Big 12 talk is back thanks to Texas.

[coach]

it's nice to actually read something positive for a change even if he has no say.

[Cordon]

Interesting take on Big 12 expansion from an Illinois writer:

http://frankthetank.me/2013/10/30/th...-its-all-over/

[98bearcat]

Because of the stadium expansion UC will get guaranteed 7 figure numbers from Football every year... even if nobody shows up for a single football game. Right now confirmed figures are 4+ million every year for 10 years + whatever all the general seating sales and concessions bring. Not to shabby for our little (soon to be) 40,000 stadium

[coach]

that never hurts, but if you take the difference between 13,176 and 8000 a game that is big money to an athletic dept. seven figure amts of money annually are difference makers.

[sabre86]

The problem is no matter how full our stands are, the real money in these programs comes from big contributions by wealthy alums and followers. We have nothing to compare to this.

[cmm27]

According to that article Tom Jurick at Louisville makes 1.4 mil. Holy Carp, Batman! How do they come up with that much payola???

And David Williams at Vanderbilt makes 3.2 mil. I'm in the wrong business!!!

I thought it was Vanderbilt that recently publicized abolishing the AD position; but maybe that was Wake Forest.

[coach]

Fans actually show up at their games.

[cpawstoney]

According to USA Today, Whit currently makes $364,000 here at UC.

Oliver Luck currently makes $625,000 at WVU.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports...ology/1968783/

According to that article Tom Jurick at Louisville makes 1.4 mil. Holy Carp, Batman! How do they come up with that much payola???

And David Williams at Vanderbilt makes 3.2 mil. I'm in the wrong business!!!

[CincyEngGrad02]

The WV twitter types are saying Whit is #2 or #3 on the list, the other choice being Huggins which makes no sense to me.

Huggins will not be the next AD. Bookmarket!

[Lobot]

Has Whit been rumored to be going over there (outside of board speculations)?

The WV twitter types are saying Whit is #2 or #3 on the list, the other choice being Huggins which makes no sense to me.

[BigDaddyCornHusker]

Has Whit been rumored to be going over there (outside of board speculations)?

[B-Team]

According to USA Today, Whit currently makes $364,000 here at UC.
Oliver Luck currently makes $625,000 at WVU.

Not saying that Whit's salary at WVU would be equal to what Luck makes at WVU, but I think it's pretty apparent that if WVU wants to offer the position to Whit, he will get a pretty substantial pay increase with the new position.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports...ology/1968783/

[coach]

i would also suspect wv pays significantly more $ for an ad than uc. could be wrong, but that would be a game changer for anyone.

[JDBEARCAT]

Yes but Whit brought TT here. Does he leave UC & TT behind? If so, what does TT do from this point on? I know he said if he left Cincy, he would be without a wife but stuff
happens. I hope we don't lose Whit & then are able to get into a bigger conference.

[red_n_black_attack]

Which leads me to doubt that he'd leave for WVU. You're going from what is essentially one bottom of the Big 12 school to another bottom of the Big 12 school.

If he leaves, I would suspect it would be for a program in the Big Ten, ACC or SEC, like Mike Thomas did.

There major differences between WVU and UC at this time and in the near future.

1. Their football capacity is @ 60,000

2. They are already in a Power Five Conference

3. Name recognition as a football school - recognition only as the programs are quite comparible the last 5-7 years and they are struggling in Big 12 as I think we would as well - IMHO football is about an equal wash

If I were Whit, I'd make the jump unless he has direct knowledge on rumors where is fire to the smoke of UC to the Big 12