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Message: [QUOTE="KaiserUEO, post: 1545169, member: 272"] if it was diminished, it was because their schedule got tougher, joe pa kept getting older and people looked at them funny as the 11th team in a heavily marketed conference calling itself the big TEN. fwiw: i dont think it was and now here locally, the b1g is looked upon as a real place to play football with penn st being the flagship northeast program. that said, kids will now go play anywhere nowadays, everyone is a 'national' team like nd is. sure maybe they play around the country, but everyone is on tv so if junior from new jersey goes to wisconsin or even usc...instead of penn st, its not the end of the world. [/QUOTE]