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Recap your Volvo Biggest Fan of the Big East Experience.

The Biggest Fan in the Big East contest has been an interesting journey for sure. It started with a fun filled weekend trip to NYC to attend the Big East Media Day. WVU was in the middle of a crazy football season so it was hard for me to get into Basketball that early, but it was still nice to get to NYC, meet the other contestants and rub elbows with the likes of Huggins and Kevin Jones.

That was probably the highlight of the competition for me really, and here’s why: WVU was on it’s way out of the Big East by that point. I was finding it hard to get excited about Big East anything after this trip, and it continues to this day.

I had a great time on the Alma Mater trip also unfortunately the only real snow we got this year stopped me from taking the sweet ass S60 to Morgantown for the L’ville game (that we blew in the last few minutes) but my experience driving the S60 around Pittsburgh was SWEET!

I can honestly say that the Volvo S60 is one of the nicest cars I’ve even had the pleasure to drive and if you can afford one, GO FOR IT! You won’t be disappointed.

Well, that about wraps up this Biggest Fan of the Big East contest for me.  I  know I have no chance of winning (really doubt they would let a WVU/Syracues/PITT fan win since we’re bolting the conference) but it was fun!

Thanks Volvo!

The most awesome thing about being in Volvo’s Biggest Fan of the Big East contest is that every contestant got an all expense paid trip to their Alma Mater for a basketball home game. The best part of this trip is that we were given a Volvo S60 to use as our roadtrip vehicle. SCORE!

So I picked the Louisville home game (Feb. 11, 2012) as the game I would attend for the contest. I picked up my fully loaded R-Design Volvo S60 Thursday and all I can say about that car is WOW. Check it out:

So yeah, a sweet ride eh? Well I was all excited to take this car down 79 South to Morgantown then this happened:

I had to make an adult decision to not chance it in this weather and left the car in Pittsburgh. :(

It sucked but on the first and last day I had the Volvo S60 I really got to experience how nice this car is. The safety features are sick. Cameras in the front and back, blind spot sensors, parking distance senors, warnings if you’re drifting lanes, you name it this car had it. Those were the perks that really set these ares apart IMHO. Oh, besides the fact that this model has a 325 HP engine that is insanely fast… that was nice too!

So we make the snowy trip down to Morgantown Saturday morning. The game was at noon. Dropped off the baby and headed to the Coliseum. It was a cold and bitter day but nothing was going to stop us.

The tickets provided by the Big East and Volvo were sweet! Check it out:

It really was a great game, well till it ended. WVU was in total control of this game from the start. Then Truck Bryant started missing, then The Turk fouled out. Then the refs screwed us over on a couple of bad calls. Then with seconds left a horrible pass pretty much sealed the deal and we lost by 3. Sigh. Bad ending to an other wise great trip!

I would like to thank Volvo and the Big East for setting us up for a great weekend trip back to WVU and Morgantown. I always appreciate being back at my Alma Mater.

The 4th Challenge from the Volvo and Big East folks who are running the Biggest Fan of the Big East contest have asked us to customize a Volvo S60 to be the most bad ass fan car around.

When I win my Volvo S60, here’s what I plan on doing to it!

First.. slap on a set of these so everyone in the slow lane can see me coming in their review mirrors:

Of course I’ll have these in all 4 windows:

No self respecting car is totally pimped out until you have a pair of these hanging off the mirror:

Of course the best part of all of these accessories is that they are easy to remove and don’t ruin the pure beauty of the Volvo S60, although I could totally see mine look like this… the old Gold n’ Blue is shining through! 

The first challenge of the Biggest Fan in the Big East contest sponsored by Volvo is to come up with our All-Time Big East Dream Team. 

I wanted to get the input of everyone out there that follows us on here, facebook and twitter to come up with this team and I think we have our Dream Team! 

I originally had some classic players like Jerry West and Hot Rod Hudley on the team, but some fans on Facebook pointed out that these guys didn’t play in the Big East so it wouldn’t be fair to have them on the Dream Team. So I’m going to keep this more of a modern day team…

1. KEVIN PITTSNOGLE -  One of the most exciting players to ever wear the Old Gold n Blue. He came out of no where in 2005 and help upset PITT and the rest is history! YOU BEEN PITTSNOGLED!!!!!

2. Da’Sean Butler - No one can forget Da’Sean and Huggins in the Final Four a couple of years ago. This kid is all heart and deserves to always be mentioned when talking about a DREAM TEAM.

3. Frank Young - In 2007 when WVU got boned and left out of the NCAA Tournament Frank and the boys just decided to show everyone how wronged they were by kicking everyone’s arse in the NIT Tournament. Granted not as nice as winning the Big Dance but we proved a point. 

4. Joe Alexander - Alexander finished his junior season leading the team with 16.9 points per game and 6.4 rebounds per game. Alexander was second on the team with 1.5 blocks per game and third with 2.4 assists per game and 31.6 minutes played per game. He finished the NCAA Tournament by averaging 18 points and 9.6 rebounds per game.

5. Devin Ebanks - Not much more I can say about the awesomeness of Ebanks that this video doesn’t already say.

So I’m part of this Basketball Season long contest called the Biggest Fan of the Big East that is sponsored every year by Volvo. 

Every couple of weeks during the season we (the contestants, 1 blogger/social media influencer per team - 16 total) are met with a challenge… or something to blog about.

The first challenge came this weekend:

Pick your All-Time Big East Dream Team and why? (12 player max) Can be old and current players from any Big East team.

I want to make this fun for everyone that follows us. So I’d love to get your input on these challenges. This first one is interesting as all I want to do is put WVU players on this team. Do you have any suggestions on who you would put on your ALL TIME BIG EAST/WVU Team? and why? 

I will be posting our team sometime this evening, so feel free to comment who you would add.

This isn’t pretty but it’s our own damn fault for not playing up to the talent we have on the team… 

Here is an excerpt from an article on BGN:

WVU – 2-2 in the Big East – would have to win out – anything less than that and it will be eliminated from that conversation. That would mean wins over Cincinnati and Pittsburgh, which would give West Virginia tiebreakers over those two teams.

The Mountaineers would have to defeat Cincinnati – who is 3-0 in the Big East – on Saturday, and the Bearcats would need to lose at least one of its following three games (at Rutgers, at Syracuse and vs. Connecticut) for WVU to hold a tiebreaker lead in the Big East standings.

Louisville – who is 3-1 in conference play – also has a tiebreaker over WVU because of the win on Saturday over the Mountaineers. The Cardinals would have to lose two of their final three games (vs. Pittsburgh, at Connecticut and at South Florida) to allow West Virginia to jump over top of the Cardinals.