Comments on: How IMG’s third-tier deal impacts fans

By: Sparky

Sparky — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 12:33:01 +0000

Third-grade math. Marshall, Pitt, Notre Dame, and a score of other IMG properties just subsidized WVU. Those other properties are generating revenue for IMG. WVU is millions in the RED to IMG. They’re not making that up by Tuesday.

By: GregG

GregG — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 21:15:07 +0000

Well said!!!!!!!!

By: Bigeerfull

Bigeerfull — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 14:52:35 +0000

No doubt about it, the landscape of college athletics has changed forever. Just like the gold rush 49ers, colleges across the land are trying their best to position themselves to lay claim to a motherlode. WVU is no exception. Lifelong regional rivalries be damned. Inflating costs to the point that an average fan can no longer experience a college football game…oh well. Don’t like it? Tough teets, the self proclaimed gods of college athletics are raking in hundreds of millions of dollars while some poor kid gets suspended for taking a free meal from an “unscrupulous” booster. We only have ourselves to blame. We will keep on paying the $20 parking, contributing special gifts to get a season ticket, paying the astronomical concession fees and spending top dollar for the best merchandise that China can manufacture for pennies. I hope that I live long enough to see the slave labor/pawns (players) unite and finally get their well deserved and rightfull piece of the pie.

By: SCMOUNTAINEER

SCMOUNTAINEER — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 20:04:07 +0000

Anyone who thinks Tony Caridi needs to go hasn’t spent any time outside their WV comfort zone! The product that MSN has provided WVU over the years is fantastic compared to many other, more successful programs. I can tell you from experience from listening to SEC and ACC local broadcasts and many other schools sports broadcasts over XM that MSN and Tony Caridi are just as good if not much better than any of them. If Tony is let go I know that he will end up in a much better position and will be making a hell of a lot more than he makes in Morgantown. Some of you people just don’t know how good you have it. You should hope and pray that he remains the voice of the Mountaineers!

By: Dane

Dane — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 01:44:21 +0000

Oliver luck is the worst AD in the NCAA. Anybody who would completely turn away from the fans, and destroy an entire company should be fired!

By: JRH

JRH — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 10:28:58 +0000

The change isn’t about the on-air talent…This change is about WV being ‘short changed’ on income for decades from a company whose has been making huge profits from WV sports…

More income from advertisers will reduce the pressure on WV raising prices on their tickets…

I believe for decades WV has lost huge amount of income from its present media contracts…And Mr. Luck knows that fact…

By: Joe

Joe — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 08:06:10 +0000

This is long overdue. How are you going to compete financially when you are one of 2 majr colleges still keeping it inhouse. Let IMG worry about unning this and let the Athletic dept worry about athletics (and have extra revenue to do so). If people recall… I believe RRod was pushing for WVU to get a deal like this so football could bring in more revenue with replays non nationally televised games ect… the old AD was not forward thinking enough and RR knew he would not have the resources to continue to compete with the old regime. Ollie Luck has bee the best thing to happen to us, in time even all those that resist every little change that comes along will realiz this as well.

By: Rick

Rick — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 04:26:17 +0000

The older Mountaineer fans built the university and paved the way to make it what it is today. It is the older Mountaineer fans (and the taxpayers), not today’s students, who have paid for everything we have today. The older Mountaineer fans understand something about loyalty and tradition and integrity. I would guess that the older Mountaineer fans also understand something about respect, which is something you, Brent, seem to lack.

I hope to one day become one of those older Mountaineer fans, and I respect and appreciate everything the older Mountaineer fans have done.

Instead of holding this university back, I think the older Mountaineer fans actually comprehend what the university means to the state of West Virginia and how it has contributed to the betterment of the residents of the state. Finally, I think the older Mountaineer fans have the wisdom to see that the direction in which some people want to take the university may be politically correct and in tune with current culture, but is not necessarily in the best interests of West Virginia University and the state of West Virginia.

By: Joe C

Joe C — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 01:42:56 +0000

I am upset, because MSN is one of the few familiar voices I can tune into on a regular basis, being out of WV for 10 years now. IMG’s broadcasts are canned across the board, ND, Marshall, Pitt, Arkansas etc…. It is like driving down the interstate and every exit is the same. Sorry folks, I am sentimental. But Tony Caridi and his color commentators are like family to me, and have been for years, when I was there, and when I left, just as Fleming and O’Hara were when I was a young man. Leave TC & crew in place, and I will come along. Take them away, and I will start listening to U of Ark broadcasts, because they will sound just the same, and be closer to where I live now. Perhaps I will jsut come along, like I did when I was upset that O’Hara was not made WVU Play By Play Announcer when Fleming had to retire. I have come to love Caridi.

By: In da stickes

In da stickes — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 21:53:16 +0000

Not if they are willing to pay the going rate. Keyser is owned by the Raese family.