WVU isn't leaving the B12 for the ACC

[WestCoastHusky]

ACC is really out of touch.

B12 can make easier for WVU by inviting UConn. UConn is B12's entrance into the Northeast. It will be easier for the B12 to pick up ACC schools in the future when it eventually implodes.

B12: Be Brave, be innovative, and think out of the box! invite UConn!

https://www.si.com/college/westvirginia/big-12/callihan-the-acc-is-a-decade-late-and-a-few-million-dollars-short

 

[TheCatsLair]

West Virginia couldn't leave anyway, the Big 12 signed a new 8 year grant of rights.

 

[NE Football]

WVU to the ACC makes no sense whatsoever. Even if they could get out of the GOR, what TV value do they bring? WVU is difficult to get to from just about anywhere.

 

[Fishy]

West Virginia couldn't leave anyway, the Big 12 signed a new 8 year grant of rights.

They literally could have left with OU and UT - that was the author's point. The ACC missed their chance.

 

[JeepCSC]

West Virginia wasn't going to move the needle for the ACC. Notre Dame or Oregon/Washington/Stanford/Cal are probably the only game-changers remaining.

 

[WestCoastHusky]

They literally could have left with OU and UT - that was the author's point. The ACC missed their chance.

Yep. When Texas and OU left the B12, there was a window where the B12 was right before negotiating its media deal. Everyone thought new B12 media deal would suck royally due to the schools left.

That was the window ACC could have easily invited WVU, and the PAC could have swooped in and took whoever they wanted. PAC-12 decided to do nothing.

The former B12 commissioner Bowlsby invited UCF, BYU, Cincy, and Houston.

B12 hired Brett Yormark.

Yormark got B12 a new media deal worth $31.7M per year before the PAC-12. Most people were shocked BY pulled this off, and the media deal is worth so much.

Now, the B12 is all suddenly stable while PAC is becoming more and more unstable daily without a good media deal.

 

[Bongo Fury]

ACC wasn’t looking to add. ACC was a better fit for WVU for location and former foes. With the addition of Cincy, UCF and hopefully UConn, travel should get easier and BIG 12 is now a better conference.

 

[WestCoastHusky]

ACC wasn’t looking to add. ACC was a better fit for WVU for location and former foes. With the addition of Cincy, UCF and hopefully UConn, travel should get easier and BIG 12 is now a better conference.

Exactly. The whole point is ACC isn't forward thinking just like the PAC-12.

ACC should have taken UConn years and years ago, but they didn't. ACC was too proud to take WVU due to academics, but it took Louisville community college over UConn due to desperation and internal politics. Looking back, UConn would have been much better add. Louisville belongs in the B12 while UConn is a natural fit for the ACC. ACC is also dumb enough to sign with ESPN through 2036.

Brett Yormark, on the other hand, has positioned the B12 to negotiate for the next media deal in 2031 or 5 years before the ACC renegotiation window. This means the B12 will get it's next media deal, get it's members to sign a new GOR, and become much more stable before the ACC renegotiation. If there is any hiccup with ACC renegotiation, B12 can swoop in and pick it apart just like it is doing to the PAC-12. It is genuise and forward thinking.

 

[billybud]

Louisville had a history with some ACC teams...and not just the former Big East comrades.

FSU was in the Metro Conference with Louisville for 15 years....VT for 13 years...GT for 4 years

 

[Bongo Fury]

WVU had already jumped ship

 

[ZooCougar]

Yeah whoever thinks the ACC is pulling WVU needs to touch grass.

 

[ZooCougar]

West Virginia wasn't going to move the needle for the ACC. Notre Dame or Oregon/Washington/Stanford/Cal are probably the only game-changers remaining.

Yeah but Pitt and Syracuse sure did move the needle.

 

[JeepCSC]

Yeah but Pitt and Syracuse sure did move the needle.

Different needle needed to be moved then. Namely keeping football/baskeetball sides happy and angling for markets to show ESPN they could launch a conference network. I'd swap out West Virginia for either of the other two at this point, but alas. The cost to move the needle has gotten incredibly steep, and really those two options are likely the only way the ACC will expand unless we get a jailbreak from one of the Magnificent 7.

 

[CL82]

Yeah whoever thinks the ACC is pulling WVU needs to touch grass.

Or at least stop smoking quite so much of it.

 

[Ldandy]

The ACC has had multiple opportunities to add both WVU and UConn to the conference. Each time they passed in favor of teams that have brought next to nothing to the table in terms of ratings or performance on the field or courts. Now that they are on the precipice of imploding why would WVU or UConn be interested in joining? WVU has relative security in a conference that is set to survive this round of expansion. UConn knows that The ACC will be just another AAC when The B1G, SEC and Big 12 get done tearing it to shreds.

 

[CTFAN4LIFE]

The ACC has had multiple opportunities to add both WVU and UConn to the conference. Each time they passed in favor of teams that have brought next to nothing to the table in terms of ratings or performance on the field or courts. Now that they are on the precipice of imploding why would WVU or UConn be interested in joining? WVU has relative security in a conference that is set to survive this round of expansion. UConn knows that The ACC will be just another AAC when The B1G, SEC and Big 12 get done tearing it to shreds.

Not entirely true - Louisville's football tv ratings are very solid.