MetroNews (WVA) reporting verbal agreement reached between WVU and BE ($20 M)

Corporations are neither ethical or unethical. The leadership of those organizations are responsible for putting in place the people, systems and culture that allow the company to perform business in an ethical manner. Most corporations most of the time act this way. Sure, there are the Enrons of the world that emerge and even highly solid culture's like those at BH have there lapses with personnel.

Remember, a tremendous amount of business is almost entirely dependent on a level of trust. Lose that trust and credibility and your ability to transact business can be severely impacted.

I agree with this. Most for profit businesses would not engage in the atrocious ethical levels of behavior that state universities seem willing to, and even if they were there is no reason for government controlled institutions to be behaving as if they were privately owned monopolies.

Not just government institutions, but institutions of higher learning! They should be holding themselves to a much higher standard of ethics then private companies or gov't, setting an example for young people.

Ironically, I'm sure that WVU has an ethics code and probably has a few professors that claim to be 'ethics' experts. Would be interesting to see how they spin this in the classroom.

I think everyone needs to temper their expectations of the Boise St team that's possibly joining the conference next year. They lost a large chunk of their starters and their star QB. This isn't going to be the best team Boise has put out on the field. Will it be solid? Sure. But to say it will replace WVU and even add MORE than what WVU brings is a little premature. WVU is LOADED next year and having them in the conference would allow the BE to not get embarrassed in a BCS game next year. Honestly, what remaining BE team is going to field a team that can compete at the BCS Bowl level? There can be a surprise team out there but Louisville is the only program I can think of and they're still gonna be young.

I just think people need to keep in mind that Boise is going to be less than what they were the previous two years and to say they are better to have than WVU is a little crazy. Long term maybe, but for next year, not so much.

I have no clue how good Boise will be next season, but it seems like you hear this same thing about them every few years, and they seem to reload just fine.

We shall see. I just hope they can come into the league next season w/ WVU leaving.

I agree that it's said a lot. But it's hard to just replace your star QB. I really believe they'll have a season close to TCU this year. Start off shaky but quickly rebound and put together a solid season.

As for them joining next season, I hope it happens too!