The days of major bulletin board material for one side is generally nonexistent these days. Mostly gone are the days when you can find someone talk about WVU players as “Western Pennsylvania garbage.” (read the article just to find out how much effort had to go into getting that material in the days before widespread dissemination)

Now, the best there anyone can do are H.B. Blades comments.

“They consider us the city boys,” Blades said. “They think we’re arrogant.”

Then, came the bulletin-board material, as Blades responded to the obvious follow-up: If the Panthers are the city boys, what are the Mountaineers?

“They’re the country boys,” he said, laughing. “They’re out in the middle of nowhere. There’s nothing in Morgantown, really.”

The Hoopies aren’t even biting on that. They got burned too much last year.

The only other thing that came out this week was during Coach Wannstedt’s press conference in relation to recruiting.

“West Virginia comes up here and recruits Pennsylvania,” Wannstedt said at his weekly news conference. “We know that. They always have. I think they have 16 players from Pennsylvania. But in my opinion, we don’t have much competition here [in Western Pennsylvania] — Penn State, every once in a while, Notre Dame or someone, but there shouldn’t be and there won’t be much other competition.

“The best players are going to come to Pitt.”

WVU actually has 23 players from PA (14 from Western PA), but it is also true that none of those 14 received scholarship offers from Pitt.