Fishy
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1) It probably crippled or killed whatever chances the ACC Network had of seeing the light of day.
2) They've punted the ACC from recruiting the mid-Atlantic.
Additional note: Rutgers recruiting in the region has suffered since joining the Big Ten, but that could be a function of just more concentrated incompetence than normal.
The two missteps of realignment were the Big 12 failing to grab UL and Cincinnati and the ACC letting the Big Ten roll through the mid-Atlantic to the coast. As much of an athletic tragedy as Rutgers is and has been, you can't argue the demographics of the state of New Jersey and how much better the ACC's prospects of a network would have been had they not ceded 15,000,000 people and the NY/DC media markets to the Big Ten.
The bottom of the Big 12 probably opted to appease Texas and accept only West Virginia instead of backing Oklahoma and more expansion - that will likely haunt them. The ACC probably spent too much time listening to their loud, but option-limited southern tier and bumbled into this current fix - that is haunting them.
2) They've punted the ACC from recruiting the mid-Atlantic.
Additional note: Rutgers recruiting in the region has suffered since joining the Big Ten, but that could be a function of just more concentrated incompetence than normal.
The two missteps of realignment were the Big 12 failing to grab UL and Cincinnati and the ACC letting the Big Ten roll through the mid-Atlantic to the coast. As much of an athletic tragedy as Rutgers is and has been, you can't argue the demographics of the state of New Jersey and how much better the ACC's prospects of a network would have been had they not ceded 15,000,000 people and the NY/DC media markets to the Big Ten.
The bottom of the Big 12 probably opted to appease Texas and accept only West Virginia instead of backing Oklahoma and more expansion - that will likely haunt them. The ACC probably spent too much time listening to their loud, but option-limited southern tier and bumbled into this current fix - that is haunting them.