West Virginia's Dana Holgorsen on Big 12 travel: 'It's made our home games more important'

West Virginia coach Dana Holgorsen has no issues being the sole Big 12 program residing in the Eastern timezone.

Although the geographic disparity means the Mountaineers grapple with daunting travel times when on the road, Holgorsen notes that it also means their western rivals also have to make the similarly massive trips to Morgantown.

That makes home field that much more of an advantage.

"Our fan base is who had to come to terms with it more than anything, you know? They were pretty spoiled in the Big East being able to drive an hour, two hours, three hours and watch an away game," Holgorsen said, as reported by Steven Godfrey of SBNation. "But it's made our home games more important and that's why, coming to Morgantown, it's a pretty exciting atmosphere. Our fan base needs to take advantage of the home games."

The Mountaineers' relative isolation could understandably push the program to support the long-rumored expansion of the Big 12, which many say would lead to the addition of another program based in their timezone.

But for Holgorsen, it doesn't really matter a whole lot.

"No. No. Makes no difference, whatsoever," he said when asked at Big 12 Media Days earlier this month whether expansion would aid West Virginia.