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Message: [QUOTE="omniorange, post: 1648357, member: 636"] My post was designed to highlight the two different points of view expressed so far in this thread between athletic program status versus cable subscriptions. Expansion is always about $$$. Neither Rutgers nor SU add much in terms of national tv contracts. Everything you state above was true about Rutgers since they added PSU back more than two decades ago. But they never came close to being important enough to add until the BTN came into play. With that model, suddenly the state of New Jersey did become important to them. With the cord-cutting going on the BTN subscriptions model is in far more danger of being hurt by the new trend than either ESPN or FOX sports (which is what the headlines recently have been about since they are the big fish). Thus, imho, the decision of the B1G regarding Rutgers over SU for TV households versus which had the better athletics programs overall is still in doubt. If the B1G somehow manages to keep the BTN successful throughout the coming sea change cord-cutting is expected to achieve, then time will tell. If it doesn't, and SU is able to return to 90s status in terms of football (something I believe Babers style can achieve actually better in the B1G - even the vaunted B1G East division) than in the ACC, particularly in the ACC's Atlantic division), then the other side presented has a case. As for those of us, including myself, who are happy with the ACC we should all keep in mind that the future stability of the ACC is in the hands of two programs and two programs alone - FSU and UNC. The former which would likely take an SEC invite tomorrow if offered and the latter which is embroiled in a very nasty academic scandal over several decades. And even with those two programs I think posters here are underestimating the gulf that is happening between the Greater 2 and the Lesser 3 of the P5. It is a gulf that currently is wider than the old gulf between the Big East and the ACC back in the middle of the last decade when the ACC conference distributed more $$$ to their teams than any other conference. Cheers, Neil [/QUOTE]

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