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Message: [QUOTE="HtownOrange, post: 1050882, member: 622"] Some random comments: 1) UConn does not move anyone's interest meter right now. Weak football, hoops not relevant enough (not enough $$) 2) The B1G will sign a new TV deal which will better signify where the conferences stand. IF they make mondo $$$, PSU is solidified in the midwestern league. If not so, the ACC will catch up in $$$ over the current deal with look-ins and a network deal, PSU could be poached. 3) PSU has never really considered Maryland a rival and Rutgers was a merely a tune up game. No changes there, just two annual patsies and neither will draw media attention in NYC or throughout the northeast. 4) PSU has a history with Pitt and Syracuse. No one in the B1G can match either and no school in the B1G cares to really develop a hatred of PSU. 5) OU is still the best bet for B1G and the BTN. They move the needle in the middle states as well as across the nation. Academically, they are tied with UNL, if the B1G can accept UNL, they can surely take OU. Any discussion of UConn being invited must be qualified with OU. 6) Kansas would be a boon for the B1G and the BTN, as much or more so than UConn. 7) Only Texas and Oklahoma have the cache (and cash) to leave the Big 12 before their current deal is done/nearly done. Kansas is a one trick pony (hoops) and no one else in the Big 12 is regionally, let alone nationally, relevant. If either leaves, then the whole Big 12 is probably done for, if both leave, there is no more Big 12, like there is no more Big East, the name might survive but the luster will be forever gone. 8) Nothing happens until the ACC decides whether to allow conference to determine their own champions or not. No need to change immediately and this questions will get resolved soon. Edit: 9) Rutgers offers nothing of value to anyone. So long as B1G football and hoops are not relevant in national titles, there will only be mild interest in the B1G fan bases already in NYC. Joe Sixpack CFB fan will not watch Rutgers v. Iowa or Indiana and get excited. [/QUOTE]

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