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WASHINGTON (AP) — Playing both sides, President Barack Obama is trying to balance his public pressure campaign on Republicans over the looming ''fiscal cliff'' with his private negotiations with GOP leaders.
The White House is loath to abandon the two-pronged strategy even as the Dec. 31 deadline nears. Obama's advisers see the carrot-and-stick approach as key to winning concessions from Republicans on taxes and reaching a deal to avert the series of year-end tax hikes and spending cuts.
But Obama's campaign to rally public support for his fiscal cliff positions has irked some Republicans. And continuing to publicly lambaste GOP lawmakers as obstructionists for not giving in to White House demands that tax rates rise on the top 2 percent of income earners could undercut trust between Obama and Republicans in their private talks.
For now, the White House says it plans to continue on both tracks. Asked whether the president would be more focused on his public efforts or private talks, White House spokesman Jay Carney said ''both.''
''We will continue to engage with leaders on Capitol Hill, we will continue to engage with a broader coalition of people who have a stake in this, and that includes ordinary Americans out in the country,'' Carney said.
But Republicans have made clear that they see the president's public campaign as a hindrance to private negotiations.
A spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said Tuesday that the White House appears to be placing ''a higher premium on politics than the American jobs that are at stake.'' And Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has said that the country already knows ''the president is a very good campaigner. What we don't know is whether he has the leadership qualities necessary to lead his party to a bipartisan agreement on a big issue like this.''
Perhaps with that in mind, there are indications that the White House is scaling back its public campaign as negotiations enter a more serious phase. Unless Congress acts, taxes will increase on all income earners on Jan. 1, and a slew of spending cuts will begin to take effect the following day.
After holding a flurry of fiscal cliff-focused events in recent weeks — from a Twitter town hall to a photo opportunity in a Virginia family's basement apartment — the president is expected to spend much of this week out of the spotlight.
In the one public appearance he did make this week — a campaign-style rally at an auto plant in Michigan — the president held back his criticism of Republicans. Instead, he put the onus for reaching a fiscal cliff deal on Congress as a whole.
''We can solve this problem. All Congress needs to do is pass a law that would prevent a tax hike on the first $250,000 of everybody's income,'' Obama said, referring to his position that tax rates be increased on individual incomes over $200,000 and on family incomes over $250,000.
The president's restrained rhetoric was particularly notable given that his remarks came a day after he met privately at the White House with Boehner, their first one-on-one session in 18 months.
Both sides have agreed to not publicly discuss any details of that meeting, and White House officials wouldn't say whether Obama's dialed-back approach reflected any progress in the talks.
Even if Obama continues to retreat from his public cliff campaigning, he'll have plenty of surrogates to pick up the slack.
David Plouffe, Obama's senior adviser, sent an email to supporters Tuesday encouraging them to share their support for Obama's tax proposals on social networking sites. ''Your voices are being heard, and that's making a difference,'' Plouffe wrote.
Obama's re-election campaign, which is still up and running more than a month after Election Day, pressed further. In another email to supporters, deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter wrote, ''Let's get one thing straight: If your taxes go up, Republicans will have made a conscious choice to let that happen.''
Obama advisers came out of Election Day banking on being able to translate the enthusiasm — and massive database — it used to build support for candidate Obama to build support for a re-elected Obama's policies. It's something the president's aides acknowledge they failed to do during his first term, including during negotiations on the health care overhaul.
There is some evidence to support the Obama team's assertion that its public campaign is working. An Associated Press-GfK poll suggested that 48 percent of Americans want tax cuts to expire in January on earnings over $250,000 but continue for lower incomes. An additional 32 percent said the tax cuts should continue for everybody, which has been the view of Republican lawmakers who say raising taxes on the wealthy would squelch their ability to create jobs.
Some Republican-leaning groups also have sought to build public support for GOP efforts to continue tax cuts for all income earners. Crossroads GPS, the Karl Rove-backed conservative group, announced a $500,000 television advertising buy last week. The TV spots assert that the president's solution to reducing the deficit is ''a huge tax increase'' and urge the public to call the president and voice opposition to his proposals.
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House and Senate leaders said July 31 they have reached an agreement on funding the government into the first quarter of fiscal 2013.
Congressional leaders have agreed to cap spending under the continuing resolution at $1.047 trillion. It's the amount agreed to in the Budget Control Act in August 2011.
