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[QUOTE="Townie72, post: 425476, member: 780"]
The B1G may be smarter than I me. You may be too.
 
But unless you get it through your skull that this was driven primarily by the number of cable subscribers, the chance that you'll actually understand any of this are very slim. If there were no BTN, Rutgers would have never, ever been chosen irregardless of AAU membership or the great unwashed masses that populate Northern NJ.
 
The last I checked Rutgers was in the same "location, location, location" in the Big East that they will be in when they are in the B1G. And in this "location, location, location" in the Big East they added almost nothing to the Conference.  Even in this "location, location, location" they were losing $25M a year that they had to dip into student fees and the general fund to get.
 
NJ's primary export has always been college students. ACC schools are filled with them all paying Out-of-State tuition that enables the State to offer discounted tuition to their own residents. NJ high school students and their parents want to go to UVA and Duke and UNC and just about anywhere but Rutgers.
 
As far as recruits go, the Big Ten and ACC and other Big East schools have always recruited NJ very well and they will continue to do so.
 
Being in the B1G hasn't locked up NJ for Rutgers or anyone.
 
And let's look at the future. One thing I am absolutely sure of is that the people in NJ will root only for a winner ... a big winner. And if Rutgers can't be a big winner in the B1G, the initial interest driven by this new phenomenon will dry up faster than a mud puddle in the Mojave desert.
 
PS - Try to minimize the personal "digs" in your post. All they do is degrade the conversation. I'll guarantee you can't bully me with insults.
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