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Originally Posted by tredadda
Was there other options in WV? Don't even say Marshall as they are not even worth discussing for these realignment purposes. They did not go after WVU, but Missouri instead. Why did they do it? For the market. It was a money decision, not a football one. That is why UVA and UNC are bigger targets for the SEC than VT and NCSU. I agree that the SEC does not want Duke either.
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You're starting to mix situations. Originally, it was why would the SEC take V Tech as opposed to UVA. You thought UVA brought more visibility to the arena than V Tech, which I would dispute. UVA is clearly the better academic institution, but in the two revenue sports, UVA has been quite irrelevant for a very long time.
V Tech is the sports draw. If there was a "Missouri Tech" and Missouri had been performing like UVA while the Tech school was like V Tech, then it wouldn't be a slam dunk Missouri would be the school they invite, especially if this fictional"M Tech" was located closer to St. Louis. Missouri had the markets, but they also had another former Big 12 school that was already joining. There were lots of reasons for the SEC to go that way.