Van wrote:Do you deny that W. Virginia never gets a sniff of that game if they'd had to play in one of the other conferences I mentioned?
I'll try and leave the conjecture strategy to you for the most part, but in an honest attempt to answer your question, I certainly would never use the word "never," as it might relate to WVU's chances of having competed for a BCS game in any of those conferences. My argument against WVU was never that they're a vastly inferior team to the other schools (they have been in a solid conference for years, remember, prior to this season...this isn't Marshall we're talking here, WVU has seen plenty of big time games, and recruit blue chip talent), my argument is simply they no longer deserve to be weighed on the same scale considering who they play on a weekly basis, in contrast to who the other conferences play on a weekly basis.
If you stuck that WVU team in any of those conferences, I think it would've competed for the conference title. There are far, far too many variables involved to say boldly and conclusively that WVU would've received a berth or not. I do, however, think they would've realistically
competed for the BCS representation. I absolutely do. I have the Georgia game to look at as proof. And regardless of how you want to minimize that win, it's still a win over a top tier SEC team in a huge bowl game. That's a fact in recent history you can't change, regardless of how much semantics you want to lay down in here, in an attempt to downplay its significance. You really have no way to prove how interested (or disinterested) the UGA players were in that game, therefore, by the laws instilled within me by the Gods of Logic, you have to give me the benefit of the doubt, considering a
win over Georgia is the
only piece of evidence we can go by in this matter.
