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<blockquote data-quote="Charleston Mountie" data-source="post: 129511837" data-attributes="member: 1427666">You are falling into the failure of making emotional choices over business deals. I hope you do not practice this in your working life. Business is business and feelings are for Hallmark, never connect the two if you want to be successful in either, unless you bargain with prostitutes on a regular basis.I can understand not wanting to alter our schedule. I recall when the Big East started and everyone raved over playing Miami every year. It got old fast and after a few years in the Big-12 Texas and Oklahoma are not the &quot;events&quot; they used to be - at least for me, especially we seem to have issues beating them.You make another uninformed assertion that Cincinnati has no drawing power. Nippert Stadium has an official capacity of 40,000. It averaged 37,096 last season when the team played .500 ball all season with no hope of a ranking or decent standing in their conference. They ended up 7-6. They had three games that were standing room only and exceeded Nippert's seating capacity. Tell me, what game did WVU sell out this last season, when was the last time WVU sold out three in the same season AND was playing .500 ball? Be careful throwing rocks when you live in a glass house.Have you tailgated at UC? Didn't think so, but you know all about it, right.As for what college draws in Cincinnati, you need to just bow out on this topic as you are clueless.Cincinnati is not my preferred pick but it is the best pick open to the Big-12. But, like Louisville is seen as &quot;one that got away&quot; all of the things you say about Cincinnati was said about Louisville before they got into the ACC.Cincinnati is a solid choice for expansion.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Charleston Mountie, post: 129511837, member: 1427666"] You are falling into the failure of making emotional choices over business deals. I hope you do not practice this in your working life. Business is business and feelings are for Hallmark, never connect the two if you want to be successful in either, unless you bargain with prostitutes on a regular basis. I can understand not wanting to alter our schedule. I recall when the Big East started and everyone raved over playing Miami every year. It got old fast and after a few years in the Big-12 Texas and Oklahoma are not the "events" they used to be - at least for me, especially we seem to have issues beating them. You make another uninformed assertion that Cincinnati has no drawing power. Nippert Stadium has an official capacity of 40,000. It averaged 37,096 last season when the team played .500 ball all season with no hope of a ranking or decent standing in their conference. They ended up 7-6. They had three games that were standing room only and exceeded Nippert's seating capacity. Tell me, what game did WVU sell out this last season, when was the last time WVU sold out three in the same season AND was playing .500 ball? Be careful throwing rocks when you live in a glass house. Have you tailgated at UC? Didn't think so, but you know all about it, right. As for what college draws in Cincinnati, you need to just bow out on this topic as you are clueless. Cincinnati is not my preferred pick but it is the best pick open to the Big-12. But, like Louisville is seen as "one that got away" all of the things you say about Cincinnati was said about Louisville before they got into the ACC. Cincinnati is a solid choice for expansion. [/QUOTE]

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