Big 12 & Wvu Both Say Wvu In Big 12 Next Year

[sportsart]

I thought we get to count Boise's rankings if they join making WVU's rankings moot?

 

[HartbeatHusky]

I thought we get to count Boise's rankings if they join making WVU's rankings moot?

That's true, but we are trying to figure out how the 8 teams together for at least 2 seasons continuity rule will work.

 

[sportsart]

That's true, but we are trying to figure out how the 8 teams together for at least 2 seasons continuity rule will work.

Gotcha....

But if some of the other invites join next year.......?

Maybe I'm missing something.

 

[HartbeatHusky]

Gotcha....

But if some of the other invites join next year.......?

Maybe I'm missing something.

If they join next year, then as I understand it, we'd be all set. I'm ready for it to just end at this point. Out with the old and in with the new. Let's get this show on the road.

 

[HartbeatHusky]

Supposedly WVU is paying $21 million.

http://voices.idahostatesman.com/20...te_exit_fee_mountain_west_could_be_21_million

The $21 million figure is interesting too when considering that is the amount they say Boise St. would have to dish out to get out of the MWC next season if they go to a BCS game this year.

 

[IthacaMatt]

If teams are leaving early it's more likely they are paying a huge amount to get out and the BE will use that money to help it add it's new teams for next season thus allowing it to qualify for BCS status the next go round.

I don't think so, because Marinatto has been so steadfast in refusing to budge on this point, and has been very public about it. If he was just waiting for a bigger buyout, he wouldn't have been so definitive. I'm thinking WVU will just schedule the games, and say to the Big East, probably with this going to court. The Big East has such crappy legal documents (didn't even create a legal entity for the conference in its first 26 years of existence, for example ...), that WVU probably thinks they can just go.

 

[zls44]

I think we should get Missouri for a year.