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Message: [QUOTE="TruDomGopher, post: 1273445, member: 4159"] The Dakotas are already B1G country and there is no additional value to be extracted there. Forget the lines on the map--it's a cultural and geographic thing. The two Dakotas are not North and South, they're east and west, divided by the Missouri river. Eastern Dakota is more or less already owned by Minnesota and, the southeast, by Nebraska. (FWIW, I believe Minnesota and the Dakotas still have tuition reciprocity, too. A lot of the smartest kids from the Dakotas end up in the Twin Cities for school.) The B1G probably gets as much in carriage fees as they do in either Minnesota or Nebraska. If they don't, the B1G would spend more on lawyers to draw up contracts than they could recoup in revenue. There just isn't enough population base or tvs. There's simply no real value to be extracted there, zip, zero, nada. [/QUOTE]