With Okla moving away from expansion, what happens to...

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Right now WVU gets roughly $30 million from the Big XII. If the Big XII folds, that all goes away. No other conference below the power conferences can pony up that kind of money. That kind of money would be impossible to replace with the state in its current financial mess. Now the conference may survive if Texas and Oklahoma both bolt, but no one comes to mind as caliber schools to replace those two. Our only hope is to land in the SEC as Saben may have enough pull for that to happen. We already know that the Blue Bloods on Tobacco Road have no use for us. If they did, we would have been part of the ACC when the old Southern Conference fell apart.

We are in our 5th season of Big XII play. You make it seem like the entire University revolves around this conference affiliation. We have existed long before Big XII membership and if it went away we will continue to exist. Our level of play has drastically dropped since joining. All of the conference money we get doesnt walk out onto the field every Saturday and play, so how was it that we were 4 quarters against a crap Pitt team away from probably winning the national title without a real power conference affiliation but in the Big XII 4 years in we havent cracked a winning conference record? It sure as hell has nothing to do with money. If $30 million turned to $15 million we would tighten the belt around athletic spending and the beat would go on.