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West Virginia’s Big 12 scheduling complaints are being heard

Bob Huggins, Billy Hahn, Gary Browne

West Virginia head coach Bob Huggins, left, watches from the bench along with assistant Billy Hahn and guard Gary Browne, right, in the closing minutes of the second half of an NCAA college basketball game against Purdue in West Lafayette, Ind., Saturday, Jan. 19, 2013. Purdue defeated West Virginia 79-52. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

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West Virginia was not happy about the travel issues that they had this past season as a new member of the Big 12.

They’ve been complaining about it for a couple of months already, and according to Andy Katz, some of those complaints are finally being heard:

The conference will look at having West Virginia stay on the road for two consecutive road games in a short amount of time to reduce the number of long road trips for the Mountaineers. West Virginia wants to avoid having to go back to Texas or Texas and Oklahoma or Texas and Iowa over a Wednesday to a Saturday time period.

I guess I understand their complaints.

Traveling from West Virginia to Texas for a Wednesday night game and following that up with a trip back across the country for a Saturday afternoon tip is not an easy thing to do. But the Mountaineers knew that back when they made the decision to leave the Big East, which tends to make it tough to feel bad for them.

Luckily for WVU, the rest of the league’s AD’s seem be willing to help the ‘Eers out.

They’re more generous than me.

You can find Rob on twitter @RobDauster.