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Article: Flatwoods, Goins and optimistic WVU notes

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August 1, 2002
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ODDS AND ENDS and a few things I think I think:

* Excuse me for asking, but isn't putting a NASCAR track in Flatwoods a little bit like trying to turn Branson, Mo., into a country music mecca?

Or building a theme park on reclaimed swamp land in Nowhere-near- a-beach, Fla.?

Or locating a pro football team in Green Bay, Wisc.?

What's that? Those things worked, huh?

* Remember Brannon Goins?

He and Avon Cobourne arrived together at West Virginia in the fall of 1998 and it was Goins, not Cobourne, who played as a true freshman, making his college debut in a game against Temple when Alvin Swoope, playing for injured Amos Zereoue, was himself hurt. Did a pretty good job, too, gaining 48 yards on ...

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