The Good Ole Days…

[bbwvfan]

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Thought Dave nailed it. Loved this comment….

There are others who insist that in jumping headlong into the Big 12, West Virginia effectively slammed the door shut on what might have been a better fit; say the ACC. OK, for just a moment we'll dismiss a half a century of history and believe that somehow, someway that league might have changed its entrenched opposition to ever inviting WVU.

Just for kicks we will also sprinkle some fairy dust around the Puskar Center and the Coliseum and wins will magically begin to roll in.

And this….

Anyway, back to West Virginia. Just for a moment imagine that the school had not found a landing pad in the Big 12. In the last decade WVU has played in three BCS bowls and a Final Four. Let's face it, both the football and basketball teams are a long way from that level right now, but how far would they be if they weren't in one of those five conferences?

In other words, what if they were Connecticut? Or Cincinnati? Or South Florida? Or Boise State? Maybe those schools find a safe haven, but for right now they are scared to death they're going to be relegated to second-tier status. And they should be.

And, here are my exact feelings…

Know, though, that in the long term at least West Virginia is positioned to succeed. You might not like how things have turned out in conference realignment, but very soon there will be concrete evidence as to how much worse it could have been.

 

[DCWV4life]

Whether we end up in the Big 12 or another conf and things shift in the future, being in the Big 12 gives us the oppurtunity to build now what we will need going against the big boys in the future..having that money now will change the face of WVU for years to come. Some avenues of revenue will drop and rise due to certain influences, but that 20 plus mil coming in from TV is going to help this program and the other programs build and build solid. I would rather be bitching about playing Oklahoma and Texas while making 20 mil a year than looking down the schedule with Uconn and Cincy on it making 5 mil.

 

[Slaton10]

And I will say it until I am blue in the face...If Oliver Luck was not in that chair...none of this would have never happened...we would be fed how lucky the program was to be in the American Conference...

 

[WVUDAD]

And I will say it until I am blue in the face...If Oliver Luck was not in that chair...none of this would have never happened...we would be fed how lucky the program was to be in the American Conference...

SOOOOO, Luck is the ONLY person in the world who would have made the desperation move, on BOTH sides, to the B12????? YEAH RIGHT.

 

[mad2mc]

SOOOOO, Luck is the ONLY person in the world who would have made the desperation move, on BOTH sides, to the B12????? YEAH RIGHT.

Not a desperation move on behalf of the Big XII as there were others interested in filling Texas A&M's and Missouri's vacant spots. Louisville could have filled that spot just as easy as WVU. If it wasn't for the fact that Luck was already well known in the Houston area, maybe somebody else would have been in the Big XII instead of us. Poppy, do you think Pastilong would have made the move or would have he stayed in the AAC? He finally made the move to the Big East, but do you think he would have pulled the trigger is he was still in the chair? Let's end any notion of going to the ACC. It wasn't going to happen

Wonder what would have happened if Paterno would have started the ECC back in the '80s? This would have been, from memory, WVU, Pitt, Syracuse, Penn St., Temple, Maryland, Rutgers, and Boston College. Some say that the ACC would have poached the ECC, but, just maybe, the ECC could have included VaTech, Louisville, Cincy, and Miami. Maybe FSU or a Clemson would want to join. HC Danny Ford had a good program going at Clemson in the early 80's that I believe won a NC. This league may, or may not survived, but it would have been stronger for football than the Big East.

 

[WVUDAD]

Not a desperation move on behalf of the Big XII as there were others interested in filling Texas A&M's and Missouri's vacant spots. Louisville could have filled that spot just as easy as WVU. If it wasn't for the fact that Luck was already well known in the Houston area, maybe somebody else would have been in the Big XII instead of us. Poppy, do you think Pastilong would have made the move or would have he stayed in the AAC? He finally made the move to the Big East, but do you think he would have pulled the trigger is he was still in the chair? Let's end any notion of going to the ACC. It wasn't going to happen

Wonder what would have happened if Paterno would have started the ECC back in the '80s? This would have been, from memory, WVU, Pitt, Syracuse, Penn St., Temple, Maryland, Rutgers, and Boston College. Some say that the ACC would have poached the ECC, but, just maybe, the ECC could have included VaTech, Louisville, Cincy, and Miami. Maybe FSU or a Clemson would want to join. HC Danny Ford had a good program going at Clemson in the early 80's that I believe won a NC. This league may, or may not survived, but it would have been stronger for football than the Big East.

Had Foge not vetoed the Paterno league, it would be alive and well today, the schools Paterno wanted were: PSU, sPitt, WVU, VPI, USCe, BC, 'Cuse, Rutgers. When the conference joining occurred in the early 1990s, they could have MAYBE picked up GT, FSU, Miami

 

[john01992]

The eastern football league would not have worked. PSU in the 1980s had the ego of texas X10. the amount of unequal revenue sharing & special treatment would of tore that conference to shreds.

if it did exist its most lasting impact would of been weakening the ACC. because the ACC never became a respected power conference until fsu joined in 92. had a northeast conference existed who knows what would of been the ACCs fate. Notre Dame most likely goes to the b10 (in PSU's place) and the SEC adds FSU/miami to get to 12 not arkansas/south carolina.