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Message: [QUOTE="Alsacs, post: 2756676, member: 652"] Maryland is valuable to the Big Ten than Oklahoma. Big Ten expansion has been about population for expansion of BTN on cable boxes. Maryland was chosen because it has a good sized population, near a big city Washington DC and would give the BTN automatic status on the basic cable tier in MD and give the Big Ten profits. It’s why Rutgers was chosen as well because of NJ and NYC getting BTN on basic cable tier. Rutgers didn’t get NYC it was Fox buying the YES network and leveraging the Yankees with the BTN. Maryland and Rutgers were chosen for cable boxes. Oklahoma doesn’t interest the Big Ten because they want money not prestige first. Texas is a different animal. They would be golden ticket. [/QUOTE]