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Message: [QUOTE="omniorange, post: 546385, member: 636"] Woad, if by this time you don't understand how important Boston can be to the ACC, you will never get it. But your reputation and opinions regarding private institutions and how they will be the downfall of the ACC is well known to me since we have debated these issues before when you first advocated for Rutgers and WVU and later for WVU and Pitt when I remained consistent and said if the ACC expanded by 2 it would be with SU and Pitt. Anyway, one need only go back to BC's first 4 years in the league and see that they had as many major TV appearances - ABC, ESPN, and ESPN2 as UNC, GT, and Clemson and drew great ratings. Which is why they were on TV as much as those state operated campuses with 2 of them having more football pedigree. And you do realize that UConn was part and parcel of that "insignificant" conference along with the Bearcats, right? And a start-up program without the recruiting talent available to Cincy. So if the Cincinatti area is so awesome, and we know the Bearcats performed on the field better over this time period why did UConn finish with the same number of major TV appearances as Cincinnati? And Cincy only managed to get even in that number last year when UConn was utterly dreadful. Again, I will concede that Cincinnati's recruiting ground is fertile. I will even concede that the Cincinnati area is home to a good number of Fortune 500 companies. And, if the idea of combining the Cincinnati-Dayton DMAs ever takes hold, that will be a huge market. But ultimately, less than 32K fans for football and less than 9K for basketball tells me all I need to know about fan support for the Bearcats. I had high hopes for them when they entered the Big East and on the field and on the court they did well, but their fan support is pathetic. Anyway, I'm done. Hope to see you start commenting over on this ACC site: [url]http://csnbbs.com/forumdisplay.php?fid=351[/url] Cheers, Neil [/QUOTE]

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