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Message: [QUOTE="Dooley, post: 1190480, member: 2920"] Does anyone actually think that WVU could get into any other power conference should the B12 fold? ACC? No, they already said no. SEC? More likely would target Texas, OU, Baylor, TCU or even Ok State. B1G? No way, academics are a bust. WVU would fall back into a conference of B12 rejects and Big East leftovers should the B12 fold by way of the Big East. Make no mistake about that. The Dude loves his school as much as we love UCONN. But you have to take his pro-WVU "metrics" into consideration whenever he boasts about WVU being so much more superior than schools like UCONN, Cincinnati or other P5 schools. For example, he's moved off his "T3 formula" (T3 rights x 2.5 or 3) to figure out what a school's T1 rights would potentially be once I showed him UCONN's T3 rights sold on par with or more than most other Power schools ($8M/yr...actually ). That would put our T1 rights well within the $20M - $25M range that he used to use as his primary parameter and at more value than half of the current B12 members. For reference, WVU sold their T3 rights for a tick over $9M/yr in 2013...several years after UCONN sold their rights. [url]http://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/Journal/Issues/2010/12/20101206/SBJ-In-Depth/Asampling-Of-Recently-Signed-Multimedia-Rights-Deals.aspx[/url] UCONN's apparel contract with Nike also ranks favorably with other "Power" schools. [url]http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2014/01/how_much_do_colleges_get_for_s.html[/url] Since then, The Dude's slant has focused more on DMA (which still favors UCONN if we can prove that we have presence in NYC, Boston and Hartford/New Haven). Plus, he's just some "dude" on Twitter tweeting out his opinions. DOesn't mean he's right. Doesn't mean he's wrong. But he has no more inside information than you or I about CR. He's simply a WVU fan posting his opinions. Why his opinion is taken for such Gospel is beyond me. [/QUOTE]

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