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Message: [QUOTE="Slasher, post: 2989466, member: 4452"] This keeps coming around but WVU brings no value to the ACC. Remember they have a network now. That means eyeballs just like Rutgers and Maryland. The entire population of WV has 1.8M people. The only other area they have some draw is Pittsburgh, which is already in the conference. Of those 1.8M people, there's 736,000 households. West Virginia is also DEAD LAST in population grown since 2010 losing 2.55% of the population. Look at the competitors . . . CT has 1.3M households, most of which are much more affluent. That doesn't even count NY and surrounding areas, with some ACC presence in NY Cincy has 850,000 households . . . and their households on average have 40% higher income than WV, and no ACC presence. It's pretty easy to see that from a financial prospective, both of those schools are much more desirable to the ACC than WVU. Academics (still an alleged factor) make it even worse. According to USNWR, WVU is 205, UConn is 63, Cincy is 147. All are considered "highest research activity" by Carnegie, but according to dollars WVU ranks 110, UConn is 79 (if you combine medical) and Cincy is 50th. Endowment $556M for WVU, $421M for UConn and $1.1B for Cincy. ACC isn't losing members thanks to their new network, and at most they'd take in one or two. WVU is not making that cut. [/QUOTE]