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WVIAC Sports
Monday August 3, 2009
UC no longer WVC's football patsy
by Mike Casazza
Daily Mail sports writer
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WEST LIBERTY, W.Va. - The way Tony DeMeo remembers it, one of the first exploratory phone calls he made as the University of Charleston football coach prior to the 2005 season was to Shepherd Coach Monte Cater.

"Give me a rundown of the league," said DeMeo, who had coached 16 seasons at Iona (N.Y.), Mercyhurst (Pa.) and Washburn (Kan.).

Cater, the winningest coach in the history of the West Virginia Conference, explained how Glenville State was strong again, how West Virginia Wesleyan and Concord were legitimate and, well, how just about everyone in the conference made it a difficult place to coach.

"Monte," DeMeo said, "who's the patsy?"

Cater thought for a moment.

"Well," he said, "that'd be you."

No more, though. DeMeo's fifth season at UC began with the Golden Eagles predicted to finish second in the conference at Saturday's WVC media day here. It's the highest the team's been predicted since football returned in 2003 after a 47-year hiatus.

DeMeo said it was a matter of time and adhering to a patient process.

"We have a good team back," he said of a group returning eight starters on offense and defense that helped UC go 7-4 and 5-3 in conference play last season. "On defense, we have seven seniors in our front seven.

"Think about that. We're pretty excited about that and that goes back to 2006 when we started eight freshmen on defense. That was a nightmarish kind of deal."

"I don't think there's a favorite to win the conference," said Seton Hill Coach Joel Dolinski, who led the Griffins to a 10-3 record, a second-place WVC finish and a playoff win in his first season. "It's the team that can stay healthy, take care of the ball and eliminate mistakes. It's up for grabs."

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