If it’s all the same to you, Dana Holgorsen would like to cater to your conveniences as WVU moves forward and starts looking into scheduling non-conference games in the fast-approaching Big 12 future.

Now it’s worth mentioning the Mountaineers need but one game through 2016 — and that’s if you believe there is no more expansion that grows the leagues, like the Big 12, and cuts out a conference game … and I don’t believe that — and that one game is likely against a FCS team in 2015.

Holgorsen says things are about to change “in a major way” as WVU transitions into the Big 12, but that annual game against a FCS team, either at home or a lucrative neutral site, seems permanent.

But because the FCS games are, shall we say, ho hum, and because so many of the Big 12 adventures are far away, Holgorsen would like to accomodate those who have been disenfranchised.

Basically, no more two-paycheck road games. No more lengthy series where WVU plays one team several years a row. Holgorsen envisions short series against a rotating set of neighboring and/or once familiar foes.  

“Pitt would be tremendous. Maryland, which is basically on our schedule every year, would be tremendous,” Holgorsen said. “What’s wrong with playing a Virginia Tech or Virginia or Penn State? Or Rutgers? That rivalry’s pretty good.

“There are so many games right around here that make sense for our fans and we’ve taken a lot from our fans. Now, it’s for a really good reason, but why not try to play as many games as we possibly can that are close to them?”

Missing from that list? Marshall. Holgorsen said it was an inadvertent omission, but added that the Thundering Herd, or any long-term opponents, doesn’t necessarily fit with what he has in mind.

“It goes back to what I said as far as there being so many regional rivalries that have existed that we’ve taken from our fan base,” he said. “I’d be in favor of playing them sometime, but you can’t play them five years in a row. You could play them maybe once every decade.”