dholjes84

True college football fans (and any sport for that matter) do not care about...

1. - Academics and the amount of research money the conference can share

2. - TV markets and the amount of money the conference can share

They care about the quality of the product they are watching. SEC should have stayed at 12.

More teams in a conference is like more ice in your beverage.

This is the dumbest post I have seen on this website...

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Name programs by conference

SEC - Bama, LSU, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Tennessee (A&M and Arkansas on precipice)

B1G - Nebraska, Michigan, Ohio State, Penn State (Wisconsin not far off)

Pac-12 - Is it just USC? (Colorado, Oregon best of rest?)

Big 12 - Texas & OU

ACC - Miami, FSU (VT, UNC are in that just behind category)

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For you to include Tennessee then you have to include Virginia Tech.

You can also go ahead and add Arkansas...A&M is on the precipice of irrelevance (One top 25 finish in the past 10 years...last top ten finish in 94?)

For you to include Penn State and not Wisconsin ruins your whole argument.

Count Oregon...to even consider Colorado as "best of the rest" without mentioning Stanford is worse than your Wisconsin snub.

I am officially done with this website.

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Here are things we can measure for the next 10-20 years.
Population in WVU? bad.
Economy in WVU? Bad.
Education in WVU? bad.

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Sounds like a majority of SEC teams...

If I would have told you 3 years ago that the following teams would switch to the same conference without telling you which conference they were going to...

Add TCU & WVU
Add Utah $ Colorado
Add Texas A&M & Mizzou
Add Pitt & Syracuse
Add Nebraska

Without out a doubt in my mind the TCU & WVU combo and Texas A&M & Mizzou combo would be very close in best additions...

WVU to the Big 12 makes just as much sense as the Big "East" expansion plan to invite Air Force, Boise St, Houston, SMU...travel considerations went out the window for WVU when that was brought to the table.

WVU still makes the most sense in the ACC with natural rivals vs Pitt, Syracuse, Maryland, Virginia Tech...but the snobs in North Carolina don't want us because of academics. The result? Kansas gains a recruiting footprint in ACC territory...Oklahoma and Texas gain a footprint in ACC territory. GFY ACC.

WVU to the SEC makes the most financial sense for WVU...but SEC prefers Mizzou...no harm no foul.

In an ideal world for WVU, the Big 12 would extend invites to Louisville (rival) and South Florida (WVU continues to recruit well in Florida).

All in all this will be a good move for WVU recruiting and a financial boost for a public school with an athletic dept that operates at a $141 million surplus (top 20 among public schools in the country). WVU basketball will have an immediate impact on Big 12 hoops. WVU football will now take Texas rejects in addition to the Florida rejects they get every year. Dana Holgerson has recruiting history in Texas and Oklahoma...he will be at WVU for the long haul now.

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If we take these hillbilly couch burning douche-canoe's I will refuse to EVER go to a game there.

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Nick Saban is from WV and a proud hillbilly

Tulane is like Temple or Villanova...located in a city with a huge tv market that they will never deliver no matter how you spin it.

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I see the trolls have arrived. Hush up Mountaineer, you play in the Big Pizza conference sponsored by Papa Johns. And you hillbillys would drink bad moonshine and piss flames to get an SEC offer.

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No doubt about it...we definitely want in...but don't hold the Big East conference against WVU's success...we have wanted out for years.

I would say Texas A&M is done now that they moved to the SEC...but they have been done for 25 years already.

I hope you enjoy the annual beat down from LSU and Alabama...I'm sure you're ready for it since you had to deal with Texas and OU.

Its a shame that the equal revenue A&M is going to get from the SEC won't translate to any wins.

To quote a future conversation in 5 years:

TCU grad: "Man I'm glad we moved to the Big 12. Got a shot in the Big 12 championship game and a BCS bid."

A&M grad: "Well we make more money than you. You guys just started getting a full piece of the Big 12 pie!"

TCU grad: "That's okay, you guys haven't even finished with a .500 SEC record yet."

Saying the Big East is bad at football is like saying the sky is blue.

Saying the ACC improved its football standing by adding Pitt and Cuse is like saying the sky is green.

WVU has held their own in their pitiful conference...but they do have national recognition (16th in merchandise sales and has been ranked at one point or another in 20 of its last 24 seasons).

SEC and Big 12 have the best conferences hands down (still hope for WVU in either...may need to wait 2 years)

ACC is way overrated...

BIG and PAC 12 aren't very good top to bottom either (until Ohio State and USC are allowed to cheat again).

CAN ANYONE NAME ANOTHER SCHOOL THAT IS AS SUCCESSFUL IN BOTH FOOTBALL AND BASKETBALL AS WVU??? (I know there are a few but I challenge you to consider)...and when I mean successful I mean BCS appearance and Final Four appearance.

P.S. I know quality of athletic programs have nothing to do with conference expansion...hence Texas A&M

I am 31-11-3 this year ATS for college football and NFL. My theory is this...

*Bet 5 college games head to head at a fixed amount and then parlay all games for the same fixed amount. (I hit one college parlay this season).

*Bet 3 NFL games head to head at a fixed amount and then parlay all games for the same fixed amount. (I hit two nfl parlays this season).

*Place your bets on Monday for college and Tuesday for pro. This is when the lines are the most volatile. If you can predict which way a line will move later in the week you will have a significant advantage.

COLLEGE BETS OF THE WEEK:
*LSU -12.5 over Tennessee (this is a prime example of jumping on the spread when it opens. the line has since moved to 15 last I checked. you will need a guy in vegas for this however as bodog doesn't put lines out until they stabilize)
*Stanford -20.5 over Washington St
*Mississippi St +5.5 over South Carolina
*Baylor +8.5 over Texas A&M
*Georgia Tech -8 over Virginia