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[QUOTE="Dick_in_MI, post: 40452, member: 225"]
True to a point. Culturally, Upstate NY-ers are very much like Midwesterners. The ACC is a better fit for SU in terms of similar-sized institutions, etc, but B10 fans are much more like your rank and file SU fan. Granted, Midwestern fans are much more used to more color and pagentry on gameday but culturally speaking Syracuse and B10 states are northern and share a certain similarity in a way that we won't with most ACC schools.

That said, Rutgers fans are nothing like Midwesterners, culturally speaking. However, Rutgers as an institution is not terribly dissimilar to a B10 school. They also have been investing in sports the way a B10 school does.

I think that IF the B10 felt there was a sound financial reason to take Rutgers, they'd hold their noses in the same way the ACC has held theirs for SU, BE, and Pitt.

It all boils down to $$$. I've said this before, but the B10 rarely does something that can be looked back upon as having been a mistake. So far, Rutgers has not been attractive enough for them. Longterm, I guess we'll have to see.
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