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What is the point of having an opposition party if they do not stand up when the have a chance. We are running insane deficits year after year and neither party has the guts to say enough is enough. Boehner needs to be removed if the Republicans are to have any hope of ever being a party of principle. Otherwise, we simply have Democrats and Democrats light.


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In parts of France, a de facto millet system is already in place. In these areas, all women are obliged to wear the standardized Islamist "hijab" while most men grow their beards to the length prescribed by the sheiks.
The radicals have managed to chase away French shopkeepers selling alcohol and pork products, forced "places of sin," such as dancing halls, cinemas and theaters, to close down, and seized control of much of the local administration.
A reporter who spent last weekend in Clichy and its neighboring towns of Bondy, Aulnay-sous-Bois and Bobigny heard a single overarching message: The French authorities should keep out.
"All we demand is to be left alone," said Mouloud Dahmani, one of the local "emirs" engaged in negotiations to persuade the French to withdraw the police and allow a committee of sheiks, mostly from the Muslim Brotherhood, to negotiate an end to the hostilities. "
The French authorities have been struggling unsuccessfully with an ongoing intifada for years, trying to restrict attacks on non-Jewish targets. I commented last year that 10% of French Jews were considering immigrating to Israel; I wonder what that percentage is today?
The violence has been downplayed for more than a year; on a "quiet night" in France nearly three dozen cars are torched by the French "youths" that are responsible for the last 11 nights of rioting. And the riots are not localized in and around Paris; they are widespread and appear to be getting more violent as rioters shoot at police.
There are also reports of "riot like" activities in Berlin and Denmark.
It's possible (thought I can't see how) that the French govt. will pull something positive out of what is happening in France.
My fear is that a short term crackdown will lead to concessions to Sharia, De Facto if not De Jure now, and the French will allow large swaths of France to become Islamic states (Eurabia?) within the confines of the EU.
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It's a hodge-podge of several nice but fairly unoriginal new age ideas about peace and oneness. Basically, peace and oneness are good. According to the filmmakers, the images and sounds were recorded around the world using only a digital camera and a laptop. In that way it's all quite extraordinary; exceptional, even. Nevertheless, how one feels about "1 Gaint Leap" ultimately depends on how one feels about the ideas it covers and the participants' points of view. It's the kind of stuff you might call "issue-oriented" and "forward thinking," or "naïve" and "irritating." Thus the measure of the film depends on the viewer's perspective, and nothing else. Starring Tom Robbins, Pops Mohamed, Dennis Hopper, Brain Eno, Michael Franti, Robbie Williams, Michael Stipe, Speech and Kurt Vonnegut. Directed and written by Jamie Catto and Duncan Bridgeman. Produced by D.A. "Jumbo" Vanrenen. A Palm release. Documentary. Unrated. Running time: 90 min.
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"1 Giant Leap" is a multimedia project whose participants include Dennis Hopper, Kurt Vonnegut, Michael Stipe, Robbie Williams, Tom Robbins, Brain Eno and Babba Maal, as well as several more obscure authors, musicians and philosophers. The film itself is along the lines of a documentary, though it really doesn't document anything in particular. It's a complicated undertaking initiated by filmmaker/musicians Duncan Bridgeman, a video director and founding member of the band Faithless, and Jamie Catto, the noted mix-master and producer of acts like Duran Duran and Paul McCartney. The intent of the material is to express the "unity in the diversity" of the many peoples of the world through writing, spoken word, music, dance and philosophy. The subjects are wide-ranging and include God, money, sex, confrontation, death, unity, braided hair and blasphemy, among other esoteric sources of human discontent.
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A New Leaf: The End of Cannabis Prohibition
In the summer of 2006, a young scientist from Israel joined my laboratory. He came to learn how viruses attack cells, a major focus of my research program. And I looked forward to drawing on his expertise in an emerging area of science that intrigued me: the biological effects of cannabinoids, the active chemical compounds in the marijuana plant. The Israeli researcher had trained at Jerusalem's Hebrew University with Professor Raphael Mechoulam, a chemist credited with the discovery in 1964 of delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the primary psychoactive compound in marijuana. Mechoulam later characterized cannabidiol (CBD), a related substance plentiful in the plant, as distinct from THC in that it had no discernible effects on mood, perception, wakefulness, or appetite.1
The work of the young scientist proved productive. In short order, he tested the effects of several cannabinoids on a herpes virus that promotes the development of Kaposi's sarcoma, a disfiguring and sometimes fatal tumor among people with impaired immunity, like those with AIDS. It turned out that CBD, the plentiful, nonpsychoactive compound, could switch off the malignant effects of the virus.2 Scientists in my department also found that cannabinoids could alter how white blood cells migrated in response to physiological stimuli, a key aspect of immune defense; other research teams found that THC inhibited the growth and spread of lung cancer and CBD of breast cancer in laboratory models.3 Clearly, chemicals in the plant could have diverse and potent effects on normal and malignant cells.
