The incomparable WVU beat reporter Mike Casazza coined this maxim during the last round and it’s still true. Sports journalists are essentially all access journalists and many of them will just print thinly sourced bullshit. This is probably good advice regardless of the situation but especially during conference realignment. It is in that spirit that I offer a few suggestions for our fellow Big 12 members - current and soon to be former - to help you cope with what we’re all going to experience over the coming weeks and months. We have both been the one left behind and the one leaving for greener pastures. This whole experience gives WVU fans a fairly unique perspective. Then Athletic Director Oliver Luck wisely recognized that we had to get out to survive and parlayed a deal for us to join the Big 12 Conference, which had just lost Colorado, Missouri, Texas A&M and Nebraska to the PAC-12, SEC and Big 10. When the ride came around a second time in the early 2010’s, we were far from passive. Our first experience dates back to the mid-2000s when we watched helplessly as Miami, Virginia Tech and Boston College were given their golden tickets to the ACC. This is, technically, our third round of it after all. West Virginia fans are, of course, intimately familiar with conference realignment. Those same forces have now driven Oklahoma and Texas - two of the richest program in sports - to destroy yet another conference and once more unmoor the known order. A decade ago, driven by madness, greed and an unhealthy need to keep up with mythical Joneses, the major conferences kicked off a series of domino moves that rebuilt the college sports world.
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