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Originally Posted by kcchief19
That's my point. The NFL Network let K-State and Rutgers pick up the game locally for PR reasons ... But five years later NFL Network still isn't on standard cable everywhere in NJ, and it's not on Time Warner Cable in NYC. Rutgers didn't bring cable companies to their knees.
It's not a reflection or criticism of Rutgers ... It has more to do with the fact that Missouri is the only I-A and BCS program in the state.
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Of course not, because it was one game on one day on one network. If Rutgers had been playing 5 games a year on the NFL network like they would have with a Big Ten network, then the cable companies would have been forced to pick it up.