But what I found most fascinating was that we have a natural or "endogenous" cannabinoid system. In 1988, researchers identified a specific docking site, or receptor, on the surface of cells in the brain that bound THC. This first receptor was termed cannabinoid receptor 1, or CB1.4 Five years later, a second receptor for cannabinoids, CB2, was found.5 This latter docking protein was less plentiful in the central nervous system but richly present on white blood cells. Again, it was Raphael Mechoulam who discovered the first endogenous cannabinoid, a fatty acid in the brain, which he termed "anandamide." (The name is derived from the Sanskrit word ananda, which means "bliss.") When anandamide attached to CB1 it triggered a cascade of biochemical changes within our neurons.6
Other endogenous cannabinoids were later identified. This makes evolutionary sense, since the CB1 and CB2 receptors would not be present on our cells if we did not normally make molecules to dock on them. The physiological ramifications of endogenous cannabinoids appeared quite broad; their most impressive effects were related to perception of and response to pain.
Cannabis is one of the oldest psychotropic drugs in continuous use. Archaeologists have discovered it in digs in Asia that date to the Neolithic period, around 4000 BCE. The most common species of the plant is Cannabis sativa, found in both tropical and temperate climates. Marijuana is a Mexican term that first referred to cheap tobacco and now denotes the dried leaves and flowers of the hemp plant. Hashish is Arabic for Indian hemp and refers to its viscous resin. An emperor of China, Shen Nung, also the discoverer of tea and ephedrine, is held to be among the first to report on therapeutic uses of cannabis in a medicinal compendium that dates to 2737 BCE. In 1839, William O'Shaughnessy, a British doctor working in India, published a paper on cannabis as an analgesic and appetite stimulant that also tempered nausea, relaxed muscles, and might ameliorate epileptic seizures. His observations led to widespread medical use of cannabis in the United Kingdom; it was prescribed to Queen Victoria for relief of menstrual discomfort.7
The cannabis plant contains some 460 compounds, including more than 60 cannabinoids. THC, the key psychoactive substance in marijuana, has increased from about 1–5 percent to as much as 10–15 percent in cultivated plants since the 1960s. When herbal cannabis is smoked, some 20 to 50 percent of the THC is absorbed via the lungs. When herbal cannabis is eaten, less THC reaches the brain because it is metabolized as it passes from the gut through the liver. THC accumulates in fatty tissues, from which it is slowly released, and acts primarily on CB1 receptors in the brain's mesolimbic dopamine system, which is believed to contribute to the positive reinforcing and rewarding effects of the drug.8
While smoking or eating cannabis typically results in the user's feeling "high," with a relaxed, euphoric sense as anxiety and alertness decrease, some first-time users, as well as individuals who have psychological problems, can experience dysphoria, fear, and panic. Typically, when high on marijuana, there is an increased sense of sociability, although among those who have a dysphoric reaction, there can be sharp social withdrawal. Perception of time is altered, generally with perceived time faster than clock time; spatial perception also may change, and colors may seem brighter and music more resonant. High doses of cannabis can result in hallucinations, which may account for its religious use in some cultures. Yet unlike opioids, there are no reported cases of death due to a THC overdose, probably because cannabinoids do not inhibit our respiratory drive, which would result in asphyxiation. Among regular users, abstinence from marijuana can cause an uncomfortable or distressing withdrawal syndrome.
In 2008 the World Health Organization published a Mental Health Survey of 54,068 persons age sixteen and older in seventeen nations. On the basis of this survey, cannabis was found to have been used at least once by some 160 million people between the ages of fifteen and sixty-five; reported use was lowest in the People's Republic of China, 0.3 percent, and highest in the United States, 42.4 percent, with New Zealand close behind.9
Despite such widespread use, cannabis is illegal in most countries. Harry J. Anslinger, a prominent prohibitionist, successfully lobbied Congress to pass the Marihuana Tax Act in 1937, making access to the plant costly. Anslinger was the head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics and presented cannabis use to the public as an unalloyed danger, resulting in "reefer madness." The American Medical Association opposed the Marihuana Tax Act, fearing that it would limit medicinal study and potential prescription of the plant. Long a part of the United States Pharmacopeia, a compendium that set standards for medicines and foods, cannabis was removed in 1942.
