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Message: [QUOTE="HuskyHawk, post: 2109365, member: 1414"] Cincinnati is a tough market because it has so many P5 and MAC schools nearby. It's closer to Indianapolis and Louisville than to Columbus (but is almost equidistant from and surrounded by all of them). Lexington is closer still. Bloomington is close. You are not gaining much territory with Cinci, and that territory is very hard fought. The only school in the G5 that flips a state or major market is UConn. Every other school has existing P5 competition in its market, including BYU (Utah dominates SLC). I do think UConn helps the ACC, even by itself. But until there is pressure on ESPN that it might lose UConn from its bargain basement catalog of teams, nothing will happen. I still believe that is what the constant Big East rumors are all about. There is a reasonable chance that once the American conference contract is being renegotiated, UConn will talk to Fox and to ESPN, and say "what can you do for me?" [/QUOTE]