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This does not make sense. ACC goes after Pittsburg and Syracuse to get big money TV markets. I still said WV does not have anything to offer. It will cost the SEC schools money to add them.

A tweet out of Pittsburgh says WV is next. The Big East is crumbling before us.
colin_dunlap Colin Dunlap
 by CecilHurt
Same university source who told me Dana was getting hired--& was spot-on re: everything--says WVU sent paperwork to SEC today. We'll see.
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This does not make sense. ACC goes after Pittsburg and Syracuse to get big money TV markets. I still said WV does not have anything to offer. It will cost the SEC schools money to add them.

My Bro. in-law was a professor at Syracuse for awhile. Nobody cares about Cuse football out there. If it ain't the Yankees they ain't watching. jmho

Syracuse ma not have a big following but to get a portion of the New York TV market is huge. The ACC also has BC for the New England market. The ACC is trying to postion themselves before only leftovers remain. I believe the SEC has a plan, I wish I knew what it is.

Syracuse ma not have a big following but to get a portion of the New York TV market is huge. The ACC also has BC for the New England market. The ACC is trying to postion themselves before only leftovers remain. I believe the SEC has a plan, I wish I knew what it is.

I don't mind posting this again, for as many as possible to see. WVU has no TV market. There is only about 1200 people in the state and 100-200 of them cannot afford TV. Another 300-400 are on rabbit ears. The fans are uninformed, viscious idiots that may beat you up in front of your wife and kids. The logistics in and out of Morgantown are unimaginable. They travel well numbers wise, but bring their own food and drinks, and will steal your lawnmower out of your yard.  The stadium holds 65,000 but by the time you seat all the morbidly obese skoal dippers the actual attendance is less than they have at the National Guard Armory Toughman contests. They have a NC Rifle Team that only loses, occassionally, to the service academies or Alaska-Fairbanks.

"There is no question that the landscape of college athletics is once again changing. West Virginia University has great tradition as the state's flagship land-grant institution, and we will continue working to do what's best for our University and its athletic teams. No matter how the college athletic landscape changes, there is no doubt WVU is and will remain a national player."

Doesn't WVA get into the DC tv market?

No one in the main stay of the acc is going to leave. I don't see fsu bailing to go to the sec. So that leaves WVA. One thought now, does ND jump Big East and head to Big 10. Screw their Indy football. They compete in big east in everything else. I think the stars are all aligning now.

Not when I lived there.

The eastern panhandle of WV RECEIVES broadcast from DC, but not the other way around. :eyeroll:

Rutgers remains 'in contact' with ACC and Big Ten

Rutgers has been involved in talks with the ACC about possible membership over the past two days and its lines of communications with the Big Ten have remained open and "are active," according to a highly-placed college official.

"Rutgers has been in contact with both conferences," the person said.

The person requested anonymity because of the nature of the discussions.

Fearful of being left without a BCS conference to call home following the weekend decisions by Pittsburgh and Syracuse to bolt the Big East for the ACC, Rutgers is aggressively pursuing a possible landing spot outside the Big East, which faces an uncertain future now.

Rutgers athletic director Tim Pernetti, speaking publicly for the first time about the latest shift in conference realignment, declined to get into the specifics of what course of action the school is pursuing.

"With what we're doing, I would just say this: We're continuing to be engaged in talks with several parties, and I think that's been the case for a long time more than the last 36 hours," he said. "It's always been our practice to keep those types of talks private. I've always kept that stuff in the family and I think it's important that we continue to do that."

http://www.nj.com/rutgersfootball/index.ssf/2011/09/rutgers_remains_in_contact_wit.html

1.  West Virginia University  
 Located in Morgantown, West Virginia, this school is home to the world's finest couch burners. They usually have a pretty decent football team and basketball team, although the 2009-2010 basketball team won the Big East Championship and made it to the NCAA Final Four. Many innocent couches were burned those nights.

Their biggest sports rival is whoever they happen to be playing that night, though they do particularly hate Pitt, and will usually shout "Eat sh@t Pitt" at games. The fans offten times make sports center because of their heckling tactics (which include shouting the name of a coach's misstress) and throwing trash onto the floor and at players from the other school. The rowdy fans are often times from New Jersey, but can be just about anyone from the school if they're playing Pitt. They burn couches and sing "Country Roads" after every game.

Mom- What should we do with this old couch?

Dad- Hey, let's send it to our son that goes to West Virginia University that way he has something to burn after the game!
 
