WVU Puts Safety Plans In Place After Out-Of-Control Football Fan Riots
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (KDKA) -- Police and 911 say there were no incidents or fires to report in Morgantown, West Virginia, after the West Virginia University-Texas Christian University game Saturday.
After West Virginia beat Baylor back on Oct. 18, students created a violent scene with riots and major destruction from burning items. It cost the city of Morgantown $45,000.
Major preparations were put in place for after this Saturday's game.
The Mountaineers took on TCU marking the first home game since the riots.
Corey Farris, who is WVU'S Dean of Students, said, "We're taking our university back, and those students and those people that were acting badly don't speak and don't represent us at all."
Farris says the university took serious action, expelling students involved in the riots.
The university's police department, along with city, county and state police were all hands on deck, prepared for a repeat of the last home win.
In the streets after the loss to TCU, things were calm. Still police were patrolling and the fire marshal was also on hand.
"It's more like a show of enforcement," David Paulson, a WVU student, said.
KDKA's Christine D'Antonio: "Do you think it's working?"
Paulson: "Yeah, unless had we won today, things might have been different."
"If they did win, it was going to be crazy, mad house," Hayley Jampo a WVU freshman, said. "They can't be stopped these kids, they're crazy. Because kids drink, and they don't really care when they drink, and I think that's the issue."
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