In 1970, Congress enacted the Controlled Substances Act, classifying marijuana along with heroin as a Schedule I drug. Drugs in this category have a proven potential for abuse and no medical value. (Opium, the source of morphine, and amphetamines are Schedule II drugs, classified as less dangerous despite their potent addictive properties.) Soon thereafter, President Nixon launched the "war on drugs," and in 1986, President Reagan signed the Anti-Drug Abuse Act, which mandated prison sentences without parole for offenders convicted of possession and sale of all illegal drugs, including marijuana.
The study of cannabinoids, both those derived from plant sources as well as the endocannabinoids that exist naturally within our body, is now an extensive enterprise that spans the globe and links numerous scientists in both academic centers and pharmaceutical companies.
Mitch Earleywine, a prominent researcher on drugs and addiction at SUNY Albany, observed how results from current studies on marijuana are akin to Rorschach blots. "People purportedly see these ambiguous pictures in a way that reveals more about them than the ink." Many who make public policy or are associated with interest groups, he contends, may respond to marijuana research according to the views of these groups: their interpretations say more about their own biases than about the actual data. For example, prohibitionists contend that THC often appears in the blood of people involved in auto accidents; yet they omit the fact that most of these people also had been drinking alcohol. Antiprohibitionists cite research that showed no sign of memory problems in chronic marijuana smokers; but they do not mention that the cognitive tests were so easy that even an impaired person could perform them.
Two recent reviews avoid such biases and critically examine data from more than a hundred randomized placebo-controlled clinical trials involving some 6,100 patients with a variety of medical conditions.10 Marijuana appears useful in treating anorexia, nausea and vomiting, glaucoma, irritable bowel disease, muscle spasticity, multiple sclerosis, symptoms of amyotropic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's disease), epilepsy, and Tourette's syndrome. (Recent clinical trials confirm many of the claims of Emperor Shen Nung and Dr. O'Shaughnessy.) Despite findings from experiments in my laboratory and others, its anticancer effects in patients are more uncertain and neither THC nor CBD is a proven antineoplastic agent, i.e., effective in treating abnormal growth of tissue.
Judy Foreman, an accomplished medical journalist, devotes a chapter to marijuana in her recent book A Nation in Pain: Healing Our Biggest Health Problem.11 She judiciously reviews the data on the risks and benefits of marijuana as a therapy for medical conditions marked by pain, highlighting where it appears ameliorative, where it falls short, and where there is lack of clarity about its value. Foreman writes:
To put it bluntly, marijuana works. Not dazzlingly, but about as well as opioids. That is, it can reduce chronic pain by more than 30 percent. And with fewer serious side effects. To be sure, some researchers think it's too soon to declare marijuana and synthetic cannabinoids a first-line treatment for pain, arguing that other drugs should be tried first. But that may be too cautious a view.
Ultimately, marijuana may be used in conjunction with opioids like morphine to allow for lower doses and fewer of the side effects of the opioid family of analgesics. While chronic pain seems amenable to amelioration by marijuana, its impact on reducing acute pain, such as after surgery, is minimal.
How do cannabinoids reduce pain? Some of the benefit appears to result from cognitive dissociation: you realize that pain is present, but don't respond to it emotionally. If you are able to detach yourself from pain in that way, there is less suffering.
Every therapy, whether a drug or a procedure, involves a tradeoff of benefits versus risks. Perhaps the most controversial and important concern around cannabinoids is whether they increase the risk of psychoses like schizophrenia. This question is most germane for adolescents and young adults. A number of studies reviewed the health records of young people in Sweden, New Zealand, and Holland who reported cannabis use, as compared to the records of those who did not. A combined or metaanalysis of results from nearly three dozen such studies linked cannabis use to later development of schizophrenia and other psychosis.12
The limitation of such observational studies is that they may suggest an association but in no way prove a causal link. Indeed, the medical literature is littered with observational studies that were taken as meaningful but later overturned when randomized placebo-controlled trials were conducted. Here the Women's Health Initiative comes to mind. This was a randomized study, using placebos as controls, that reversed some four decades of thinking about the alleged benefits of hormonal replacement therapy among postmenopausal women in preventing dementia and heart disease. No one is likely to conduct a randomized controlled trial of thousands of teenagers, assigning one group to smoke or ingest cannabis and the other group to receive placebos. The issue of marijuana as a cofactor in the development of schizophrenia and other psychosis will therefore remain unresolved.