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LOL. That staying in the stadium after the game stuff came from the movie "We Are Marshall". They've never had an original thought, and are usually 6 mos. late with the national fads, like bouncing up and down like idiots to the Black Eyed Peas. They also have some kind of retarded finger roll thing they do which (I'm not real sure) is some kind of hex on the opposition.  If any of ya'll see my kids at the WVU game, ignore them,--it's what I do.

They hit a coach (maybe Miami) once with an upper deck trash can.

Upper deck trash can? The coach is lucky that didn't kill him.  :o

For some uncanny reason I just don't see W. Virginia coming to the SEC, I just don't see the benefit they would bring to the conference.

For some uncanny reason I just don't see W. Virginia coming to the SEC, I just don't see the benefit they would bring to the conference.

I would rather play with 13 for a year than bring in the wrong #14 and be stuck with them.

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- The profanity flying out of the West Virginia student section was so loud it could be heard on national television, prompting a university official to warn students to tone down their language at basketball games.

They obliged a week later -- technically -- during a game against Louisville. But on 10 separate occasions students chanted the name of a woman that Cardinals coach Rick Pitino admitted having sex with outside his marriage.

A headline to an editorial in WVU's student paper, The Athenaeum, read, "Maybe Pitino deserved it: That's still no excuse."

WVU has seen its image take a hit from time to time.

Visiting football teams have worn their helmets coming out of the tunnel knowing that they're in a flying object zone. A Miami assistant coach was hit in the head with a trash can from the stands after a 1996 game in Morgantown settled a lawsuit with the university.

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=4881299

WVU warns rowdy student section - Foul-mouth West Virginia Mountaineers Student Section Under Fire...

That sounds like innocent fun (the Petino thing).  But I'm getting stories of men being attacked or shouted down, in front of their kids.  We'll step in the middle, intercede, but you can't watch everyone.  They're out of control liquored up and dangerous to outsiders.

UConn president Susan Herbst is aggressively pursuing membership in the ACC to become the 15th or 16th member institution in the conference, according to a source with direct knowledge of UConn's situation.

According to the source, Herbst was having conversations recently but in light of Pittsburgh's and Syracuse's defections from the Big East, the talks have accelerated in the last 48 hours.

In a statement earlier Sunday, Herbst said that although UConn was "a proud charter member of the Big East" the school was staying "actively involved in discussions with our counterparts from around the country to ensure the successful long-term future of our university's athletic program."

http://espn.go.com/college-sports/story/_/id/6989031/uconn-huskies-aggressively-seeking-acc-move-source-says

Source: UConn eyes ACC move

OK, I am now officially not starting to like this expansion talk. At first with the TAMU stuff, I thought, "Oh, ok, I guess that wouldn't be to bad." Now with Pitt, Cuse, and now UCONN, plus who knows what else is out there, this whole idea is really starting to concern me. The whole idea of just four or so mega-conferences or whatever may be good for dollars, but I am worried about what is going to happen to many of the traditions of college football.

Me too. How will basketball be treated if the the super conferences are established. There are some schools that are very good in basketball but have nothing in football.

Both Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski and North Carolina coach Roy Williams have told ESPN.com that they would endorse the ACC expanding to 16 teams comprised of two eight-team divisions.

WV would definitely bring in a new kinda hillbilly to the league.   No offense, WV (poster, not state.  HTH).

Ya'll have Appalachians too, HL.

I noticed that too Chechem.

Here you go:

http://www.crimsonredsports.com/index.php?topic=4579.msg67218#msg67218

The Appalachians down here are too busy making meth to pay attention to sports.

why would any of these other non SEC teams even consider joining ?
 (as they say)
a cheating , lying , underhanded , over rated , low down , snake bellied conference ?

they have cussed us and damned us and wished death on us for years ....

screw em' ... let em' stay where the are     ;D

Now you want to get into a pissing contest over who has the most meth labs?

It's probably a close race.  WV makers do have it good though.  If their lab blows up, it just blows more coal out of their cave.

If it's true then the SEC leaders must know something we don't.  While WVU is far from the best school the SEC could go after, there aren't many other options for new TV markets.  None of the North Carolina schools are leaving the ACC.  Virginia is ACC all the way.  VT could be a possibility but they seem content in the ACC.  The SEC already has a presence in South Carolina we can pretty much rule out Clemson; same thing with FSU and Miami in the state of Florida. 

