You know what I don’t enjoy, Lee. A dishonest argument. I conceded I was wrong about about WVU from preseason (and that is where all of this started) and up to the loss to VT:

I am perfectly willing to admit I let myself believe WVU might actually be good enough to merit being in the top 12 of the BCS standings.

[Emphasis added.]

Clearly a statement that belongs in the past tense about what I thought. And you make it part of your counterpoint, by selectively quoting it so your strawman argument to rebut, is that I still believe it:

Go ahead and let yourself “believe WVU might actually be good enough to merit being in the top 12.” Nobody else does. At least, nobody at the Associated Press or the ESPN/USA Today Coaches Poll anyways.

Pathetic. We both know that preseason polls are not terribly accurate (read: Pitt and Auburn in 2003). Their true importance for the teams, is that it is easier to stay in the polls than to crack the polls. And with the polls accounting for a greater portion of the BCS formula, they take on more importance.

Then there is this bizarre — well, I’ll call it a point:

And how am I supposed to hypertext something that Herbstreit said on a television show or that Kiper said on a radio show. Show me how to do that, and I’ll gladly start today.

Here’s what I wrote:

Of course since you were so willing to call upon the statements of Fowler, Corso, Herbstreit and Kiper, Jr. to justify your position, then surely you must do the same when my original posts that sparked this was a mention of articles trumpeting the potential BCS postition of WVU.

How do perceive that to be some complaint on my part that you didn’t hyperlink it? The point, if you wish to be that obtuse, was that the articles in preseason that I cited gave some credibility to the possibility that WVU might be a BCS contending team.

The truly insulting thing, though, is accusing me of shutting you out of the blog? You know I have never and would never do such a thing. You also know the past blogger posting problems, and how I have worked to fix any problems — even going so far as to contact blogger for you to get them resolved.

Get over it.