Missouri - yes please.
WVU - No thanks.
JMHO.
Missouri - yes please.
WVU - No thanks.
JMHO.
PAC staying at 12 teams. For now.The league's presidents and chancellors voted late Tuesday night to reaffirm their decision to stay at a dozen members. Commissioner Larry Scott says "after careful review we have determined that it is in the best interests of our member institutions, student-athletes and fans to remain a 12-team conference."
Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/201...#ixzz1YYTaKQcU
Originally Posted by teamselig
I don't want to offend anyone reading this thread, but it's the fan base and, more specifically, the opposing fan base experience in Morgantown.
It would be a great rivalry with UK, but I wouldn't want to travel there for a game because of how I would be treated.
The SEC experience isn't really like that at all from my experiences.
Just want to add I have a lot of respect for the WVA athletic programs. Basketball and football are both top notch. If the SEC goes to 14 without WVA then WVA/Ollie has time to make themselves more attractive b/c I believe we will wait awhile before going to 16. (JMO on that could be wrong.)
It's all fun to speculate on but who knows really what will happen in the end...
Last edited by WMR; 09-21-2011 at 12:22 AM.
You don't think the student-athletes of the non-revenue don't care? The purpose of college athletics is to be an extension of the classroom and be a laboratory of learning leadership skills, teamwork, work ethic, communication, dealing with adversity, etc. Just because hundreds of thousands of people don't tune in to watch non-revenue sports doesn't mean they don't matter.
"In our sundown perambulations of late, through the outer parts of Brooklyn, we have observed several parties of youngsters playing 'base', a certain game of ball. Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our close rooms, the game of ball is glorious"
-Walt Whitman
You asked why no one pays attention to the good stories about non-revenue sports -- and the answer remains that no one cares. If no one cares, no news gets published. I'm sure the people competing care, but you don't write a newspaper story just so the subject can read it.
Cincinnati Reds: Farm System Champions 2022
http://brett-mcmurphy.blogs.cbssport...32522/32135950
I'm a UC fan, and even I'll admit that a conference that needs to add service academies to keep numbers up doesn't deserve AQ status.Before the sudden news broke last weekend that Pittsburgh and Syracuse were leaving for the Atlantic Coast Conference, the Big East was in the final stages of acquiring Navy as a football-only member.
No official invitation was extended by the league, but both parties had extensive discussions about Navy joining the league in football only and it very well could have happened in the next couple of weeks, college football industry sources told CBSSports.com.
If this is the best the Big East can do, UC is screwed if they don't jump ship immediately.
Cincinnati Reds: Farm System Champions 2022
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/201...&sct=hp_t11_a2
No more teams coming to the PAC 10 for the time being.
That's basically how I feel, and thats why I've said culturally WVU is going to have to compromise coming into any new conference. Oliver Luck knows that and I think is trying to work through it.
Fan treatment has improved though from the Pitt game a couple years ago. I was reading on Marshall's message board about fan treatment for those who went to the game this year and outside of a few chants (What's the word? blank the Herd!), the fans were pretty well behaved. They said compared to Ohio State, where fans spit on them, WVU was better.
The SEC Big East Invitational will be interesting this year because WVU is making the trip to Starkville to face the worst fans in the SEC (Mississippi State). I'd be interested to hear any stories from WVU fans who make that trip.
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