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[QUOTE="omniorange, post: 545928, member: 636"]
Not really, it is the same throughout the northeastern corridor.  The only true exception are the boonies of PA and their love of PSU.  Let's face it, the rest of the northeastern corridor teams don't have massive football followings - not BC, not SU, not Rutgers, not UConn, not Temple, not Pitt, and not Maryland.  So it isn't "magnified" in the New England corridor.
 
Besides, I don't think any one in this thread is saying that if a true football power (a King or a Baron) were interested in the ACC not to take them and grab UConn instead.
 
But, if expansion does occur (which, as I said earlier would only be if the ACC loses a member or two) or if ND decides to join and they aren't pushing for someone to be #16 for joining in fully, then UConn makes the most sense for what the ACC is trying to accomplish in its efforts to establish the ACC as the conference of the entire east coast. 
 
Louisville was needed over UConn because they dwarfed the Huskies in football and are the slightly better program in men's bb.  This isn't true of any other realistic ACC candidate now - not Cincy, not Temple, not USF, not UCF, etc.  Heck it's not even true with Vandy (a hot pick by some in earlier threads - although I myself don't see them as a 'realistic' candidate at all).
 
Cheers,
Neil
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