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Article: West Virginia Again the Pick in Big East
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- July 18, 2006
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NEWPORT, R.I. - West Virginia coach Rich Rodriguez doesn't agree that his team's victory in the Sugar Bowl rescued the Big East from oblivion.
But he doesn't mind people saying it, anyway.
"I'm glad people are talking about that instead of saying, 'Oh, that loss really hurt,'" Rodriguez said Tuesday at Big East football media day. "I like to think that the league was OK regardless, but it's a positive thing to have people talk about that win."
West Virginia, which went 11-1 overall in 2005 (7-0 conference) and beat Georgia 38-35 in the Sugar Bowl, was picked to win the conference in a preseason poll of Big East media released Tuesday. The Mountaineers received 18 of the 24 first-place ...