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[QUOTE="WoadBlue, post: 5335852, member: 1145"]
Does a business lose money when it stops trying to force a region that barely notices its products to buy them?

The simple fact is that pro capita the northeast just does not care much for Major CFB. There are 2, and only 2, exceptions: ND and Penn St. So the entire region has only 1 school located in it that has a large and passionate CFB fan base. Now, I do think that if ND and PSU were Biot in the same conference with Pitt, Syracuse, BC, and Rutgers, then there wounds a good possibility that over time, the Northeast could become a much better region for passionate following of CFB. That would be the football version of what Gavotte did for CBB in the northeast - and unlike the hoops version, that league still would need to have as many teams located outside the northeast as in the northeast to be truly widely watched and respected.

The BT has PSU and so has all the power over the per capita small northeastern TV audience for Major CFB.

For the ACC to become, and remain, the clear and permanent #3 in terms of TV revenue, it must become the  one and only Major conference to have teams in MT. That is a lot of space, and many of those states now have growing populations. Growth potential in a region that historically has always been left out of Major Conference participation (until Colorado joined the then Big 7 and later the Pac added the AZ. schools - and even with that trio plus Utah would be somewhat underrepresented among major conferedceees per its TV viewers numbers per capita). Also add Cincy, which is a very large state school in a state that is as HS and CFB obsessed as any Southern state - making Cincy an anti-BC of sorts.
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