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[QUOTE="tep624, post: 658918, member: 430"]
The teams that the B1G acquired in the Mid Atlantic/Northeast, outside of JHU, really any major conference could have acquired if they wanted a Big toe into that market.  Rutgers was desperate and Maryland was desperate.  Hopkins had no major conference affiliation, but because of academic stature I'm sure was rather picky on the schools it would associate with.
 
The only non-debateable damage that the B1G has done to the ACC is that they've taken the MD/DC market.  Rutgers does not add the NYC metro market.  If anything, the ACC adding Syracuse and Notre Dame does more for adding that market that Rutgers can or ever will.  It's even arguable that getting ND puts more of a dent in the Midwest market than MD does in the Mid Atlantic market.
 
I'm still curious if the ACC has a strategy for combating the loss of the MD/DC market.  Effectively what the B1G has done is taken a full member and partial from that market.  Does the Navy/GTown hybrid come into play now to combat that?
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