Everyone talk about Cincinatti as a travel partner for WVU but this make no sense. WVU wants to recruit and compete in Ohio, so why elevate G5 Cincinatti to P5? This is similar to the Texas schools resisting Houston, the OK schools against Tulsa.

What WVU needs is a travel partner that doesn’t hurt them in recruitment for football but help raise WVUprofile for general student recruitment and academic standing. Of the nearby available G5 programs: Cincinatti, Temple, Navy, Marshall, ECU, only Bufalo is AAU. So Bufalo should approach WVU and offer to help their academics in exchange for big xii considerations.