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[QUOTE="HtownOrange, post: 13829, member: 622"]
Markets are important for advertising.  If you can't grab national brands, then you need multiple and large markets.  Thus, DePaul goes nowhere as they put the Big East in Chicago.  TV execs have already told the Big East that the Hybrid satys for their markets.  We could trim a little fat (Seton Hall, Providence), But the Johnnies and Blue Demons are going nowhere.

As to the B1G 10, they failed to secure enough votes for any one particular school from the Big East, though there was support for each of Syracuse, Pitt, Rutgers and some for UConn, just not enough to be invited.  If we keep winning, we could resolve this problem.  The AAU issue is not as important as it once was, see Nebraska.

I agree that I like the AQ status of the Big 12 leftovers but TV execs will have more input and will likely "recommend" which schools the Big East should expand with.  The Houston market brings more than Kansas and Iowa combined.  Ex: if you can take Kansas, you don't need K State, so you'd take Houston over K State.
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