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Message: [QUOTE="Townie72, post: 425455, member: 780"] I like this. It's well thought out and logical. But it's hard way to get to a good answer. What you are doing is to list the available or possible schools and then assessing each against a different set of criteria. That makes comparison very difficult. What you have to do is to: 1. Determine what the strategy is. 2. Determine what the criteria need to be to fulfill the strategy 3. Compare each alternative against the criteria It's relatively easy to determine what the strategy was and what the criteria were after the fact. Consider the B1G moves of the last couple of years. The strategy was first to add schools that improve the "watchability"and "National TV appeal" of overall product first (Nebraska). So the criteria used in this case centered around the reputation of the teams. They would have liked to have continued along that path by adding ND and maybe some others, but they ran out of good possibilities. Especially when ND joined the ACC for all but football. The next step in the strategy was to expand cable revenue and that meant total cable subscribers. (They abandoned "quality" and went for "money". The criteria they used sorted out two "Eastern" schools (lots of cable subcribers, large, AAU members, etc), who were very likely to jump at B1G membership because they were both in huge financial holes even after cutting 5+ sports partially due to stadium expansion and low overall ticket sales. Rutgers had the extra incentive of being left behind in all previous expansions because about all it offered was lots of nearby cable subscribers (who were watching anything but RU athletics) So what are the strategies that the ACC might follow? I would think (from Press reports) that one of the strategic planks has to be tending to the interests of the football-centric schools (Clemson, FSU, Miami). But since the ACC is the ACC, they are in a box because the better available football schools (now and in the future) appear to be commuter schools with weak academics. I'm certain tht Swofford is suggesting Louisville and UNC and Duke and Wake are looking at UL like they would "something the cat drug in". FSU has no such problem. They were in the Metro with UL. So, tell me the strategy and the criteria and guessing the school will be easy or easier. [/QUOTE]

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