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Message: [QUOTE="WoadBlue, post: 5101469, member: 1145"] Winning cures no monetary bills unless winning means large increases ins new fans who watch passionately, and remain watching. So if a BC makes the playoffs at 13-0, BC is going to be watched simply because it is in playoffs. If that does not translate to the next season with a large increase in the number of people watching BC play regular season games then it was a whiff of smoke that means nothing. Literally. Bama could fail to win the SEC for 20 straight years and still have more TV viewers every season than BC even if BC were to win the ACC 6 or 7 times. To use the old ACC teams as examples: SoCar football could be 5-7 for 5 consecutive years but it will average more than 70,000 fans per game and large TV numbers. Over that same period Wake could go 9-3 every season, and Wake will average no more than 30,000 per game and have TV numbers smaller than those of SoCar - perhaps MUCH smaller. TV pays for those TV viewers, proven and loyal TV viewers - not for anybody's wins. Your hope is that Cuse can put together a bigger winning streak ion years that it can deliver big TV numbers. It could, but at whose expense> If at the expense of BC and Pitt, that does not help the ACC TV numbers. If at the expense of UVA and VT, same problem for the ACC. Now if Cuse could gain those new viewers at the eons of Penn St that would be worth a whole lot. But what would that take? Much more than just more wins that PSU. And then we still have the northeast. The region by and large just does not care about CFB. That's why Boston media cared virtually 0 about Matt Ryan as Heisman candidate the same season BC was ranked highly and playing for the ACC championship. What happened to the northeast before the BE was even formed is now happening on the Left Coast. That is what happened to the Pac's TV numbers. People living in PST just do not care about Major college sports the way they did even in 1990, and that was less than they did in 1970. That downward trend has been going on for more than a half century. And thus the Pac is now dead. History declares emphatically that the only way that the ACC was going to gain from adding any schools north of just over the Mason-Dixon Llne was if Penn St were part of the group. PSU in the ACC playing Pitt, Cuse, and BC annually would make a big difference. AS would PSU also playing UVA and VT and UNC and GT and Miami, etc. Of course, PSU is a HUGE land grant school with an old and deep football history, as well as a filled 100,000 seat stadium. What PSU is is what makes a league have a fat TV deal. What BC and Wake are is what makes a league have a poor TV deal. [/QUOTE]

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