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Big East and Big 12 Talking Merger

  • jordo212000
    wildcats20;904959 wrote:So maybe it's because I'm dumb, but why is the B10 not looking at WVU?

    Academics
    Lack of tradition
    Inability to bring Big 10 major market
    Cultural differences
  • ts1227
    Lack of tradition is subjective and meaningless. It's basically just the academics.

    No one gives a shit about "tradition" in this.
  • wildcats20
    Is WVU "that" far behind the rest of the B10?
  • justincredible
    My best friend went to WVU and he's a lawyer. He's also found the cure for the aids.
  • karen lotz
    wildcats20;904971 wrote:Is WVU "that" far behind the rest of the B10?
    Do they even have running water in Morgantown?
  • justincredible
    karen lotz;904989 wrote:Do they even have running water in Morgantown?

    They got it last year.
  • jordo212000
    ts1227;904970 wrote:Lack of tradition is subjective and meaningless. It's basically just the academics.

    No one gives a shit about "tradition" in this.
    I think the Big 10 does. As evidenced by them targeting Notre Dame, Texas, and Nebraska and not offering anybody else.
  • Manhattan Buckeye
    wildcats20;904971 wrote:Is WVU "that" far behind the rest of the B10?
    Academically it "that" far behind and then some.

    But it is more than just that, it is overall academic and athletic culture. It doesn't provide much in non-revenue sports for purposes of the President's Cup and doesn't deliver any semblance of a tv market. WVU is an odd school in general. It is very strange for a state flagship university to have a location that isn't centrally located in terms of geography or population base.
  • gorocks99
    wildcats20;904971 wrote:Is WVU "that" far behind the rest of the B10?

    Although it's just one ranking, US News has 11 of the 12 B1G schools in the top 80, the lone exception Nebraska at 101. WVU checks in at 164. So, by that measure, it is quite a difference. Plus, the majority of B1G schools have endowments north of $1b. The latest I could find for WVU has them around $330m.
  • justincredible
    gorocks99;905070 wrote:Although it's just one ranking, US News has 11 of the 12 B1G schools in the top 80, the lone exception Nebraska at 101. WVU checks in at 164. So, by that measure, it is quite a difference. Plus, the majority of B1G schools have endowments north of $1b. The latest I could find for WVU has them around $330m.
    Chicks prefer larger endowments.