by this point, you guys know the drill. you can check my post from two weeks ago if you have any questions. until someone, anyone, prevents the mountaineers from covering every week i will not step betting on them. could it be tomorrow? probably not.
morgantown is gonna be rocking for a thursday night national espn game. slaton runs for another couple hundred and maryland's o turns the ball over a couple of times.
WEST VIRGINIA -16.5(**)
9/13/06
NCAA Thursday
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---- FROM ESPN ----
West Virginia sophomore tailback Steve Slaton grew up wanting to go to Maryland. He got a scholarship offer from Maryland. Two years later, Slaton will take his Heisman Trophy candidacy onto Mountaineer Field at Milan Puskar Stadium on Thursday night against Maryland.
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Steve Slaton is averaging 154 yards per game in 2006."I just had too many running backs," Terrapins coach Ralph Friedgen said. "It's my mistake, nobody else's … I wish he was here. I kick myself every day."
Slaton is fourth in the nation in rushing at 154 yards per game, even though he sat out the second half of the Mountaineers' rout of Eastern Washington. Put another way, he has rushed for 308 yards and four touchdowns in three halves.
Terrapin tailbacks Keon Lattimore and Lance Ball have played well this season. They have combined to rush for 319 yards and five touchdowns on 55 carries, an average of 5.8 yards per carry.
Neither one is Slaton.
"I ended up staying with a kid from Maryland (Morgan Green, from White Plains, Md.). He's finally now in school," Friedgen said. Green spent 2005 at Hargrave Military Academy, and has not made a dent in the lineup this fall.
Slaton, Friedgen said, "had been offered and committed. I couldn't take the commitment because I had too many commitments. You can't have 10 running backs and no linemen."
Slaton has said that Maryland asked him to move to defensive back. Friedgen said he didn't do the asking and didn't know anything about it, but that perhaps someone on his staff had asked.
"We knew what kind of back he was: very good speed, very well-balanced kid, just a real good character. Slaton had good grades, a president-of-the-class-type kid. We have four pretty good tailbacks. He'd fit right in here."
Maryland will find out how well Thursday night.
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