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Message: [QUOTE="OneSockUp, post: 896840, member: 4276"] The article points that out very well. What isn't clear, though, is what is more important to recruits (and therefore the future health of the Big East): National viewership or having games on national TV rather than online. If a recruit want hundreds of thousands of people to watch them play a dozen times a year, he'll go to an ESPN conference; but if he wants Grandma to be able to see him play every game, he'll go Big East. That could be very interesting for a guy deciding between Pitt and St. Johns or Boston College and Providence. With all of that said, Syracuse will be fine as always because it's Syracuse -- just like UNC and Duke will be fine because their reputations precede them. But if enough recruits choose to be on national TV, that could be very good news for Xavier, DePaul, and Villanova and not so great news for Maryland, Pitt, and NC State. [/QUOTE]