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Disaffected donor Ken Kendrick, before discussing his athletic department concerns in a meeting with West Virginia President Mike Garrison, gave his alma mater a gift of $1 million toward academic scholarships -- the same amount the university spent on unsold Fiesta Bowl tickets. Kendrick, who, along with fellow benefactor Bob Reynolds, withdrew a combined $12 million in pledges two weeks ago, met with R. Wayne King, president of the WVU Foundation, over the weekend and handed him a $1,012,500 check that essentially reimburses the university for the roughly 7,500 tickets that remained from the school's 17,500 allotment. Those unsold tickets were doled out to charities through the Fiesta Bowl, which seeks to sell out the game tonight that matches No. 11 West Virginia (10-2) and No. 3 Oklahoma (11-2) inside University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Ariz.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Rich Rodriguez, AP Rich Rodriguez, AP

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January 2, 2008  08:24 AM ET
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Hard to believe they couldn't use up all of those tickets?

January 2, 2008  10:02 AM ET
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thats not a lot of tickets ... whats up with the WVU fans. They not like Arizona?

January 2, 2008  10:22 AM ET
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I'll guarantee that there's more than 10,000 WVU fans there for the game. This is something Joe Fan has figured out - other than the top game or two, he can get better seats from buying directly through the bowl's website than through their school's athletic department's allotment.

January 2, 2008  10:38 AM ET
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Given all of the WVU crying on this site the past couple of weeks, this kinda makes me smile a bit.

January 2, 2008  11:47 AM ET
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Where was this "donation" when it counted?

January 2, 2008  01:09 PM ET
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I know why it didn't sell out.

They lost their head coach and they'll probably get crushed by Oklahoma who knows how to defend the spread (beat Mizzou twice).

January 2, 2008  03:09 PM ET
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Penn Stater:

What you said, plus they couldn't get their New Orleans travel deposits back quickly enough to go to Tempe instead!

 
January 2, 2008  06:33 PM ET
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WVU know they dont belong in that game. The big east should never have had an automatic bid. They couldnt beat sc second team.

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