee to reel Oliver Luck in....doesn't seem like that is going to happen anytime soon!!....:yahoo:


WVU President E. Gordon Gee was a recent guest on the Bob Edwards Show on Sirius XM Satellite Radio. That pre-recorded interview dealing with college athletics -- the politics, economics and culture of college sports today and the role of University presidents and Boards in setting the tone and direction for the program -- will be aired at 8 a.m. Friday, April 4, on XM Channel 121 and Sirius Channel 205, and is also available 24/7 on XM Radio Online and Sirius Internet Radio.

A compilation re-edited program is also distributed by WV Public Radio on the weekend -- locally on Channel 90.9 FM. His interview is in the final 20-minute segment of the

We all know Gee is not going to reign in Luck, Gee kept Gene Smith on the job and made Tressel take the fall.
 

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We all know Gee is not going to reign in Luck, Gee kept Gene Smith on the job and made Tressel take the fall.


It's funny isn't it DAD that at Vandy he got rid of the AD and let the Department run itself..after smelling what a real revenue generating program can do at OSU...he is all about the Athletic piece now!..LOL!
 

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It's funny isn't it DAD that at Vandy he got rid of the AD and let the Department run itself..after smelling what a real revenue generating program can do at OSU...he is all about the Athletic piece now!..LOL!

With a lot of the comments he had to apologize for down the road from here, I am surprised he is letting Luck schedule two 1AA teams for 2015, Gee is a damn fine administrator, but he needs to leave the comedy to someone else.
 

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@mikecasazza: Almost forgot: Lost in Huggins press conference Saturday was Mickey Furfari alleging Oliver Luck/WVU pressured two papers to drop his column
 
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