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Bernie Buttrey, who guided Parkersburg High School's football program to 66 wins and two state championships over the past eight seasons, has resigned as the head coach of the Big Reds.

While celebrating its silver anniversary of honoring the nation's best high school athletes, the Gatorade Company went red and white in choosing the representative from West Virginia.

In West Virginia's first 10 games of the season, the Mountaineers have used the same five offensive linemen for every meaningful snap.

Injuries have slowed QB Jarrett Brown. MORGANTOWN - Where, oh where has West Virginia's high-powered offense gone? The numbers are fairly well known by now, but for the sake of clarity and as an update, chew on this: In the first five games of the season, the Mountaineers averaged 33.4 points and 449.2 total yards.

Offensive lineman Justin Johnson and his teammate, running back Allan Wasonga , are arguably the top two juniors in the state of West Virginia.

Tyler Urban, Ryan Clarke, Geno Smith, Tavon Austin, Shawne Alston, Josh Jenkins have all made significant contributions as young players.

Andy Warhol once told us that everyone has 15 minutes of fame, which would have a whole lot more meaning if he hadn't also told us a couple of years later that he was bored with that line and was changing it to "in 15 minutes everybody will famous." See there was a lot of truth in that original 15 minutes of fame line, but it might be best to put ...

As if the four interceptions and lost fumble were not enough of a bad day for West Virginia quarterback Jarrett Brown in the loss at Auburn Sept.

You saw this coming . The timely topic is WVU's turnover trouble, which is more troubling than it is trouble.

One by one, West Virginia's players labeled their 33-20 home opening victory over Liberty a success.

A few minutes before noon today, West Virginia's Mountaineers will run onto the field to start the school's 117th football season.

They are Noel Devine's protectors, these hulking gentlemen who make up the offensive line that debuts as a unit for West Virginia University Saturday against Liberty, but they are more than that to this miniature running back with the flying feet.

It's game week of the season opener and time can't pass fast enough as West Virginia waits out the final days of an eight-month break between games.

The decorated high school All-American from Parkersburg High has heard the low expectations enough that he's now had enough.

You know how your parents would always tell you as you were scrambling around, gathering up your school books, making sure your hair was combed and rushing to meet the school bus that you had to eat your breakfast? "Breakfast," they would say, "is the most important meal of the day." And you'd be going, "Aw, Mom," the toothbrush still in your ...

On Wednesday afternoon, West Virginia's offensive line was out working before any other position, save for the punters.

At Parkersburg High School, the goal is the same every football season - to win the Class AAA state championship.

Back when Don Nehlen was at the height of his Hall of Fame career as West Virginia University's football coach, he would lament the difficulty presented by having to recruit such a small, rural state as compared to his neighbors with this observation: "You fly over West Virginia and all you see is trees.

If there is any one word that can be used to symbolize what coach Bill Stewart is trying to instill in his West Virginia University football players as individuals and as a team in his second camp, that word would be toughness.

Here's a look at the biggest unit question in each league heading into the 2009 college football season.