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Message: [QUOTE="OrangeChris, post: 313192, member: 922"] [SIZE=5][B]Rutgers is not in NYC[/B][/SIZE]. There is no magic subway that takes you from Midtown Manhattan to Piscataway, [I]New Jersey[/I]. Speaking as someone that worked in Midtown for years, it is a HUGE deal when your school plays at MSG. Alumni groups take over bars, old friends come into town for the game, the arena overflows with fans wearing their schools' colors, etc. It is not, however, a big deal when your school plays Rutgers. [b]They do not play at Yankee or MetLife Stadiums[/b], and not even they are pathetic enough to agree to move all their conference games to those venues. It is a colossal pain in the butt to get all the way out to Piscataway for the game, the area sucks (in a "boring" way, not in a "I'm going to get killed" way), and only the biggest diehards make the trip (fortunately for Syracuse, we usually have a bunch that will do it for hoops). Good luck finding someone to go if they have to work the next morning. This also ignores the fact that [I]it's Rutgers[/I], so there's zero chance fans will have any interest in an opponent that most likely sucks. Rutgers' big selling point is that they exist in one of the [B]very last[/B] counties on the farthest edges of the New York City media market map (which is not the same as being in NYC). Seriously, if you go to the edge of Middlesex County (where Rutgers plays) and hop one foot into Mercer, you've officially left the NYC media market. So anyone that wishes to expand with Rutgers is bargaining that they'll gain extra [I]exposure[/I] on TV sets in the region... In other words, the one thing Notre Dame doesn't have to worry about. They already get about 50 times the coverage Rutgers does in the area, and you can walk into any sporting goods store in the 5 boros and you're about 100 times more likely to see a Notre Dame hat on sale than you are some red monstrosity with an "R" on it. If Notre Dame honestly thought they had anything to gain by playing Rutgers, they've had ample opportunity to do so in the last 125 years, yet have only chosen to do so a mere [B]4[/B] times. I maintain that if we allowed Notre Dame to handpick their own #16, they would most likely choose Navy. Rutgers doesn't offer them anything that Notre Dame does not already have, whereas playing Navy allows ND to continue repaying a 70 year old debt of honor that actually [I]does[/I] mean something to them. [/QUOTE]

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