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<blockquote data-quote="eers1foru_rivals" data-source="post: 129339552" data-attributes="member: 1797561">As it pertains to the sports part of the conference, I love it. We have had one decent season in the Big XII. They ranked us for it? You had to whip the piss out of the guys in the Big East to be ranked. Basketball was about the same. Just finish in the top half of the conference and you'll get a lot of respect.As a fan? Also love it. It may be because we haven't beaten these other teams enough for them to dislike us, but they do seem to like us. Or at the very least treat us with respect. Something we never got from the fans in the Big East. It appears the conference interacts with the school on a much more equal footing than we ever got in the Big East as well. I don't feel like WVU is the proverbial &quot;redheaded step-child&quot; of the conference.On an academic standpoint it's odd but it seems we are actually more aligned with the Big XII's way of thinking than we were with the Big East as well. Its almost as if we were always meant to be in the Big XII. God just played a cruel joke on us by moving us half a continent away from our brothers. But as a native WV I think it's only fitting that we have to be so far away from the rest of the family to make a living and survive. Seems to be a microcosm of the people who attend WVU and the people of the state.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="eers1foru_rivals, post: 129339552, member: 1797561"] As it pertains to the sports part of the conference, I love it. We have had one decent season in the Big XII. They ranked us for it? You had to whip the piss out of the guys in the Big East to be ranked. Basketball was about the same. Just finish in the top half of the conference and you'll get a lot of respect. As a fan? Also love it. It may be because we haven't beaten these other teams enough for them to dislike us, but they do seem to like us. Or at the very least treat us with respect. Something we never got from the fans in the Big East. It appears the conference interacts with the school on a much more equal footing than we ever got in the Big East as well. I don't feel like WVU is the proverbial "redheaded step-child" of the conference. On an academic standpoint it's odd but it seems we are actually more aligned with the Big XII's way of thinking than we were with the Big East as well. Its almost as if we were always meant to be in the Big XII. God just played a cruel joke on us by moving us half a continent away from our brothers. But as a native WV I think it's only fitting that we have to be so far away from the rest of the family to make a living and survive. Seems to be a microcosm of the people who attend WVU and the people of the state. [/QUOTE]

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