According to a report, Mitch McConnell's professed love of Louisiville is actually an elaborate cover to conceal his passion for the University of Maryland Terrapins, the most famous turtles in college athletics
Sorry, Mitch: it
looks like West Virginia University is going to join the Big 12 after all, despite all the
time you wasted trying to boost your beloved Louisville by blocking WVU from gaining membership in the conference.
Sources familiar with the Big 12 Conference’s deliberations said McConnell has been quietly doing his bidding for Louisville behind the scenes — even as West Virginia was thought to have the inside edge at joining the conference. For weeks, he’s methodically called up top university officials and presidents to make the case for Louisville, talking up the university’s state-of-the-art facilities, how his hometown is a sports friendly city that can easily host visitors for major events, according to people involved with the talks.
But Manchin and the senior West Virginia senator, Jay Rockefeller, are under a different impression: that McConnell may have run a trick play after the Big 12 actually made a preliminary decision to grant West Virginia its bid.
And if you think McConnell is taking Manchin's words as friendly smack talk, then think again.
“Tell him to bring it on!” Manchin told a West Virginia radio station emphatically on Thursday. “But I’m going to fight. And I respect that, if Mitch wants to fight. But Mitch, if you lose the fight, go back and retrain and get better. OK? Louisville doesn’t have the record. They don’t have the standings or the merit that West Virginia has. You know what, Louisville? Go back and toughen up a little bit. Get better. And maybe you’ll be part of the Big 12 later on.”
A Republican source warned that McConnell has a long memory and won’t forget this tiff.
“Making this political is not the fight he wants to pick,” the source said. “If there is one guy who files things away better than McConnell I’d love to know who it is. He’ll need something some time.”
The thing I don't understand is that if Mitch McConnell has enough time on his hands to plot revenge against fellow senators who support rival college teams, why the hell hasn't he found the time to do anything about the real problems America faces? You know, things like creating jobs?