It's About Time

Supposedly, the Governor will announce tomorrow morning that the state's two Division I universities will enter into an agreement to play football on a regular basis. This has been a big deal in West Virginia ever since Marshall moved up from I-AA in the 1990s. WVU traditionally only played MAC (where Marshall resided, until this coming season) schools in Morgantown and wouldn't really consider going to Huntington every other year to play in front of half the crowd. Still, it makes sense for the two schools to play. The one time they have played since Marshall's ascension was in 1997, when WVU beat a Marshall team led by Chad Pennington and Randy Moss 42-31 in front of a packed house in Morgantown (the start of my second year of law school, I chose to go to Pittsburgh and see Marillion instead).