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Robert Gillespie went to south Florida in search of a big inside linebacker to fill one of two positions on West Virginia's defense in 2013. The player he found at American Heritage Plantation is even bigger
Mountaineers are trying to stand out in a growing list of offers for this American Heritage Plantation linebacker.
Former West Virginia University Fullback Owen Schmitt signed a one-year contract with the Oakland Raiders. Schmitt worked out for the Raiders on Tuesday and was quickly signed by Oakland.Raiders Offensive
Schmitt signed a contract shortly after completing a workout for the Raiders
Former West Virginia University Linebacker Najee Goode has inked a four-year deal with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.Goode was a sixth-round draft pick by the Bucs and recently participated in Buccaneers rookie
Najee Goode and Keith Tandy have both signed four-year contracts with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
If the recent history of conference realignment in college sports has taught us anything it is that it tends to happen in waves. The rumblings and rumors of more realignment are starting to register on
Florida State could be a key player in the next round of conference realignment
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WVU is moving to a more difficult football conference with a very different schedule. But, just how different is it in terms of strength of schedule and travel?
MORGANTOWN -
The West Virginia University
rifle team opens the 2011-12 season ranked No. 3 in the College Rifle
Coaches Association (CRCA) Preseason Poll.
Defending national champion and Great American Rifle Conference
(GARC) runner-up Kentucky is ranked No. 1, while TCU, the 2010 NCAA
champion, checks in at No. 2. Alaska-Fairbanks and Murray State round
out the top five.
Jacksonville State opens the bottom half of the top 10 at No. 6,
with Army and Ole Miss, both GARC opponents, ranked No. 7 and No. 8,
respectively. Air Force is No. 9, while Ohio State is No. 10.
With the exception of JSU, WVU will face every team in the top
10 at least once this season.
The Mountaineers, the two-time defending GARC champions, return
to the range following an 11-2 season which saw WVU narrowly finish
behind the Wildcats at the 2011 NCAA Championships. Despite the
second-place finish, WVU did win the air rifle team title and placed
second in smallbore. Additionally, 2011 graduate Nicco Campriani won the
air rifle individual title and became WVU's first rifle national
champion since 1997.
Seniors Justin Pentz and Michael Kulbacki, and junior Petra
Zublasing, all National Rifle Association All-Americans, are the
Mountaineers' only experienced returners. Zublasing enters her first
full season at WVU on the heels of a second-place air rifle showing at
the 2011 national championships. She also successfully earned an Olympic
quota this summer while shooting for the Italian National Team at the
ISSF Fort Benning World Cup.
WVU opens its season in Lincoln, Neb., on Saturday, Oct. 15,
against Air Force. The squad will then square off against host Nebraska,
ranked No. 12 in the preseason poll, on Oct. 16.
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