wvusports.comPosted Nov 29, 2016, 1:33 AM UTC
And your point?
My point is to chill about finding us a travel partner. Our travel is fine.
Reducing travel expenses would mean more of the money we're making could be reinvested into facilities, equipment or other sports.
This isn't evidence of anything other than Morgantown is cold, rainy, and maybe even snowy until at least the middle of March. Our program has done this for decades. The B12 doesn't enter into it.
We send teams all over the country in a bunch of sports. Baseball went to SC, NV, AZ, and HI last year. Track went to CA. Volleyball went to CA this September. We could save money by not sending teams across the country. We don't need to add a conference foe to reduce travel. We are P5 so we go where the best games are. Adding Cincy just puts another P5 in our main recruiting bubble. We already have UL, Pitt, MSU, Syracuse, UK, UMD, PSU, VT, Indiana , Northwestern and Purdue to compete with while tOSU, UofM and ND get the cream of the crop.It doesn't help us to elevate schools if the real revenue makers fall by the wsyside.
We were doing fine with Cincy and Temple and UConn in the same conference. Not worried about sharing the pie. The deal with the criss cross travel is that those are events whereas in conference is the day to day for what should be bus sports involve 2000 miles round-trip. It's a grind on the kids, their studies, and our wallet. Another in a long line of comparative disadvantages for WVU.
In addition building up that competition probably softens the blow should we end up on the outside looking in.
Expansion talks are over. Time to start worrying about if we'll be competing at this level after 2025.
Basically a 16 day road trip. That's crazy.
I am really interested in what the players are going to do about classes/practice/their pets.
We do this every year. Downside of being a cold weather school.