It essentially sums up what kind of coaching tenure at WVU that can be expected when he quotes from ESPN’s halftime gimmick segment.

But talk of revenge? Doesn’t that just get in the way of what really matters in Friday’s 101st edition of the Backyard Brawl?

“There’s not going to be any talk of revenge,” Stewart said Sunday. “The word revenge, I don’t want our players to use that. … I agree with Lou Holtz. You spend all your life worrying about revenge, you’re going to spend your whole life as a pretty unhappy human being. They beat our butt last year in a football game, bottom line. What we have to do is worry about 2008 and play us a good football game.”

I’m just picturing Bill Stewart sitting home on a Thursday night, watching the college football game, and then sitting up with a notebook when the Dr. Lou segment airs. Jotting down notes and the pearls of wisdom that comes from them.

It’s not possible for me to hate Coach Goober at this point, but it easy for me to laugh at him.