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Message: [QUOTE="champs99and04, post: 5235025, member: 488"] Duke is certainly one of one in the sense that it's capitalized on its differences in a way that no one else has. And you're right that a lot of those things probably aren't replicable for other schools. But St. John's and Georgetown were at one time among the biggest brands in college basketball, and I do still think there's a path for them to return to that. What I will grant you is that, in terms of depth of brand power, the drop-off is much greater in the Big East than it is in the Big 10 or SEC. Pick pretty much any random school in those leagues and I think they'd draw big ratings in a championship game simply from being public state schools. Xavier, Creighton, Butler, even Villanova don't draw in the same way, I don't think. [/QUOTE]