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Message: [QUOTE="Btstimpy, post: 1835650, member: 2043"] Now that the ACC is officially going to have a cable channel, additions to the membership would need to bring television subscribers as well as not diminish the quality of the ACC's football and basketball brands. If you look at the map of the ACC's geographic footprint along the east coast, Connecticut and Eastern Pennsylvania are holes in it. I think Connecticut would be a no brainer if the ACC wants to continue to market itself to New England. Boston College is already here. The combined populations of Massachusetts and Connecticut are around 10 million. A rivalry between BC and UConn would help the ACC in that region, and I don't think UConn diminishes the ACC football product with FSU and Clemson carrying the banner these days and others up and coming. UConn would help the basketball product in both men's and women's. And with 24 varsity sports programs, UConn would add value to Cable Channel. I also don't want to see the Big XII or the Big Ten enter New England. Temple is another story. I would want to know that they could do for the ACC what Rutgers is doing for the Big Ten. Neither bring football cache. The Big Ten is using Rutgers to enter the New York City market for its channel and the ability to call it home footprint. If the ACC added Temple could we do the same for Philadelphia and the overall Delaware Valley? Would it put the 3 million television households there on the ACC Network? Temple football is improving and they are looking at a new stadium on campus. Will they follow through and will the trend continue. Temple basketball would be fine in the ACC. Pennsylvania is an important state to the ACC, and Philadelphia could become an important city. We have Pittsburgh and with them market access to western Pennsylvania. We could benefit by market access to the other half of Pennsylvania. Can Temple help that? ESPN would have to help us answer this since we are now in close partnership with this Network with ESPN. I'm not against Temple as others are here, but I have more questions. [/QUOTE]

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