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Once more, with a ceiling

I intended to post this yesterday, but I wanted to give the All-Camp team some time and, honestly, what’s one more day of bickering with West Virginia Radio?

The WVRC folks were not happy with the Daily Mail Friday. They fired off emails demanding both an apology and a better presentation of the facts as they related to the initial bid for WVU’s Tier 3 rights — never mind that they didn’t return calls Thursday when the story was being written. They were compelled to send out a fact sheet Friday once the story was picked up and disseminated by the Associated Press.

So Jared Hunt took a closer look and gave a better representation of the facts as they related to the initial bid. It turns out WVRC’s projections were off.

WVRC again defended its position yesterday, but really and truly it comes down to a series of facts that can’t be bent: IMG College not only guaranteed more money, but its projected money was well above WVRC’s projected money. While WVRC had some noble aims, like keeping money inside the state, WVU ultimately wanted to do something different, which was the inspiration for this idea so long ago. That’s it, but if you want to add the fact that IMG is the best at this and thus gives WVU very little to worry about, you go right ahead and do that.

All that aside, the lawsuit seeking to stop WVU and IMG from partnering goes forward with an initial hearing Monday. See you then.