All Football Watching Parties will revert back to the Ragin Cajun on Gessner and Westheimer. Two Rows will be unable to meet our expectations this year for watching parties.
The chapter would like to apologize for the late change in plans and hope everyone can still attend the Watching Party this weekend at the Ragin Cajun.
Hey fellow Lone Star Mountaineers! It’s that time again. September is here, temperatures are getting cooler and Mountaineer football is in the air! The first official Lone Star watching party of the season is coming up this Saturday as our boys in gold and blue travel to Auburn for a 6:45 central kickoff. The team is finding its rhythm and is getting votes for the top 25. A win this weekend would surely put them in that position. Come out and join us at Two Rows at 2400 University Blvd in Rice Village the Ragin Cajun on Westheimer and Gessner to hopefully see the new lady Mountaineer do her best Annie Oakley imitation, and shoot the Auburn war eagle out of the sky, just like our Mountaineers are going to snare the Tigers on the field! Please RSVP to Jason Smith at jason.d.smith@comcast.net if you plan to attend so we can let our new friends at Ragin Cajun know how many tables to reserve around their big screens.
LET’S GOOOOOO MOUNTAINEERS!!!
We look forward to seeing you there!
The WVU Lonestar Chapter Football Watching Party schedule has been set!
Saturday – 9/19 – WVU vs Auburn – 6:45pm kickoff
Saturday – 10/17 – WVU vs Marshall – 2:30pm kickoff
Friday – 11/13 – WVU vs Cincinnati – TBD
Saturday – 12/5 – WVU vs Rutgers – TBD
All time are Central
2009-10 WVU Mens Basketball Schedule
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (September 10, 2009) West Virginia University Director of Athletics Ed Pastilong and the BIG EAST have announced the 2009-10 mens basketball schedule.
At least 15 regular season games on national television highlight the schedule with three games on ESPNs Big Monday (Villanova, at UConn, Georgetown) and three games on CBS (at Seton Hall, Ohio State, at Villanova).
BIG EAST schools visiting Morgantown will be Pitt, Louisville, Villanova, Seton Hall, Georgetown, Syracuse, Rutgers, Marquette and Cincinnati. For the third year in a row, the BIG EAST will play an 18- game format that allows teams to play each opponent once and three teams twice. West Virginia will play home-and-home games with Pitt, Villanova and Seton Hall.
The Mountaineers will play 12 non-conference contests, including three games in the 76 Classic in Anaheim, Calif. WVU will open 76 Classic play against Long Beach State on Thanksgiving and will face either Texas A&M or Clemson the next day. The Mountaineers will wrap up play against either UCLA, Portland, Minnesota or Butler.
West Virginia will open the regular season Nov. 15 at home against Loyola University Maryland and will also play Ohio State, Ole Miss, Duquesne and Coppin State at the WVU Coliseum.
The Mountaineers will open BIG EAST play at Seton Hall on Saturday, Dec. 26. WVU will play its home BIG EAST opener against Marquette on Tuesday, Dec. 29.
WVU will play road games at Purdue and Cleveland State. The Mountaineers will play The Citadel and Marshall at the Charleston Civic Center.
WVUs nationally televised games this season will be Long Beach State (ESPNU), Texas A&M or Clemson (ESPN/ESPNU), final day of 76 Classic (ESPN2/ESPNU), Ole Miss (ESPN2), at Seton Hall (CBS), at Purdue (ESPN), Syracuse (ESPN), Ohio State (CBS), Louisville (ESPN), Villanova (ESPN), at Pitt (ESPN), Seton Hall (ESPN), at Connecticut (ESPN), Georgetown (ESPN) and at Villanova (CBS). All remaining league games will air on ESPNU, ESPN Regional/BIG EAST Network or ESPN 360.
We are obviously excited about the national television exposure for our basketball program, the University and the state of West Virginia, says coach Bob Huggins. Top to bottom, this is probably as tough a schedule that weve had in a long time.
The Mountaineers will play an exhibition game on Sunday, Nov. 8, against Mountain State at the WVU Coliseum. WVU will also play the University of Charleston in an exhibition on Saturday, Dec. 5, at the Coliseum.
Game times and the rest of the television games will be announced in October. Basketball practice begins Friday, Oct. 16.
Clips from the 1975 Season at Old Mountaineer Field. Enjoy!
At this year’s FallFest, in the moments after Third Eye Blind left the stage and before Akon took it, junior engineering major Jared Crawford overheard the following conversation:
“I don’t know where Brooks Hall is,” a student called to his friend.
The friend reached into his pocket and fished out the answer. “Just let me look at my iPhone app,” he replied.
“That,” said Crawford, grinning at the memory “was really cool.”
Cool because Crawford created that student-friendly application, iWVU, this summer, furiously configuring code in the evenings after his research assistantship, where he fabricated waveguide nanostructures for optical characterization of photonic crystals (and received a prestigious $10,000 scholarship in the process).Really.
Crawford’s iPhone app is part of a recently rolled out suite of services that allows students, faculty, staff and alumni to have complete mobile access to WVU.
It’s no surprise Crawford is at the center of the new technology. He is, after all, an amazingly intelligent guy. He created iWVU in his spare time – an application that, Vice President of University Relations Chris Martin says, would be a remarkable feat for experienced, paid professionals. And he created a previous application so complex and esoteric that the average person wouldn’t even know how to say it, let alone use it.
It’s called a complex matrix inverter. Only electrical engineers who don’t have an advanced calculator handy would ever need it.
“It was for a very, very targeted audience,” Crawford said. “Only 20 people downloaded it.”
So when more than 200 people downloaded iWVU in the first two days it was available, Crawford was plenty pleased. The app allows users to, among other things, browse an interactive campus map, stream the U92 radio station, link to Bill Stewart’s Twitter feed and – of upmost importance to Crawford and his friends – find updated dining hall menus.
“It was sort of my way of giving back to the community,” Crawford said.
“Jared has created something that really matters to our students, something that makes their daily lives easier, especially those who are new to Morgantown,” said Tricia Petty, assistant vice president for integrated marketing operations. “This is going to be a great partnership, for Jared and for the University.”
In August, around the time Crawford was signing a contract with the University, making his iPhone app the official app of WVU, Web Services professional technologist Dave Olsen launched a complementary piece of technology for campus, the WVU Mobile Web site. The site – which allows users to search the WVU directory, access an interactive campus map, browse a campus events calendar and link to WVU’s You Tube channel, among other things – is accessible from all Web-enabled mobile phones at http://m.wvu.edu.
Together, the application and mobile Web site offer users what Olsen calls, “anytime, anywhere access to WVU.”
Anywhere isn’t an exaggeration. Crawford has tracked iWVU downloads to Canada, France, Russia, Japan and even Australia where, conceivably, someone could be using his application to stream U92 right now.
“This is really a testament to the University that we have people constantly working on new technology and social media to keep all of our students engaged and connected,” Martin said.
And Crawford and Olsen are still working. They met recently to discuss how they can make their innovations even more innovative. Neither one of them is completely satisfied with what he’s created. Olsen has dreams of providing students with step-by-step directions around campus. Crawford wants students to be able to download directory entries straight into their address books.
“It’s a big project,” Crawford said. “It’s much larger than one person. I can’t do it all as a student.”
Especially when he’s got more creations locked in his head, fighting for escape, maybe even another iPhone app.
“I don’t know,” Crawford said with a grin. “It’s not going to be a career path.”
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