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[QUOTE="NJCuse97, post: 2975024, member: 5058"]
Without debating the merit of the SU assessment, our large fan base is in NYC. Greensboro, without a team in the ACC is a rough equivalent to Toledo Ohio if not worse, in that our presence, and that of BC, and Pitt has drawn various ACC championship events away from the ACC’s traditional base and Greensboro specifically, to places like DC, or Brooklyn just as the Toledo folks are complaining has happened in the B1G. They argue that PSU didn’t cause this and that Delany’s eyes were bigger than the league’s stomach. The B1G turned its back on Toledo and their 75% fandom for NYC and it’s 11%. I’m saying Greensboro probably has similar thoughts of our inclusion and greedy eyes toward a northern fan base that doesn’t exist. I’m only pointing out that the 11% the article scoffs at dwarfs the 75% they hold up as reason for not having diluted the league. It may be worth it for the 11% and to ignore that so obviously just sounds like sour grapes. The school itself (in this case Rutgers and even Maryland) never mattered as much as having a foot in the NY and DC metro areas in order to among other things, negotiate a bigger and better TV deal. Toledo can’t help do that.
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