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[QUOTE="SWC75, post: 4112261, member: 289"]
"The fans are just not in the northeast, but that does not mean that CFB has even a slightly less profitable future coming."

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I think not having a major collegiate athletic conference to represent the northeast, still the most populous area of the country is ridiculous and it sickens me that our traditional rivals have had to attach themselves to conferences based elsewhere to compete.  You get more money but not more money than the other teams in the conference and you wind up trying to recruit in the regions to which the other schools are native. It's the outgrowth of the failures that date back to the 1950's to create a conference of the best football schools in the northeast. That's what caused the loss of interest in CFB in the northeast. If they'd done that conference, I believe it would still exist and we'd be a big part of it.

I'd dial it back to the 50's and bring in Syracuse, Army, Navy, Boston College, Penn State, Pittsburgh, West Virginia, Maryland and Notre Dame, (who had plenty of fans in the Northeast and a special relationship with Navy and no sweetheart contract with NBC. Then fast forward to the 80's and bring in Connecticut, Rutgers and Temple. There's enough good basketball schools there to make it work. (The NE catholic schools that just play big time basketball :Holy Cross, Providence, St. John's, Seton Hall, Villanova, LaSalle, St. Joseph's Duquesne, St. Bonaventure, Niagara and Canisius could also have their own conference and that would be the 'challenge' match each year.)
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