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[QUOTE="Townie72, post: 312851, member: 780"]
Rutgers? End of story?
 
So you KNOW what the criteria are for a 16th school? I'll bet you are wrong. Yet another person fooled by the TV market potential myth.
 
Betting that having Rutgers in the ACC will somehow ignite the interest of the NJ fans is a bad bet. How has that worked out for the Big East? What's different about them in the ACC?
 
If Rutgers is so attractive, then why haven't they been picked? Why BC and not Rutgers? Why Pitt and not Rutgers? Why SU and not Rutgers?
 
Is it that the ACC has to have a 16th school and they have worked down the list of available schools to where Rutgers is the best of the worst. This really is like gym class in which the captains have already selected all the good athletes and are now picking from the athletically-challenged.
 
I'm not sure what the ACC's or the Big 10's or the Big 12's criteria are for selecting schools is, but it doesn't seem to include "lots of TV sets within 50 miles". And that's the ONLY thing Rutgers offers. And I think that the conferences think that that potential just is never going to materialize.
 
I can think of lots of (what I think are) compelling reasons why not Rutgers. A decades old tradition of stinking in just about all sports. A State that is in bad shape and an athletic program that is sucking millions and millions of dollars from the university general fund and the students. And a local market in which college sport are way at the back of the line in terms of fan interest.
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