Mohamed Ben Amar, "Cannabinoids in Medicine: A Review of Their Therapeutic Potential," Journal of Ethno-pharmacology, Vol. 105 (2006); Arno Hazekamp and Franjo Grotenhermen, "Review on Clinical Studies with Cannabis and Cannabinoids 2005–2009," Cannabinoids, Vol. 5 (2010). ↩
Y. Maor, J. Yu, P.M. Kuzontkoski, B.J. Dezube, X. Zhang, and J.E. Groopman, "Cannabidiol Inhibits Growth and Induces Programmed Cell Death in Kaposi Sarcoma–Associated Herpesvirus-Infected Endothelium," Genes & Cancer, Vol. 3, No. 7–8 (2012); X. Zhang, J.F. Wang, G. Kunos, and J.E. Groopman, "Cannabinoid Modulation of Kaposi's Sarcoma–Associated Herpesvirus Infection and Transformation," Cancer Research, Vol. 67, No. 15 (August 1, 2007). ↩
S. Ghosh, A. Preet, J.E. Groopman, and R.K. Gaju, "Cannabinoid Receptor CB 2 Modulates the CXCL 12/ CXCR 4-Mediated Chemotaxis of T Lymphocytes," Molecular Immunology, Vol. 43 (2006); A. Preet, R.K. Ganju, and J.E. Groopman, "∆ 9 -Tetrahydrocannabinol Inhibits Epithelial Growth Factor–Induced Lung Cancer Cell Migration in Vitro as Well as Its Growth and Metastasis in Vivo," Oncogene, Vol. 27 (2008); X. Zhang, Y. Maor, J.F. Wang, G. Kunos, and J.E. Groopman, "Endocannabinoid-like N-arachidonoyl Serine Is a Novel Pro-angiogenic Mediator," British Journal of Pharmacology, Vol. 160 (2010); A. Preet, Z. Qamri, M. Nasser, A. Prasad, K. Shilo, X. Zou, J.E. Groopman, and R. Ganju, "Cannabinoid Receptors, CB 1 and CB 2, as Novel Targets for Inhibition of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Growth and Metastasis," Cancer Prevention Research, Vol. 4 (2011); A. Shrivastava, P.M. Kuzontkoski, J.E. Groopman, and A. Prasad, "Cannabidiol Induces Programmed Cell Death in Breast Cancer Cells by Coordinating the Cross-Talk Between Apoptosis and Autophagy," Molecular Cancer Therapeutics, Vol. 10 (2011). ↩
W.A. Devane, F.A. Dysarz III, M.R. Johnson, L.S. Melvin, and A.C. Howlett, "Determination and Characterization of a Cannabinoid Receptor in Rat Brain," Molecular Pharmacology, Vol. 34 (November 1, 1988). ↩
S. Munro, K.L. Thomas, and M. Abu-Shaar, "Molecular Characterization of a Peripheral Receptor for Cannabinoids," Nature, Vol. 365 (1993). ↩
W.A. Devane, L. Hanus, A. Breuer, R.G. Pertwee, L.A. Stevenson, and G. Griffin, "Isolation and Structure of a Brain Constituent That Binds to the Cannabinoid Receptor," Science, Vol. 258 (December 18, 1992). ↩
D. Baker, G. Pryce, G. Giovannoni, and A.J. Thompson, "The Therapeutic Potential of Cannabis," Lancet Neurology, Vol. 2 (May 2003). ↩
Mitch Earleywine, Understanding Marijuana: A New Look at the Scientific Evidence (Oxford University Press, 2002). ↩
L. Degenhardt, W.T. Chiu, N. Sampson, et al., "Toward a Global View of Alcohol, Tobacco, Cannabis, and Cocaine Use: Findings from the WHO World Mental Health Surveys," PLoS Medicine, Vol. 5 (July 2008). ↩
See Amar, "Cannabinoids in Medicine: A Review of Their Therapeutic Potential," and Hazekamp and Grotenhermen, "Review on Clinical Studies with Cannabis and Cannabinoids 2005–2009." ↩
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Kevin Gertz knows he's playing with house money.
The Logan coach has already beaten the Grim Reaper. He's about to break the casino's bank.
