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Says the Mizzou grad

Good article.

Interesting times. I hope Boren is sitting in Norman sucking his thumb.

I think West Virginia is a better football and basketball school and its not even close.

John Denver said West Virginia was "almost heaven" with the Blue Ridge Mountains and Sheandoah River. So we get Holgersen and Huggins every year again.

I think, especially if we got to 12 and add louisville later on, the Big 12 is the second best football conference and closer than people realize to the sec, and it is probably the best basketball conference since the big east took a number of hits.

As has been said on other threads removing Missouri is addition by subtraction for the simple reason that they were a constant source of discontent. Forget the fact that they were universal underachievers in every sport. I keep waiting for someone in the national media to take them to task for being the catalyst for all of this when they lifted their skirt for the Big 10.

Without knowing the exact stipulations of maintaining an AQ status as per the bylaws of the current BCS system, things are looking pretty glum for BE.

Sorry i didn't make my first point very clear. I think the b12 is every bit as good as the sec especially this year but i would give them the slight edge because how often does kstate start 7-0 or even Okie lite for that matter, thus skewing the computer rankings. This year I think the conference is better as a whole but if we were to look over the last 5-10 years I think they would win out. Maybe I'm wrong and the stats say something different, I'm not going to bother looking them up, but if you want to, knock yourself out. One thing you can't argue with is that 4 different teams from the sec have won the last 5 national championships

Welcome, but is it big oober or bi goober? I kid, I kid. But that is the same question I asked myself when WVU showed on the radar. I think what it does is give WVU a bigger shot at attracting the better rated players from their sphere of influence, as Alan eluded in his story, being the Ohio/Pennsylvania grounds. But, I also think it takes away somewhat Virginia Tech's dominance in mid-atlantic area and will give up and coming Coach London (VA) more competition in the rich Tidewater recruiting grounds, which for Texas fans is the equivalent to the Golden Triangle in many respects.

With that said, I don't see the Big 12 teams benefiting too much from pulling big name players west without some sort of conference broadcast vehicle. What Dodds and Brown say is true. Parents, for the most part, have the most influence over a recruits school choice. With that comes the desire on the part of the player to perform in front of family and friends against top competition. Advantage->WVU.

Let me remind you of the ACC in basketball. Duke NC etc.