Louisville coach lauds WVU gameday crowd
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – Louisville Coach Steve Kragthorpe gathered his football team for a weekly meeting Sunday and spoke highly of the trip to Mountaineer Field that awaits the Cardinals this weekend.
West Virginia (6-2, 2-1 Big East) hosts the Cardinals (3-5, 0-3) at noon Saturday on the Big East Network.
“Morgantown is one of the best places to play in the Big East Conference,” Kragthorpe said Monday on the Big East coaches’ teleconference. “They’ve got rabid fans and it’s always packed. It’ll be a lot of fun for the team to get a chance to compete in that environment.”
A while later, Kragthorpe had his weekly press conference with the local media and spoke again of Mountaineer Field and the fans, although with this time with a different reverence.
“They all have good arms, whether they’re right-handed or left-handed. They throw those batteries extremely well,” he said. “They are extremely accurate with those, too. I’m going to have to have a hard hat when I come out of the locker room.”
There was sarcasm involved, of course, and Kraghtorpe seemed fond of the way the town celebrated home games.
“It’s a 12 o’clock nooner so they won’t be quite as tanked as they were when we were there two years ago, but, they get after it, man,” he said. “They love football. I mean, they love playing football there and they love coaching football there and they love watching football there. It’s a great football place.”
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