http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id...in-big-ten-expanding-include-maryland-rutgers
Really? NYS produces less FBS players (per capita) than Alaska? Montana? Massachussetts? That's surprising.
I read elsewhere that the B1G's expansion east (instead of deeper in the Midwest, i.e. Kansas) is strategic beyond TV sets. The Midwest is losing population and thus there are fewer college football (read: fast, athletic) players to go around. With the population growth concentrated on the coasts and sunbelt, the B1G moved east to access growing populations for recrutiing. It also serves as a foothold to expand further south one day [or soon] to Virginia and NC to access those populations.
...and TV sets.
Really? NYS produces less FBS players (per capita) than Alaska? Montana? Massachussetts? That's surprising.
I read elsewhere that the B1G's expansion east (instead of deeper in the Midwest, i.e. Kansas) is strategic beyond TV sets. The Midwest is losing population and thus there are fewer college football (read: fast, athletic) players to go around. With the population growth concentrated on the coasts and sunbelt, the B1G moved east to access growing populations for recrutiing. It also serves as a foothold to expand further south one day [or soon] to Virginia and NC to access those populations.
...and TV sets.