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Message: [QUOTE="WoadBlue, post: 5689247, member: 1145"] Those who refuse to face facts always lose in the long run. My last sentence is the truth. Now you can match that by saying that west TX may have as many rodeo fans as college hoops fans, and I would not argue that point. But I can show you that TTU can fill a decent sized gym game after game in numbers larger than a few ACC schools can do. So your starting point, in addition to operating off the Big East football sore spot, in assuming that TTU cannot have value is ESPN. The same network that not only is making the SEC absolutely key to all things it does in CFB, but now ESPN also grants SEC basketball many times more top time slots for basketball. ESPN has chosen to make the ACC utterly subservient to the SEC in all sports. ` Is ESPN fiscally ed, or is there a problem with the value of the ACC vis a vis SEC and BT? If the former, then soon ESPN will be out of business and thus any advice ESPN has given the ACC should be rejected anyway. If the latter, what do SEC and BT have that the ACC lacks? Large state universities with proven large fan bases that both buy tickets and watch games on TV. ACC TV numbers for football games suck totally compared to SEC. Per capita CFB TV viewership sucks to high heaven compared to the entire South and midwest. CBS learned that in the 1990s. BE football was immediately given a TV deal with CBS - just 1 game per Saturday. But that was more national TV exposure than the ACC was getting. Why did CBS not keep BE football dn add more games? Because CBS discovered that even in NY, the SEC game would out draw the BE game the vast majority of times. There is no guarantee that the ACC can survive at all past 2036, much less survive as a Major conference in whatever is there Top Tier for CFB. TV numbers declare that the ACC sure as Hell better make significant moves if it wishes to do so. Those moves need to make the ACC look much more like the SEC and BT: 1. More large state schools, preferably Flagship and/or Land Grant. 2. More schools located in states with excellent HS football. 3. More schools located in TV markets with proven LARGE CFB audiences. 4. More schools that make up fierce 'area' football rivalries. [/QUOTE]

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