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[QUOTE="nzm136, post: 561036, member: 2531"]
You don't see the correlation between profitability and popularity and the correlation between popularity and a big TV contract? According to the DoE, UMD has good revenue numbers. Look it up.
 
PSU and Michigan have two of the top athletic departments in the country. Very few current B1G schools can favorably compare to either of those schools, and the same would even go with SEC schools. I think Michigan might be #1 in the B1G. If not, then they are #2 behind OSU, and PSU is #3.
 
Also, I never said Pitt was added for ratings. They are a good school that exists in a talent-rich area. They were added for academics (the alternative was WVU) and recruiting. They were not added to "capture" the "Pitt market."
 
Finally, you are cherry picking and distorting what I said. I never said that RU was added because of '06. I said that they would not have been added but for '06. They were added primarily because of a variety of other reasons which are almost entirely unrelated to whether or not there is a major city next to them.
 
If anything, the fact that nobody in NYC cares about RU only adds proof that RU wasn't added to "capture the NYC market" like you originally said. You are starting to argue both sides.
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