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Message: [QUOTE="OrangePA, post: 294500, member: 204"] A few things. In no particular order. For years college football folks have been degrading and denouncing the BE, and yet year after year it seems a large conference comes and takes BE teams - Miami, BC, Va Tech, SU, Pitt, WVU. I have little doubt that teams like Louisville, Cincinnati, and even Rutgers and UConn are appealing to other conferences - there is always the possibility that those teams will leave the BE in the near future. So, the silly notion that because teams are or have been in the BE they are not valuable is indeed silly. As far as conving me is concerned, let say this. Nothing anybody has said on this board is enough to alter the views of my contact who clearly knows more about the BE TV discussions than any of us. Let me also point out that there is nothing subjective about the TV viewing populations in Dallas, Houston, Orlando, San Diego and Philadelphia. There is nothing subjective about the impact that Boise State has had on college football in the last few years. There is nothing subjective about the football histories of University of Houston, where the Veer-Option was designed by the great coach Bill Yoeman. There is nothing subjective about the football tradition of SMU, with Hayden Frye, Don Meredith, Eric Dickerson, Craig James and others. I did not state that Houston, SMU, or San Diego State are - right now - college football dynamos. I have suggested that Houston and SMU have been dynamos in the past and that with some national success can be much more relevant in the future. I know and understand that many on this board truly want to see the BE fail for whatever reason. And, that may happen. I am glad that SU is in the ACC - I have wanted it since 2003 - when many on this board did not want it. But, regardless of our feelings about it, there are reasons that I have described, why the BE is an interesting source of sports programming for NBC/Comcast/Fox and ESPN. If you don't want to believe that - that's fine with me. By the way, where do you live forty-five minutes from Philly? Where do you live? You're not reading. I have never suggested What I am suggesting with respect [/QUOTE]

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