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Message: [QUOTE="Col. Bleep, post: 30099, member: 1023"] Some nice analysis. But...one point. I think it's a mistake to believe that adding Syracuse like this provides some instant access to the NYC TV market. Unlike Rutgers & UConn, interest in the Orange in NYC comes almost solely from alumni (a good number of whom work in local and national media). There are a lot of alumni...enough to make a Madison Square Garden BE game something close to a Syracuse home game. Without ties to the Big East, local NYC media interest in Syracuse all but disappears. And I have yet to talk to a single local alumnus who likes the idea of abandoning the Big East. From a basketball-only perspective, we lose the opportunity to see the Orange in action multiple times each season. It's possible that, despite SU administration claims to the contrary, there will be no games at all in the NYC metro area in some seasons. In that sense, the move is all but an abandonment of NYC and alumni in the area. [/QUOTE]