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Message: [QUOTE="HtownOrange, post: 5350550, member: 622"] You have not stated "Syracuse sucks" but have you have left that as your assessment. Syracuse factors nowhere in your assessments and UNC and UVA are ridiculously overvalued. Essentially, you parrot what the Locked On mouthpieces and the Homer-type bloggers state. Even the lazy reporters parrot this same assessment. However, most on this site know that SU and Pitt were among those vetted for invite to the B1G prior to the ACC invite. Both had several votes but the then mid-west oriented conference wanted to avoid too much presence on the east coast. This point was accentuated by PSU demanding more of an east coast presence, having suffered some loss of influence. This was significant to the point that once SU and Pitt joined the ACC, UMD revealed the plan of the ACC to lure PSU and ESPN was on board. The BTN was not worth what it is today, the costs would have been much more palatable. In its reaction to the move, recall that the B1G invited UMD and Rutgers to pacify PSU. History and the present show SU has more value than your assessments. Is SU guaranteed a soft landing? No. Is it likely SU has a soft landing? Yes. Again, whether I agree with one's view on the future is immaterial as long as it is well reasoned. I am one fan trying to reason the future as best I can. Several to most posters on this site have opposing views from mine, but they present well reasoned arguments and look at deeper issues than what the click-baiting, knuckle dragging bloggers and lazy reporters repeat. Even we on this site do not know the extent of the matrix used by conferences and broadcasters to analyze the value of a school to a conference. While the knuckle-dragging bloggers and the lazy reporters are doing well to consider two variables for conference expansion, this site attempts to consider as many variables as possible. Even then, based on experience, we know the real decision-makers see matrices that will blow our minds, anywhere from twice to twenty the number of variables we consider. This understanding is why posters like Woad Blue are beaten down harshly and quickly, because they are here to troll, not add value to discussion. [/QUOTE]

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