I hate WVU as much as anybody. If we could go back in time and insure WV had a proper well funded university that serves its state, like other states have, this state wouldn't be last in everything. One of the main reasons WV is poor is the huge waste of money that we spend on WVU, and thus the shortage of money to spend on Marshall, which does its best to do the job that WVU forsook.
That said, this has nothing to do with WVU. If you remember the election last year, there was this Amendment 2, which was the legislature's idea. It gets complicated, but more or less it cut taxes on inventory on hand, which is something that almost no other state taxes at all. Big Jim was against it and campaigned hard and it was soundly defeated. The legislature now has a big case of the butt hurt and is doing all sorts of things to embarass and harass the governor. The spending was legal, and nothing will come of it.
BTW, the WVU baseball stadium excavation was illegally done with WV DOH gas tax money and the construction was funded with 100% state sales tax dollars. Your Spamite friends will yell and scream about how it is "sell-sufficient", but this, like most things associated with WVU, is simply a lie.