I would say then that the SEC is looking Westward.  ;)

If the SEC is inteserted in WV I think we are looking at 16 teams and not just 14. I still think VT, FSU and Missouri are in play.

ACC Commissioner John Swofford said during a teleconference Sunday the league received more than 10 applications from schools hoping to join the league. Orlando Sentinel sources confirmed multiple Big East members applied to join the league, including Villanova.

1. West Virginia adds nothing to the SEC's television contracts.

Keep in mind that the SEC has to increase payouts to existing schools in order for expansion to make financial sense. That is, I've been told that SEC schools will not vote to add any school if it means that the conference will bring in less revenue per school with the additional teams.

2. West Virginia would be the worst ranked school in the SEC per U.S. News and World Report.

This is a bigger deal than most of y'all realize. Who is voting on SEC expansion? The Presidents. The presidents are aware that one criticism of the SEC is that it exists only for athletics. That's why adding Texas A&M, which becomes the third AAU school after Vanderbilt and Florida, was such an easy sale to the presidents.

3. West Virginia has a population of 1.8 million.

That would be the smallest state in the SEC by over a million people.


4. West Virginia is on probation.

Let's put it honestly -- the SEC doesn't need to add another school on NCAA probation for cheating.

It just doesn't.

5. ACC schools are much more attractive to the SEC.

Some media would have you believe that the ACC is immune to poaching now that it has increased to a $20 million buyout and expanded to 14 schools.

http://outkickthecoverage.com/west-virginia-to-the-sec-makes-no-sense-wont-happen.php

West Virginia to the SEC Makes No Sense, Won't Happen

I know Clay Travis is a clown but he has this right.

I knew WV did not make sense but it is worse than I thought.

I'm with you. I never had a clue that things were this bad up there. I can't imagine the presidents ok'ing this one (but the barn is still in the conference, so there you go).

they've already been accepted. WVU is in. They just haven't announced it formally yet.

Maybe not....

http://www.sbnation.com/ncaa-football/2011/9/18/2434399/missouri-west-virginia-sec-realignment-expansion

Kingpin that you?

That makes alot more sense.

:think: this is such a joke.  :what: secret vote and they didn't Tell BAMAWV no way.  :angel: RTR!

Well, just got word from the "higher-ups" at WVU, it looks as though West Virginia University was accepted... We should start to like it now, because whether we like it or not, the good 'ol boys are in the S.E.C... It was actually secretly confirmed yesterday, but the Athletic Depts had to send in paperwork to S.E.C. so they could dot the i's and cross the t's.

Welcome to the Big Leagues, Mountaineers!!

I'm with you. I never had a clue that things were this bad up there. I can't imagine the presidents ok'ing this one (but the barn is still in the conference, so there you go).

What surprises me is the fact it was even considered.  :jokerface:, RTR!

I just want to know what part of this surprises you?

 #+ Preacher, you're on a roll today. I gave you an e-cred for Mrs. Preacher earlier. Here's one for you.

Just because the application was accepted (if indeed that is true) does not mean the SEC has ANY interest in them.

Ever been in McDonald's when some doofus asks if they have any openings?  "Fill out this application and turn it in.  We will keep it on file and call you if we want to set up an interview."  It is a lot less confrontational than "Child please!  What have you been smoking?"

LOL. So WVU is the doofus? You can't really fault a school for hoping to better their position. ???

Yeah, they could go from burger flipper to cashier.

PeteThamelNYT Pete Thamel
RT @ScottRabalais: Miles asked if they served beer at #LSU as they do at West Virginia: "I fear the upper decks might not hold it." #LSUWVU
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Miles is actually starting to grow on me a little.  I hate myself for that.

Granted he's still the luckiest SOB around (well, maybe second to the collective boogers), but he does a good job of taking it all in stride.

I got slammed on here before because I said I liked him and thought he was a better coach than people let on. He wins alot of games. Yes he is lucky.

It is highly unusual for anyone to get slammed on here.  Are you confusing us with some other pacle?

It is highly unusual for anyone to get slammed on here.  Are you confusing us with some other pacle?

You right SC, it was a while back now that I think about it and another pacle.

I was just curious.  I find it interesting that the sites are starting to blend together.  Is that a good thing?  :dunno:

I got slammed on here before because I said I liked him and thought he was a better coach than people let on. He wins alot of games. Yes he is lucky.

Two words

BLOOM!!! Smitty goes for the body slam.  :lol: