West Liberty Football 2022

[Layton]

All MEC Zach Dixon transferring to Henderson State

[timbertopper]

Shon Stephens will be at a D1 school next year and likely P5

Says he's received several offers including a Power 5 school in Virginia Tech. Also offers from Central Michigan, Tarleton State, Albany, Sacred Heart and Samford. Might be better suited as a safety at upper levels, depending on scheme. Excellent ball skills and instincts.

[Layton]

Shon Stephens will be at a D1 school next year and likely P5

[boatcapt]

Well Boat , you can shine the helmets and wash the jock straps now since another successful season is over. Hilltoppers finished with one of their better seasons of late, with a record of 4-7. Same as last season so they may have stabilized. Of the four teams they outslugged, their total records were 7 wins and 37 losses. I guess it's back to the California JUCO's to replenish the talent they are losing. Can't wait until next summer to hear how the team is jelling and really looking good in practice. The new guys are blending in good and with limited injuries they should be in the mix. Enjoy basketball season!

Looking forward to a "QB Rotation" like we did with Crow and LaGarde. Maybe we can get one of our few .500+ seasons??

[Sportsnut]

Well Boat , you can shine the helmets and wash the jock straps now since another successful season is over. Hilltoppers finished with one of their better seasons of late, with a record of 4-7. Same as last season so they may have stabilized. Of the four teams they outslugged, their total records were 7 wins and 37 losses. I guess it's back to the California JUCO's to replenish the talent they are losing. Can't wait until next summer to hear how the team is jelling and really looking good in practice. The new guys are blending in good and with limited injuries they should be in the mix. Enjoy basketball season!

[boatcapt]

Well, the President is leaving at years end, the AD should go to for not making a move all these years. Be a nice Christmas present for the AD and Waialia both be fired.

Seeing as the search firm announced they are going to have "listening sessions" on campus in early January, I wouldn't hold my breath for a "Christmas present."

[Sportsnut]

Well, the President is leaving at years end, the AD should go to for not making a move all these years. Be a nice Christmas present for the AD and Waialia both be fired.

[RocketmanFan0]

With the amount of resources they have, it is unbelievable that WLU is not constantly at the top of the MEC.

[RamPride]

The word that comes most to mind is squandered. WLU had a football program that was offensively the equal to their burgeoning basketball team. Primarily under QB Amedro, but even a couple of years before that under QB Jay Gulion, WLU was a scoring machine that had people taking notice. Poor recruiting, an apparent inability to coach the best out of the players they did have and an obvious lack of institutional desire to win squandered that pretty quickly and left us with a coaching staff that is simply going through the recruiting motions, and the coaching motions knowing that what they do, or don't do, will have zero impact on their ability to keep their coaching jobs.

Shame is also a good word and it goes right in hand with embarrassment. I don't think I could continue to coach after SOOOO many shamefully bad seasons. I mean, how do you look yourself in the mirror every day and know you have failed at your job? And not just failed, failed miserably. But not this staff, they show up every day and do the same things they have done for the last decade...recruit the same schools...coach the players the same way..get the same disastrous results. And at the end of the week, I bet each is on his bank app to make sure that they got paid!

And all those typed words you’ve wasted over the years…u sheep slayer u…lol

[Layton]

FWIW Amedro made a post on FB tonight with a picture of the football team’s records since 2011 with the comment “When are they gonna make a move?? Wow! Terrible”

[boatcapt]

For many years I enjoyed West Liberty's broadcast capabilities. So, so much better than many of the schools who, for a long while, seemed to just have somebody's 1990s camcorder on a tripod with questionable audio. It would be nice to see the broadcast program capture a winning program.

And one would think the coaching staff would feel shame that a practically brand new program in Wheeling has passed 'em as a rapidly improving program--and top program in the northern panhandle.

The word that comes most to mind is squandered. WLU had a football program that was offensively the equal to their burgeoning basketball team. Primarily under QB Amedro, but even a couple of years before that under QB Jay Gulion, WLU was a scoring machine that had people taking notice. Poor recruiting, an apparent inability to coach the best out of the players they did have and an obvious lack of institutional desire to win squandered that pretty quickly and left us with a coaching staff that is simply going through the recruiting motions, and the coaching motions knowing that what they do, or don't do, will have zero impact on their ability to keep their coaching jobs.

Shame is also a good word and it goes right in hand with embarrassment. I don't think I could continue to coach after SOOOO many shamefully bad seasons. I mean, how do you look yourself in the mirror every day and know you have failed at your job? And not just failed, failed miserably. But not this staff, they show up every day and do the same things they have done for the last decade...recruit the same schools...coach the players the same way..get the same disastrous results. And at the end of the week, I bet each is on his bank app to make sure that they got paid!

[ShepAlum]

Buying a billboard would be a waste of money...Kind of like making a donation to the team!!

Guess I'm wired differently than a WLU football coach but I don't know how they personally can continue to fail year after year after year. If it were me as a minimum I would drastically change how I coached (AND recruited) because, quite obviously, what I was doing wasn't working. After more than a decade of mind numbing FAILURE, I don't know how these coaches can continue to want to coach.

For many years I enjoyed West Liberty's broadcast capabilities. So, so much better than many of the schools who, for a long while, seemed to just have somebody's 1990s camcorder on a tripod with questionable audio. It would be nice to see the broadcast program capture a winning program.

And one would think the coaching staff would feel shame that a practically brand new program in Wheeling has passed 'em as a rapidly improving program--and top program in the northern panhandle.

[boatcapt]

Have you and boatcapt looked into pooling your resources to rent billboard space advocating for the coach’s dismissal?

Buying a billboard would be a waste of money...Kind of like making a donation to the team!!

Guess I'm wired differently than a WLU football coach but I don't know how they personally can continue to fail year after year after year. If it were me as a minimum I would drastically change how I coached (AND recruited) because, quite obviously, what I was doing wasn't working. After more than a decade of mind numbing FAILURE, I don't know how these coaches can continue to want to coach.

[Layton]

Have you and boatcapt looked into pooling your resources to rent billboard space advocating for the coach’s dismissal?

Our only hope is to hit this lottery so we have more money than Gary West

[ShepAlum]

Another waste of a season on the hilltop woooohoooo

#FireWalleye

Have you and boatcapt looked into pooling your resources to rent billboard space advocating for the coach’s dismissal?