(04-25-2010 02:58 PM)PirateMarv Wrote:  

(04-25-2010 01:08 PM)buckaineer Wrote:  There are several things I see people posting here in this thread I find incredibly amusing.

First, there are multiple ECU posters, several probable ECU posters posing as others, etc. They all have the same or very similar opinions and have very similar postings. These same posters with identical thought and postings declare myself and WVUeer to be the same person because we have a few similar thoughts on a particular school or issue that disagrees with their opinions? Yet you don't see the similarities in your own thought and opinion?-are you ALL the same poster/poser?

Next, I post researchable facts about issues, schools, etc. and the same posers and posters listed above attack me personally and come up with all manner of delusion to pretend that rather than facts, these are some personal agenda against their school I have formulated-as though I made up their Tier ranking or market when I had absolutely nothing to do with any of it.

Next, what is this all out attack and assault on Marshall University? I find it very interesting that so many non Big East fans have such a hatred of MU. What has Marshall ever done to any of you to deserve such hatred? Anyone who knows anything about college football knows Marshall stands very similarly in relation to most of the candidates mentioned here on a regular basis. Better than some in certain areas, a bit less than some in others. The thing is, they are just one of MULTIPLE other teams listed--but Marshall is the only one that is ever attacked as though everyone else is somehow a better candidate than the Thundering Herd would be.

and finally, where did this imagined theory come from that ECU and/or Memphis are somehow the ONLY reasonable and real candidates for Big East expansion come from. This is not close to being a fact, yet multiple people keep repeating this over and over as though this was written in stone, or doing so is going to convince the decision makers that this is so. The facts are these schools have been turned down by the Big East more than once already, as have other schools.

Since you are all into the Tier system, will you please address the questions that I asked earlier in this thread about WVU's Tier ranking? And before you go feeling all sorry for yourself, you should keep in mind that you launched a few attacks of your own. Moreover, no one dislikes Marshall; it is a fine institution, however since the Louisville poster outed you as a Marshall alum posing as a WVU alum, then at least be man enough to own up to it; so that when Memphis and ECU fans are reading your posts they at least know why you saying what you are saying.

Lastly, reality indicates that the Big East would really only pick from a hand full of schools if their conference was raided by the B10 or if they really wanted to go to 20 schools. I would think the list would include Temple from the MAC; Memphis, East Carolina and Central Florida from CUSA. On the one hand those schools may not be the most attractive programs out there, but on the other hand they all are large, have name recognition, lots of alums, fans and decent markets. And while the academics of institutions might matter (it didn't for Louisville, Cincinnati or South Florida), I would think that the more important factors would be name recognition, alums, fans and markets.

I have never set foot in a classroom at Marshall University so no one could "out me". Anyone who suggests otherwise is a fool.