B1G Recruiting impacted by Eastward Expansion

[CAHUSKY]

If the B1G added UNC they'd be adding a sizable audience, but also conceding market share to the ACC and the rest of tobacco road.

Conceding market share? They would be taking it with them to the B1G. They the most valuable asset in the ACC and have exponentially more fans than anyone on Tobacco road.

 

[billybud]

Three easy reasons.

Demographics, weather and culture.

They are growing faster than the Northeast. So the fact the NE is bigger and is so far behind is a bad sign not a good sign.

There is a simple reason why MLB is dominated by players from CA, Florida and the broader south. They can play all year.

If you spend two seconds in the south the culture is obvious. Sports, especially at the high school level are at a much higher level of importance in places like Georgia. Also, they have 2 seasons - football and off season football. Georgia and NC high schools don't lose athletes to soccer or basketball.

The premise that football recruits will ever be the same quality and in the same quantity in the Northeast as the Southeastern US is absurd on it's face - nevermind after giving it some thought.

I think that is a little bit of a simplification. North Carolina kids are basketball oriented as much as football if not more so...UNC can recruit from anywhere yet half of their roster is from North Carolina. Soccer is also fairly big in North Carolina. at the prep level, as it is on the east coast from North Carolina through Maryland into Connecticut. Four of the last eight men's soccer NC's were won by North Carolina or Virginia teams.

Georgia is another story...football, football, football.

While North Carolina has some good football recruits, their sports culture is different than the culture of the deep south states of Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi...and North Florida. Some of the tension in the ACC between Clemson, FSU and North Carolina is sports culture based....basketball first versus football first.

 

[CL82]

And for what it's worth, I do think that Connecticut - located halfway in between two of the top 10 DMA's in the country and the flagship university of a state that is home to 3.5 million people who enjoy the 4th highest media income per resident in the country is more valuable than any university in a state that splits it's allegiances 3 or 4 different ways and is home to 3 times as many people who enjoy minimum wage jobs (NC is 39th in the nation in median income).

This.

(Add that that chunk of land between NY an Mass also happens to own the 31st (I think) largest DMA, plus another million in the NYC DMA.

 

[Sky ball]

Geez if UConn were a valuable property we would be in the ACC or BiG right now. We are not so we are not. ~ Sorry Debbie Downer

 

[CallMeBruce]

Geez if UConn were a valuable property we would be in the ACC or BiG right now. We are not so we are not. ~ Sorry Debbie Downer

Did something dramatically change at Rutgers, Syracuse, Louisville, and Pittsburgh in between when they were in the Big East and when they were invited to new leagues? No? Then stop repeating this tired-ass line.

 

[FDNY99]

Geez if UConn were a valuable property we would be in the ACC or BiG right now. We are not so we are not. ~ Sorry Debbie Downer

Everyone on this site knows why UCONN isn't in the ACC...lawsuit/Blumenthal...BC bitching about being only NE program so they added Pitt...Clemson and FSU pulling powerplay for football...and in-between the 2 Hathaway doing NOTHING and then doing less by hiring Pasqualoni. The B1G is conjecture and rumor...that's about it. Valuable property had nothing to do with not getting into the ACC the first 2 times around!

 

[whaler11]

Geez if UConn were a valuable property we would be in the ACC or BiG right now. We are not so we are not. ~ Sorry Debbie Downer

Saying that UConn isn't valuable as other specific schools =\= UConn isn't valuable.

But yeah if UConn was one of the 5 or 10 or 20 most valuable properties in college sports they wouldn't be in the AAC.