Hey, old people, get over yourselves. Maybe, once upon a time, your decision mattered in the way the university ran, I am gonna guess it didn't. If the guys on the football team want to wear purple and green because its the cool thing to do, then that is THEIR choice. I go to every practice and every game, and I see these guys working their @ss off to make sure you all can sit on your hands and scream "Tradition by god!". WVU is a moving on to a better conference and snazzier uniforms, yet we all sit here and judge the other guys, and we cant even afford a practice facility, baseball field, or anything else.
So let me see if I can get this broken down a tad for easier understanding..
1. We can barely sell 30k tickets on a good day, yet WVU almost sells out every game
2. We only allow beer to be sold in the big green room because it makes the upper 10% feel better about themselves and more elite. WVU banked nearly 600k, with estimates of coming years of 1 million. (I like to think of this as a class system, rich reap the reward of what they can afford, while the poor have to accept that this is just the way it is)
3. We sit in this crappy conference and try and justify why its gonna be just swell to play Huntington Junior College of business. We all know we want to be in the Big East and continue to play UCF and Houston.
4. We scream " No new uniforms!!! We are traditionalist!!!" and all the football players sigh and put their heads down. WVU and Ohio get new uniforms and they kick the dog p1ss out of us because they are being rewarded for working hard. The sales of the 3rd jersey skyrockets and they cant keep them in stock....
So here is the conclusion...
alt jerseys = happy players and jersey sales
happy players = more wins
more wins = larger ticket sales
larger ticket sales = more people who wanna party and make the Joan rock! (Beer sales)
Beer sales = more $
More money = better facilities
better facilities = better conference
better conference = better player and recognition
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Until we start doing any of that ^ we are not going to move on to better and greener pastures. Its a domino effect. Plain and simple.
I just wish that the "powers that be" would stop the controlling of everything. Change is good and it can show that we care about the younger crowd that is coming to the University.
Sorry, may have gone off topic, but I had to get that off my chest.
(EDIT: The WVU style of jersey is not good, but we dont even have an option.)