Remember how everyone thought the travel and lack of recruiting base would hurt their programs? Their football and basketball programs are literally NC contendors.
Big 12 has been hard on WVU football and bball
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See here is another example of scheduling. They have played ONE legit team, Texas. Not diminishing their accomplishments, but the Big 12 is horrid this year, and their OOC was really weak. And voila, top 10 here they are.
See here is another example of scheduling....
dude, they scheduled Tennessee and NC State...
Everyone on this board had pitched a hissy fit about the Nits not playing us, and now they're crying when they're on the schedule that they make the schedule too tough. Do you want to drop them, ND, and WVU forever? UCF becoming a powerhouse couldn't be predicted. Try beating Carolina, and we wouldn't be in this spot.
WVU Big XII records:
4-5
2-7
5-4
4-5
7-2
5-4
They've been a .500 team in the Big XII.
4-5
2-7
5-4
4-5
7-2
5-4
They've been a .500 team in the Big XII.
Tennessee is really down and they didn't play NC State because of the hurricane.
Shame of WVU in the Big XII. I lived in Morgantown for a decade. Right by the stadium. Went to tons of games and friends with alums and boosters and media.
It has now been 7 years? Since I have lived there. They being in the Big XII and having no relevance to Pitt, I find I don't follow them at all in football or basketball. I obviously can name guys like Will Grier, Sills or Sag Kanate, but really few other FB or BB players, where I used to know their depth chart.
They have become as relevant to me as Mississippi State is. It is a shame, we are so geographically close, but I don't follow them at all. And I mostly abhor the Big XII football. I don't mind some offense, and some fun, but their arena football like style gets boring and monotonous.
It has now been 7 years? Since I have lived there. They being in the Big XII and having no relevance to Pitt, I find I don't follow them at all in football or basketball. I obviously can name guys like Will Grier, Sills or Sag Kanate, but really few other FB or BB players, where I used to know their depth chart.
They have become as relevant to me as Mississippi State is. It is a shame, we are so geographically close, but I don't follow them at all. And I mostly abhor the Big XII football. I don't mind some offense, and some fun, but their arena football like style gets boring and monotonous.
I still don't hate them as much as PSU and found myself rooting for them to make the 2 point conversion to beat Texas. Always nice seeing Texas get knocked down a peg and Herman seems like a real p***k
But they scheduled them. Those are 2 tough OOC normally. Can't use the scheduling theory with them.
Oh, not even close. I root for them to lose, but it isn't like Penn State where I get the sheer joy of knowing that fanbase is miserable after a loss.
this is true, two P5, plus a 9 game conference schedule. They just got some breaks in that UT is historically bad and the NC state game was canceled. With our luck when we play UT they will displace a retired Saban as the cream of the SEC west
uh, I could be wrong, but I am assuming the hurricane game did not come into the scheduling paradigm. Like I said, I could be wrong... as far as Tennessee goes, you said "is" down, how the hell would WVU know this when they signed on years and years ago? Pitt scheduled UCF "when" they sucked and where assumed to continue sucking... They scheduled Penn State where it turns out games were played "after" a huge scandal... and this is what you schedule birds whine about....geez...
WVU is one of only a handful of teams that have eleven P-5 programs on their schedule for the next several years. Compare that to Pitt fans in other threads wanting to tone down the Panthers OOC schedule.
Wvu has a 9 game conference schedule and plays 2 more P5 teams out of conference. That’s 11 P5 games annually.
Our fans cry about 10. Could you imagine this board if we had to play 11 P5 games annually?
Psu and pitt in ‘23 and ‘24, nc state and Missouri next year, pitt and va tech in ‘22, terps and Hokies in ‘21. They get afterit in their OOC schedule.
I don't think it's so much "crying". I would love to play 10 or 11 P5 programs every year.
The issue with Pitt is:
1) Obviously tough schedules aren't drawing fans.
2) In order to get the fans interest, Pitt needs to win, and win a lot (6, 7, 8 win seasons aren't doing it).
3) See #2 for media interest
4) If/win Pitt piles up wins then hopefully interest and recruiting grows.
5) then at that point hopefully we can schedule stronger
Schools in true college towns that live and die their sports team don't need to do that. WVU is one of them.
Schools like Cuse, Baylor, UVA, etc that need to build their image first before gaining support and winning need to go the above route. And Pitt is in that group.
