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Has change been good?

DCWV4life

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With Tier 3 rights, WVU is set to make over 40 mil next year by being a member of the Big 12 TV rights.
 

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We have no rivals. The nearest school is over 1,000 miles away. Nobody cares about the Big 12. We're on an island. We can't recruit local talent because parents can't travel to away games to see their kids play. Local kids don't care about the Big 12. We can't recruit Texas. We can't recruit QB's. We rely on free agents. We recruit too many JUCO's. We can't beat OU. We can't beat KU. We can't beat ISU.

But, the money is sweet...
 

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We have no rivals. The nearest school is over 1,000 miles away. Nobody cares about the Big 12. We're on an island. We can't recruit local talent because parents can't travel to away games to see their kids play. Local kids don't care about the Big 12. We can't recruit Texas. We can't recruit QB's. We rely on free agents. We recruit too many JUCO's. We can't beat OU. We can't beat KU. We can't beat ISU.

But, the money is sweet...
Damn bb, you make us almost sound like the Vanderbilt of the Big 12. I was going to say Kentucky, but they have a basketball future hall of fame head coach. Don't get me wrong,new do to but Cal may have won a National Championship a time or two.
 

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Well, when you consider the alternatives, yes its been VERY good.

1. Member of the AAC with some of the other BigEast schools making a fraction of what we do in the Big12, playing geographically closer teams, creating new regional rivalries with teams that few care about and recruiting the same areas that we do now trying to sell that.

2. Possibly/maybe ( I have serious doubts) a member of the ACC making much better money but still less than we do in the Big12, playing some traditional rivals that a few more folks care about but not enough to sway too awful many recruits.

3. Independent making..pocket change compared to the surrounding schools, scratching for 2-3 games with any P5 team that would have us collecting a small check to be bludgeoned to death on some teams home field leaving guys like Luck and Lyons with no money for coaches, upgrades and new facilities ect. and drifting off into obscurity.
 
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