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AD Wren Baker Expects WVU To Have ‘Best Fundraising Year Ever,’ Trying To Compete In ‘Arms Race’ Of College Athletics

MORGANTOWN — The current state of college athletics has turned into an “arms race,” as West Virginia athletic director Wren Baker called it in April. It’s become who can generate the most money to pay the best players to compete for championships. And it’s happening in all sports. Now, as college football legend Nick Saban said, it depends on where you spend the money, but as Rich Rodriguez recently said in an interview with ESPN’s Pete Thamel, it gets to a point where you can’t miss. “When rosters get up to $50 million, $60 million, $70 million, they'd have to be ...