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[QUOTE="DblCrossbar, post: 4656237, member: 12251"]
Great point. At the moment CT and New England in particular (sorry BC and even Holy Cross and UNH at the FCS level) isn’t a great college football market - we're definitely more geared towards pro football, but as the halcyon days of the Big East showed, there is great potential in this market to become one.  With the exception of the Rentch needing maintenance and an overhaul, UConn has in the background created B12 and even B1G worthy training and game day facilities.  The notion of market growth and converting fans to viewers of the B12 league has definite appeal in a state that doesn't have a major league franchise of our own to root for and UConn is that de facto entity.

As for the NYC, UConn is maybe equal to or better than Rutgers, which is significant in terms of raw numbers but not percent of that space that would watch these football games.  The basketball brand carries more weight to that area with the prestige of the Men's and Women's programs at astronomical levels.
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