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Old 06-09-2010, 08:35 PM   #1531
JonInMiddleGA
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Originally Posted by Celeval View Post
I had read on a handful of different ACC boards - and then today in the Sporting News - that Georgia Tech was actually in play for the Big Ten as well. I'm guessing that's mostly driven by very recently joining the AAU, but is Atlanta a big enough market draw for consideration, despite being so far out of the current footprint?

Everything else aside, Atlanta is the 8th largest TV market in the country, and is larger than anything in the B10 footprint except Chicago, so yeah it's definitely big enough to be worth consideration.
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