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<blockquote data-quote="Charleston Mountie" data-source="post: 129567206" data-attributes="member: 1427666">Apples and oranges. WVU's value and metrics are different depending on the conference in question. The SEC is not worried about markets, they can add two total dead weights and not care. Same for the Big Ten. Their deals are so good they can absorb a hit like that and not notice. The ACC is only more stable at the present than the Big-12 is because it has more members and a CCG. That's it.There is a lot of hand wringing going on and 99% of it is speculative and fill in the blank with the worst scenario and then report it has fact. Even the various members of the universities are not fully reliable as a source because they are not involved in this process. That is hard for some to fathom, but boards are not that engaged in running anything in any company. They are nameplates that bring a network of contacts and money flows into their interest. They do not run around doing actual work such as being involved in expansion.Even presidents of a university have a full time job of running the university. It is why they are forced to delegate so much to the AD or legal or conference commissioner. Even those people and departments delegate - such as the Boren-Gee-Starr committee.The process is not doing anything unusual and nothing unusual is happening. At the end of the day, people at this level of decision making often choose to do nothing than to make a mistake on even a weak account of risk. Glacial is the normal speed of progress.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Charleston Mountie, post: 129567206, member: 1427666"] Apples and oranges. WVU's value and metrics are different depending on the conference in question. The SEC is not worried about markets, they can add two total dead weights and not care. Same for the Big Ten. Their deals are so good they can absorb a hit like that and not notice. The ACC is only more stable at the present than the Big-12 is because it has more members and a CCG. That's it. There is a lot of hand wringing going on and 99% of it is speculative and fill in the blank with the worst scenario and then report it has fact. Even the various members of the universities are not fully reliable as a source because they are not involved in this process. That is hard for some to fathom, but boards are not that engaged in running anything in any company. They are nameplates that bring a network of contacts and money flows into their interest. They do not run around doing actual work such as being involved in expansion. Even presidents of a university have a full time job of running the university. It is why they are forced to delegate so much to the AD or legal or conference commissioner. Even those people and departments delegate - such as the Boren-Gee-Starr committee. The process is not doing anything unusual and nothing unusual is happening. At the end of the day, people at this level of decision making often choose to do nothing than to make a mistake on even a weak account of risk. Glacial is the normal speed of progress. [/QUOTE]

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