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Originally Posted by eazyb81
But WVU should transition seamlessly as they replace the dregs of the Big East with the Oklahoma and Texas schools.
And over the last five years WVU has won 49 games in the craptastic Big East versus Mizzou 48 in the same timespan.
Let's not even get into WVU's inability to admit the SEC academic casualties now that they have to operate under a real conference's academic requirements....
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Yeah, West Virginia has benefited greatly from playing in the Big East.
Recent conference titles:
2003 (8-5, 6-1)
2004 (8-4, 4-2)
2005 (11-1, 7-0)
2007 (11-2, 5-2)
2010 (9-3, 5-2)
Missouri - along with several other Big 12 schools - could have done just as well. The Tigers likely win the Big East in 2003, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010 and would have been right there in 2009 (when I believe flippin' UCONN won the league).
Their basketball program is unarguably better than Mizzou's (though that probably doesn't last past Huggy bear and probably takes a hit playing in the Big 12-2-1-1+? with less ties to New York), but their football program is perceived as better only because they've dominated a cupcake league.