February 4, 2012
Pulling plug on Florida State game might not cost WVU
Aside from two pending lawsuits with the Big East, West Virginia has taken the first concrete step toward clearing its schedule to join the Big 12 in football this fall.
The school on Friday sent a letter to Florida State notifying the Seminoles that they were backing out of the scheduled Sept. 8 game between the schools in Tallahassee. The buyout for such a move is $500,000.
There's a catch, though. Sources indicate that the contract between WVU and FSU for games in 2012 in Tallahassee and 2013 in Morgantown also contains a clause that would relieve WVU of paying the penalty if Florida State manages to replace the Mountaineers with a comparable opponent.
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The Who's schedule won't be made up of weak Big East teams anymore. The Herd will be dropped in order to play James Madison or Norfolk St; another guaranteed win. Something that wasn't so easy against the Herd. If they even actually go to the Big 12.
Therefore, we need a few pansies on our schedule for HOME games.
As far as I'm concerned, Marsha is welcome to make the trek to
Morgantown to get thumped every year.
But you can forget the Mounties ever coming to Huntington again. The legislature already donates $2.5M a year to keep Marsha's football program afloat, whole WVU's program gets almost nothing. Making WVU go to Huntington is just another way to shovel money away from WVU to Marsha. Unless the Legislature decides to level the playing field by subsidizing WVU's program in proportion to Marsha's (>$5M a year) and makes up what WVU loses on trips to Marsha, then NEVER AGAIN!
Need to keep the home games with Marshall and Maryland, plus the guarantee with JMU. There would have been too much backlash if they tried to cancel Marshall. Glad with the schedule they have.
With the inclusion of the big 12 schedule, WVU had to get out of 1 game for next year. 9 conf. games to be scheduled, with JMU 2.5 million, not happening, 2 home games with MD and MU, not happening, so that left FSU only.
See here is the problem. We will only have 6 home games this year, the big 12 is going to give us 4 home games this year, with the neutral game and 5 away, that leaves MD and MU to keep 6. WVU was not going to cancel the JMU for a pay out of 2.5 million. GUARANTEED. or the MD or MU game, due to only having 6.
So next year, MD is away, and the 4 away for the big 12 which equals 5 away, we can get back to the 7/5 split for 2013 and beyond.
CAN YOU UNDERSTAND THAT MATH HERDWONNONE?
Good post, dumb hillbilly, but I'll take the Herd. You're spot-on, otherwise.
The Mountaineers have beaten the following on the largest colleges stages (BCS bowls) Georgia (SEC champion) Oklahoma (Big 12 champion) Clemson (ACC champion)
If you're going to be a WVU hater.....thats fine, but at least clean up your argument around who we play. I mean the Big 12 changes our schedule and toughens it up....not down.
Some of you must write editorials and cover politics for the Gazette....you are about that dumb