llcoolbean

Anyone remember Skip Holtz's press conference? Maybe you can compare & contrast with Willie Taggart's press conference. I remember we were all excited back then also.

I was on the Davis's wagon, but I like this hire too. Coach Willie T got guts, something our previous coach did not have, and that already impressed me. His committment to recruiting was something he stressed a lot during the press conference and I absolutely agree with him, we're going to need to recruit hard if we want to win.

ask wvu how much better it is. do you think their fans care that they can now pay their ad and coach millions more? no. they moved and are now bottom tier. 7-5 for a team that would have walked away with big east and would be playing in a major bowl. they will never see the hights they saw in the big east while in big 12. we could compete in acc. I'd rather a conference that we can compete in rather than a conference that puts more money in the bank. I won't be the one sitting around counting all that money why we go 5-7 at best every year. And yet WV did choose to go to the Big-12. Fooooor __ MORE MONEY ! If fans decided it would be a different landscape but they don't. Besides WV has only been there one year - give them time to see what they can do. we are fans. as a fan I would rather compete than for my school to bring in an extra few million. wvu is nowhere near their natural recruiting grounds. their fans can't travel easily anymore. they no longer play their biggest rival. they will never compete on a regular basis with texas, oklahoma, etc etc. they are bottom half of league now. they were 1 play from national champ game in big east. they will never get that close in big 1. they certainly won'y win or share league title 6 out of 9 years or whatever it was in big east. yay fans our ad has more money. too bad we're the new iowa state. then why wouldnt we stay in the Big East? With WVU, Rutgers, Pitt, and Ville gone(all teams we have losing records against), we should be able to mop the floor with this new big east conference with a bunch of CUSA and MAC teams in it. I would rather go 10-2 in the BE than 7-5 in the ACC/B12 Because money... and you have to think for the future, that's how the program grows. Staying in the Big East, playing against teams equivalence of CUSA will keep the program down. Think about it, ACC teams are making much more money than CUSA teams, and that goes a long way toward recruiting and getting better coaches. Also, If we're not in a big conference, we will go to worse bowls (not always, but... often). Even if we go 12-0, we won't likely be in a BCS bowl. If all you care about is the amount of wins, then why not move down to Sun Belt or something?

Been a lurker for a long time. Just wanted to create an account to say this: Skip is a MORON. He thinks it's the NBA or something where you can save timeouts for second half?