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[QUOTE="hank970, post: 3055919, member: 6349"]
What's changed that would make West Virginia attractive to the ACC?  Academics?  The demeanor of its fans? If there were a merger or the Big 12 and Pac 12, the Mountaineers might stand a chance with the SEC, but more than likely they'd either be relegated to the AAC or stay with the Big 12.

If the latter, I'm trying to form a mental image of Stanford and West Virginia conducting joint research into the economics of keeping moribund coal mines alive in the 21st century, the epidemiology of opioid consumption along the banks of the Tug Fork of the Big Sandy River, the physics and chemistry of couch-burning, or the calculus involved in plotting the trajectories of all those D-cells thrown at visiting fans.

As regards the genius of Gordon Gee, let's not overlook the reason he ended up in Morgantown.  He was relieved of his responsibilities at OSU because he couldn't keep his mouth shut, and many of his public pronouncements were offensive.  In other words, his own loose lips sank his ship, and the only thing that kept him from drowning was the life-ring thrown by West Virginia.  Think of it as career regression.
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