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[QUOTE="WoadBlue, post: 4909843, member: 1145"]
If the schools in question cannot deliver large numbers of TV viewers from that market, then the league being in these markets has no meaning. UGA dwarfs GT in Atlanta. In sports terms within the market, BC is nothing compared all Boston Pro sports. In fact BC football is not even bigger than the Harvard-Yale game.  Syracuse cannot hope to deliver enough of the NYC TV market to help the ACC. Pitt is better in its market than BC is, but that aint saying much.

Wake Forest is a distant #3 in Winston-Salem, which means Wake brings literally 0 (ZERO). Miami draws decent TV numbers outside Miami only the the Canes are an 11-1 type team.

What the BT and SEC have always known is that state flagship and/or land grant schools have much better odds of attracting and maintaining large and passionate fam bases than other types of schools. And that is even more true in football than in basketball. The ACC now has 2 flagships (UNC, UVA), 3 land grants (NCSU, VT, and Clemson), and 1 half-claimed, barely recognized co-flagship (FSU).

Even though WV is small, WVU would be better for the ACC than BC or Wake.
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