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[QUOTE="btstimpy, post: 2517409, member: 2673"]
Yes.  It's the same thing.  Pitt, Miami, and Georgia Tech too.  With all the pro sports competition the schools in those towns have to be having championship type seasons to get any attention, kind of how Miami was rolling this year.  When they have awful years like BC a few years ago, no one is watching.  It's just the nature of the competition in those markets.   The original reason the ACC wanted BC was to have visibility in the Boston area for the rest of the ACC schools, even just a little.  Donna Shalala thought Miami got benefit out of it for recruiting high school students to come to Miami, and she sold the rest that it's good to regularly waive the flag in Boston.    I thought adding UConn since we already have BC would generate a rivalry and create some interest in New England in that rivalry.  I never understood why BC didn't want that other than animosity created when BC left the Big East.

But my original point is that Louisville doesn't have these issues in its market.  There aren't professional sports.  Should they come to Louisville, it would put UL in the same situation as the others.  It would be interesting to ask Memphis how a NBA team affected them.
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