I am not a wildly "connected" person by any stretch of the imagination, but because I write for a KSU fan site, I do have friends in the media, have contact with "connected" people, and I do know, tangentially, some employees of the KSU AD.
In the past few years, here's what I've learned about "inside" sources:
1) Donors talk a lot. They're rarely right. It's hard because you have to learn which ones are telling you the truth as opposed to telling you what they want to happen and then relay that as fact. During our basketball hiring search, my guy connected to multiple big money donors threw out a lot of names, but he ignored the guy that said, "It's gonna be Bruce Weber," because it wasn't what he wanted to hear, and he thought it was crazy talk.
2) People in the media know info around the story, but they, obviously, aren't on the inside. So, the media guys follow the smoke, and they get a lot of circumstantial evidence that allows them to put a picture together, but it's rarely 100% accurate. I learned a lot of things about Frank Martin from a media friend that most people never knew about because he was calling parents, AAU clubs, etc. He was able to share some personal experiences with me that painted a different picture than the public persona. But he wasn't going to put a lot of this stuff out in the open, and I wasn't going to talk openly about it, because he had a relationship with Frank to protect for professional reasons.
3) People who really know, i.e. AD employees, don't talk. When they do talk, it's after the fact, and you only get enough to the point where they don't want to put their jobs in jeopardy. I got some decent stuff about our stadium renovations, Nike contract, etc., but nothing of significant importance. I just knew a few weeks before everyone else, or if the info was never released, I knew about it.
I've enjoyed people throwing out scenarios on here for the purposes of entertainment, and some of it had a basis in reality, therefore, it was plausible. But no one feeds information as fast and with the level of detail that people were tossing out here, and if they were, it was most likely coming from donors. If KSU and John Currie run the gulag that I know they do, I can only imagine that Oliver Luck runs an even tighter ship. The "info" we were getting wasn't within the WVU AD (if it was ever real to begin with).
This isn't an attack on the "insiders" on this board. But before people go at them with pitchforks, or want DeLoss Dodd's head on a platter, please remember that there is a kernel of truth and a cob fiction with rumors like this. We're most likely going to expand, and Notre Dame and Florida State will most likely be the most desired options. All of that is most likely true. Beyond that...well, just take everything with a grain of salt.
