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Message: [QUOTE="TruDomGopher, post: 1233333, member: 4159"] Are we still on hockey? North Dakota--the other ND that's never going to be in the B1G. B1G is my "front porch", my "brand", the way I fancy myself is "public ivy". The first rule is don't invite any university that's name after a state that bids for nuclear waste disposal sites. Good luck getting enough votes for that. (This isn't meant to disrespect North Dakota in any way--they're wonderful people, the fan bases at Grand Forks for hockey and NDSU for football are models for what every school's fan base should be, but I don't see it. Fargo/Moorhead's basically one city and if they share a cable franchise, you've already got a quarter of the TV's in North Dakota.) B1G has a demographic problem, but they have a huge advantage in television. People in the Midwest and Northeast have at least some sports culture--football, basketball, hockey, whatever--[U]and[/U] they stay home and watch a lot of TV in the winter. I've been watching the PAC12 Network struggle, and I project that SEC and ACC will have the some of the same problems. Better weather [U]undermines[/U] all the sports that aren't football. To the extent that hockey is relevant, it's about TV's through the Midwest and Northeast. The question is: What, if any, contribution can North Dakota make there? Probably not much and it would discount my brand. Makes way more sense to add schools for all sports that has hockey--any suggestions?--or pry loose anything I can that fits my branding, associates east, and will turn on and tune in TV's, especially in New England which I consider mine by proxy if I can strengthen my hold. Any university named after a state in New England is de facto more attractive than anything that ends in Dakota. (Just an aside: Russian maps don't actually have the word Dakota. There's just a box that says, "Bomb here first.") [/QUOTE]

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