Gertz suffered a heart attack during quadruple bypass surgery in which his heart stopped late last summer, and now he has his Wildcats on one of the most remarkable runs in girls high school basketball state tournament history.
The fifth-seeded Wildcats knocked off No. 1 Spring Valley 52-49 in Friday's Class AAA semifinals on senior guard Hannah Tothe's last-second 3-pointer to advance to their first state championship game. Logan will face Parkersburg South at 7:15 tonight in the title showdown.
Logan picked up its first state tournament game in school history in Thursday's quarterfinals over No. 4 Princeton.
"My life has changed, there's no doubt about it,'' said Gertz. "I took my life for granted and now I don't. This has been the time of my life. I got a second chance at life.''
Gertz, who was cleared to coach this season just before practice started in November, still isn't 100 percent. After the first half of Friday's semis he had to sit down on a chair in the hallway before eventually making his way to the locker room. Civic Center staffers were concerned enough to have paramedics check him out.
"I'm struggling,'' said the 45-year-old former Logan baseball and basketball standout. "It took me until about the six-minute mark to get in the locker room at halftime. I'm not doing great. I get extremely tired. I don't have all my strength back, but I'm healthier now than I've been in 15 or 20 years.
"We're going to make it through today and then I'm going to get myself checked out because I'm not where I should be to coach this way. I'm so proud of my girls. I've played ball all my life and I've never been part of a game like [Friday's].''
Gertz started feeling bad in early September and finally went to the doctor after a couple of episodes that resembled heart attacks.
"I had lost maybe 120 pounds not trying,'' he said. "They put in a quadruple bypass and while they were doing the last one I had a heart attack on the table and flat-lined. "I was flat for what they said was probably around 30 seconds.''
Gertz wanted nothing more than to get back on the sidelines as soon as possible.
"I knew that the only thing I wanted to do was coach,'' he said. "Coaching is my life. I don't see my wife ever. This coaching takes me away from my son. We make it work.''


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If, however, the Mountaineers make waves this season, it just might come by Van. More specifically, it might come via Van native and Mountaineer safeties coach Tony Gibson, who returned to his home state six months ago.
If Mario Alford, the nation's No. 1 junior college receiver recruit, starts, it's because of Gibson's efforts in landing the player. If Brandon Golson, ranked the No. 4 junior college linebacker, starts, it's because of Gibson.
And if former Florida State quarterback Clint Trickett starts for the Mountaineers, it's because of Gibson.
"When Clint graduated [from FSU] and decided to transfer, Rick [Trickett] called me and asked if we needed a quarterback," Gibson said. "I said he'd have an opportunity to compete. And it went from there."
Clint Trickett will not only have a chance to compete, but to win the starting job. And the back story makes the angle even more compelling.
As WVU fans know, there hasn't been such uncertainly surrounding the QB position - or the team for that matter - for a while.
"It's like 2005," said Gibson, who was also a WVU assistant that year for now-Arizona coach Rich Rodriguez. "I don't know where we were picked to finish in the Big East, but we ended up going with a young, freshman quarterback and a freshman running back. Thankfully, they turned out to be superstars."
The running back, of course, was Steve Slaton. The quarterback was redshirt freshman Pat White, who took over for Adam Bednarik. Mountaineer fans know of White's wild college career success. What they might not know is White was recruited - twice, a second time when the player flirted with major league baseball - by the aforementioned Rick Trickett, Clint's father and the now-embattled Florida State line coach who worked with Gibson and Rodriguez in Morgantown in '05.
WVU was picked to finish third that year in the Big East, which is a little like being picked eighth in the Big 12. The Mountaineers were coming off an 8-4 record. This year, WVU is coming off a 7-6 mark.
Anyway, Gibson's help, especially in the area of recruiting, helped lift the Mountaineers to their rise in 2005 and beyond under Rodriguez. His return, as well other coaching additions like Ron Crook, JaJuan Seider, Lonnie Galloway and Brian Mitchell, is something that should not be overlooked. Ditto the addition of tailback Charles Sims. ("He's a stud," Gibson said. "Off the hook, just a great looking kid.") Ditto Clint Trickett's arrival.
"Obviously, I knew about him," Gibson said of the QB. "Rick was here with us for six years. I knew Clint was a good athlete and a winner.
"He has great leadership skills. I watched him on TV. And every time he went into games he made an impact. He throws the ball well. He's very knowledgeable. You don't see him get rattled. And whenever you have a coach's kid it seems to work."


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