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Message: [QUOTE="hobbit88, post: 33806, member: 1218"] Thanks for all the input in answer to my question about the "ties" between UVA and Va Tech. Pressure from the governor's office is not to be ignored, especially if he has the Power of the Purse. Something sounds kind of, well, questionable if not downright illegal, that a governor could force his will on a major athletic conference that way, through putting a pistol to the head of a public university's leadership. Makes you wonder what might have happened if John Swofford had said, "that's okay guys, we don't want Virginia Tech OR Virginia: we'll go with 'Cuse, Pitt and UConn. Don't let the door hit you on the backside". LOL. I think Swofford's a little too cool to get that hot-blooded/fired-up about it, but if I had been in his place that would have really gotten me steamed ... [/QUOTE]