[Husker] West Virginia set to join Big XII this year

[David Elfering]

As someone who attended University of Maryland (lived there for a few years
in my space operation days) I agree with Jon, don't under estimate West
Virginia. In some ways NU has some common vibes with them in that there's
no pro team in the state and though their history isn't as storied as
Nebraska's there's a lot of pride in their team. I'd bet money there are
still sales of the "Major Offensive" t-shirts (Major Harris was their star
QB years ago) floating around.

WVU has direct access to fertile east coast recruiting grounds and now has
media market access to Texas to add to their recruiting reach. I'm not
predicting that they'll be regular B12 champions but if they ascend with
conference change it wouldn't surprise me.

Personally I 'll be very curious to see the Baylor game, the first Texas
team to appear in Morgantown.

On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 8:52 PM, Jon Johnston <jon.johnston at gmail.com>wrote:

> Are you kidding me?
>
> This was Dana Holgorsen's first year as head coach. Their first year in
> learning his offense and by the end of the year, look what happened.
>
> They basically invited Mike Leach back into the conference, and they will
> again have to fly to a foreign land to play games on the road. West
> Virginia may not be Oklahoma, but they will cause that conference plenty of
> pain.
>
> Jon Johnston
> Corn Nation
>
> On Feb 14, 2012, at 4:34 PM, nickchevance at gmail.com wrote:
>
> > I don't know about others but it seems to me that the BigXII got a
> Missouri back in the league.  A good team but not likely to threaten Tejas
> much.
> >
> > Nick
> > ------Original Message------
> > From: Mike Nolan
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> > Subject: [Husker] West Virginia set to join Big XII this year
> > Sent: Feb 14, 2012 4:15 PM
> >
> > West Virginia has settled with the Big East and will be available to
> > join the Big XII conference on July 1st.  The exit price was $20
> > million, with WVU paying $11 million and the Big XII chipping in
> > the rest.
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