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[QUOTE="FRANKIEFAN, post: 2580429, member: 6729"]
Enrollment got Rutgers in with regards to the 'school' side of things.

But it was all about the Big Ten caring far more about football than hoops.  Uconn would have delivered TV boxes in the New England market along with greater NYC and helped their hoops a lot.  But the Rent would have been far and away the smallest stadium in conference and badly out of place and on TV it would have looked like Michigan or Ohio State was playing a road game @ EMU or CMU.  Buttgers had some big games in Piscataway on TV in the Schiano era and that basically made for better TV and a better place to send their teams to play road games than the Rent.

The ACC chose a commuter school and glorified community college over them for the same reason.  If Louisville had been off the table and was in the Big 12 with WVU for example and we had to find another Maryland replacement I think it would have been UCF and not uconn provided FSU and Miami weren't against it.  Largest enrollment in the country would have won out in a head to head choice between uconn and UCF.
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