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upstater said:
There is no good partner for West Virginia. Cincy is 5 hours away as well.
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Marshall. West Virginia passed a law that requires WVU to play Marshall yearly. Maybe a law requiring Marshall to be in the same conference as WVU will be Marshall's Big 12 ticket and WVU's travel partner.

In all seriousness, Pitt and maybe Maryland are really the only travel partners that live close enough to help WVU. Any travel by plane requires an 80 mile, hour and a half trip to Pittsburgh airport. I know other schools have long trips t airports as well, but I have heard more complaints about getting to WVU than just about anywhere.

I do think WVU would be helped if the Big 12 was to add 4 or 6 eastern teams, but it's slim pickings to find a 4th team, let alone finding 6.
 
I've been to Morgantown - it's not that hard to get to.

Go to Pitt, drive from there. It's not bad.

I suspect it would be easy for the Big 12 to get to 14 - all they would have to do is give DeLoss Dodds a Rohypnol and quickly sneak UConn, Cincy, USF and UCF in the front door.
 
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Fishy said:
I've been to Morgantown - it's not that hard to get to.

Go to Pitt, drive from there. It's not bad.

I suspect it would be easy for the Big 12 to get to 14 - all they would have to do is give DeLoss Dodds a Rohypnol and quickly sneak UConn, Cincy, USF and UCF in the front door.
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The AAC has a lot easier travel than many of these conferences. Clemson, Wake Forest, Virginia and Virginia Tech are in W. Virginia's category. Storrs is as far from Bradley as Ann Arbor is from Detroit. I have no clue what it takes to get to Purdue, but I imagine it's a pain. For Illinois, you MUST fly into the local airport since it's nowhere near anything else. Lansing is no picnic either. It's an hour drive. Then you look at the Big12. Lubbock, Manhattan KS, Stillwater (over an hour away from both Tulsa and OKC), Ames IA...

W Virginia requires 1 1/2 hours drive, but many of these schools are not much better, some of them are worse.
 
formerlurker said:
Wait. The AAC has a message board?
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Personally, I'd be more interested in reading cooking recipes from Fat Bastard than read the daily drones from the fans of SMU, Tulane, Memphis, et al. I read this CR Board because I'm unhappy and I'm unhappy because I read this CR board. That's enough.
 
upstater said:
The AAC has a lot easier travel than many of these conferences. Clemson, Wake Forest, Virginia and Virginia Tech are in W. Virginia's category. Storrs is as far from Bradley as Ann Arbor is from Detroit. I have no clue what it takes to get to Purdue, but I imagine it's a pain. For Illinois, you MUST fly into the local airport since it's nowhere near anything else. Lansing is no picnic either. It's an hour drive. Then you look at the Big12. Lubbock, Manhattan KS, Stillwater (over an hour away from both Tulsa and OKC), Ames IA...

W Virginia requires 1 1/2 hours drive, but many of these schools are not much better, some of them are worse.
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Yeah, but most of those other States have roads.
 
Dooley said:
Personally, I'd be more interested in reading cooking recipes from Fat Bastard than read the daily drones from the fans of SMU, Tulane, Memphis, et al. I read this CR Board because I'm unhappy and I'm unhappy because I read this CR board. That's enough.
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Not only does it have "insight" from those fans, it has Cuse, UL and Pitt fans constantly dogging UConn for failing to make it into the ACC. It's only of interest now to see how much certain denizens of the Cuse board talk shat about UConn when they aren't over here pretending to care about our future.
 
I have accepted the near future in the AAC (sorry Mike A. not going to call it the AMerican) as we prepare ourselves for a final push into whatever league we will be in. Expansion will happen and Uconn is on the top of the list with Cincy, BYU, and maybe USF. As crazy as Big 12 sounds, it is not different then in the league we are in currently in terms of mileage. If its there and they want us we take it. No questions and no waiting by phonee for Swofford or Delaney.
 
Limbo Land said:
I have accepted the near future in the AAC (sorry Mike A. not going to call it the AMerican) as we prepare ourselves for a final push into whatever league we will be in. Expansion will happen and Uconn is on the top of the list with Cincy, BYU, and maybe USF. As crazy as Big 12 sounds, it is not different then in the league we are in currently in terms of mileage. If its there and they want us we take it. No questions and no waiting by phonee for Swofford or Delaney.
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I agree. It is far from optimal, but not anywhere near as bad as our current situation.
 
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TRest said:
Not only does it have "insight" from those fans, it has Cuse, UL and Pitt fans constantly dogging UConn for failing to make it into the ACC. It's only of interest now to see how much certain denizens of the Cuse board talk shat about UConn when they aren't over here pretending to care about our future.
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Enough to have a septic cleaning.
 
FAIRTIDES said:
Yeah, but most of those other States have roads.
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The best way to get to VT, unfortunately, is through WV. In fact, you go through WV to get to Carolina as well from Pitt, WNY, all points west.
 
Any combo of Tulane, Memphis, Temple, ECU, UNM, or NIU would sicken me.

Give me two out of BYU, UConn, UC, USF, or UCF before that.
 
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