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[QUOTE="LBusDoor90, post: 418416, member: 1290"]
So when I can point to the highest ranked college games ever in the NYC DMA on ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPNU involving a Rutgers team, I should instead place higher value on your anecdotal opinions of the people here who live within 20 miles of the city?  If I've learned anything from reading here, it's that many of you want Rutgers to be the Rutgers of long ago, not the Rutgers of today (hell, you want the same for your own team, too).  Yes, we have little or no national brand.  And yes, the NY-Philly region is pro sports-oriented. But of the teams available for expansion to the Big TEN where potential eyeballs matter most, tell me who would be the better candidate?
There are two factors at work here:
1) basic math -- even just 20% of 9 million (the population of NJ) is greater than, say, 60% of the population of Syracuse and surrounding areas (and please don't tell me Cuse has statewide appeal); there will also always be way more potential cable subscribers that are alums in a state with an FBS team from a massive land grant, public u. than in a state with an FBS team from a smaller private u.)
2) trends in our universities' profiles -- your loss of AAU status and our getting back our university hospital system, UMDNJ (which officially happened on Monday which was no coincidence) which was stolen from Rutgers years ago, was HUGE to the Big TEN.
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