Make WVU men’s soccer history Friday

The Mountaineer Maniacs have helped take the attendance and atmosphere at men's soccer games to a whole new level. Last season more than 1,800 students showed up for our home opener against UC-Santa Barbara.

The total crowd that night checked in at 3,000 Friday night at 7:30 p.m., the WVU men's soccer team will host the ninth-ranked Monmouth University Hawks.

Mountaineer Nation has an opportunity to make stadium history and put everyone else on notice that WVU fans are truly the best in the country!

"Let's make history" on Friday night. Four-thousand fans packing the stands would be quite the scene before heading out on the town that night to celebrate.

Men's soccer games are quickly becoming a tradition for the students at WVU. Our student crowd is loud & boisterous, which makes Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium one of the most intimidating venues in America.

If we are going to have any chance of knocking off a top 10 team Friday night, we are going to need Mountaineer Nation behind us.

I implore you, the students, the Mountaineer Maniacs, the faculty and staff, and everyone associated with WVU that loves the Gold and Blue to be at Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium Friday evening.

Before the game, the Mountaineer Maniacs will lead the crowd in a new tradition of singing "Country Roads" before the team takes the field. We need everyone in the stadium early to be a part of this new tradition.

As soon as FanFest ends, make your way to the soccer stadium located right next to the Coliseum. Get in the stands early, pick up your new "12th man" T-shirt from the Maniacs and then make sure that Monmouth knows EXACTLY where they are that night.

This is Morgantown, W.Va. … this is West Virginia University … and we are ALL Mountaineers.

We never stand alone, we never back down and we represent the Gold and Blue with pride. Let's make history on Friday night by putting 4,000 fans in the stands.

Before you head out to party, whether you are a soccer fan or not, come and support your team because YOU ARE A MOUNTAINEER and that's just what we do!

I love this team, I love this University and I love the Mountaineer Maniacs.

I promise that your team will play its hearts out for you, the great state of West Virginia and all Mountaineers everywhere.

We will leave it all on the field, and I hope that you will do exactly the same on Friday night at 7:30 p.m., from the stands!

As my good friend Bill Stewart has said, "Leave no doubt tonight. Leave no doubt tonight. No doubt, they shouldn't have played the Old Gold & Blue. Not this night."

Let's Go ...