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[QUOTE="Btstimpy, post: 1644715, member: 2043"]
Agreed on most of this.  I think NYC is fool's gold.  It is not an area where casual fans follow college sports regularly.  They'll watch the national championship in football and March Madness in basketball.  But day to day it is professional sports that gets attention.

I do however have one reason that the ACC might have interest in UConn.  It has to do with student recruiting.  The ACC has a collection of private universities with high tuition, and it has state schools looking to supplement their finances with out of state tuition.    The northeast is a wealthy region of the country that has high school kids looking to go to college that perhaps are most capable of paying these high private university tuitions and out of state tuitions.   Connecticut is one of the wealthiest of the lot.

I could see ACC presidents seeing New England as attractive for student recruiting, and I could see UConn as a supplement to Boston College in gaining more visibility in that region.  This has nothing to do with athletics, but remember it's university presidents involved in these decisions along with faculty.

Looking at population,  North Carolina has about 10 million people.  We have 4 ACC schools there along with 1 NFL, 1 NBA, and 1 NHL team.   The combined populations of Massachusetts and Connecticut is about 10.5 million.  We only have 1 ACC school there.  It has 1 NFL, 1 NBS, 1 MLB, and 1 NHL team in Boston.  I could see room for 1 more ACC school to service the 10 million area and create local rivalries.

I don't know if it is in the cards for the ACC, but I don't see UConn as a bad idea.  Rutgers, on the other hand, bad idea.  UConn would at least create interesting matchups.
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