BREAKING Derek Pitts
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As a university, The B1G fits Kansas a lot better than the SEC.
West Virginia is subsidizing the education of Pennsylvania, NJ, and Nova with WVU and your post supports that. Less than half of WVU students are from the state.
WVU gets $130,000,000/year from the state and educates 13,000 West Virginians($10,000 each). Marshall gets $45,000,000/year from the state and educates 11,000 West Virginians($4,090 each).
Spending $50 million and finishing middle of the pack in a conference run by two schools is hardly something to brag about.
Funny how you mention income gaps but the ACC is winning national titles and competing in the CFP annually...where the Big 12 literally cannot get in unless OU or UT are good enough to do so. We all remember TCU and Baylor both being left out.
That situation alone shows just how much OU and UT are towing in this conference.
I live in WV and have lived in WV for 15 years.
However, I grew up in a state that actually knows how to function.
Yeah, wvu is preparing itself and would need a solid decade to prepare itself for potential re-alignment...whereas other schools with more to offer from their states, will just write a resume and send it in.
wvu isn't going to be the only one waiting outside the P4 door hoping to get in...and if it takes wvu that long to prepare for it, just shows how little they have to offer (as I have said before).
The best part will be seeing the faces of their fans when they're ultimately rejected.
I could see Texas going independent.
They have their own TV network.
They're Texas...teams will play them and they can schedule who they want each season.
Texas can afford to go independent.
Also, while money is huge in the SEC...the Texas A&M experiment isn't going as smoothly as Aggie fans were wanting. They literally shelled out $75 million for 9 wins a season so far.
Most of all...Texas wouldn't have any control or pull in a room with Alabama, Florida, etc. I'm sure thats why Texas is still even in the Big 12, because they and OU are controlling it. Texas isn't one to take orders from another school/conference. I don't think their leadership would have the temperment to do so.
Probably the most important part of that post was the last part of it.
Which wvu hasn't been doing a lot of lately.
Except OU "was within hours" of leaving the Big 12 when Nebraska, Missouri, etc left.
Many of the top tier P5 schools are going to realize they don't need some of these programs who contribute nothing.
I believe the Big 12 is going to eventually collapse and lots of schools will be looking for new conferences.
Fans of schools with inferior football teams always bring up academics because that's all they have to argue with.Who cares. Athletes at all schools are held to lower standards then non athletes.Just look at the cheating scandal at UNC. I've never watched a game and thought about academics at the schools participating.Besides it's not exactly like Marshalls an Ivy league school.
WVU's doing fine in the Big 12 in all sports.
Since they joined the conference WVU football is tied for the most first round draft picks in the conference.How many 1st round draft picks has Marshall had since 2012 ? I'll wait for an answer.
It's been I believe 20 years since Marshall beat a top 25 team.
WVU is 4-3 against that team from Texas who Marshall fans like to say WVU can't compete with.
WVU is 14th in all-time wins.
WVU just spent more on a golf complex then Marshall's entire athletic budget.
WVU fans don't have to try and find their games somewhere on a bad internet feed.
And of course 12-0
I could go on and on but whats the point.Marshall fans hatred of WVU is like Democrats hatred of President Trump.But if it helps you Marshall fans sleep better by pretending you're somehow on WVU's level then have at it.
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Another eerdiot that missed the point of what was being discussed. And then rambles on about nothing for several paragraphs.
Don't even go there with this nonsense. This "all-time" record has been broken down many times on here and Thunder in The Mountains, and proven to be far less impressive than your ilk make it out to be.
Then the non-athletes, and then who? Oh, you must have meant to say, "than," since it was a comparison.
Pretty sure that stat is incorrect. If memory serves me, I believe we beat Louisville in 2011 when they were ranked.
Before then, it is was Florida State.
Notre Dame isn't technically part of the ACC but sort of are, so I'm counting them as well.
lol your stats would get you laughed out of a room of Big 12 teams.
Which is why you idiots wouldn't try saying such stats towards them.
LOL draft picks?
wvu is also on pace to having the most players bust im the NFL based on their initial drafting.
But wvu is also undefeated against teams starting with the letter "J" in August games since 2006.
wvu is also one of 12 teams to feature a Nike Swoosh on its jersey over 4 inches big.
wvu is also one of 10 Big 10 teams to get money from its TV contract.
This separates the wvu fans and the ones who actually attended.
Must hurt your ego and your soul to have to so rigorously defend an entity you really have no connection to.
But in your mind, compensating for lack of wvu degree is putting everyone else down...however you have to dig at such useless drivel in stats like NFL draft picks, to do so.
Such things are the embodiment of wvu fans and WV as a whole, and wvu fans wonder why they're constantly the topic of jokes.
They aren't going to go independent. If they wanted to do that they would do it now. The networks are not going to be what they once thought they would be. Texas also won't be in the SEC.
Well that's nice you think they will collapse.... anything that makes dozens of millions and is trending upwards really isn't on the verge of collapse. And there were lots teams that were within seconds of doing lots of things when the conferences were on the move. At this point if any conference is a dying breed it's the Pac12. Its the worst P5 in both football and basketball this year, and always is in basketball. The teams don't draw the revenue they once they and they are definitely trending downward. The west coast is not about college sports outside of Eugene.
California's appeal, kills its college sports no doubt, I'll agree with you on that one.
They are a member of the ACC. This is as close as ND has been to being all in an athletic conference, which means football.
They are committed to playing half of their schedule vs fellow conference teams and they will be a 100% member sooner than later.
What has any of this have to do with Derek Pitts?
This dumbass actually argued a land grant school can't be ranked high. Can you believe that? I immediately had this thought: "Cal Berkeley, Purdue, Ohio State....Jesus Christ, this guy is an idiot."
Honest to God, every time I watch UNC, UK, or UofL play basketball, at least once during the game I think, "These motherfvckers don't even go to class."
I didn't read the rest of your drivel.
You are criticizing where WVU is at when the athletic department is making close to $50 million from media rights? Who cares if OU and Texas are the two headliners of the conference? Clemson and FSU are the only elite programs in the ACC. How many elite programs are in the PAC 12?
While WVU isn’t ranked really high in that academic ranking, they are a national university with the designation of being an R1 research institution. I’m proud to be an alumnus.
What evidence do you have that leads you to believe the Big 12 is going to collapse? Is your opinion backed by facts or just more hyperbole?
I hope in the future you can learn to support your quality university without having the need to disparage any other university.
