Tim Bolling

Senior Associate Vice President at the WVU Foundation

[Tim Bolling @TimBolling]

@JeffInDMV @Super70sSports Not at all !

[Isaac Meyers @meyersmedia_]

sure, expand it to 24 teams...

but you'll NEVER take away our memories.

2006-2023 (the most MAGICAL era of college football)

[Tim Bolling @TimBolling]

@BundschuhFred @RedsDaily4 Geronimo and Griffey

[Tim Bolling @TimBolling]

Geronimo and Griffey

[Fred Bundschuh @BundschuhFred]

@RedsDaily4 or Geronimo and driessen?

[Tim Bolling @TimBolling]

@joedaboys @Jeffery_Cobb @joedaboys that’s his #1 !

[Tim Bolling @TimBolling]

@BigDaddyMerinar is a creative, kind, and talented colleague, and a credit to @WVUSports and @WestVirginiaU. He’s also a great dad and fellow inhabitant of #OneWaterfront!

[Erin Gibson @egibsonwvu]

Blessed to work with @bigdaddymerinar every day! We are so fortunate to have Sean as maestro up in the box, but I’m even more lucky to have him as a friend/confidant/hype man/vibe-creator. Worth the read ⬇️

https://t.co/UMtxkQGePy

[Wren Baker @wrenbaker]

This Saturday will be a SCENE in Morgantown! cc @CollegeGameDay

@PatMcAfeeShow

[Wren Baker @wrenbaker]

A huge thank you to those already supporting this project. If YOU are interested, reach out to the @WVU_MAC today! The new West side tower will help position us financially for the future and vastly improve the game day experience. Let's Go!

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯 @japan_nobunaga]

At Ground Zero, after the last living person was pulled out, the search dogs stopped eating.

So the police did something nobody had written down in any manual.

They climbed into the rubble, lay down, and pretended to be alive.

More than 300 dogs worked the World Trade Center site. They came from every corner of the country, on trucks and in cargo holds, with handlers who had been trained to do one thing. Find people who are still breathing under the ground.

That is what a search and rescue dog is built for. Not bodies. Life. They are trained on live human scent. When they find it, they bark, they dig, they light up, and the handler rewards them, and the whole thing means something.

The last living person recovered from Ground Zero was a woman named Genelle Guzman-McMillan. She had been buried for 27 hours. A dog found her.

She was the last.

After that, the dogs kept going out on twelve-hour shifts, across sixteen acres of smoldering steel, at temperatures that burned their paws, and they found nobody.

Nobody.

Day after day.

The handlers noticed it first. The dogs were changing. Their tails were down. They were not eating. They would come off the pile and lie flat and not look at anyone.

A veterinarian named Cindy Otto, who spent ten days there working night shifts to care for the animals, put it plainly. The dogs had been sent to find life, and every day they were finding the opposite.

It was breaking them.

An NYPD officer named Famiglietti described what happened next.

They pulled everybody off the rubble. Then they asked for volunteers.

The volunteers, police officers, went out into the debris and hid themselves. Under beams. In voids. Curled up in pockets of concrete. They were told to lie down like they were hurt. Then the handlers sent the dogs in.

Picture that.

A grown man with a badge, a man who had spent the last week pulling friends out of that same pile, lying down in it on purpose. Face down. Holding still. Waiting for a dog.

And the dog comes over the top of the wreckage, and catches the scent, and barks, and digs, and finds a person who is warm and moving and alive.

And the handler says good girl, good boy, and the whole team celebrates.

They called them mock finds.

They did it for the dogs.

They did it so the dogs would remember what they were for.

One of those dogs was a two-year-old golden retriever named Bretagne. She came from Texas with her handler, Denise Corliss. It was her first deployment. They worked ten days at Ground Zero. They found no survivors.

But firefighters would come off the pile, stone-faced, not speaking, and see the dog, and something would break open in them. They would kneel down. They would put their face in her fur.

One day a man walked up to Bretagne and started petting her. He told Corliss his best friend loved golden retrievers.

Corliss asked where his friend was.

The man pointed at the pile.

"He's in there somewhere."

He kept petting the dog.

Bretagne went on to work Hurricane Katrina and Rita. She retired at 10. She was the last known surviving search dog of 9/11.

On June 6, 2016, at age 16, she was carried into a veterinary office in Texas to be put to sleep.

Outside, a dozen firefighters from her fire department stood in a line in their dress uniforms, in the heat, and saluted as she went past.

They draped her in an American flag on the way out.

Three hundred dogs went into that pile looking for the living.

They found one.

And when they could not find any more, the men they worked beside laid down in the rubble and let themselves be found, so the dogs would not lose heart.

That is the whole story of Ground Zero, really.

Nobody could save the dead.

So they saved each other. 🇺🇸

[Brit Hume @brithume]

He's old now, on a walker with some teeth missing. But when he sang that song, the crowd roared, and well they should have. Good for him and good for them.

[Paul O'Neill @PaulONeillYES]

What an honor to be a part of this city 🇺🇸

[Tim Bolling @TimBolling]

Glad you had a good time and hope your travels home were safe! Good luck to @CoastalFootball this season.

[Lindsay Hickman @lindsayhickman_]

As a @CoastalFootball fan I just want to say THANK YOU to @WVUfootball, @WVUSports, and all of the Mountaineer Nation. Y’all went above and beyond in hospitality, welcoming our fans and team. Truly a top notch program and fan base. I would love for this to be an annual game.

[Tim Bolling @TimBolling]

Great job @wvubandvoice, @bigdadderinar, and all of the @wvuathleticsvid and @WVUSports team. What a great day for @coachpatwhite !

[Sean Merinar @bigdaddymerinar]

A pro's pro and a man I'm lucky to work with. What a celebration for 5

[FOX College Football @CFBONFOX]

WVU legend Pat White’s jersey is officially retired in Morgantown 💙💛

(via @ollyreedsports)

[Darren Rovell @darrenrovell]

Kudos to West Virginia on the Pat White Commemorative ticket for his jersey retirement today.

[Steve Sabins @stevesabins]

Paully and Korn reunited. 2 amazing Mountaineers who were instrumental in the first CWS run in program history. Let’s go! @IanKorn29

[Steve Sabins @stevesabins]

New wall design in team theatre celebrating some of the best to ever do it in @Big12Conference. Facilities department always crushing it.
@hmusky15 @Alek_Manoah6 @jj_wetherholt @maxx_yehl

[Tim Bolling @TimBolling]

Outstanding !

[Steve Sabins @stevesabins]

2026 @WVUBaseball

[ESPN PR @ESPNPR]

ESPN delivered the most-watched #MCWS pre-Finals on record in 2026!

⚾️ 1.4M avg. viewers
⚾️ Up 34% YoY

[Tim Bolling @TimBolling]

Yes!!! Play it! #LetsGo!!

[U.S. Soccer Men's National Team @USMNT]

PLAY COUNTRY ROADS.