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[QUOTE="WoadBlue, post: 4730386, member: 1145"]
There never has been. UConn is not going to ever matter in either TV market because it is not Boston, not even MA, and it is not NY. And if somehow it could be both, neither place has cared much about CFB since the 1960s.

Then reality is that there never could have been a BE football without having multiple teams from either south of the Mason-Dixon Line and/or west of the true northeast. Even Pittsburgh is just 30 miles from the OH border and not much farther above the Mason-Dixon Line. JoePa figured that out while he was furious with the BE and wrongly blaming Syracuse for what the little BE schools did. So Joe knew PSU had to either go west to BT or south to ACCm, and at that point, all that ACC basketball remind him far too much of the BE. So he was Hellbent on BT or bust.

I still have some hope that the ACC can be saved as Major/Power conference, which means the ACC keeping its football status, which it can't do if it loses both FSU and Clemson. But if the worst case comes,  and those left in the ACC wish too keep the AXCC clearly among there Tier 2 group of leagues, then the ACC must act to replace members with schools that are much more likely to help football. That means doing whatever to takes it get WVU, CIncy, and UCF from the Big 12. Adding USF with that trio. Appalachian St, ECU, James Madison, and Georgia Southern would all be better bets for adding long term football strength than UConn or even Temple.
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