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[QUOTE="btstimpy, post: 2107329, member: 2673"]
My whole point is the rivalry thing.  And to a degree it is consistent with what Billy Bud is saying about teams so far away none of the local fans care.

After being involved with this Conference Realignment thing for 15 years now with the ACC, when expanding it is important to forge great regional rivals.  The idea of sprawling all over the country may look good for television, but it creates match ups that bore the fans to tears.  Attendance at stadiums drop, and when people in the stands suffers, the television audience looks elsewhere as well.

Right now in our conference Boston College needs a regional rival despite their former AD not thinking so.  They are trying to make it Syracuse, but I think UConn would be much better for BC.   I also think West Virginia is missed by Pitt, VT, and Syracuse.  This is the kind of thing I'm talking about.

I don't know how things developed over time in Ohio, but for Ohio State to not have any rival within Ohio despite 7 other FBS football schools in the state is baffling.  I don't know of any other example like it.   Cincinnati is caught up in that, but the ACC can't solve it.
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