Regretful wvu fan on ESPN

[fortebleedsblue]

Reading ESPN Big East forum... Something I use to do frequently and realized today I rarely visit now. How things have changed any ways I wandered over and saw the following on the AA question answer and found it I treating made me think about bcu...

ESPN.com big east blog

Humbled Pie in Charleston, W.Va., writes: WVU fan here, asking: Can we PLEASE come back?!? This is getting ridiculous. We getting our butts handed to us in the Big 12. Our football team barely made a bowl last year (with our best class in decades by the way) and our basketball team has flat lined. It seems like we are losing in everything and I am just so sick of it. I regret now that my school left the Big East. The Big East was not the top, but it was a contender and in it we were winners. That is not the case anymore. Ubbs even wrote an article about how we were such a disappointment. And you know what? I completely agree. So, on behalf of West Virginia, I am sorry we left the Big East. I just wanted the readers of this blog to know that.

 

[Jerry27]

Has CR worked out for anyone yet? Besides in their bank account that is.

 

[Hoophound]

He is overreacting. WVU would have sucked in the Big East too. They just have to work through a down cycle.

 

[mcs333]

They will become the BC of the ACC. Their BB team is dead and will remain dead. They have lost their NY/NJ/ Philly/Balt. Recruiting connections. These kids don't want to play in Tx, Ok, , Iowa, Kan.

 

[LIUCHusky]

They will become the BC of the ACC. Their BB team is dead and will remain dead. They have lost their NY/NJ/ Philly/Balt. Recruiting connections. These kids don't want to play in Tx, Ok, , Iowa, Kan.

lets hope we are able to find some that want to play some games in TX.

 

[Adios]

This might help lead to Big 12 expansion on the east coast. The Big 12 has already stated a desire to have a presence on the east coast, if I am recalling correctly. WVU has also been pushing for a Florida school to join.

 

[Adios]

lets hope we are able to find some that want to play some games in TX.

We already have that in the new conference we are joining!

 

[noeynox]

Has it worked out for anyone? Texas A&M and Nebraska haven't done too bad.

 

[Adios]

Has it worked out for anyone? Texas A&M and Nebraska haven't done too bad.

They fit in the footprints of their new conferences perfectly. The B1G is the ideal situation for us (and maybe them).

 

[formerlurker]

They fit in the footprints of their new conferences perfectly. The B1G is the ideal situation for us (and maybe them).

 

[mattp]

Has it worked out for anyone? Texas A&M and Nebraska haven't done too bad.

Utah and Colorado are probably pretty happy as well. The difference is those teams made sense geographically. Obviously Utah to a BCS conference was a no-brainer, and Colorado wasn't very good in the B12 so they had nothing to lose. I think Rutgers fans will find life as a marginal B10 team less fulfilling than as a perennial BE contender (I know they never won the conference but they were certainly in the hunt more than they will be in the B10). A big part of WVU's recent success was due to the power vacuum caused by VTech's and Miami's departure and to a lesser extent BC. Now they're a B12 also ran. Maryland fans are used to misery, so they might as well cash a bigger check.

 

[noeynox]

OMG! Butch and Lurker had the exact same thought.

 

[Waquoit]

He is overreacting. WVU would have sucked in the Big East too. They just have to work through a down cycle.

Not true in football. It seems to me that this is another case of bad timing for the Big East and UConn. If WVU was in the Big East this past year, the league would have gotten a ton of juice from the WVU-Louisville rivalry. WVU would have won more games. I think Geno Smith would have stayed in the Heismann discussion for a longer than he did. A UConn win at L'ville would have carried much more weight. A true lose-lose result.

 

[Adios]

OMG! Butch and Lurker had the exact same thought.

He became my first "follower". Creepy.

 

[Hoophound]

Not true in football. It seems to me that this is another case of bad timing for the Big East and UConn. If WVU was in the Big East this past year, the league would have gotten a ton of juice from the WVU-Louisville rivalry. WVU would have won more games. I think Geno Smith would have stayed in the Heismann discussion for a longer than he did. A UConn win at L'ville would have carried much more weight. A true lose-lose result.

I agree with you half heartedly but honestly, WVU's defense was just horrible this year, I mean putrid bad. I don't think they would have been good in the Big East. Probably middle of the pack or a spot better.

 

[Da_Aisijimo_Gou]

OMG! Butch and Lurker had the exact same thought.

Schizo and all, as if they are / he is not one and the same individual(s) ...

 

[Whale22]

One of the biggest flaws in military strategy can be lack of understanding of geography. WVU and BCU eptiomize that. They're not hated, they're not liked, they just don't fit. Another big flaw in military strategy is lack of understanding of the importance of culture. Texas A+M is a cultural fit in the SEC where everyone fits geographically. BC is not a geographic fit and while some may say they are a cultural fit, I would make the argument they are more of a cultural fit in the BIG10. WVU on the other hand may fit culturally with the BIG 12 (athletics first / academic back seat) but the geographic fit has been a disaster and they would have fit much better in the SEC (culturally and geographically). UConn I would say is a unique hybrid, more a solid academic SEC type school (land grant - not football wise, but close on olympics) stuck in the northeast, who if had a bigger stadium and happened to have its academic rep pick up 10 years earlier would have been the perfect fit for the BIG 10 without compromising the geograhpic fit.

 

[Adios]

....would have been the perfect fit for the BIG 10 without compromising the geograhpic fit.

We needed Rutgers to join the B1G before us anyway. What you said is irrelevant to what happened with Rutgers and Maryland.

 

[Whale22]

We needed Rutgers to join the B1G before us anyway. What you said is irrelevant to what happened with Rutgers and Maryland.

true...was more about BC and WVU....MD and RU are good cultural and academic fits ....key for us is that MD is as far south as Delaney will look and leave the south to the SEC....ACC already tried to compete with the SEC and we all know how well that went....i with those that think he wants the Northeast