Question from a guy who has only been vaguely following this thread for the last 908 pages...
...has TheDude from WV ever been right about anything ever? Tia.
No.
Best I can tell, his motivation seems to actually be lined up with WVU's administration's...which is to foster expansion of the Big 12 how ever they can.
I have no idea whether they are actually coordinating, or whether he is simply taking it on his own and running with it.
WVU is all kinds of wound up about expanding.
Best I can tell, he's probably buddies with a low level staffer in the AD's office that has access to some expansion conversations from time to time. A junior level associate AD that's a friend of a secretary or something. He gets the second hand info and runs with it. His declarative statements are funny and entertaining but his track record on accuracy speaks for itself.
The thing that is interesting is that if WV wanted to squash this guy and disassociate him, it would take one phone call to bring this all to a halt. They obviously want some of this stuff out there.
If we were in WV's shoes we'd be all wound up about expansion as well. They desperately want some mates in geographic proximity and they obviously aren't too fond of being on a secluded island a thousand miles away from everybody else. Can't really blame them.