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[QUOTE="WoadBlue, post: 1643653, member: 1145"]
Basketball played a major role in Syracuse getting in the ACC. The northeast is the great oddity in the country in that college basketball is the full equal of college football. If you are going to have the most influence in TV markets in the northeast, you must have basketball than northeasterners take seriously. Syracuse has the largest basketball fan base in the region, and there is no close second. Therefore, Syracuse is essential for a conference wanting to be primary in the northeast.

Also, ND football is the biggest name in football to the northeast. For any conference to have any shot at controlling the northeast, it must have both Syracuse and ND football. That ought to help anyone see that the BT wanting perennial nobody Rutgers and financially ed Maryland, whose football team averaged fewer fans per game its last year in the ACC than did 2-10 BC, was a move of desperation to try to save some part of the northeast for Penn St and the BT.
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