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[QUOTE="orangetrojan, post: 546622, member: 1454"]
Agreed, this is exactly my point. The semantics of exactly whether or not certain areas of the northeast care about college FB more than others is trivial - in the grand scheme the whole area doesnt care, except for PSU as you pointed out, which in my mind makes expansion into the area a very low-value add.
 
The point I was getting at more is that it seemed as though some people wanted expansion just for the sake of expansion. Quality growth is far more important to me, besides the fact that I think this race to expand conferences will eventually turn on itself and conferences will end up getting smaller again. Maybe not in the next 2-5 years, but eventually people with money (the networks) will begin to realize they are using flawed metrics in evaluating how much to give these conferences. The easiest example of this is rutgers to the big 10. Rutgers and its local "media market" are complete fools gold. It only serves to dilute the already watered down product the BiG puts out on the field and it would not surprise me if sometime in the future cable contracts are written up in such a way that all of those "eyes" rutgers brings to the Big 10 network gets negated. And lets not forget that at some point, you actually have to field a quality product, because at the end of the day, thats what all this money is being thrown around for, right? It's college football's version of a housing bubble - the derivative values are being built on shaky fundamentals.
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