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Message: [QUOTE="hoopsfan22, post: 4642907, member: 9074"] That's been my argument. The B1G has been a loser conference for almost my entire (relatively short) life and still rakes in the big bucks. I think the last time I saw a team win anything on national TV was Ohio State's championship a decade ago, and before that who knows. They didn't bring on Rutgers and Maryland because of their storied football success or to provide cannon fodder for Penn State on the eastern flank of the conference. They were brought in for a share of the 30 million potential viewers in the I-95 corridor from NYC metro on down to the DC metro. The most recent additions from California bring an 18 million person metro area. The B1G is going after the population centers because that equals viewers which equals dollars. Big schools with big brands and big alumni bases and big population centers - that's the current strategy in a nutshell. [/QUOTE]