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[QUOTE="btstimpy, post: 2515088, member: 2673"]
Louisville Athletics functions as the professional sports franchise for their 1.5 million person metro area.  They have virtually no competition other than their rivalry with UK, and that rivalry only enhances the attention of the area with its disposable sports entertainment dollar.  That's why Louisville has a $110 million per year athletics department.  That's not sand.  It will thrive until the NBA comes to town or the NFL.  All you have to do is go there for games to see it.  The coaches will come and go just like Charlie Strong to Bobby Petrino.  Tom Jurich recognized how to market Louisville athletics in this role and did it.  His successor will need to continue it.

Maryland's in a bigger and more valuable market, but they compete with 7 professional sports franchises.  The franchises win out.  I see it every week on NBC Sports Net - Washington, formerly Comcast Sports Net.  And the ACC is still in the market with two other members.  So yes the ACC lost a state flagship.  But we picked up some other major brands at the same time to offset.
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