While many of us, including myself, will be stapled to the couch watching WVU throtle the Ramblin' Wreck, here is a story about West Virginia's smallest public university winning a national title on an academic field of battle versus many larger schools:
"Concord University won the Phi Alpha Delta Prelaw Fraternity’s National Mock Trial Competition in Washington, D.C., on November 10 through the 12, defeating the University of Arizona in the finals. In addition, it won “Outstanding Defense Team” for the third year in a row. " Full Story
While smacking around a bunch of southern techies on the football field will make us all feel good, it is victories on the intelectual fields that provide one more stone in the foundation of a new West Virginia.
BTW, if WVU or Marshall had won, it would have been in every paper in the state. Because it happened at a small, academically focused public university (Division II on less) it barely made a blip.
As a professional academic, and former employee of said institution, I can say that Concord remains one of the best kept secrets of West Virginia.
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