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Message: [QUOTE="LStudfellow, post: 2348903, member: 5436"] Seriously? The fact you would even question this is laughable. Louisville just two Saturdays ago played on ABC's Primetime game of the week against Clemson. That one game makes millions of dollars for the network. They have appeared in a featured game on ABC in the last 3 years no less than 5 times. Sorry, but we would have been lucky to have been on that game once during Diaco's tenure. Furthermore, their stadium has a capacity of 55,000 - and they sell out or come within a couple thousand seats of selling out for every game. The capacity for the Rent is just over 40K (40,642) and we have not had a sellout in years. Ok, maybe we would have sold out a few games here or there, but with the way Diaco teams were, and as boring as his offense was, the results would not have been that much different. As for basketball, the Yum! Center has a capacity of 22,090, and Louisville sells it out for the majority of its games. 2016-2017 for example: they came in #3 in the country. 17 home games, with a total attendance of 354,390 and a per game home attendance of 20,846. We can not touch those numbers. That is a fact. Here is a column from last year that tells you how the Tallahassee, Florida area feels about Louisville: [URL='http://www.tallahassee.com/story/sports/college/fsu/football/2016/09/13/clark-louisville-exactly-acc-needed/90328052/']Clark: Louisville is exactly what the ACC needed[/URL] On the basketball side, Louisville has been the No. 1 most profitable program in the NCAA for 5 YEARS RUNNING... [URL='https://www.forbes.com/sites/chrissmith/2016/03/14/college-basketballs-most-valuable-teams-2016-louisville-kansas-kentucky-on-top-again/#3e885dc13194']College Basketball's Most Valuable Teams 2016: Louisville, Kansas, Kentucky On Top Again[/URL] So, in the two sports that make the most money for most universities and certainly for those in the P5, Louisville generates millions more dollars than we do. I think you are a really good poster here CL82, but you are over your skis with wanting to even debate this fact. On other levels, like academic prestige, you absolute have an argument, and in fact I am standing right next to you. But on money that the two schools could generate for the ACC... the facts are what they are. Louisville beats us, and by a significant margin. [/QUOTE]

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