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Message: [QUOTE="Husky25, post: 1272808, member: 2839"] Vermont doesn't have a football team and while New Hampshire and Maine are technically on the eastern seaboard, the population center of the Atlantic coast ends at Boston. Huge populations who do not care about college football are indeed worth far more than the Dakotas. They carry with them cable viewership and eyeballs. That they watch the game doesn't matter as much as the outlet (Read: Big Ten Network) is carried on a readily subscribed to tier. That mean carriage fees. Boston College football is 3th, at best, in Boston. Then Hockey and Basketball season start and they drop down to 5th. Rutgers draws 600,000 pairs of eyes in greater New York out of 12,000,000 (in order words, 0.5% in Manhattan and outer boroughs). Doesn't matter. That's not where the money is. The problem with UConn however is: 1) UConn's physical position is in no man's land. Greater Boston has a day time population of over 3,000,000. There's about 3.5 mil in the entire state of CT. Greater New York City houses around 12 million. What is in UConn's favor is a sizable portion of NYC's DMA is actually within the Connecticut state lines. 2) UConn was actively lobbied against admission to the ACC. First, the former Attorney General (Now U.S. Senator) lead a lawsuit in 2003 when Boston College was invited, and the former BC AD is on the record as lobbying against them ever since. 2a) They aren't considered a football school, even though they went to 5 bowls after the first 7 non-transition seasons, including a BCS bowl. 2b) The latest round of conference realignment occurred during the dark period in UConn history headed up by He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named. 3) UConn does not technically meet a small number of the academic, financial, and geographic criteria of the Big Ten. (Counter to 3...and 2 for that matter). All evidence points to UConn addressing these shortfalls.). As hard as they may try, Fargo (and by extension the Dakotas as a whole), will never garner more respect for 1) the mere fact that they are FCS and 2) The combined population is about 1.6 million people. [/QUOTE]

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