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Message: [QUOTE="Chin Diesel, post: 4347471, member: 34"] It's a guilty pleasure reading these tweets. Guilty pleasure like eating a pint of Haagen Daas while reading up on how to lose weight and improve your health guilty. I'll say this. The premise that the B1G will now have a dominant presence in the northeast, midwest and California compared to all other conferences in those areas is true. The state of Texas is out of play for the B1G. The deep south is out of play too and I don't know if the B1G would ever want any of those schools anyway (Save for Alabama). Where it gets interesting for the B1G is the lower Mid-Atlantic and east coast south. That is why I think UVA, UNC, and GT are all strong desires for the B1G. Well over 20M new viewers in that area plus plenty of B1G alums working it. State of Florida is a wild card. I think the U is way overrated- small school size, not much fan base support unless team is top 10, etc. UF obviously isn't going anywhere and no way UCF or USF even sniff the B1G. Could the B1G take a peak under the hood of FSU? IDK. It's a better school than the Free Shoes U reputation in the 80's. Not AAU but it is an R1 research school and USNWR has it as #19 public school and #55 overall (And yes, I know there are issues with USNWR rankings). A combo of UVA, UNC, GT and FSU would give the B1G the best grouping of schools from NYC all the way to the southern tip of Florida. [/QUOTE]