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It was five years ago yesterday.
October 28, 2011. The West Virginia team caravan was cruising south out of Newark International Airport down Interstate 95 behind a New Jersey State Police escort. We were a few minutes out from the New Brunswick hotel where the Mountaineers would prepare for Rutgers the following afternoon. It would prove to be a pivotal game on a snow-blown field in WVU’s last-ever stretch run in the Big East Conference.
It was on those buses that many of us first heard the landmark news that would forever change the course of West Virginia University athletics - the Big 12 Conference Board of Directors had voted unanimously to accept West Virginia as a full member.