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jordo212000

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Sep 20, 2011 9:37 PM
wildcats20;904959 wrote:So maybe it's because I'm dumb, but why is the B10 not looking at WVU?

Academics
Lack of tradition
Inability to bring Big 10 major market
Cultural differences
Sep 20, 2011 9:37pm
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ts1227

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Sep 20, 2011 9:40 PM
Lack of tradition is subjective and meaningless. It's basically just the academics.

No one gives a shit about "tradition" in this.
Sep 20, 2011 9:40pm
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wildcats20

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Sep 20, 2011 9:40 PM
Is WVU "that" far behind the rest of the B10?
Sep 20, 2011 9:40pm
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Sep 20, 2011 9:45 PM
My best friend went to WVU and he's a lawyer. He's also found the cure for the aids.
Sep 20, 2011 9:45pm
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Sep 20, 2011 9:48 PM
wildcats20;904971 wrote:Is WVU "that" far behind the rest of the B10?
Do they even have running water in Morgantown?
Sep 20, 2011 9:48pm
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Sep 20, 2011 9:50 PM
karen lotz;904989 wrote:Do they even have running water in Morgantown?

They got it last year.
Sep 20, 2011 9:50pm
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jordo212000

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Sep 20, 2011 10:11 PM
ts1227;904970 wrote:Lack of tradition is subjective and meaningless. It's basically just the academics.

No one gives a shit about "tradition" in this.
I think the Big 10 does. As evidenced by them targeting Notre Dame, Texas, and Nebraska and not offering anybody else.
Sep 20, 2011 10:11pm
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Sep 20, 2011 10:21 PM
wildcats20;904971 wrote:Is WVU "that" far behind the rest of the B10?
Academically it "that" far behind and then some.

But it is more than just that, it is overall academic and athletic culture. It doesn't provide much in non-revenue sports for purposes of the President's Cup and doesn't deliver any semblance of a tv market. WVU is an odd school in general. It is very strange for a state flagship university to have a location that isn't centrally located in terms of geography or population base.
Sep 20, 2011 10:21pm
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Sep 20, 2011 10:24 PM
wildcats20;904971 wrote:Is WVU "that" far behind the rest of the B10?

Although it's just one ranking, US News has 11 of the 12 B1G schools in the top 80, the lone exception Nebraska at 101. WVU checks in at 164. So, by that measure, it is quite a difference. Plus, the majority of B1G schools have endowments north of $1b. The latest I could find for WVU has them around $330m.
Sep 20, 2011 10:24pm
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Sep 20, 2011 11:19 PM
gorocks99;905070 wrote:Although it's just one ranking, US News has 11 of the 12 B1G schools in the top 80, the lone exception Nebraska at 101. WVU checks in at 164. So, by that measure, it is quite a difference. Plus, the majority of B1G schools have endowments north of $1b. The latest I could find for WVU has them around $330m.
Chicks prefer larger endowments.
Sep 20, 2011 11:19pm