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[QUOTE="Ldandy, post: 2530629, member: 4584"]
Your opinion that adding Rutgers was a bad deal for The B1G is just that, an opinion. Rutgers as a university met all of the metrics that the conference was looking for as an expansion candidate.

Large Land Grant State University.
AAU
Contiguous to a current conference member.
Located in a targeted media market.
Desirable area for recruiting both students and student athletes.
Large and diversified athletic dept. 30+ sponsored teams.

The fact that under the current media deals they were able to leverage providers for favorable deals made it all the better.

There were very few programs that met all of the desired metrics for conference membership and were looking for a home in a new conference when expansion was happening. The only schools I would put above Rutgers as desired expansion candidates for The B1G back in 2012 were ND, Texas, UNC and maybe UVA. None of those schools were truly available. It made sense to add RU Then and it still does now.
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